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With a huge outpouring of sympathy throughout the country, our comrade Alois Sornik, murdered at the hands of the Poles, was laid to rest in Ansbach.

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Title
With a huge outpouring of sympathy throughout the country, our comrade Alois Sornik, murdered at the hands of the Poles, was laid to rest in Ansbach.
Names
Hoffmann, Heinrich, 1885-1957 (Photographer)
Collection

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

1939

Dates / Origin
Date Issued: 1939
Library locations
The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection
Shelf locator: PC EYE
Shelf locator: PC EYE 1939
Topics
Nazi propaganda
Wreaths
Nazis
Funeral rites & ceremonies -- Germany
Ansbach (Mittelfranken, Germany)
Genres
Photographs
Notes
Content: Blemishes on image.
Content: In order to stir feelings against Poland, German propaganda played up attacks on ethnic Germans living there. While there were indeed such attacks, they were nowhere near as numerous or co-ordinated as the Germans claimed.
Content: Picture caption: "Unter riesiger Anteilnahme des ganzen Landes wird in Ansbach der durch polnische Mörderhand erschlagene Volksgenosse Alois Sornik beigesetzt."
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): 73dbbcf0-c601-012f-36d0-58d385a7bc34
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
  • 1939: 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. "With a huge outpouring of sympathy throughout the country, our comrade Alois Sornik, murdered at the hands of the Poles, was laid to rest in Ansbach." The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1939. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/ad8bf4f8-ab4e-1f4b-e040-e00a18061930

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The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. "With a huge outpouring of sympathy throughout the country, our comrade Alois Sornik, murdered at the hands of the Poles, was laid to rest in Ansbach." New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed March 19, 2024. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/ad8bf4f8-ab4e-1f4b-e040-e00a18061930

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The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. (1939). With a huge outpouring of sympathy throughout the country, our comrade Alois Sornik, murdered at the hands of the Poles, was laid to rest in Ansbach. Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/ad8bf4f8-ab4e-1f4b-e040-e00a18061930

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With a huge outpouring of sympathy throughout the country, our comrade Alois Sornik, murdered at the hands of the Poles, was laid to rest in Ansbach.