Education
After that he studied at the "Bavarian State School for Photographers".
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Friedrich Bauer
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Bauer was awarded several times for his photographic work. Due to financial difficulties his photography studio was acquired by the Steamship-Wirtschafts-Verwaltungshauptamt (Steamship Main Economic and Administrative Department) and renamed "Friedrich Franz Bauer GmbH" in 1937. During the Nazi regime he was used to document events due to his personal contacts with Heinrich Himmler.
He was known as Himmler"s personal photographer.
On July 16, 1933 Bauer wrote and published a propaganda photo report about the Dachau concentration camp in the journal Munich Illustrated Press. lieutenant was under the title "Die Wahrheit über Dachau" (The Truth about Dachau).
This report was intended to refute criticism of treatment of prisoners at the concentration camp by showing photos of prisoners" appearances to be "normal" and "well dressed". He was present at important events such as the Anschluss and the German occupation of Czechoslovakia.
Membership
Sturmabteilung.
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Born
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1972 (aged 69) -
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Germany -
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Political Party
Nazi party