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["Panje" sleds are the safest means of transport in winter. Supply troops in a Russian city.]

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Title
["Panje" sleds are the safest means of transport in winter. Supply troops in a Russian city.]
Names
Hoffmann, Heinrich, 1885-1957 (Photographer)
Collection

Eye on the Reich : German propaganda photographs, 1939-1942

1941

Dates / Origin
Date Issued: 1941
Library locations
The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection
Shelf locator: PC EYE
Shelf locator: PC EYE 1941
Topics
Nazi propaganda
churches -- Russia
Soviet Union -- History
Sleds & sleighs
Soldiers -- German -- 1939-1945
World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Eastern Front
Genres
Photographs
Notes
Content: "Panje" was a word used by German soldiers on the Eastern Front to describe wagons, carts and sleds taken from local peasants and pressed into army service. The word is Polish for a type of small, study horse which often pulled them.
Content: Picture caption: "Panjeschlitten sind im Winter das sicherste Beförderungsmittel. Nachschubtruppe in einer russischen Stadt."
Content: Printed beneath caption: "PK-Kriegsberrichter Lachmann-PBZ"
Content: Title translates German picture caption
Source note: Grossdeutschland im Weltgeschehen. Tagesbildberichte 1940. (Berlin Joh. Kasper Co. 1942) Braeckow, Ernst, Author.
Physical Description
Gelatin silver prints
Type of Resource
Still image
Identifiers
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 24d1b460-c602-012f-acec-58d385a7bc34
Rights Statement
The copyright and related rights status of this item has been reviewed by The New York Public Library, but we were unable to make a conclusive determination as to the copyright status of the item. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use.

Item timeline of events

  • 1885: Creator Born
  • 1941: Issued
  • 1957: Creator Died
  • 2017: Digitized
  • 2024: Found by you!
  • 2025

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The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. "["Panje" sleds are the safest means of transport in winter. Supply troops in a Russian city.]" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1941. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/b22fc0d7-157b-4eed-e040-e00a180606a5

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The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. "["Panje" sleds are the safest means of transport in winter. Supply troops in a Russian city.]" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 16, 2024. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/b22fc0d7-157b-4eed-e040-e00a180606a5

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The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. (1941). ["Panje" sleds are the safest means of transport in winter. Supply troops in a Russian city.] Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/b22fc0d7-157b-4eed-e040-e00a180606a5

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["Panje" sleds are the safest means of transport in winter.  Supply troops in a Russian city.]