Kommer en kwel in Rotterdam (Dutch)

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From the beginning of the last century, the photographic department of the Rotterdam police force captured all the ups and downs on film. If there was a crime, the police photographer would go to the relevant location and take the necessary snapshots. One time he was in a den of robbers or in a building where a murder had been committed, while in another case he had to go to a burglary where a broken open safe had been found. He also photographed counterfeit money, burglary tools with associated marks, or an alleged weapons smuggling operation. The glass negatives, after the case was completed with or without success, went to the archives, but were later destroyed after one or more clean-up operations. With this, a piece of city history and its criminal past was lost. What remained were books with generally never-before-published prints. Fortunately, these books did survive the archival destruction and resurfaced after several moves. The events behind the photographs could be reconstructed with the help of newspaper articles. By including the text together with the unique photographs in this book, an often unknown part of Rotterdam’s crime history in the first half of the last century is illuminated. It also reveals fragments of the cityscape that disappeared forever. About the author:
Frank van Riet is a historian. He obtained his doctorate in 2008 in Amsterdam on the role of the Rotterdam police force during the occupation.