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Figure 2

© Collection of the Museum Strom und Leben, Recklinghausen
‘Gas for every Home’ (Gas in jedes Haus), with gas cookers marching down the street, from an Austrian advertisement in April 1938; the gas cookers followed in the footsteps of German soldiers who were cheered by Austrian crowds one month earlier, when Hitler annexed Austria