SHORTPOD (15): THE HOLOCAUST - ROBERT CAPA'S BLIND SPOT

Colin Liddell on a wartime Jewish photographic legend, who strangely had little interest in "muh Holocaust."

One of the odd things about the Holocaust is that nobody who directly encountered it thought it was nearly as important as it has since become. In fact it was so underwhelming at the time that people, whom you would have expected to focus on it with particular relish—such as the left-wing Jewish photographer Robert Capa—were much more interested in what are now largely neglected aspects of the "Liberation."

Rather than the "death camps" of the Nazis, in which six million of his fellow Jews had perished—according to the official narrative—Capa was much more intrigued by the public humiliation of French women who had fraternised with the enemy.