Overview
- Description
- Consists of an original silver "Kodak" film canister containing a wound strip of photographic negatives depicting a large Nazi rally at which Hitler was in attendance. The negatives were found by PFC Gordon E. Witte, a member of the Company D of the 335th Infantry of the United States Army while he was in Pevestorf, Germany, at the end of the war.
- Date
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after 1933-before 1944
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Gail Witte
Physical Details
- Genre/Form
- Negatives.
- Extent
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1 roll of film.
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- There are no known restrictions on access to this material.
- Conditions on Use
- Material(s) in this collection may be protected by copyright and/or related rights. You do not require further permission from the Museum to use this material. The user is solely responsible for making a determination as to if and how the material may be used.
Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- Nazi propaganda.
- Personal Name
- Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945.
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Gail Witte donated this canister to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2014. Her father found the canister while serving with the United States Army in Europe.
- Record last modified:
- 2023-06-13 15:59:21
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn78858
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