Col. John Christopher Bechtler photographs

Identifier
irn35983
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2008.169.1
Dates
1 Jan 1941 - 31 Dec 1945
Level of Description
Item
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn35983

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Claranne M. Bechtler

Claranne Bechtler donated this collection to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on June 4, 2008.

Scope and Content

Consists of 33 photographs from the collection of Col. John Christopher Bechtler. Includes photographs taken upon the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp as well as photographs taken from a German soldier and photographs described as taken in the Eastern front. The photographs taken from a German soldier includes photographs of the hanging of men wearing signs accusing them of anti-German partisan activities.

Corporate Bodies

Subjects

  • World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.

Genre

This description is derived directly from structured data provided to EHRI by a partner institution. This collection holding institution considers this description as an accurate reflection of the archival holdings to which it refers at the moment of data transfer.