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title: Tag des Deutschen Volkssturmes in der Hauptstadt
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/tag-des-deutschen-volkssturmes-berlin-1944/
description: On a wet Berlin street a column of Volkssturm men marches past a reviewing stand where officers in greatcoats stand, one with an arm raised in salute…
section: Collection
---

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**Content note:** Wartime press photograph of the Volkssturm swearing-in in Berlin, with an officer giving the Nazi salute, 12 November 1944. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was)

[![Tag des Deutschen Volkssturmes in der Hauptstadt](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/tag-des-deutschen-volkssturmes-berlin-1944.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/tag-des-deutschen-volkssturmes-berlin-1944.jpg)

# Tag des Deutschen Volkssturmes in der Hauptstadt

On a wet Berlin street a column of Volkssturm men marches past a reviewing stand where officers in greatcoats stand, one with an arm raised in salute, and a banner is held beside a helmeted guard. The staging presents the militia as a mass, ceremonial body.

## Text on the object

Original (German) · read from the image, not independently checked

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English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

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The banner at centre carries small lettering that is not legible.

[← Azad Hind, English edition, front page (Syonan/Singapore, 7 November 1944)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/azad-hind-english-edition-1944/) [Vorbeimarsch des Volkssturms an Goebbels (Vereidigung, Berlin) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/volkssturm-vorbeimarsch-goebbels-berlin-1944/)

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