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Karelian Caucus
Kaukopää
- Date
- 1942, Juni 4
- Location
- Kaukopää
- Country
- Finland
- Material
- silver gelatin print on glossy paper
- Size
- 16,3 (20,5) x 26 cm
- Artist
- AP Wirephoto
Description
recto typeset in margin: (NY1-June 25) Karelian Caucus -- Mustering a half-grin, Germany's Adolf Hitler (left) chats on Finnish soil with Baron Carl Mannerheim (center), Finland's field marshal, and President Risto Ryti (right) of Finland. Hitler and staff paid surprise visit to Finland, announced as homage on Mannerheim's 75th birthday. London sources which obtained this picture interpreted trip as move to seek new Finnish drive through Karelia on Leningrad. (AP Wirephoto) verso handwritten in red pencil: “Baron von Mannerheim, Pres. Risto Ryti, Adolf Hitler” stamp: “The Cleveland News, Reference Department Cleveland, Ohio”; JUL 9 1942; “ASSOCIATED PRESS Wirephoto”