Question

margaret bourke white is famous for her photographic essays of wwii. white took this photo (above) entitled, the living dead, of german men looking at a group of concentration camp prisoners (although we cannot see the prisoners) after the camp was liberated. when she was asked by a life magazine writer about the picture, she replied, \dead men will have indeed died in vain, if living men refuse to look at them.\ what did she mean?
a. if the living do not examine past mistakes, in particular with war and hatred, then the ones who died because of these things will have died for no reason.
b. people must be made to feel guilty for their involvement with hate, if things are ever to change in the world and people are ever going to live in harmony.
c. in order to understand death, people have to see it with their own eyes.
d. if the living men refuse to look at the dead, and the dead are only seen by the women who bury them, then the deads accomplishments cannot be remembered.

Explanation:

Margaret Bourke - White's statement emphasizes the importance of learning from past tragedies. Option a aligns with this as it focuses on examining past mistakes (related to war and hatred) so that the deaths (of concentration camp prisoners etc.) are not in vain. Option b about making people feel guilty is not the main point. Option c about understanding death through seeing is too literal. Option d about dead's accomplishments and who sees them is not relevant to the message of learning from past wrongs.

Answer:

a. If the living do not examine past mistakes, in particular with war and hatred, then the ones who died because of these things will have died for no reason.