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Hitler Greets Rommel

Berlin


Date
1942, September 30
Location
Berlin
Country
Germany
Material
silver gelatin print on glossy paper
Size
19 (20,7) x 23,8 (26,7) cm
Artist
AP Wirephoto

Description

recto typeset in margin: (NY11-Oct 8) Hitler greets Rommel -- Adolf Hitler greets Field Marshall Erwin Rommel (right), home from North Africa, in Berlin's Sportpalast, at the Nazi winter relief campaign rally at which Hitler spoke Sept. 30. In background is Dr Robert Ley, German labor chief. Picture was radioed from Berlin to Buenos Aires and came to U.S. by plane from Argentina. (AP Wirephoto) verso handwritten in red pencil: “Adolf Hitler, Louis P. Lochner” stamp: “The Cleveland News, Reference Department Cleveland, Ohio”; Nov 3 1942