VE Day Scenes - A portrait of Walter Lassally, in the garden of the family home, in Richmond Surrey. Walter is wearing his father's Supplementary Fire Party helmet, and respirator haversack, From up a tree to behind the camera. The image depicts Walter Lassaly wearing the SFP marked helmet issued to his father, as a member of a supplementray fire 's father Artur, was a noted maker of industrial training films, but was forbidden to practice his profession by the Nazi Berufsverbot. The Nazi racial classification termed Artur Lassally as "Non-Aryan", because of his Jewish ancestry. In
VE Day Scenes - A portrait of Walter Lassally, in the garden of the family home, in Richmond Surrey. Walter is wearing his father's Supplementary Fire Party helmet, and respirator haversack, From up a tree to behind the camera. The image depicts Walter Lassaly wearing the SFP marked helmet issued to his father, as a member of a supplementray fire 's father Artur, was a noted maker of industrial training films, but was forbidden to practice his profession by the Nazi Berufsverbot. The Nazi racial classification termed Artur Lassally as "Non-Aryan", because of his Jewish ancestry. In 1938, Artur Lassally was arrested and placed in Sachsenhausen concentration camp - concomitant with the Nazi regime's policy of cajoling those which it had categorised as undesirable within the Third Reich, into 's mother Adele, purchased an entry visa from the Peruvian Embassy and also obtained transit visas for Britain, to facilitate their travel. The Lassally family arrived in Britain at the end of June 1939. Walter recounted in an interview that the family's belongings had been packed into containers, which were awaiting shipment from the dockside in later, Walter explained that as a child, growing up Berlin, he was told of a parade that a vast crowd had assembled to watch. Walter asked a man to assist him in climbing a tree, to obtain a good vantage point. At the head of the parade was Adolf Hitler. As Walter observed, at that young age he had no hint the peril his family would be placed in. This image was taken by Artur Lassally. The remaining images in this collection were taken by Walter Lassally, Lassally, Walter
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