Dan immer stäker werdenden massierten britischen ... – Antique Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A window into the past: Dan immer stäker werdenden massierten britischen ..., preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Dan immer stäker werdenden massierten britischen ...
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The caption on this print, which begins "Against the ever-stronger massed British...", presents Erwin Rommel's forces as holding out against a growing Allied build-up in North Africa. The picture dates to the first week of November 1942, when the Second Battle of El Alamein was turning against the Axis in Egypt. Rommel's Afrika Korps was short of fuel, tanks and men, and he began pulling back westward within days. It comes from the German illustrated album *Grossdeutschland im Weltgeschehen*, published in 1942, so its tone is worth reading with that propaganda purpose in mind.
| Created / published | 1942 Nov. 1-9. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Photographic prints 1940-1950. |
| Notes | In album: Grossdeutschland im Weltgeschehen, 1942, p. 79. No. 274. |
| Subjects | Rommel, Erwin,--1891-1944--Military service. World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns & battles--Africa, North. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,096 × 3,292 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-183090 |
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