Perpetrator postcards and photographs

Identifier
irn514192
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2006.200
Dates
1 Jan 1933 - 31 Dec 1945
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • German
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Extent and Medium

folders

2

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

Stephen M. O'Melia donated this collection to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on Dec. 3, 2002 with the assistance of Emil Landau.

Scope and Content

Consists of twenty-two postcards of portraits of SS officers and German soldiers in the field; eight photographs of perpetrators in powdered wigs and what appears to be French Revolution-era militia costumes; two postcards and nineteen photographs of animals, landscape, and architecture, 35 candid photographs of SS officers and soldiers at various ceremonial and non-ceremonial events; one booklet to record exercise training, issued to an SS soldier, 1938 (name is illegible); one newspaper article (nd) entitled "Princesses Police Up for GIs As Anti-Nazi Grandpa Laughs" (in English); one birthday notice on Nazi stationery for Prince Josias of Waldeck, a General in the SS; and one Reichsf̈uhrer SS educational flier entitled "Victory of the Weapons, Victory of the Children" with a photograph of children and SS officers on the front, and text with a Himmler signature on the back (in German).

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.