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Associated Press Office
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Employees of the Associated Press in Prague shortly after the end of World War II: left to right, Dashenka, Juta Turkova, Alvin Steinkopf (in his war correspondent's uniform), Fanny Spackova, and Bohumil Matlach.
1946
Steinkopf, Alvin
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Associated Press Office
The London office of the Associated Press, with Alvin Steinkopf working at his typewriter, center rear.
Nazi Rally
July 1939
Soldiers watching a Nazi rally in Danzig from which American correspondent Alvin Steinkopf was reporting for the Associated Press in 1939.
Displaced Persons
1945
Foreign correspondent Alvin J. Steinkopf saying goodbye to Czechoslovakian children after interviewing them about their relief needs.
Sarajevo Cemetery
1940
A Yugoslavian cemetery in Sarajevo photographed by journalist Alvin Steinkopf about one year before the city fell to the Germans.
