Extreme Graphic! Photo lot WW2 WWII German DRK Red Cross Doctors surgeon team

Rare and highly unusual collection of 18 original wartime-era German medical and hospital photographs, documenting doctors, surgeons, nurses, hospital personnel, surgical procedures, and graphic medical cases.

This is a particularly striking medical-history grouping because it combines everyday hospital staff photographs with large-format clinical and surgical photography. Sizes range from approximately 10 x 8 inches down to smaller snapshot-size photographs, with several different photographic formats represented.

Among the highlights are large photographs showing a surgical team actively performing an operation, hospital personnel and nurses posed together, and several extremely graphic clinical photographs documenting severe wounds, injuries, exposed tissue, and what appears to be removed or surgically treated tissue/organs. These images provide a stark look at the realities of period medicine and surgical treatment.

Two especially interesting large group photographs show nurses, medical personnel, clergy/religious sisters and doctors posed inside a hospital or medical institution. Prominent Third Reich swastika banners are visible on the wall behind the group, firmly placing these photographs within the German wartime/Third Reich period.

The smaller photographs provide additional context and show nurses and hospital staff both formally posed and during everyday hospital life. Together, the photographs appear to form a cohesive medical-related archive rather than simply an assortment of unrelated military photographs.

Collection includes:

• 18 wartime medical/hospital photographs
• Sizes ranging from approximately 10×8″ large format to snapshot size
• Large-format operating-room photograph with surgeons at work
• Multiple graphic wound and medical-treatment photographs
• Surgical/clinical specimen photography
• German nurses and hospital personnel
• Doctors and medical staff
• Religious sisters/clergy associated with the hospital
• Two large hospital staff group photographs with Third Reich swastika banners prominently displayed
• Smaller candid and posed hospital/nursing photographs
• Excellent material for research into WWII German medicine, wartime surgery, nursing and hospital history

These are graphic historical medical photographs and may not be suitable for all viewers. The graphic nature is part of their historical and documentary significance.

A fascinating collection for the advanced collector of WWII German medical history, German Red Cross/DRK material, wartime nursing, military medicine, surgical history, hospital photography, or Third Reich-era photographic archives.

Condition: Vintage condition with expected age-related wear, handling, toning, curling and/or surface wear depending upon the individual photograph. Please examine all photographs carefully for exact condition and content. Sold as the complete 18-photo collection shown.

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