Gestapo Informer Recognized by a Woman She Had Denounced

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'''''Gestapo Informer Recognized by a Woman She Had Denounced''''', full title '''''Gestapo Informer Recognized by a Woman She Had Denounced, Deportation Camp, Dessau, Germany''''', is a black and white photograph taken by [[Henri Cartier-Bresson]] in 1945. It is one of the most famous post-[[World War II]] pictures.<ref></ref>

==History and description==
Cartier-Bresson had been a prisoner of war, after being caught while working for the French Army's film and photography unit, of the Germans from June 1940 to 1943, when he finally managed to escape, at the third attempt. He was able to escape to [[France]] with the help of forged papers.

After the end of [[World War II]] in [[Europe]], in May 1945, he was assigned by the American Office of War Information to do a documentary about French prisoners of war and refugees, which would be ''Le Retour''.<ref> Gestapo informer recognized by a woman she had denounced, Transit Camp, Dessau, Germany (1945) Artsy|url=https://www.artsy.net/artwork/henri-cartier-bresson-gestapo-informer-recognized-by-a-woman-she-had-denounced-transit-camp-dessau-germany|access-date=2021-04-21|website=www.artsy.net}}</ref> This picture was taken at the [[Dessau]] deportation camp, in East [[Germany]], recently liberated by the Soviet and American armies, and which was being used as a shelter for displaced people, forced workers, political and war prisoners, and refugees.

The dramatic picture documents the moment when a Belgian woman who had been a Nazi collaborator as a [[Gestapo]] informer, and was identified before she could hide in the crowd, is publicly identified by another woman as the one who denounced her. She rushes from the crowd to do that and stands angry and defiant to her left, while the alleged informer lowers her head in shame. The camp commandant and interrogator sits calmy at a writing desk as he witnesses the scene. A crowd at the foreground also witnesses the dramatic event, including a man in "stryped pyjamas" who looks defiantly at the left.<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref> The identity of the two women are unknown but the man seated at the desk was Wilhelm Heinrich van der Velden, a young Dutchman nominated by the Americans to that position, recently liberated from the Westenbrok Concentration Camp, in the [[Netherlands]]. This particular scene is absent from the film.<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref>

There are prints of this photograph at the [[International Center of Photography]], in [[New York City|New York]], and the [[Art Gallery of South Australia]], in [[Adelaide]].<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref><ref></ref>

==References==




[[Category:1945 in art]]
[[Category:1945 photographs]]
[[Category:Black-and-white photographs]]
[[Category:World War II photographs]]

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