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  1. New Year's greetings for 1939 Scherl/Süddeutsche Zeitung Photo
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    Headline: New Year's greetings for 1939
    Date: 21.12.1938
    Image text: A greeting card taken in December 1938 to celebrate the turn of the year 1938/39.
    Photo: Scherl
    Image number: 00404239
  2. The caricature "Englische Ruestungskredite" ("English Armament Loans"), 1939 Scherl/Süddeutsche Zeitung Photo
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    Headline: The caricature "Englische Ruestungskredite" ("English Armament Loans"), 1939
    Date: 10.07.1939
    Image text: A cartoon by Erik shows the "murderous" English armaments industry: " Forward, boys, it is cute and honourable to die for our dividends!"
    Photo: Scherl
    Image number: 00404240
  3. The caricature "Britische Sirenenklaenge" ("British siren notes"), 1939 Scherl/Süddeutsche Zeitung Photo
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    Headline: The caricature "Britische Sirenenklaenge" ("British siren notes"), 1939
    Date: 01.01.1939
    Image text: A caricature by Erik shows a "British siren" trying to lure a German boatman onto the cliffs: "Don't bother, Miss... the notes are too false..."
    Photo: Scherl
    Image number: 00404241
  4. The caricature "Marsnaehe" ("Proximity to Mars"), 1939 Scherl/Süddeutsche Zeitung Photo
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    Headline: The caricature "Marsnaehe" ("Proximity to Mars"), 1939
    Date: 05.08.1939
    Image text: A caricature by Erik shows three people, including Winston Churchill and Anthony Eden, looking at the planet Mars through a telescope: "It's a pity we can't bring it even closer!"
    Photo: Scherl
    Image number: 00404242
  5. The cartoon "Ein gutes Gewissen..." ("A clear conscience..."), 1939 Scherl/Süddeutsche Zeitung Photo
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    Headline: The cartoon "Ein gutes Gewissen..." ("A clear conscience..."), 1939
    Date: 31.08.1939
    Image text: A caricature by Erik shows a German soldier smoking a pipe in a relaxed manner while everyone around him screams hysterically about war and mobilisation: "War of nerves? - Well, gentlemen - I have no nerves...!".
    Photo: Scherl
    Image number: 00404243
  6. The caricature "Reklamefluege" ("Advertising flights"), 1939 Scherl/Süddeutsche Zeitung Photo
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    Headline: The caricature "Reklamefluege" ("Advertising flights"), 1939
    Date: 21.07.1939
    Image text: A caricature by Erik shows the alleged war determination of John Bull, the national personification of the Kingdom of Great Britain: "How dare you - there is no place for you!"
    Photo: Scherl
    Image number: 00404244
  7. The caricature "Polnische Justiz" ("Polish Justice"), 1939 Scherl/Süddeutsche Zeitung Photo
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    Headline: The caricature "Polnische Justiz" ("Polish Justice"), 1939
    Date: 31.08.1939
    Image text: A caricature by Erik shows German prisoners imprisoned apparently "without reason", who are harassed by an overpowering Polish soldier: "Incarcerated without reason? it is enough reason that you are Germans!"
    Photo: Scherl
    Image number: 00404245
  8. The caricature "Ein Sommernachtstraum" ("A Midsummer Night's Dream"), 1939 Scherl/Süddeutsche Zeitung Photo
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    Headline: The caricature "Ein Sommernachtstraum" ("A Midsummer Night's Dream"), 1939
    Date: 14.08.1939
    Image text: A caricature by Erik shows a Polish soldier, drunk, dreaming of Gdansk, Pomerania, Koenigsberg and Silesia from a bottle with the inscription "English guarantee".
    Photo: Scherl
    Image number: 00404246
  9. The caricature "Der polnische Maulheld" ("The Polish Loud-Mouth"), 1939 Scherl/Süddeutsche Zeitung Photo
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    Headline: The caricature "Der polnische Maulheld" ("The Polish Loud-Mouth"), 1939
    Date: 24.08.1939
    Image text: A caricature by Erik shows a Polish soldier in a sequence of three drawings: "The British guarantee makes him drunk, it strengthens the hatred and makes him great, but now his evil mouth remains open, the bottle is empty - and his pants full!
    Photo: Scherl
    Image number: 00404247
  10. New Year's greetings for 1939 Scherl/Süddeutsche Zeitung Photo
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    Headline: New Year's greetings for 1939
    Date: 21.12.1938
    Image text: A greeting card taken in December 1938 to celebrate the turn of the year 1938/39.
