"Fritz is Frisked"
Rollins/Associated Press
Nationality unknown
March 26, 1945
This gelatin silver print records a tense moment of surrender—a disarmed German soldier standing while an Allied soldier searches him—made as a news photograph to convey the immediacy of frontline events.
You’re first caught by the young man in the foreground—mud-spattered, stoic and worn—while behind him a helmeted figure raises his hands and another pats him down amid discarded gear and churned earth, giving the scene a gritty, urgent clarity.
The image exemplifies wartime photojournalism’s ability to turn a single, charged instant into a public record that shaped how civilians understood the human realities of World War II.
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
8 3/8 × 6 3/4" (21.3 × 17.2 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
The New York Times Collection
Accession
2090.2001
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