Spandau prison negatives

Identifier
irn45317
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2012.484.1
Level of Description
Item
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn45317

Extent and Medium

folder

1

4 negative strips,

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Larry Hostetler

Larry Hostetler donated these negatives to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

Scope and Content

Consists of four strips of Minox negatives (consisting of approximately 33 images) which were taken clandestinely of Rudolf Hess while he was imprisoned at the Spandau prison in Germany in the 1960s. The photographs were supposedly taken by Col. Byrd, the warden of the prison at the time. The images depict Hess painting and in the prison's garden.

Genre

  • Document
  • Negatives.
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