Personal protest by Wolfgang Sievers against the Vietnam War, displayed in the Wolfgang Sievers Showcase at Australia Arcade, Melbourne, 1961 [picture] / Wolfgang Sievers
- Bib ID:
- 3307151
- Format:
- Picture
- Author:
- Sievers, Wolfgang, 1913-2007
- Related Online Resources:
- http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-160873990
- Description:
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- 1961
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 19.4 x 24.3 cm.
- Series:
- Wolfgang Sievers photographic archive.
- Summary:
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Consists of a Life Magazine photograph of a soldier holding part of a dead body with the following text alongside: "I, Wolfgang Sievers: victim of Nazi persecution - prisoner of the Gestapo - volunteer of AIF and RAAF 1939 - volunteer Australian Army 1942-1946, protest against this undeclared war - against conscription by lottery - against imprisonment of conscientious objectors whose just stand has been laid down at the Nuremburg Trials, to be the duty of all men".
- Notes:
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- Condition: Good.
- Title devised by cataloguer based on inscription on reverse.
- Part of the collection: Wolfgang Sievers photographic archive.
- Sievers number: 3108B.
- "November 1961 Anti-Vietnam war protest in my Showcase, Australia Arcade off Collins Street Melbourne (The photograph is not mine - taken from 'Life' mag.) This protest resulted in 60% loss of my clients. Never regretted and later replaced by others."--Written in pencil on reverse of photograph.
- Digital master available National Library of Australia;
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- Related Records:
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This belongs to the Wolfgang Sievers photographic archive.
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Until 2077 [Creator Date of Death + 70 Years]
Copyright status was determined using the following information:
- Material type:
- Photograph
- Presumed date of death of creator (latest date):
- 2007
- Published status:
- Unpublished
- Creation date:
- 1961
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