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Tag Archives: World War II
Fritzi Massari, Austrian actress, 1905
Austrian Jewish actress who escaped Hitler’s Germany and emigrated. This photo shows the incredible glamour of fashion during the fin de siecle (turn of the century) in Vienna.
Posted in 20th century, fashion, fashion photography, femme fatale, Uncategorized
Tagged Austrian, fin de siecle, Fritzi Massari, glamour, Hitler, Vienna, World War II
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Iconic image of Hedy Lamar
Lamar was born in Austria to two Jewish parents (but she was raised Catholic) and married c. 1933 to a fascist (but not Nazi). Her husband was so controlling she had to flee from him disguised as a maid. Already famous … Continue reading
Posted in 20th century, femme fatale, film, Germany, Jewish, photography, portrait, Uncategorized, World War II
Tagged film, Hedy Lamarr, nazism, photography, secrets, technology, weapons, World War II
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Rembrandt van Rijn, Nightwatch , 1642.
“On June 30, 1945, Rembrandt van Rijn’s masterpiece, Nightwatch (Militia Company of Captain Frans Banning Cocq), was formally unrolled at the Rijksmuseum after having been returned to Amsterdam by the Dutch canal system on a special boat. The painting had spent … Continue reading
Posted in 20th century, photography, Uncategorized, war photography, World War II
Tagged art work, hiding, Rembrandt, World War II
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Arrest that Rat!
It never fails to impress me by how much the previous generations did and fought and sacrificed for WWII. The commitment of women on the home front was no laughing matter. Here is a photo from British archives showing women … Continue reading
Posted in 20th century, documentary photography, Uncategorized, World War II
Tagged Great Britain, Home Front, rats, women, World War II, WWII
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Unidentified Japanese woman, 1947
Colored negative found on this flickr photo stream.
Posted in documentary photography, femme fatale, japanese art, photography, portrait, Uncategorized, World War II
Tagged beauty, Japanese, kimono, portrait, post-War, woman, World War II
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Walter Nessler, Premonition
This painting by Nessler, his most famous, depicts London being bombed. He painted it before the London Blitz. A highly evocative work that conveys the influence of German Expressionism on him, art he must have been exposed to before he … Continue reading
Posted in expressionism, GERMAN EXPRESSIONISM, Surrealism, Uncategorized, World War II
Tagged Blitz, Expressionism, painting, Walter Nessler, World War II
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Lionel S. Reiss, Courtyard in Chelm
Illustration of Chelm, Eastern Poland, before World War II and the Holocaust. Almost all 15,000 Jews of this town were exterminated in the concentration Sobibor by 1940.
Posted in art, holocaust, illustration, Judaism, Poland, Uncategorized, World War II
Tagged Chelm, holocaust, Judaism, Lionel S. Reiss, Poland, World War II
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Disney animation fighting Nazi Terror
Walt Disney made an animated film for children explaining how children are brainwashed to become Nazis under the Third Reich. We need to make similar videos for children around the world to show how ISIS and other terrorist groups like … Continue reading
Posted in film, Uncategorized, World War II
Tagged animation, brainwashing, cartoon, film, ISIS, jihad, Nazis, nazism, propaganda, terror, terrorism, Walt Disney, World War II
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Scenes from Buchenwald
Although I usually post on art, a post by Mogromo about his Uncle at Dachau concentration camp got me thinking about a shocking film I saw that the Allies took shortly after WWII. They forced German civilians (mainly women, who else was … Continue reading
Posted in World War II
Tagged anti-Semitism, apathy, Buchenwald, ethnic cleansing, Germany, history, holocaust, propaganda, World War II
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Ben Shahn, (1898 Russia- 1969 US), Liberation
The work below Liberation (1945), is Ben Shahn’s celebration of the end of Fascism. It is really touching and evocative. The foreground shows children playing, symbolizing exhilaration. The background shows the rubble of buildings, devastated by the War and symbolic … Continue reading
Posted in holocaust, Judaism, World War II
Tagged art, Ben Shahn, Fascism, holocaust, survival, World War II
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