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The new building of the German Federal Archives
For academic publications, we recommend the following citation format:
Author of the image entry: Title of the image page, in: Alina Bothe (ed.): #LastSeen. Images of Nazi Deportations, Berlin 2023, LINK (last accessed)
Example: Kerstin Hofmann: Deportation from Gailingen to Gurs on October 22, 1940, in: Alina Bothe (ed.): #LastSeen. Images of Nazi Deportations, Berlin 2023; https://atlas.lastseen.org/image/gailingen/76 (last accessed: July 30, 2024).
The cover image shows the back of a photo from April 13, 1942, from Brandenburg an der Havel (Image: Stadtarchiv Stadt Brandenburg an der Havel)
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Pictures of Nazi deportations
Dr. Alina Bothe
Project lead
c/o Selma Stern Zentrum für Jüdische Studien Berlin-Brandenburg
Freie Universität Berlin
Habelschwerdter Allee 34A
14195 Berlin
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