Russian girls glancing at the advancing German soldiers from behind the window of their hut. Photo taken by a German soldier. Autumn of 1941.

Russian girls, autumn 1941

Gzhatsk main road in sunset light, winter 1941/42. Slide taken by a German soldier.

Gzhatsk main road

The American Poet Ezra Pound in the 1930's turned his interests more and more to politics and economics, publishing a pamphlet titled "ABC of the economy", and another "Jefferson and / or Mussolini", a work in which he gave an enthusiastic reading of the Italian dictator (which however gave to the poet just one hearing in 1933).
Far from the United States since 1911, he returned in 1939 with the intention, he said, to mediate between the positions of the homeland and the adopted country, but found no audience. In return, his college, the Hamilton College, awarded him an honorary doctorate.
During the Second World War, from 1941 to 1943, Pound realized for the Italian radio broadcasts in English in which he defended the fascism and accused the Anglo-Americans and international finance and plutocratic system for causing the war against countries that had rebelled against the yoke of wear. Transmitted in Britain and the United States, these programs earned him an indictment for treason by the U.S. government. DVX