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[Two women helping children board train] – Antique Print

[Two women helping children board train], [between 1940 and 1945(?)] — historic photograph
[Two women helping children board train], [between 1940 and 1945(?)]. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(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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Two women help a line of small children climb aboard a train in this photograph, a scene of wartime travel that the record ties to the National Socialist People's Welfare (NSV), the Nazi Party's welfare organization. The NSV ran child care, aid to families, and support for evacuees and displaced people in Germany during the Second World War, and its work was used as propaganda for the regime's image of care and unity. The record dates the image only tentatively, to between 1940 and 1945, and its caption card information is unverified, so the exact circumstances of the departure remain uncertain. The "refugees" and "children" subject tags point to the movement of civilians fleeing or being moved away from bombing and other wartime disruption.

Created / published[between 1940 and 1945(?)]
Medium1 photographic print.
NotesNo. 4 in: Activities of NSV"
Subjectsthe welfare organization of the Nazi party in Germany during the war. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Women--War Work; Welfare; Children; Refugees; Nazism."
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,177 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-149650

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