Image Title

:  [Defended by the supposedly-impregnable Maginot Line, the French hadn't planned for this outcome. The Poilus line up in Sedan with their hands up, ready to be transported to the prisoner-of-war camps.]

Creator

: Hoffmann, Heinrich, 1885-1957 -- Photographer

Depicted Date

: May 1940

Medium

: Gelatin silver prints

Item/Page/Plate

: 129

Notes

: Picture caption: "Selbst der Schutz der angeblich unbezwingbaren Maginot-Linie hatte die Franzosen vor diesem Schicksal nicht bewahrt. So traten mit erhobenen Händen die Poilus in Sedan an, um in die Gefangenenlager abtransportiert zu werden." Note 2.) This was doubly painful for the French, as Sedan had been the scene of a major defeat for them in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870. Note 3.) Title translates German picture caption

Original Source

: From Grossdeutschland im Weltgeschehen. Tagesbildberichte 1940. (Berlin Joh. Kasper & Co. 1942) Braeckow, Ernst, Author.

Source

: Eye on the Reich : German propaganda photographs, 1939-1942. / 1940

Source Description

: 220 photographic prints : gelatin silver ; 10.5 x 14.5 cm.

Location

: Mid-Manhattan Library / Picture Collection

Catalog Call Number

: PC EYE 1940

Digital ID

: 3956151

Record ID

: 2037908

Digital Item Published

: 4-6-2012