Camera filter and lens used by Hitler's personal photographer
Extent and Medium
overall: Height: 0.500 inches (1.27 cm) | Diameter: 1.125 inches (2.858 cm)
Creator(s)
- Zeiss Ikon AG (Manufacturer)
- Hugo Jaeger (Photographer)
- LIFA-Lichtfilterfabrik (Manufacturer)
- Hugo Jaeger (Subject)
Archival History
The camera filter and lens were donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2011 by Fern M. Schad.
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Fern M. Schad
Scope and Content
Detachable lens and green camera filter used by Hugo Jaeger, one of Hitler's personal photographers before and during World War II (1939-1945). The filter and lens are part of a collection that highlights the Nazi rise to power leading up to and during the war. The materials include photographic equipment and accessories, 50 color slides, and a leaflet written by Frank R. Eisner entitled "Shadows of the Past", which describes the slides.
Conditions Governing Access
No restrictions on access
Conditions Governing Reproduction
No restrictions on use
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Circular, green, flat, glass filter mounted in a black-painted metal ring with a beveled inner face and a flat rim with smooth sides. The base has flat sides and three evenly-spaced, tension prongs. The interior is also flat, with a narrow ledge near the top, which supports the piece of glass. The filter is fitted to the bottom of a circular, convex, clear glass lens mounted in a silver-colored, metal ring with a beveled, black-painted inner face and narrow rim. A narrow, raised, ridged band wraps around the midpoint of the exterior sides, with three evenly-spaced, prongs beneath. Manufacturing information is engraved around the beveled face of both rings.
Corporate Bodies
- Nazi Party
Subjects
- Germany--Politics and government--1933-1945--Pictorial works.
- Germany--History--1933-1945--Pictorial works.
- Photographers--Germany--Biography.
Genre
- Object
- Audiovisual and Photographic Materials