Paris: Éditions Raymond Schall, [1945]

‘Les hommes verts’ are the Germans in their green army uniforms. This is a deeply ironic view of the German people, examining their culture and lifestyle in order to understand them better. In this opening they are the ‘good people who kill, torture and massacre’. Roger Schall (1904–1995) photographed Germans before the war when he was in Germany on assignments including the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin. This is a unique copy printed specially for the publisher, Roger Schall’s brother ‘Monsieur Raymond Schall’, and has an inscription by him to an acquaintance to whom he gave it in 1946.