Deutsch: beschönigendEnglisch translation: sanitized 
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Art/Literary - Geschichte / Nazism | | Deutsch Begriff oder Satz: beschönigend | Die verharmlosende und ***beschönigende*** SS-Perspektive auf das Lager wird abgelöst von jener des US Signal Corps, der Nachrichtenagenturen, Privatpersonen und Überlebenden.
A photo exhibition about a Nazi concentration camp compares the propaganda photos taken by the SS, which showed none of the atrocities, with those taken by the liberators.
I've spent two days trying to think of a single word to translate beschönigend. Not "retouched", because they weren't, and not "blue-eyed", which would be ironically apt (given the Nazi Aryan ideal), but doesn't quite have the right meaning. The pictorial equivalent of "euphemistic".
"The trivialising and xxx perspective of the SS"
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| Nick SomersKudoZ-AktivitätFragen: 12 (alle geschlossen) Antworten: 410
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| Notiz(en) an den/des Fragesteller(s)Nick Somers (asker): 7:45am Mar 17, 2005: How about "expurgated"? Still not a 100% match but closer. Might put someone on the right track.
xxxFrancis Lee: 8:47am Mar 17, 2005: "expurgated" is in the right direction, but I think "sanitized" is more applicable -
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| | aggrandized | Erklärung:
as in the sense of a grand lie
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Note added at 23 mins (2005-03-17 07:53:28 GMT)
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cleansed, sanitized, sterilized |
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xxxJeffFish
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| Hinweis von Fragesteller an den AntwortendenAnother brainstorming session. Great work! Sanitized is perfect for my context. Too bad (again) that only one person can get credit, because I took Francis's idea to translate verharmlosend as "deceptively innocent".
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| deceptively/misleadingly harmless-looking/selective perspective/images
Erklärung:
as a way of getting round "beschönigend"
(although this may not get across the deliberate element)
| xxxFrancis Lee
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