Title

Preparing vitamin sweets, German-occupied France, 1940-1944. Artist: Unknown

Caption

Preparing vitamin sweets, German-occupied France, 1940-1944. Shortages and rationning of the vast majority of foodstuffs had an adverse effect on the diet and health of the civilian population, particularly children and the elderly. A portrait of France's Vichy leader, Marshal Philippe Petain watches over the wpmen as they work.

Date

1940

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images

Reference

HRM19B96_362

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

50,0Mb (1,2Mb) / 16,9in x 11,5in / 5073 x 3447 (300dpi)

Keywords

portrait female women woman people male working work man men health medicine country French France sweet science guy occupation diet headdress pill table war location century nutrition nurse occupied leader furniture wartime lady concept headscarf vitamin B&W 1940s collaboration headgear MONOCHROME collaborator Forties World War II World War two WWII black & white black and white B W world war 2 20th century civilian civilians Art Media decade Second World War TGN Vichy regime wimple WW2 Philippe Petain photograph 2nd World War Unknown Philippe Henri Philippe Omer Petain Marshal Petain Petain photograph