Image Title

:  [The Western Front is not static; the German Army works day by day on the strengthening of the defensive works there. For example, in a mountain on the upper Rhine a mine gallery is pushed forward with modern drilling equipment.]

Creator

: Hoffmann, Heinrich, 1885-1957 -- Photographer

Depicted Date

: 1940

Medium

: Gelatin silver prints

Item/Page/Plate

: 17

Notes

: Picture caption: "Die Westfront ist nicht erstarrt; denn die deutsche Wehrmacht arbeitet Tag für Tag an der Verstärkung der Besestigungsanlagen. Hier wird z.B. in einen Berg am Oberrhein ein Stollen mit den modernsten Bohrmaschinen vorgetrieben." Note 2.) Title translates German picture caption Note 3.) This might be a posed picture because, in spite of the "modern drilling equipment", the soldier-miner has no helmet or eye protection.

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

: 3956169

Record ID

: 2037926

Digital Item Published

: 4-7-2012