Life photographs between 1939 and 1940 in Berlin

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These pictures were taken by a Life photographer between 1939 and 1940 in Berlin and were lost for over 50 years because the American photographer disappeared at the beginning of the war, along with his Rolleiflex camera.

Shown here are the originals (Used at that time in the production of  magazines, the majority from 6 x 9" negatives. They were found by a nurse in a Berlin hospital , who kept them put away during all these years.
When the nurse died, her daughter returned them to the current editors, who retain the copyrights to Life magazine, not published since the early '70s.