Category: The Black Star Collection
Photographer: Charbonnier, J.P.
Event Date: 1945-??-??
Medium: gelatin silver print
Dimensions: approximately: 8 x 10 inches; 20.32 x 25.4 cm
Accession Number: BS.2005.117825

Inscriptions:
Recto, [no inscription]; Verso, handwritten: France 45; attached inscription, typed: (9) 12 [handwritten] This [typed] is all wrong.Nitard’s hands are being fastened to the stake whilst he faces the / firing-squad. Then somebody remembers that ,as a traitor, he ought to be shot in the back. / The crowd yells for him to be turned over.; stamped: [star shape] / Credit: / from BLACK STAR / GRAYBAR BUILDING, NEW YORK; stamped: PASSED FOR PUBLICATION / 133 / 16MAR194 / Name 7 [handwritten] No. [typed] 124 [handwritten] / [illeg.] [typed] / FIELD PASSED CENSOR; handwritten: French traitor shot; stamped: OA12217; stamped: PHOTO / J. PH. CHARBONNIER / DROITS ET NOM EXIGES; handwritten: 9 [circled]; handwritten: 6 [crossed out]; handwritten: Copyright by:; handwritten: 5 [circled]

Tagasauris Keywords: 2 people; Capital punishment; Day; France; Full length; Male; Outdoors; Trousers; Unrest, conflicts and war; Wall; World War II; World War II; Young adult
Credit Line: The Image Centre, Black Star Collection.
Black Star Subject: WWII FRANCE / TRAITOR (TRIAL) EXECUTIONS
Retouching: N