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[Goering inspecting Junkers aircraft plant in Dessau, Germany - walking with 4 officials; JU bomber in background] – Vintage Print

[Goering inspecting Junkers aircraft plant in Dessau, Germany - walking with 4 officials; JU bomber in background], [1939 September 5] — historic photograph
[Goering inspecting Junkers aircraft plant in Dessau, Germany - walking with 4 officials; JU bomber in background], [1939 September 5]. 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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A window into the past: [Goering inspecting Junkers aircraft plant in Dessau, Germany - walking with 4 officials; JU bomber in background], preserved in this historic photograph. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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[Goering inspecting Junkers aircraft plant in Dessau, Germany - walking with 4 officials; JU bomber in background]

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Hermann Göring, the Reich Air Minister and head of the Luftwaffe, walks through the Junkers aircraft works in Dessau with four officials, with a Junkers bomber visible in the background. The photograph is dated September 5, 1939, four days after Germany invaded Poland and two days after Britain and France declared war, so the visit took place at the very start of the European war. The Dessau plant built transport and dive-bomber aircraft that were central to the Luftwaffe's early campaigns, which makes the scene a useful record of Germany's rearmament at that moment.

Created / published[1939 September 5]
Medium1 photographic print.
GenreGroup portraits 1930-1940.Portrait photographs 1930-1940.Photographic prints 1930-1940.
SubjectsGöring, Hermann,--1893-1946--Public appearances--Germany--Dessau. Junkers Flugzeug- und -Motorenwerke, Dessau--People--1930-1940. Airplanes--Germany--1930-1940.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,482 px · prints to 5 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-138695

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