View of Himmler's study at SS headquarters in the Hegewald bei Zhitomir compound.

Photograph | Digitized | Photograph Number: 60473

Overview

Caption: View of Himmler's study at SS headquarters in the Hegewald bei Zhitomir compound.
Photographer: Kurt Alber
Date: July 1942 - August 1942
Locale: Hegewald bei Zhitomir, [Ukraine; Zhitomir] USSR
Photo Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of James Blevins
Event History: Hegewald bei Zhitomir was Heinrich Himmler's headquarters in the Ukraine. Located on a former Soviet airbase between Zhitomir and Vinnitsa on the Teteriv and Gryva Rivers, the Hegewald compound was run by over 100 SS officers and 1,000 SS police. It contained an airport, cemetery, bunkers, banquet rooms, elegant houses, and an office and private quarters for the Reichsfuehrer-SS. Himmler was stationed at Hegewald at various times between July 24, 1942 and the summer of 1943. The compound was destroyed by retreating SS police forces in November and December, 1943.

[Sources: Razesberger. Franz (former Zhitomir SIPO SD chief). testimony, 18 July 1961 before the Landesgericht Wien (Vienna) 20, Nr. 5774/60, NV 21/61, 155-58 (available in USHMM archives).]

Photo Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Provenance: James Blevins

Source Record ID: Collections: 2003.405.1.3 (shepherdess album)/p. 35

Keyword: ALBUMS (HIMMLER) HEADQUARTERS INTERIORS TABLES WALL HANGINGS
Photo Designation: NAZISM - GERMANY (1933-1945) -- Himmler Family Collection