Visual cues. People working in a remote area on a grainy black-and-white photograph is automatically associated with concentration camps and forced labour, because your brain makes this connection once you learn about the Nazis at school or during a TV documentary. It is the same mechanism through which people are scared of a yellow barrel with a radiation symbol, even once they realise it only contains pencils and papers which were used in the control room of a nuclear power plant and were put inside there due to nuclear regulations
Whats wrong with the top pic I just see people working in a field.
I thought they are digging trench in WW2, but whoever made this is trying to present it like: gulag bad forced labor
Wouldn’t be the first time
That was my first impression too. I just saw people at work; which of course, would be a terrifying prospect for the more gentle classes.
Visual cues. People working in a remote area on a grainy black-and-white photograph is automatically associated with concentration camps and forced labour, because your brain makes this connection once you learn about the Nazis at school or during a TV documentary. It is the same mechanism through which people are scared of a yellow barrel with a radiation symbol, even once they realise it only contains pencils and papers which were used in the control room of a nuclear power plant and were put inside there due to nuclear regulations