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With our brave infantry on the front line near Warsaw. The crew of a German grenade launcher takes cover during launch.

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Title
With our brave infantry on the front line near Warsaw. The crew of a German grenade launcher takes cover during launch.
Names
Hoffmann, Heinrich, 1885-1957 (Photographer)
Collection

Eye on the Reich : German propaganda photographs, 1939-1942

1939

Dates / Origin
Date Issued: 1939
Library locations
The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection
Shelf locator: PC EYE
Shelf locator: PC EYE 1939
Topics
Nazi propaganda
Grenades
World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns
World War, 1939-1945 -- Battlefields
War photography
Genres
Photographs
Notes
Content: Picture caption: "Mit unserer tapferen Infanterie in vorderster Linie bei Warschau. Die Mannschaft eines deutschen Granatwerfers geht während des Abschuffes in Deckung."
Content: When a mortar is fired, its crew turn away and cover their ears from the pressure created when the shell is fired from the barrel.
Content: Title translates German picture caption
Source note: Grossdeutschland im Weltgeschehen. Tagesbildberichte 1940. (Berlin Joh. Kasper Co. 1942) Braeckow, Ernst, Author.
Physical Description
Gelatin silver prints
Type of Resource
Still image
Identifiers
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 9e6ddae0-c601-012f-d2cf-58d385a7bc34
Rights Statement
The copyright and related rights status of this item has been reviewed by The New York Public Library, but we were unable to make a conclusive determination as to the copyright status of the item. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use.

Item timeline of events

  • 1885: Creator Born
  • 1939: Issued
  • 1957: Creator Died
  • 2017: Digitized
  • 2024: Found by you!
  • 2025

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The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. "With our brave infantry on the front line near Warsaw. The crew of a German grenade launcher takes cover during launch." The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1939. https://qa-digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/b0764cf4-fc98-0cb7-e040-e00a18067af7

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The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. "With our brave infantry on the front line near Warsaw. The crew of a German grenade launcher takes cover during launch." New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed November 22, 2024. https://qa-digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/b0764cf4-fc98-0cb7-e040-e00a18067af7

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The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. (1939). With our brave infantry on the front line near Warsaw. The crew of a German grenade launcher takes cover during launch. Retrieved from https://qa-digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/b0764cf4-fc98-0cb7-e040-e00a18067af7

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With our brave infantry on the front line near Warsaw.  The crew of a German grenade launcher takes cover during launch.