REFERENCE
SERVICE REPORT
INQUIRY:
Pictorial records relating to the "holocaust".
REPORT:
The records of the Office of Government Reports (RG 44)
include several posters dealing with Nazi atrocities
including the Lidice Massacre.
The
records of the Office of the Judge Advocate General (RG
153) include the personal photo albums of
Ilse
Koch,
wife of the commandant of Buchenwald Concentration Camp
showing the Koch's living quarters there and a few scenes
of the camp.
The
records of the Office of War Information (RG 208) include
several hundred photographs of German occupation, Nazi
atrocities and concentration camps throughout Europe;
also the liberation of the camps and the refugees that
resulted; German civilians being
forced to view
the horrors of the camps; a picture story on the camps
called "Lest we Forget"; The Nuremberg
Trials;
and the rise of Naziism in Germany and its concurrent
anti-semitism.
The
National Archives Collection of World War II War Crimes
Records (RG 238) includes photographs relating to the
major and minor war crimes trials. They show the
defendants, witnesses, courtroom scenes and evidence. The
latter includes a series of photos taken by the Germans
in the Warsaw
Ghetto
and examples of the physical atrocities perpetrated by
the Nazis on concentration camp prisoners.
The
National Archives Collection of Foreign Records Seized
(RG 242) includes the Heinrich Hoffman collection, over
250,000 photographs documenting Nazi Party activities
from 1923 to 1944. Some of them show anti-semitic
propaganda, demonstrations and violence in Germany.
Photos taken by Wermacht and Waffen-SS propaganda units
show forced labor, including Jews, in Nazi occupied
Europe.
The
records of the United States Information Agency (RG 306),
in the New York Times Paris Bureau collection, include
photos dealing with European Jewry before, during and
after World War II. They show Jewish ghettos in Europe,
persecution of Jews by the Nazis, Jewish refugees before
the war, anti-Jewish propaganda in Germany, and
anti-Jewish sanctions in Italy in the 1930's. There are
also photos of concentration camps being liberated by
allied troops revealing the grim realities of the camps;
and photos dealing with the Nuremburg Trials.
The
records of the Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary
Force (RG 331) include photos of concentration camps,
forced labor camps and factories and their liberation by
the Allies in Western Europe.
Additional
photographs dealing with the Holocaust are among the
textual records of the National Archives Modern Military
Branch.
Another
source is the U.S. Army-Audiovisual Agency, Room 5A 470,
the Pentagon, Washington, DC 20310
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