    Photo: Scherl
    Image number: 00404248
  11. A Lufthansa aircraft takes off from Berlin Tempelhof, 1939 SZ Photo/Süddeutsche Zeitung Photo
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    Headline: A Lufthansa aircraft takes off from Berlin Tempelhof, 1939
    Date: 27.06.1939
    Image text: The air traffic control authorities give the Lufthansa commercial aircraft the signal for take-off at Berlin Tempelhof Airport.
    Photo: SZ Photo
    Image number: 00404249
  12. Zarah Leander collects for the Winter Relief Organization in Berlin, 1939 Scherl/Süddeutsche Zeitung Photo
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    Headline: Zarah Leander collects for the Winter Relief Organization in Berlin, 1939
    Date: 05.03.1939
    Image text: The actress Zarah Leander collects for the Winterhilfswerk des Deutschen Volkes (Winter Relief of the German People) at the Volksfilmtag in Berlin.
    Photo: Scherl
    Image number: 00404251
  13. Adolf Hitler stamp designed for the Reich Party Congress in Nuremberg, 1939 SZ Photo/Süddeutsche Zeitung Photo
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    Headline: Adolf Hitler stamp designed for the Reich Party Congress in Nuremberg, 1939
    Date: 15.08.1939
    Image text: Special stamp of the German Reichspost for the later cancelled "Reich Party Congress of Peace" in Nuremberg in 1939, depicting Adolf Hitler.
    Photo: SZ Photo
    Image number: 00404252
  14. Plaque for the Reich Party Congress, 1939 SZ Photo/Süddeutsche Zeitung Photo
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    Headline: Plaque for the Reich Party Congress, 1939
    Date: 20.07.1939
    Image text: Plaque for the later cancelled "Reich Party Congress of Peace" in Nuremberg in 1939, designed by Prof. Klein-Muenchen.
    Photo: SZ Photo
    Image number: 00404253
  15. Loading of silver bars in New York, 1939 Scherl/Süddeutsche Zeitung Photo
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    Headline: Loading of silver bars in New York, 1939
    Date: 11.04.1939
    Image text: Workers load silver bars under supervision after their arrival in New York. Due to the tense political situation in Europe, gold and silver are shipped in larger quantities to the USA.
    Photo: Scherl
    Image number: 00404255
  16. Military aviation meeting in Brussels, 1939 SZ Photo/Süddeutsche Zeitung Photo
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    Headline: Military aviation meeting in Brussels, 1939
    Date: 07.07.1939
    Image text: Buecker Bue 133 Jungmeister machines of the German aerobatic squadron at the Military Aviation Meeting in Brussels. On the occasion of the 25th anniversary of its foundation the Belgian Air Force invited to an international meeting.
    Photo: SZ Photo
    Image number: 00404256
  17. German champion hairdresser, 1939 Scherl/Süddeutsche Zeitung Photo
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    Headline: German champion hairdresser, 1939
    Date: 12.07.1939
    Image text: During the annual conference of the Reichsinnungsverband des Friseurhandwerks, which took place in Vienna, the German Master of Hairdressing was also chosen. The Viennese hairdresser Didia won the prize for hairdressing a water wave with scissors.
    Photo: Scherl
    Image number: 00404257
  18. Polish workers place obstacles on the Westerplatte, 1939 SZ Photo/Süddeutsche Zeitung Photo
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    Headline: Polish workers place obstacles on the Westerplatte, 1939
    Date: 01.08.1939
    Image text: On the Polish Westerplatte near Danzig, new barbed wire obstacles are laid - the picture was taken in August 1939.
    Photo: SZ Photo
    Image number: 00404258
  19. New Year's Eve celebrations at Kranzler Eck, Berlin, 1939 Scherl/Süddeutsche Zeitung Photo
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    Headline: New Year's Eve celebrations at Kranzler Eck, Berlin, 1939
    Date: 01.01.1939
    Image text: A large crowd celebrates the beginning of the new year 1939 at Kranzler-Eck (corner Unter den Linden/Friedrichsstrasse) in Berlin.
    Photo: Scherl
    Image number: 00404259
  20. Diesel powered ship on the Danube, 1939 Scherl/Süddeutsche Zeitung Photo
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    Headline: Diesel powered ship on the Danube, 1939
    Date: 09.08.1939
    Image text: The first scheduled voyage of the "Stadt Wien", the first diesel-electric Danube vessel.
    Photo: Scherl
    Image number: 00404260
  21. US Navy airship over the SS Hansa in New York, 1938 SZ Photo/Süddeutsche Zeitung Photo
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    Headline: US Navy airship over the SS Hansa in New York, 1938
    Date: 06.05.1938
    Image text: A US Navy airship flying over the German ship SS Hansa. On board, Dr. Hugo Eckener who is to arrive in New York City on May 6, 1938, where his attempts to buy the helium urgently needed for the continuation of the construction of German airships have failed.
