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A SS officer [perhaps Max Schmidt] stands next to an automobile with an SS lisence plate.

Photograph | Photograph Number: 18649
A SS officer [perhaps Max Schmidt] stands next to an automobile with an SS lisence plate. The caption of the SS-Archiv says "Abschied vom Osten, auf der Fahrt ins Reich - Juli 1942" (Parting from east, on the trip to the "Reich" July 1942).

A SS officer [perhaps Max Schmidt] stands next to an automobile with an SS lisence plate.

The caption of the SS-Archiv says "Abschied vom Osten, auf der Fahrt ins Reich - Juli 1942" (Parting from east, on the trip to the "Reich" July 1942).

Date
July 1942
Photo Designation
INVASION & OCCUPATION -- Poland -- GENERAL -- Nazi Administration/Collaborat
Photo Credit
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Philip Drell
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Event History
The photograph is taken from a photo album of SS officer Max Schmidt. It was found in the SS compound near Dachau by American army photographer Philip Drell after the American liberation of the camp. Drell observed a procession of wagons leaving the camp carrying bodies for burial going down a street called SS Strasse. He followed the wagons and noticed that on that street there were very handsome apartment buildings. In order not to sleep in Dachau at night he took over an apartment which had been occupied by Max Schmidt and discovered the album and other abandoned artifacts there.

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Photo Source
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Provenance: Philip Drell
 
Record last modified: 2006-07-10 00:00:00
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