Hi, Here is a great original press photograph-bild. Can someone translate the back and also explain what the other markings and codes are? I see the date, but what about the other markings and letter codes?
Regards, Steve
Hi, Here is a great original press photograph-bild. Can someone translate the back and also explain what the other markings and codes are? I see the date, but what about the other markings and letter codes?
Regards, Steve
Symbol of the defeat.
Photograph nr A etc , published 22 august 1941 Schr(?) PBZ= Presse Bild Zentrale = Press Photo Agency.
A picture after the big battle (Kesselschlacht= battle in which enemy is surrounded. Kessel=kettle or cauldron) in southern Ukraine.
Rifle and cap hung in a tree, so awaits a Bolshewik capture.
FZ(?)
PK= Propaganda Kompanie (=embedded press)-Otto (?)- Press Photo Agency
"FR(?) OKW= Ober Kommando der Wehrmacht= General staff of the armed forces".
Reverse:
Press Photo Agency
Braemer & Gull
members of the state organisation of the German Press
Adress telephone etc.
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