    Photo: SZ Photo
    Image number: 00404261
  22. International Aviation Exhibition in Brussels, 1939 Scherl/Süddeutsche Zeitung Photo
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    Headline: International Aviation Exhibition in Brussels, 1939
    Date: 09.07.1939
    Image text: Directly opposite the entrance to the second International Aviation Exhibition in Brussels hangs a German fighter plane, a Junkers Ju 87, suspended like in a nosedive.
    Photo: Scherl
    Image number: 00404262
  23. Display window of a Berlin shop, 1939 SZ Photo/Süddeutsche Zeitung Photo
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    Headline: Display window of a Berlin shop, 1939
    Date: 28.08.1939
    Image text: Display of a butcher's shop in Berlin.
    Photo: SZ Photo
    Image number: 00404263
  24. Joseph Goebbels awards the Blood Order in Berlin, 1939 SZ Photo/Süddeutsche Zeitung Photo
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    Headline: Joseph Goebbels awards the Blood Order in Berlin, 1939
    Date: 01.08.1939
    Image text: In August 1939, Joseph Goebbels (right) awards the highest party distinction, the Blood Order, to 19 former members of the NSDAP in the Reich Ministry of Propaganda. This award is otherwise only given to those who participated in the coup of November 9, 1923.
    Photo: SZ Photo
    Image number: 00404264
  25. Cancellation of the NSDAP party conference in Nuremberg, 1939 SZ Photo/Süddeutsche Zeitung Photo
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    Headline: Cancellation of the NSDAP party conference in Nuremberg, 1939
    Date: 26.08.1939
    Image text: The Reich Party Congress announced for the beginning of September was cancelled on August 26, 1939.
    Photo: SZ Photo
    Image number: 00404265
  26. Arrival of the Prince and Regent Couple of Yugoslavia in Berlin, 1939 SZ Photo/Süddeutsche Zeitung Photo
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    Headline: Arrival of the Prince and Regent Couple of Yugoslavia in Berlin, 1939
    Date: 01.06.1939
    Image text: Drive of the Yugoslavian guests through the Herwarthstrasse in Berlin Lichterfelde, decorated with swastika flags, to Bellevue Palace. In the first car are Hermann Goering (left) and Adolf Hitler (right).
    Photo: SZ Photo
    Image number: 00404266
  27. New Year's greetings for 1939 Scherl/Süddeutsche Zeitung Photo
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    Headline: New Year's greetings for 1939
    Date: 01.01.1939
    Image text: Dancer Jackie Gately poses at the Paradise Restaurant in New York City for the upcoming year of 1939.
    Photo: Scherl
    Image number: 00404268
  28. Wilhelm Frick, Heinrich Himmler and Erich Koch in Klaipeda, Lithuania, 1939 SZ Photo/Süddeutsche Zeitung Photo
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    Headline: Wilhelm Frick, Heinrich Himmler and Erich Koch in Klaipeda, Lithuania, 1939
    Date: 01.03.1939
    Image text: Reich Minister Wilhelm Frick, SS Reich Leader Heinrich Himmler and the Nazi Gauleiter of East Prussia, Erich Koch, wait at the port of Memel (today Klaipeda) for the arrival of Adolf Hitler.
    Photo: SZ Photo
    Image number: 00404269
  29. The caricature "So sieht man es in Holland" ("This is how people see it in Holland"), 1939 SZ Photo/Süddeutsche Zeitung Photo
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    Headline: The caricature "So sieht man es in Holland" ("This is how people see it in Holland"), 1939
    Date: 01.01.1939
    Image text: A Dutch caricature shows Germania, who has peacefully hung up her sword and warmly loves all the neighboring children: "Germania: Are you afraid? Choir of small states: No!".
    Photo: SZ Photo
    Image number: 00404270
  30. Last weeks of peace in Europe, 1939 SZ Photo/Süddeutsche Zeitung Photo
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    Headline: Last weeks of peace in Europe, 1939
    Date: 01.01.1939
    Image text: In the new building of the Reich Chancellery in Berlin, Reich Chancellor Adolf Hitler (2nd from left) receives the graduates of the military college, who had been appointed as lieutenants of the Wehrmacht after completing their training. Here in conversation with the young officers in the presence of Herman Goering (left) and Colonel General Walther von Brauchitsch (3rd from left).
