LUFTWAFFE NEWS UNIT PHOTO ALBUM OF THE INVASION OF HOLLAND, BELGIUM, AND FRANCE, AND THE MIRACLE AT DUNKIRK
Excellent photograph album issued by the motorized news department Luftnachrichten-Abteilung 1 (H) (motorized), organized in July, 1939 and disbanded in August, 1941. The album, 17" x 12" with a beige cloth cover and gilt lettering, was produced in some quantity for Christmas, 1940 and it bears a printer's credit and printed captions, but the photographs are all original second-generation prints taken by the semi-professional members of the news unit. The album, in excellent condition, contains about 150 photos from 3" x 3" to 4" x 6", and occasionally larger. It opens with a large color map showing the tracing unit's path with the Luftwaffe through Germany, Holland, Belgium and northern France. The images commence with Christmas of the previous year, photos of officers, and some training images. The unit documents the invasion of Holland, showing their vehicles crossing into Holland, wrecked aircraft, dead Dutch soldiers, destroyed towns, and sunken river barges. The invasion of France is shown with black colonial troops mocked, shattered villages (captioned: "C'est la guerre!"), a few images of Compiegne, German graves, panzer tanks, wreckage, sunken vessels and graves at Dunkirk, radio installations, and visits by Hitler and Goring. An outstanding collection of quality images.