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beginning of the war disappeared after the defeat at Stalingrad; but, all in all, the
photo propaganda does not actually reflect the changing situations during the war
very well.
Of course, the cases analysed here only allow us to obtain a crude idea of what
kind of visual strategies were used to describe ‘the enemy’ during WWII in Finland
and Germany. Still, they show that even though Finnish and German propaganda
photography has certain universal characteristics, they certainly differ from one
another and also reflect the different points of view of both countries.
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Dokumentationszentrum des Osterreichischen Widerstandes (Documentation Centre of Austrian Resistance)
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SA-kuva-arkisto (Finnish Wartime Photograph Archive), www.sa-kuva.fi (last accessed on: January 7,
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Berliner Illustrierte Zeitung (‘Berlin's Illustrated Magazine’), 1941-1945.
Die Wehrmacht, 1941-1944.
Hakkapeliitta, 1941-1944.
Illustrierter Beobachter (“Ihe Illustrated Observer’), 1941-1945.
Suomen Kwvalebti ( Illustrated Magazine of Finland"), 1941-1944.
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