During the Second World War photographs of a country’s own dead soldiers and the destruction of war were largely censured. Many of Baltermants’ images of the fighting between Germany and the Red Army only came to light in Russia twenty years later. Without sparing
the viewer, this photograph shows death blatantly and in all of its desolation.
![[Das Reitergefecht; The Cavalry Fight; Sujet de bataille], Rembrandt, 1629](https://diglib.hab.de/varia/haum/rembrandt-ab3-0142/max/000001.jpg)
![[Die drei Kreuze; Christus am Kreuz zwischen den Schächern; Christ Crucified Between the Two Thieves (The 'Three Crosses'); Les trois Croix], Rembrandt, 1653](https://diglib.hab.de/varia/haum/rembrandt-v2-4568/max/000001.jpg)
![Sketch of a Swordsman Standing Over His Defeated Opponent [recto], William Blake, c. 1780/1785](https://api.nga.gov/iiif/f102a194-3eed-4a1f-b779-a1cb6d46f8ea/full/!2400,2400/0/default.jpg)