[Olympic champion fencers, including Aladar Gerevitch, demonstrate their skill at the nationalized Manfred Ganz Machine Works]

[Olympic champion fencers, including Aladar Gerevitch, demonstrate their skill at the nationalized Manfred Ganz Machine Works]

Photograph

Robert Capa

Maker
American, b. Hungary, 1913–1954

[Olympic champion fencers, including Aladar Gerevitch, demonstrate their skill at the nationalized Manfred Ganz Machine Works]

From Inside Hungary


1949
Gelatin silver print
Image: 21.2 x 31.8 cm
Gift of George Stephanopoulos, 2005
2005.0909.0011
Inscriptions verso (typed label): [series title and description)
verso (stamp): Used 26 March 1949 Illustrated
verso (stamp): Property of the Periodicals Art Library / 191, High Holborn, W.C.1 / Must be returned undamaged
verso (stamp): Please Credit / Robert Capa-Magnam / Magnam Photos / 58 West 8th Street / New York 11 NY
verso (pencil): 23 [encircled] / 54/10 /RC 77
verso (ink): Hungary - Sports/Fencing
TextSword fighting is a famous Hungarian specialty. Hungary's team proved unbeatable during Olympic Games in London. Here the victorious Olympic team is giving a demonstration in the stadium of the big, nationalized Manfred Ganz Machine works. The government is trying to induce young workers to take up this formerly exclusive aristocratic sport. Man on left is Gerevitch, an Olympic champ.

The Hungary of yesterday remains a myth. If the name of Kossuth, her great fighter for freedom is mentioned today, people think only of the Budapest-Danube bridge named after him. And the Danube is red again with the blood of political victims whom Hungarian oppressors from time immemorial have sent to their death in that river.
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