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Huge Crowd Welcomes Hitler to Memel

Memel (Klaipeda)


Date
1939, March 30
Location
Memel (Klaipeda)
Country
Lithuania
Material
silver gelatin print on glossy paper
Size
16,2 (18) x 21,4 (22,9) cm
Artist
ACME · Unidentified Photographer

Description

verso labeled in typeset: SCH 496206
Huge crowd welcomes Hitler to Memel
Memel—The scene in the Theater Plaza of Memel as a huge crowd turned out to cheer Chancellor Adolf Hitler (on balcony) as he spoke at the "liberation" meeting after his arrival from Germany with the fleet.
Credit line (ACME) 3/30/39 IA (GW)

Stamped: Acme Newspictures, Inc.; REF. DEPT. 4-4 39 N. E. A.
Handwritten, bottom: A 34078