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When Hitler and Mussolini Met to Discuss Red Front
Salzburg
- Date
- 1942, April 30
- Location
- Salzburg
- Country
- Austria
- Material
- silver gelatin print on glossy paper
- Size
- 16,3 (20,7) x 25,8 cm
- Artist
- AP Wirephoto
Description
recto typeset in margin: (NY19-June 13) When Hitler and Mussolini met to discuss red front -- This picture, radioed from Berlin to Buenos Aires, Argentina, as propaganda, shows Mussolini (left) and Hitler at their meeting at Salzburg at the end of April. Bern reports at that time said the dictators had dwelt on measures for increasing the number of Axis troops at the Russian front and on enforcement of rigid discipline at home. (AP Wirephoto) verso handwritten in red pencil: "Benito Mussolini, Adolf Hitler, Col. Gen. Franz Halder” stamp: “The Cleveland News, Reference Department Cleveland, Ohio”; JUL 9 1942, “ASSOCIATED PRESS Wirephoto”