John Christopher Bechtler Collection

Film Collection | Accession Number: 2003.122

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

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B&W / Color: Black & White
Legal Status: Permanent Collection
Film Source: Ms. Claranne M. Bechtler
John C. Bechtler
Date: Event: 1938
Date: Event: October 1942?
Date: Event: 1938 and 1936
Date: Event: 1916-1918
Production: 1918
Date: Event: 1916-1918
Production: 1918
Date: Event: Summer 1941,1942
Date: Event: 1941, 1942, 1943
Date: Event: 1939
Date: Event: 1942-1943
Date: Event: 1930s
Date: Event: 1938-1939?
Date: Event: 1943-1945
Date: Event: 1940 February
Production: 1940
Date: Event: September-October 1939
Production: 1939
Date: Event: October-November 1939
Production: 1939
Date: Event: December 1939
Date: Event: 1940 January
Date: Event: after 1943
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