Sujet

Third Reich - Operation Barbarossa 1941

Légende

Text on the back side of the picture of 25th April 1959: 'Before the execution of the Jewish population through the fascist (July 1941) in the city Schuljai. The picture is from an album, which was found by Soviet soldiers in a German shelter during the battles in East Prussia.' Motive of the Soviet front line in Lithuania in July 1941. With Operation Barbarossa the German invasion of the Soviet Union has started on 22nd June 1941. The systematic killing of the Jewish population has begun with the capture of the Baltic countries, White Russia and the Ukraine. First the German Wehrmacht was appreciated and supported as the 'liberators of the Stalin yoke', but later the initial pleasure was followed by hate, which was carried out in a partisan warfare.

Date

01 juil. 1941

Crédit

Photo12/dpa-pa

Notre référence

DPA11A00_361

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

87,2Mo (8,1Mo) / 54,6cm x 40,0cm / 6448 x 4728 (300dpi)

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