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Banished Nazi Army Chief Gets Hero's Burial
Berlin
- Date
- 1939, September 26
- Location
- Berlin
- Country
- Germany
- Material
- halftone print on glossy paper, marks in brown/red crayon, retouching in balck pencil/crayonk
- Size
- 10,7 (16,7) x 18 (21,5) cm
- Artist
- ACME · Unidentified Photographer
Description
verso labeled in typeset: Banished Nazi Army Chief Gets Hero's Burial
Berlin, Germany.....General Hermann Goering, second only to Adolf Hitler in Nazi Germany, salutes the flagdraped casket of Col. Gen. Werner von Fritsch, during the hero's burial accorded the former head of the Nazi army today, Sept. 26th. Von Fritsch met death on the Warsaw front while he was honorary commander of an artillery regiment. He had been recalled to military service with the start of the advance on Poland.
R-9-26-39-10/11
Stamped: ACME Newspictures, Inc.; Ref. Dept.
9-29-39 N. E. A.
Handwritten: A28445