German Auxiliary Police photograph album
Extent and Medium
oversize box
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Christine D. Carnahan
Purchased by Christine Carnahan in Lima, Peru. Donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2011 by Christine Carnahan.
Scope and Content
Contains a photo album possibly owned by Franz Schneider, a policeman who served in the German auxiliary police force and later taught in the police school of Bohemia. Some of the photographs show an inspection by SS-Obergruppenführer and Generaloberst der Polizei Kurt Max Franz Daluege, deputy Reich Protector of Bohemia and Moravia, and Major General Max Ziervogel, a Luftwaffe general and the Wehrmacht chief of staff for Bohemia and Moravia. The photographs in the album include family shots with wife and daughter in 1942; border-patrol maneuvers in Königshütte in October 1942; firefighting training, medical evacuation training and hunting; and the last photograph shows corpses of prisoners on a death march. Photographd dated 1942-1945..
People
- Schneider, Franz.
Subjects
- Auxiliary police--Germany.
Genre
- Document
- Photo albums.