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On the Atlantic coast defensive structures have been built such as the world has never seen. Engineers and workers on the (Western) front have created these works. (Here,) a U-boat bunker that fully protects submarines from air attacks.

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Title
On the Atlantic coast defensive structures have been built such as the world has never seen. Engineers and workers on the (Western) front have created these works. (Here,) a U-boat bunker that fully protects submarines from air attacks.
Names
Hoffmann, Heinrich, 1885-1957 (Photographer)
Collection

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

1940

Dates / Origin
Date Issued: 1940
Library locations
The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection
Shelf locator: PC EYE
Shelf locator: PC EYE 1940
Topics
Nazi propaganda
Forts & fortifications
Bunkers
Submarine warfare
World War, 1939-1945 -- Engineering and construction
Atlantic Wall (France and Belgium)
Genres
Photographs
Notes
Content: Picture caption: "An der Atlantikküste wurden Wehrbauten errichtet, wie sie die Welt noch gesehen hat. Frontingenieure und Frontarbeiter der OT haben diese Werke geschaffen. Ein U-Bootbunker, der U-Boote völlig sicher schützt gegen Angriffe aus der Luft."
Content: Printed below caption: "PK.-Kriegsberichter Weinbach--(Scherl)"
Content: German U-boats could range far out into the Atlantic from their new bases on the coast of occupied France. These massive submarine pens of reinforced concrete could withstand direct hits by huge Allied bombs. Some survived the war and still exist today.
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): f99947b0-c601-012f-580b-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
  • 1940: 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. "On the Atlantic coast defensive structures have been built such as the world has never seen. Engineers and workers on the (Western) front have created these works. (Here,) a U-boat bunker that fully protects submarines from air attacks." The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1940. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/b1cacde4-eac8-3a32-e040-e00a18064701

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The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. "On the Atlantic coast defensive structures have been built such as the world has never seen. Engineers and workers on the (Western) front have created these works. (Here,) a U-boat bunker that fully protects submarines from air attacks." New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 24, 2024. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/b1cacde4-eac8-3a32-e040-e00a18064701

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The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. (1940). On the Atlantic coast defensive structures have been built such as the world has never seen. Engineers and workers on the (Western) front have created these works. (Here,) a U-boat bunker that fully protects submarines from air attacks. Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/b1cacde4-eac8-3a32-e040-e00a18064701

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On the Atlantic coast defensive structures have been built such as the world has never seen.  Engineers and workers on the (Western) front have created these works.  (Here,) a U-boat bunker that fully protects submarines from air attacks.