Nazi rally photographs

Identifier

irn84688

Language of Description

English

Alt. Identifiers

2014.448.1

Level of Description

Item

Languages

German

Source

EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn84688

Extent and Medium

folder

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of the Estate of Virginia Watson Jones

The Estate of Virginia Watson Jones donated this collection to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2014.

Scope and Content

Consists of a collection of black and white professional photographs taken at an unidentified Nazi rally (possibly more than one rally). Includes images of parades, ceremonies with speeches, a cookout, and laying memorial wreaths. Most of the images are dated in May 1937, and some of the participants came from Gelnhausen and the Rhön district, and the events may have taken place in Fulda.

Subjects

Nazi propaganda.
Germany--History--1933-1945.

Genre

Document

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.