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Reporting to Headquarters

Berlin


Date
1942, Mai 16
Location
Berlin
Country
Germany
Material
silver gelatin print on glossy paper
Size
19 (20,6) x 23,9 (26,8) cm
Artist
AP Wirephoto

Description

recto typeset in margin: (NY18-June 19) Reporting to headquarters -- Arma akimbo, Hitler faces Gen. Italo Gariboldi (left facing camera) on their meeting May 16. Col. Gen. Franz Halders is on the right. Gariboldi, after serving as commander of Italy's North African troops and as governor of Libya, could give Hitler a close-up survey of conditions there before a new campaign. The picture reached the United States from Portugal. (AP Wirephoto) verso handwritten in red pencil: “General Italo Gariboldi, Adolf Hitler” stamp: “The Cleveland News, Reference Department Cleveland, Ohio”; JUL 9 1942, “ASSOCIATED PRESS Wirephoto”