Content note: Wartime press photograph of men with Panzerfäuste and machine guns marching at the Volkssturm swearing-in, Berlin, 12 November 1944. This object is shown as it was published. Why
Vorbeimarsch des Volkssturms an Goebbels (Vereidigung, Berlin)
Rows of men in civilian hats and overcoats, many carrying Panzerfäuste and some a machine gun with belted ammunition, pack a Berlin street during the swearing-in of the Volkssturm. The archive caption says they marched past Reich Minister Goebbels.
- Date
- November 12, 1944
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- NSDAP / Deutscher Volkssturm, Reich propaganda press photograph
- Country
- Nazi Germany
- Medium
- Photograph
- Issuer type
- Party
- Regime
- Nazi Germany
- Leader
- Adolf Hitler
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Themes
- War and the military, Home front
- Event
- Volkssturm
- Techniques
- BandwagonIdentity fusion
- Regime
- Nazi Germany
- Leader
- Adolf Hitler
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons (Bundesarchiv, Bild 146-1971-033-15), retrieved October 2, 2026
- Rights
- CC BY-SA 3.0 DE (German Federal Archives), as stated on the Commons file page
Bundesarchiv, Bild 146-1971-033-15 / CC-BY-SA 3.0
Text on the object
[no legible text]
No printed text is legible on the print.
