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[The badly injured assistant machinist from the "Altmark", Wilhelm Richert, was flown in a special plane to Berlin to demonstrate to the world's press the result of English crimes.]

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Title
[The badly injured assistant machinist from the "Altmark", Wilhelm Richert, was flown in a special plane to Berlin to demonstrate to the world's press the result of English crimes.]
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
Passengers
War casualties
Airplanes
Wounds & injuries
World War, 1939-1945 -- Casualties
Genres
Photographs
Notes
Content: "Altmark" was supply ship for the German cruiser raider "Graf Spee". It was also used as a prison to hold merchant seamen from ships "Graf Spee" had sunk. While "Altmark" was in neutral Norwegian waters, a British destroyer attacked her and freed the captives. The Germans regarded this attack as piracy.
Content: Picture caption: "Der scwerverletzte Maschinenassistant der "Altmark", Wilhelm Richert, wurde in einem Sonderflugzeug nach Berlin geschafft und schilderte hier vor der Weltpresse den Ablauf des englischen Verbrechens."
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): 001ad210-c602-012f-b449-58d385a7bc34
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. "[The badly injured assistant machinist from the "Altmark", Wilhelm Richert, was flown in a special plane to Berlin to demonstrate to the world's press the result of English crimes.]" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1940. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/b1cacde4-ead6-3a32-e040-e00a18064701

Chicago/Turabian Format

The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. "[The badly injured assistant machinist from the "Altmark", Wilhelm Richert, was flown in a special plane to Berlin to demonstrate to the world's press the result of English crimes.]" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 25, 2024. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/b1cacde4-ead6-3a32-e040-e00a18064701

APA Format

The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. (1940). [The badly injured assistant machinist from the "Altmark", Wilhelm Richert, was flown in a special plane to Berlin to demonstrate to the world's press the result of English crimes.] Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/b1cacde4-ead6-3a32-e040-e00a18064701

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[The badly injured assistant machinist from the "Altmark", Wilhelm Richert, was flown in a special plane to Berlin to demonstrate to the world's press the result of English crimes.]