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[President Jimmy Carter, Vice President Walter Mondale, Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, and Secretary of Defense Harold Brown after disembarking from their helicopter to meet about the Iran Hostage Crisis at Camp David, Maryland]

[President Jimmy Carter, Vice President Walter Mondale, Secretary of S...

Contact sheet folder caption: Camp David meeting w/Pres. Carter .... MST. U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection. Contact sheet available for reference purposes.

[Men bowing in prayer at an Iran Hostage Crisis student demonstration, Washington, D.C.]

[Men bowing in prayer at an Iran Hostage Crisis student demonstration,...

Contact sheet folder caption: Iranian student demonstration. MST. U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection. Contact sheet available for reference purposes.

[President Jimmy Carter, Vice President Walter Mondale, Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, and Secretary of Defense Harold Brown after disembarking from their helicopter to meet about the Iran Hostage Crisis at Camp David, Maryland]

[President Jimmy Carter, Vice President Walter Mondale, Secretary of S...

Contact sheet folder caption: Camp David meeting w/Pres. Carter .... MST. U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection. Contact sheet available for reference purposes.

[Iran Hostage Crisis student demonstration, Washington, D.C.]

[Iran Hostage Crisis student demonstration, Washington, D.C.]

Contact sheet folder caption: Iran students demonstrate. MST. U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection. Contact sheet available for reference purposes.

[Iran Hostage Crisis student demonstration, Washington, D.C. ]

[Iran Hostage Crisis student demonstration, Washington, D.C. ]

Contact sheet folder caption: Iran students demonstrate. MST. U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection. Contact sheet available for reference purposes.

[Iran Hostage Crisis student demonstration, Washington, D.C.]

[Iran Hostage Crisis student demonstration, Washington, D.C.]

Contact sheet folder caption: Iran students demonstrate. MST. U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection. Contact sheet available for reference purposes.

German warning to occupied France. Here, in the Nazis' own black and white, is visual testimony to the fact that the battle of France continues. This grim poster came to the Office of War Information (OWI) from Paris by a devious route, a route which for obvious reasons cannot be given but which, by its very existence, proves that the Gestapo isn't all-powerful. Bordered in red, surmounted by  eagle and swastika, the poster is a notice that a member of the German army was killed in Paris, August 21, 1941, and that, as a consequence, every Frenchman under arrest, from August 23 on, will be considered a hostage. "In the case of another attack," the notice--in French and German--states, "hostages in a number corresponding to the seriousness of the criminal act committed will be shot." Here is the full text of the warning which the angry Nazis--probably frightened, too - plastered on the walls of occupied France

German warning to occupied France. Here, in the Nazis' own black and w...

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