La Semaine
La Semaine - French illustrated weekly under German occupation, Crimee, 21 May 1942. Cover of issue no. 94 of La Semaine, a French-language illustrated magazine published in occupied France during the Second World War under German authority. The cover features a dramatic aerial photograph of a bombing raid identified as L'attaque contre Kertch (the attack on Kerch), relating to the Battle of the Kerch Peninsula during the German campaign in Crimea. The headline La guerre entre dans sa 3e phase ('The war enters its third phase') frames the Eastern Front as a decisive stage in the conflict, while accompanying text reflects contemporary Axis propaganda portraying the region and its peoples in ideological terms. The image exemplifies the use of aerial warfare photography in wartime propaganda aimed at audiences in occupied Europe
