Photographs made to self document systematic mistreatment and torture of prisoners were
intended as trophy like memorabilia for the benefit of showing off to friends and family of
what the photographers and their colleges were doing to their helpless prisoners of war. The
boldness in these photographs indicate an absolute lack of concern that what they were doing
was in any way illegal or morally wrong! Fearing no legal reprisal for inhumane treatment of
prisoners of war they demonstrated a small portion of what brutality and inhumanity
they systematically and routinely subjected their prisoners to and recorded it on photos and
video for their personal use. The fact that these photos were taken in the first place
underscores the natural state of understandings that these brutal inhumane treatment of
helpless prisoners of war was just that, natural and no fear of legal reprisal for
these photos existence ever crossed the minds of the trophy photographers because the
prisoner abuse was condoned, natural, and everyday routine known about and approved by the
officers in charge up the chain of command, as the Red Cross even noted prisoner abuses months
before the public was told about it via news releases. The handful of service personnel
directly implicated in the prisoner abuse photographs are merely the tip of the iceberg
relative to the hundreds of guilty professional parties who were smarter than to pose in front
of cameras and whom most likely continue practicing in secret their inhumane treatment of
their fellow man in future wars.
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