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He begins by attempting to describe it objectively as a photographic artefact, carefully detailing its components and composition. He then presents a history of how it came about: to illustrate a report that SS General Jurgen Stroop compiled in 1943, documenting for Himmler how he had crushed the ghetto uprising that spring. In his subsequent discussion, Raskin draws extensively on the statements of SS officials to shed light on how they experienced their genocidal project, and what the photograph likely meant to those who took it and selected it for the Stroop Report. The next chapter is devoted to the claims made for the identity of the boy with his hands up, as well as for the other captives and the SS man with the machine gun. Clearly and movingly written, A Child at Gunpoint will engage the general reader as well as specialists in photography, Holocaust studies, Judaica and World War II. 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