Category: The Black Star Collection
Photographer: CHRISTOPH, Henning
Event Date: 1981-06-28
Medium: gelatin silver print
Dimensions: approximately: 8 x 10 inches; 20.32 x 25.4 cm
Accession Number: BS.2005.004360

Inscriptions:
Recto, [no inscription]; Verso, handwritten: 7631//6; stamped label: [star shape] / Credit: [copyright] 1981 / HENNING CHRISTOPH / from BLACK STAR; stamped: [copyright] / HENNING CHRISTOPH / Kortumstr. 61 / 4300 Essen 1 – Germany / (0201) 79 80 89 / Volksbank Essen 395 070 / Postcheckkonto Essen 1066 29-438; typed label: 7629//33…Diksmuide, BELGIUM//June 28, 1981…Each / June Flemish nationalists made a pilgrimage to Diksmuide / in Flanders to commemorate the Flemish soldiers who fell / in World War I. Fiery rhetoric aimed at the hated Walloons, / the Flemings’ adversaries in language-torn Belgium, / has always been as much a part of the event as the call / for peace among nations. The pilgrimage ends up at the / war memorial in honor of the Flemish WWI dead. In recent / years the pilgrimage has become a focus for the international / Neo-Nazi movement.

Tagasauris Keywords: 5 or more people; Belgium; Cross; Day; Demonstration; Flag; Government; Low angle view; Nationalism; Outdoors; Tower
Credit Line: The Image Centre, Black Star Collection.
Black Star Subject: BELGIUM / FLEMISH NATIONALIST DEMONSTRATION
Retouching: N