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In the meantime, the Navy keeps watch on the Channel coast and German mine sweepers ensure that the sea areas off the coasts of Holland and France remain unthreatened.

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Title
In the meantime, the Navy keeps watch on the Channel coast and German mine sweepers ensure that the sea areas off the coasts of Holland and France remain unthreatened.
Names
Hoffmann, Heinrich, 1885-1957 (Photographer)
Collection

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

1940

Dates / Origin
Date Issued: 1940
Library locations
The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection
Shelf locator: PC EYE
Shelf locator: PC EYE 1940
Topics
Nazi propaganda
Seas
Mine warfare
World War, 1939-1945 -- Naval operations, German
Genres
Photographs
Notes
Content: Picture caption: "Inzwischen hielt die Kriegsmarine Wacht an der Kanalküste und deutsche Räumboote sorgten dafür, daß das Seegebeit vor der Küste Hollands und Frankreichs ungefährdet blieb."
Content: Both sides laid mines in the English Channel to try to damage enemy coastal convoys of small freighters and their escorts.
Content: Title translates German picture caption
Source note: Grossdeutschland im Weltgeschehen. Tagesbildberichte 1940. (Berlin Joh. Kasper Co. 1942) Braeckow, Ernst, Author.
Physical Description
Gelatin silver prints
Type of Resource
Still image
Identifiers
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): f8b72480-c601-012f-4de5-58d385a7bc34
Rights Statement
The copyright and related rights status of this item has been reviewed by The New York Public Library, but we were unable to make a conclusive determination as to the copyright status of the item. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use.

Item timeline of events

  • 1885: Creator Born
  • 1940: Issued
  • 1957: Creator Died
  • 2017: Digitized
  • 2025: Found by you!
  • 2026

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The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. "In the meantime, the Navy keeps watch on the Channel coast and German mine sweepers ensure that the sea areas off the coasts of Holland and France remain unthreatened." The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1940. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/b1cacde4-eac6-3a32-e040-e00a18064701

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The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. "In the meantime, the Navy keeps watch on the Channel coast and German mine sweepers ensure that the sea areas off the coasts of Holland and France remain unthreatened." New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed January 30, 2025. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/b1cacde4-eac6-3a32-e040-e00a18064701

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The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. (1940). In the meantime, the Navy keeps watch on the Channel coast and German mine sweepers ensure that the sea areas off the coasts of Holland and France remain unthreatened. Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/b1cacde4-eac6-3a32-e040-e00a18064701

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In the meantime, the Navy keeps watch on the Channel coast and German mine sweepers ensure that the sea areas off the coasts of Holland and France remain unthreatened.