Graphic Novel Η 3η Κάμερα

When history unfolds before our eyes – a flashback to the correspondents of the Third Reich.

“I produced nothing... I simply reproduced...”

May 1945, Berlin. The Red Army has occupied the capital of the Third Reich and World War II is drawing to a close. A few months later, amidst the ruins of the Nazi regime, one of the members of the Propaganda Kompanien is arrested. They were Goebbels’ German war correspondents, who used to use two official cameras to feed the Reich’s propaganda. However, almost all of them also had a clandestine third device with them, which was not subject to any control: the infamous “3rd Camera”. This is the story of one of them.

The graphic novel The 3rd Camera does not make another historical flashback. It describes a frantic race against time to recover the photographs of the famous “3rd Camera”. In preparation for the Nuremberg trials, the “3rd Camera” recorded a large mass of the crimes committed by the Nazis and would be a strategic issue for the American soldiers of the CIC (Counter Intelligence Corps)! This type of device could reveal the faces of the SS officers, but also provide irrefutable evidence of the atrocities committed in the concentration camps. What other horrific secrets could it still reveal, though?

The creator of the multi-award-winning and best-selling graphic novel The Bomb, Denis Rodier, collaborates with the famous French writer Cédric Apikian, immersing us with impressive realism in the hell of war. The creators revisit the lives of these soldier-photographers and ask the question: were they all really allies of the regime? The album is accompanied by a detailed historical archive edited by historian Nicolas Férard.

They said of the book:
“The plot oscillates between a police mystery about the discovery of the images of this mysterious camera and a dramatic war story.”

- LesAmisdelaBD

“A deeply researched work with an extremely captivating story, embellished by the realism and dynamism of Rodier’s drawings.”

- France 3