Robert Capa Quotes
I will not call myself Hungarian as long as Hungary is under the control of Hitler …. I hate the Nazis and hope that my pictures can be used against them.
The man who was “the best war photographer in the world” but was a refugee from Hungary in New York. The Government actually prohibited him from having a camera and would not give him a visa to go to Europe to cover the War. Finally the government relented from its absurd concept of security and Capa became the leading photographer of the American Army effort in Europe and shot the greatest photos of the D-Day landing. Incredibly, in the McCarthy era, his passport was rescinded by the State Department because he had photographed the Spanish Civil War and was wrongly thought a communist. After legal action he got his passport back and covered Vietnam. While with front-line American troops he was blown up by a mine, the first American journalist killed in the Vietnam war. And the man who the State Department thought disloyal in three wars, was given a military funeral in Vietnam and his family was offered burial in Arlington National Cemetery reserved for American military.
Robert Capa, 1913-1954, News Photographer, Letter to the United States Government before WWII
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The Nazis occupied the cities, but the partisans survived in the mountains. The resistance was ferocious and very effective. From a German Soldier’s point of view, the Yugoslav front was the most dangerous assignment where his odds of being killed was even greater than the Russian front.
German-Americans were split before the war into pro and anti-Nazi factions.
This new form of patriotism, this encouragement of pregnancy—even outside of marriage—was just too controversial. Himmler withdrew the order. It illustrates that even in a brutal dictatorship, public opinion can influence government.
He had been part of a plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler. There were a small group of Anti Nazi Germans during WW II. Carnaris was one. Most were killed.
The military security people were so used to ferreting out communists in the 1930s that they had a hard time adjusting to the fact that the security risks or people who might have German connections or backgrounds. Many immigrant scientists were recruited for work on the Manhattan project to build the atomic bomb and they only did security clearances. The military security people kept checking on any communist background they might have had as opposed to possible connections with fascist organizations. By the end of the war they had adjusted but then had to go back to looking for communists as the Cold War evolved.
Ford was a great admirer of Adolf Hitler who thought Ford was the greatest of the Americans. He was an inveterate Fascist—racism and all. He vehemently opposed United States entry into WWII against the Nazis. He was awarded a medal by Hitler, and he had no qualms about taking it.
Robert Capa was a Hungarian-American war photographer and photojournalist as well as the companion and professional partner of photographer Gerda Taro. He is considered by some to be the greatest combat and adventure photographer in history.
