Collection of documents on 2 airplane crashes in Africa (Rhodesia) and in France in 1961 and 1963. With numerous orig. photographs, typescripts, newspaper reports, journalistic notes, and correspondence from the Hamburg publishing house Gruner + Jahr. Loosely in flexible register folder d.
On September 18, 1961, UN Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld died in a plane crash in the border region between the Congo and present-day Zambia. After the cause remained unclear for a long time, a shoot-down is now considered 'plausible' after investigations reopened in 2013. Immediately after the accident, the Swiss criminologist Max Frei-Sulzer was commissioned with the investigations. The present volume contains, among other things, numerous photographs showing him at work at the site of the crash, photographs of found objects, and an offprint of Frei-Sulzer's 1967 lecture at the State Criminal Police Office of Lower Saxony, in which he discusses the accident. Also included are numerous (press) photographs relating to the investigation of a crash between Lille and Lyon on August 12, 1963, as well as a three-page typescript by Axel Neiss to the magazine 'Stern': 'Zur Identifizierung der Toten der Luftfahrtunfälle ... 1967 (Nicosia/Cyprus) and ... 1968 (Langenbruck/Bavaria)'.- The photographs on the verso partly handwritten inscribed or with press stamp.- Included: Approx. 60 original photographs with pictures of various airplanes.
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