    Photo: SZ Photo
    Image number: 00404271
  31. Family in traditional Mecklenburg costume, 1939 Scherl/Süddeutsche Zeitung Photo
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    Headline: Family in traditional Mecklenburg costume, 1939
    Date: 13.08.1939
    Image text: A family in traditional Mecklenburg folk costume who took part in the traditional Stralauer Fischzug ("Stralau Fish Parade") sits at the subsequent afternoon coffee.
    Photo: Scherl
    Image number: 00404272
  32. The Britzer Rose Festival, 1939 Scherl/Süddeutsche Zeitung Photo
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    Headline: The Britzer Rose Festival, 1939
    Date: 25.06.1939
    Image text: Parade to the Britzer Rosenfest in the Berlin district of Britz. On sticks "Britzer Knublinchen" (sausages) are distributed to the spectators.
    Photo: Scherl
    Image number: 00404273
  33. Breakfast of the German-Swedish Association in Berlin, 1939 Scherl/Süddeutsche Zeitung Photo
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    Headline: Breakfast of the German-Swedish Association in Berlin, 1939
    Date: 22.04.1939
    Image text: Dr. Hans Draeger (standing right), President of the German-Swedish Association, welcomes the Swedish guests of honor of the Fuehrer at breakfast in Berlin's Viktoriastrasse. Sitting opposite him: Head of the Main Office Gotthard Urban of the NSDAP's Foreign Policy Office (2nd from left), the Swedish envoy to Berlin Arvid Richert (3rd from left), the Reich Minister of Finance Johann Ludwig Graf Schwerin von Krosigk (4th from left), Ministerialdirigent Friedrich Schmidt-Ott (?) and the President of the Reich Chamber of Culture Hans Friedrich Blunck (6th from left).
    Photo: Scherl
    Image number: 00404274
  34. Special edition of the Berliner Lokal-Anzeiger, 1939 Scherl/Süddeutsche Zeitung Photo
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    Headline: Special edition of the Berliner Lokal-Anzeiger, 1939
    Date: 31.08.1939
    Image text: The Berliner Lokalanzeiger headlines with the report: "Poland objects" on the impending war on 31.08.1939.
    Photo: Scherl
    Image number: 00404275
  35. The exhibition "Gesundes Leben - Frohes Schaffen" ( Healthy Life - Glad Work) at the Kaiserdamm in Berlin, 1938 Scherl/Süddeutsche Zeitung Photo
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    Headline: The exhibition "Gesundes Leben - Frohes Schaffen" ( Healthy Life - Glad Work) at the Kaiserdamm in Berlin, 1938
    Date: 23.09.1938
    Image text: Setting up the exhibition "Gesundes Leben - Frohes Schaffen" ( Healthy Life - Glad Work) at Kaiserdamm in Berlin. In the Wehrmacht section are displayed various uniforms showing the hygienic development.
    Photo: Scherl
    Image number: 00404276
  36. Launch of the new Luftwaffe magazine "Der Adler", 1939 SZ Photo/Süddeutsche Zeitung Photo
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    Headline: Launch of the new Luftwaffe magazine "Der Adler", 1939
    Date: 28.02.1939
    Image text: Launch of the new illustrated Luftwaffe magazine "Der Adler" by the Berlin publisher Scherl-Verlag. The new magazine is distributed to newspaper vendors.
    Photo: SZ Photo
    Image number: 00404277
  37. Launch of the new Luftwaffe magazine "Der Adler", 1939 Scherl/Süddeutsche Zeitung Photo
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    Headline: Launch of the new Luftwaffe magazine "Der Adler", 1939
    Date: 28.02.1939
    Image text: In front of the entrance to the Berliner Lokal-Anzeiger (Portal IV), newspaper vendors present the first issue of the illustrated Luftwaffe magazine "Der Adler" ("die grosse Luftwaffen Illustrierte") published by the Berlin Scherl publishing house.
    Photo: Scherl
    Image number: 00404278
  38. Launch of the new Luftwaffe magazine "Der Adler", 1939 SZ Photo/Süddeutsche Zeitung Photo
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    Headline: Launch of the new Luftwaffe magazine "Der Adler", 1939
    Date: 28.02.1939
    Image text: Launch of the new illustrated Luftwaffe magazine "Der Adler" by the Berlin publisher Scherl-Verlag. The new magazine is distributed to newspaper vendors.
    Photo: SZ Photo
    Image number: 00404279
  39. Report on the "Reich Party Congress of Peace" in Nuremberg, 1939 Scherl/Süddeutsche Zeitung Photo
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    Headline: Report on the "Reich Party Congress of Peace" in Nuremberg, 1939
    Date: 11.08.1939
    Image text: The "Reich Party Congress of Peace" planned for September 2-11 in Nuremberg is intended to show the population and abroad the Third Reich's desire for peace: "We have given Central Europe a great [...] namely the peace, peace protected by German power". (Adolf Hitler). The Reich Party Congress was cancelled at the end of August without giving explanations.
