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The American Embassy after the German Invasion of Poland

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Original – : American Embassy in Warsaw during the siege of the capital of Poland in September 1939 by the German army. An American flag hangs outside the shattered window after the German air raid. One of the few Kodak Kodachrome genuine color photos made by Julien Bryan in Warsaw in 1939. Other color photos showing destroyed German bomber He-111 near the Bartoszewicza Street, Polish soldiers fighting during the Second World War, fleeing civilians and the Old Town. More color photographs, one Kodachrome roll survived in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington.

Reason

High quality for it's time and a rare color photo taken during WW2, showing the aftermath of a very historically important event: the German Invasion of Poland which started World War II

Articles in which this image appears

Invasion of Poland

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/History/World War II

Creator

Julien Bryan

• Support as nominator – Wcamp9 (talk) 01:19, 4 November 2024 (UTC)
• Oppose Low quality and size. Yann (talk) 16:25, 6 November 2024 (UTC)
• Oppose. The photo doesn't really convey the moment; it took me a bit to even realize the glass was broken. Otherwise it's just a shot of a building and a flag. – Moonreach (talk) 19:03, 6 November 2024 (UTC)
• Oppose; per above. – Hamid Hassani (talk) 05:59, 10 November 2024 (UTC)

Not Promoted --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 01:54, 14 November 2024 (UTC)