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Veterans’ meeting of the German “Deutsches Afrika Korps”


field marshall Erwin Rommel’s troop. Iserlohn, 1951



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Meeting of the veterans of the German "Afrika Korps", Fieldmarshal Rommel's elite army in North Africa. The missing father and son generation. A boy wears his dead father's medals. Iserlohn, West Germany, 1951
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Meeting of the veterans of the German "Afrika Korps", Fieldmarshal Rommel's elit...

Meeting of the veterans of the German "Afrika-Korps", Fieldmarshal Rommel's elite troop, in Iserlohn, West Germany, 1951. The band under an embroidered palm tree, growing out of the word "Afrika". Iserlohn, 1951
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Meeting of the veterans of the German "Afrika-Korps", Fieldmarshal Rommel's e...

Meeting of the veterans of the German "Afrika-Korps", Fieldmarshal Rommel's elite troop,in Iserlohn,West- Germany, 1951.Memories of war.
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Meeting of the veterans of the German "Afrika-Korps", Fieldmarshal Rommel's e...

Meeting of the veterans of the German "Afrika-Korps", Fieldmarshal Rommel's elite troop, in Iserlohn, West Germany, 1951. General Cruewell (left) and General Beierlein, who capitulated with his tank division still intact, thus saving the small town of Iserlohn.
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Meeting of the veterans of the German "Afrika-Korps", Fieldmarshal Rommel's e...

Meeting of the veterans of the German "Afrika-Korps", Fieldmarshal Rommel's elite troop, in Iserlohn, West Germany, 1951. The cinema in Iserlohn was packed with three thousand veterans during a speech by General Cruewell.
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Meeting of the veterans of the German "Afrika-Korps", Fieldmarshal Rommel's e...

Meeting of the veterans of the German "Afrika-Korps", Fieldmarshal Rommel's elite troop, in Iserlohn, West Germany, 1951. Beer for the veterans after speeches and ceremonies. Iserlohn, 1951
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Meeting of the veterans of the German "Afrika-Korps", Fieldmarshal Rommel's e...

Meeting of the veterans of the German "Afrika-Korps", Fieldmarshal Rommel's elite troop, in Iserlohn, West Germany. Sausage and pea-mash is served in memory of army-grub. Iserlohn, 1951
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Meeting of the veterans of the German "Afrika-Korps", Fieldmarshal Rommel's elit...

Meeting of the veterans of the German "Afrika-Korps", Fieldmarshal Rommel's elite troop, in Iserlohn, West Germany, 1951. The cinema in Iserlohn was packed with three thousand veterans during a speech by General Cruewell.
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Meeting of the veterans of the German "Afrika-Korps", Fieldmarshal Rommel's e...

Meeting of the veterans of the German "Afrika-Korps", Fieldmarshal Rommel's elite troop, in Iserlohn, West Germany. A veteran sleeps it off in an empty beer-garden. Iserlohn, 1951.
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Meeting of the veterans of the German "Afrika-Korps", Fieldmarshal Rommel's elit...

Meeting of the veterans of the German "Afrika-Korps", Fieldmarshal Rommel's elite troop, in Iserlohn, West Germany, 1951. Under a painting of Fieldmarshal Rommel, General Hesebeck addresses the veterans.
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Meeting of the veterans of the German "Afrika-Korps", Fieldmarshal Rommel's e...

Meeting of the veterans of the German "Afrika-Korps", Fieldmarshal Rommel's elite troop, in Iserlohn, West Germany, 1951. A photo in memory of the meeting: former members of the Afrika-Korps assemble around a car marked "DAK" - Deutsches Afrika-Korps. Iserlohn, 1951
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Meeting of the veterans of the German "Afrika-Korps", Fieldmarshal Rommel's e...

Meeting of the veterans of the German "Afrika-Korps", Fieldmarshal Rommel's elite troop, in Iserlohn, West Germany, 1951. A special welcome was given to "our good Austrians who have not forgotten their German brothers in arms" who had come in Lederhosen and army boots.
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Meeting of the veterans of the German "Afrika-Korps", Fieldmarshal Rommel's e...