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This is the end of English pirates. Close to a work site manned by frontline workers of the Organization Todt, German anti-aircraft guns shot down one of the British. This is his wreckage

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Picture caption: "Das ist das Ende der englischen Piraten. In der Nähe einer Arbeitsstelle der Frontarbeiter der Organisation Todt schoss die deutsche Flak einen Briten ab. Dies sind seine Trümmer.The Organization Todt (named for Fritz Todt, a prominent Nazi civil engineer), was responsible for numerous massive building projects throughout the Reich. Many of these used concentration camp inmates, forced laborers and foreign "volunteers", all of whom were treated like slaves.Title translates German picture caption
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Photographs Gelatin Silver Prints
Created Date:
1940
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Eye on the Reich : German propaganda photographs, 1939-1942

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Art and Picture Collection. The New York Public Library

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