    Photo: Scherl
    Image number: 00404280
  40. Tea reception in the Berlin City Hall, 1939 Scherl/Süddeutsche Zeitung Photo
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    Headline: Tea reception in the Berlin City Hall, 1939
    Date: 31.07.1939
    Image text: English teachers during the tea reception given by Lord Mayor Julius Lippert (not in the picture) to English exchange students in the Hall of Honour of the Berlin City Hall.
    Photo: Scherl
    Image number: 00404281
  41. New Year's event of the Wehrmacht in Berlin, 1939 Scherl/Süddeutsche Zeitung Photo
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    Headline: New Year's event of the Wehrmacht in Berlin, 1939
    Date: 01.01.1939
    Image text: The music corps of the Guard Regiment at the traditional Neujahrswecken (New Year's event) of the Wehrmacht on the boulevard Unter den Linden in Berlin.
    Photo: Scherl
    Image number: 00404282
  42. New Year's Eve in Berlin 1938/39 Scherl/Süddeutsche Zeitung Photo
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    Headline: New Year's Eve in Berlin 1938/39
    Date: 01.01.1939
    Image text: Chimney sweeps wish a traffic policeman a happy new year at Kranzler Eck in Berlin.
    Photo: Scherl
    Image number: 00404283
  43. Carriage ride at the Berlin Lustgarten, 1939 Scherl/Süddeutsche Zeitung Photo
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    Headline: Carriage ride at the Berlin Lustgarten, 1939
    Date: 08.07.1939
    Image text: Under the motto "Romantic Berlin", the Nazi organisation "Kraft durch Freude" (" Strength through Joy") organized charabanc rides through Alt-Berlin: departure of the carriage at the Lustgarten with the Berlin Cathedral in the background.
    Photo: Scherl
    Image number: 00404284
  44. Tracking the daily news at the Berlin Scherl publishing house, 1939 SZ Photo/Süddeutsche Zeitung Photo
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    Headline: Tracking the daily news at the Berlin Scherl publishing house, 1939
    Date: 01.08.1939
    Image text: A group of passers-by look at the current daily news posted at the Berlin publisher Scherl-Verlag.
    Photo: SZ Photo
    Image number: 00404285
  45. Stralauer Fischzug, 1939 Scherl/Süddeutsche Zeitung Photo
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    Headline: Stralauer Fischzug, 1939
    Date: 12.08.1939
    Image text: On the occasion of the Stralauer Fischzug (Stralau Fish Parade) , festively decorated charabancs and cabs ride from the Berlin district of Friedrichshain through the city centre to the fairground in Stralau. Here a cab on the Alexanderplatz.
    Photo: Scherl
    Image number: 00404286
  46. The airship "Graf Zeppelin" over Berlin, 1939 SZ Photo/Süddeutsche Zeitung Photo
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    Headline: The airship "Graf Zeppelin" over Berlin, 1939
    Date: 14.04.1939
    Image text: The airship LZ-130 "Graf Zeppelin" over Berlin.
    Photo: SZ Photo
    Image number: 00404288
  47. Aerobatics demonstration in Staaken, 1939 Scherl/Süddeutsche Zeitung Photo
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    Headline: Aerobatics demonstration in Staaken, 1939
    Date: 22.06.1939
    Image text: Aerobatic flight demonstration of the Italian Fighter Squadron at the Staaken Airport in Berlin.
    Photo: Scherl
    Image number: 00404289
  48. Aerobatics demonstration in Staaken, 1939 Scherl/Süddeutsche Zeitung Photo
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    Headline: Aerobatics demonstration in Staaken, 1939
    Date: 22.06.1939
    Image text: Aerobatic flight demonstration of the Italian Fighter Squadron at the Staaken Airport in Berlin.
    Photo: Scherl
    Image number: 00404290
  49. Berliners look at pictures in the shop window of Scherl-Verlag, 1939 SZ Photo/Süddeutsche Zeitung Photo
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    Headline: Berliners look at pictures in the shop window of Scherl-Verlag, 1939
    Date: 01.08.1938
    Image text: Passersby look at pictures of the invasion in Austria.
    Photo: SZ Photo
    Image number: 00404291
  50. German Flying Team, 1939 SZ Photo/Süddeutsche Zeitung Photo
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    Headline: German Flying Team, 1939
    Date: 27.07.1939
    Image text: Lined up German pilots after their return from Italy. Their planes are in the background.
    Photo: SZ Photo
    Image number: 00404292
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