Perpetrator postcards and photographs
Extent and Medium
folders
2
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
Stephen M. O'Melia donated this collection to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on Dec. 3, 2002 with the assistance of Emil Landau.
Scope and Content
Consists of twenty-two postcards of portraits of SS officers and German soldiers in the field; eight photographs of perpetrators in powdered wigs and what appears to be French Revolution-era militia costumes; two postcards and nineteen photographs of animals, landscape, and architecture, 35 candid photographs of SS officers and soldiers at various ceremonial and non-ceremonial events; one booklet to record exercise training, issued to an SS soldier, 1938 (name is illegible); one newspaper article (nd) entitled "Princesses Police Up for GIs As Anti-Nazi Grandpa Laughs" (in English); one birthday notice on Nazi stationery for Prince Josias of Waldeck, a General in the SS; and one Reichsf̈uhrer SS educational flier entitled "Victory of the Weapons, Victory of the Children" with a photograph of children and SS officers on the front, and text with a Himmler signature on the back (in German).
Genre
- Postcards.
- Document
- Photographs.