Title

Otto Abetz, German ambassador to France, holding a press conference, Paris, 15 December 1940. Artist: Unknown

Caption

Otto Abetz, German ambassador to France, holding a press conference, Paris, 15 December 1940. He is speaking on the subject of the transfer of the body of the Emperor Napoleon II from Vienna to Paris, a gift from Hitler to the Vichy regime. On the extreme left of the photograph is Fernand de Brinon, a leading French collaborator during the Nazi occupation who was tried as a war criminal by the French after the liberation and executed in 1947.

Date

1940

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images

Reference

HRM19B96_377

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

50,0Mb (1,3Mb) / 16,7in x 11,6in / 5009 x 3492 (300dpi)

Keywords

Germany people male man men German country French France law Paris guy crime occupation media war location century speaking occupied wartime concept B&W 1940s collaboration MONOCHROME collaborator journalist journalism Forties EMBASSY World War II World War two WWII black & white black and white B W Ile-de-France world war 2 20th century diplomat press conference war crime war criminal Art Media ambassador decade Second World War TGN Vichy regime WW2 Fernand de Brinon Otto Abetz photograph 2nd World War Unknown Otto Fernand de Brinon Abetz photograph