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John Christopher Bechtler Collection

Film Collection | Accession Number: 2003.122

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    Collection Summary
    John Christopher Bechtler was a U.S. soldier in Berchtesgaden in April-May 1945, serving with the Counter Intelligence Corps. He arrested and interrogated various Germans at the end of the war and collected these films. Another reel of amateur black and white film footage documenting Bechtler’s activities in Munich immediately after the war was donated in 2007 including shots of U.S. military personnel, the Counter-Intelligence Corps (CIC), and war ruins.
    Credit
    US Holocaust Memorial Museum, gift of Claranne Bechtler

    Physical Details

    B&W / Color
    Black & White

    Administrative Notes

    Film Source
    Ms. Claranne M. Bechtler
    John C. Bechtler
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    Anschluss: Annexation of Austria

    Film | Accession Number: 2003.122 | RG Number: RG-60.3347 | Film ID: 2542

    Date
    Event:  1938

    Luftwaffe officers & Goering's staff tour Mt. Vesuvius & Pompeii

    Film | Accession Number: 2003.122 | RG Number: RG-60.3349 | Film ID: 2544

    Date
    Event:  October 1942?

    Hitler's butler's home movies; Oswald Mosley, BUF in London

    Film | Accession Number: 2003.122 | RG Number: RG-60.3350 | Film ID: 2545

    Date
    Event:  1938 and 1936

    A. Fokker films: von Richthofen's "Flying Circus", WWI aces

    Film | Accession Number: 2003.122 | RG Number: RG-60.3351 | Film ID: 2546

    Date
    Event:  1916-1918
    Production:  1918

    A. Fokker films: von Richthofen, Goering, WWI flying aces, Fokker

    Film | Accession Number: 2003.122 | RG Number: RG-60.3352 | Film ID: 2547

    Date
    Event:  1916-1918
    Production:  1918

    Goering, Galland, Luftwaffe senior officers; Goering's train (Sonderzug) at HQ, Eastern Front; Goering's photographer Eitel Lange

    Film | Accession Number: 2003.122 | RG Number: RG-60.3353 | Film ID: 2548

    Date
    Event:  Summer 1941,1942

    Goering's private train (Sonderzug) and staff; Luftwaffe officers at HQ Eastern Front; Romanian air force visitors

    Film | Accession Number: 2003.122 | RG Number: RG-60.3354 | Film ID: 2549

    Date
    Event:  1941, 1942, 1943

    Hitler's butler's home movies; maiden voyage of KdF ship "Robert Ley"

    Film | Accession Number: 2003.122 | RG Number: RG-60.3355 | Film ID: 2550

    Date
    Event:  1939

    Goering, Messerschmitt, Galland, Milch, Luftwaffe troops; Goering & the fast train in E. Prussia

    Film | Accession Number: 2003.122 | RG Number: RG-60.3356 | Film ID: 2551

    Date
    Event:  1942-1943

    Oswald Mosley, British Union of Fascists, Manchester

    Film | Accession Number: 2003.122 | RG Number: RG-60.3358 | Film ID: 2553

    Date
    Event:  1930s

    Home movies: Hitler's major domo swimming; swans; rowboat

    Film | Accession Number: 2003.122 | RG Number: RG-60.3359 | Film ID: 2554

    Date
    Event:  1938-1939?

    War in the Pacific, kamikaze attacks, USS Franklin bombed

    Film | Accession Number: 2003.122 | RG Number: RG-60.3360 | Film ID: 2555

    Date
    Event:  1943-1945

    Filmstrip: German defenses in France

    Film | Accession Number: 2003.122 | RG Number: RG-60.3640 | Film ID: 2614


    Ships in iced-over Rhein; Sinking of English ship; "Altmark" in Norway

    Film | Accession Number: 2003.122 | RG Number: RG-60.3924 | Film ID: 2700

    Date
    Event:  1940 February
    Production:  1940

    German invasion and occupation of Poland; arrest of men in Bromberg (Bydgoszcz)

    Film | Accession Number: 2003.122 | RG Number: RG-60.4281 | Film ID: 2552

    Date
    Event:  September-October 1939
    Production:  1939

    Invasion of Poland; Poland surrenders

    Film | Accession Number: 2003.122 | RG Number: RG-60.4282 | Film ID: 2552

    Date
    Event:  October-November 1939
    Production:  1939

    German activity at the Westwall and the French border

    Film | Accession Number: 2003.122 | RG Number: RG-60.4283 | Film ID: 2552

    Date
    Event:  December 1939

    German troops in France; Hitler in Memel

    Film | Accession Number: 2003.122 | RG Number: RG-60.4284 | Film ID: 2552

    Date
    Event:  1940 January

    Polish prisoners; British Courageous air carrier; German ships

    Film | Accession Number: 2003.122 | RG Number: RG-60.4285 | Film ID: 2556


    Ruins in Munich

    Film | Accession Number: 2007.145.1 | RG Number: RG-60.4612 | Film ID: 2839

    Date
    Event:  after 1943
    Record last modified:
    2022-07-28 22:00:45
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