Atrocity photographs oriented Germans to their identity as Aryans by marking racial boundaries

Evidence

However, if the public recording of brutal acts reveals widespread approval and thus something of the collective will, it does not in itself tell us what the photographs do. The photographs oriented ordinary Germans to where they were (in an Aryan regime) and who they were – Aryans who were able to mark the boundary between themselves and non-Aryans. — Sherene Razack, Casting Out, 158

The photographs seem to confirm that crimes against Jews had public approval. The record of abuse suggests, too, that there was no fear of reprisal. However, if the public recording of brutal acts reveals widespread approval and thus something of the collective will, it does not in itself tell us what the photographs do. The photographs oriented ordinary Germans to where they were (in an Aryan regime) and who they were – Aryans who were able to mark the boundary between themselves and non-Aryans. — Sherene Razack, Casting Out, 158

Categorization

• XREF: Ties directly to paragraph 157’s ‘technology of belonging’ argument about photographs producing identity; the boundary-drawing function of images recalls the author’s broader race-hierarchy framework.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Sherene Razack, Casting Out: The Eviction of Muslims…, 158