Residents and citizens of Germany & people of German descent

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A finger-wound being attacked by germs represented by German soldiers in World War II. Colour lithograph after P. Mendoza, 1940.

Saint Boniface: he baptizes Germans. Engraving by H. Kipp after K. Clasen.

A hand injured by a wooden stick which is also a pole bearing Germanic lettering and a swastika, comparing Germany in wartime to germs. Colour lithograph after H.A. Rothholz.

A collection of 'anti-boche' - ie. anti-German - medicine bottles, next to a scorpion about to be pulverised. Lithograph.

A soldier in the Prussian army. Drawing, c. 1794.

German soldiers in World War II representing germs invading a wound, British soldiers representing white corpuscles resisting and capturing them. Colour lithograph after P. Mendoza, 1943.

Fragen der Umvolkung / von Hans Joachim Beyer.

Fresh busty blonde german : 18 years old : Tott. Court Road.

Acta nationis Germanicae iuristarum, 1650-1709 / a cura di Gilda Mantovani.

Race and photography : racial photography as scientific evidence, 1876-1980 / Amos Morris-Reich.

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Germans

Images from the collections

Images about Germans

Works from the collections

Fragen der Umvolkung / von Hans Joachim Beyer.

Fresh busty blonde german : 18 years old : Tott. Court Road.

A finger-wound being attacked by germs represented by German soldiers in World War II. Colour lithograph after P. Mendoza, 1940.

Acta nationis Germanicae iuristarum, 1650-1709 / a cura di Gilda Mantovani.

Race and photography : racial photography as scientific evidence, 1876-1980 / Amos Morris-Reich.

Germans

Images from the collections

Images about Germans

Works from the collections

Fragen der Umvolkung / von Hans Joachim Beyer.

Fresh busty blonde german : 18 years old : Tott. Court Road.

A finger-wound being attacked by germs represented by German soldiers in World War II. Colour lithograph after P. Mendoza, 1940.

Acta nationis Germanicae iuristarum, 1650-1709 / a cura di Gilda Mantovani.

Race and photography : racial photography as scientific evidence, 1876-1980 / Amos Morris-Reich.

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