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How Berlin Responded to Air "Attack"
Berlin
- Date
- 1935, March 28
- Location
- Berlin
- Country
- Germany
- Material
- silver gelatin print on glossy paper
- Size
- 15 (17,8) x 21,7 (23) cm
- Artist
- ACME · Unidentified Photographer
Description
verso labeled in typeset: The most realistic mock air attack ever staged in Germany was launched in Berlin under the direction of General Hermann Goering, the German Air Minister. Throughout the day, first-aid squads and firemen were at work in the streets, and after dusk no light was permitted to show anywhere - except for the brilliant moon, which did not seem to realize the importance of the occasion. Above, left: gas-masked firemen are directing hoses on a building "set a fire" by a bomb; right: policemen are donning gas masks during the attack.
Credit Line (ACME) 3/28/35
Stamped: ACME Newspictures, Inc.;
REF. DEPT. Apr 2 1935 N. E. A.
Handwritten: A18401