Gordon Witte photograph collection
Extent and Medium
1 roll of film,
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Gail Witte
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.
Scope and Content
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.