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Collection Photo, Print, Drawing Trials of the men and women involved in the attempt on Adolf Hitler's life in July, 1944

About this Item

Title

  • Trials of the men and women involved in the attempt on Adolf Hitler's life in July, 1944

Summary

  • Views of 1944-1945 court proceedings of the Volksgerichtshof [People's court] trials of many involved with the July 1944 attempt to assassinate Hitler. Includes witnesses and defendents giving testimony before judges including the judge Roland Freisler; many uniformed police in audience. Also includes many pictures of unidentified witnesses.

Names

  • Hoffmann, Heinrich, 1885-1957, photographer
  • Germany. Volksgerichtshof.
  • Rehse Archiv für Zeitgeschichte und Publizistik, DLC, associated name
  • Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei. Hauptarchiv, DLC, former owner
  • Third Reich Collection (Library of Congress) DLC

Created / Published

  • 1944-1945.

Headings

  • -  Hitler, Adolf,--1889-1945--Assassination attempts--Sources
  • -  Trials (Treason)--Germany--History--Sources
  • -  Trials (Political crimes and offenses)--Germany--History--Sources
  • -  Hitler, Adolf,--1889-1945--Assassination attempts--Trials, litigation, etc
  • -  Judicial proceedings--Germany--1940-1950
  • -  Courtrooms--Germany--1940-1950

Format Headings

  • Photographic prints--1940-1950.
  • Portrait photographs--1940-1950.

Genre

  • Photographic prints--1940-1950
  • Portrait photographs--1940-1950

Notes

  • -  News photographs, chiefly by Presse Hoffmann; some captioned on back in German with defendant's name and in a few cases with note of the sentence imposed.
  • -  Includes portraits of Freiherr von Bechtolsheim, Hans-Jürgen von Blumenthal, Eugen Anton Bolz, Alfred Delp, Alexander von Falkenhausen, Albrecht Fischer, Reinhold Frank, Josef Ernst Fürst Fugger von Glött, Eugen Gerstenmaier, Elisabeth Gloeden, Erich Gloeden, Nickolaus Gross, Theodor Haubach, Roland von Hösslin, Caesar von Hofacker, Hermann Kaiser, Franz Kempner, Bartholomäus Kossmann, Carl Langbehn, Otto Lenz, Hanns Lilje, Hermann Lindemann, Colonel Ottfried von Linstow, Hermann Lüdemann, Ferdinand Freiherr von Lüninck, Carl Marcks, Walter Maschke, Helmuth James Graf von Moltke, Wilhelm zur Nieden, Frieda Pilaf, Franz Reisert, Adolf Friedrich Graf von Schach, Hans-Ludwig Sierks, Franz Sperr, Theodor Steltzer, Gen. Karl-Heinrich von Stülpnagel, Busso Thoma, Carl Wentzel and Peter Yorck von Wartenburg.
  • -  Listed in Weinberg, Gerhard. Guide to captured German documents, p. 35.
  • -  LOT title devised by Library staff and as listed by Weinberg. Accompanied by typewritten alphabetical list of persons identified in photographs.
  • -  Have ink stamps of Heinrich Hoffmann or Presse Hoffmann, Berlin. Prints found in envelope printed with: "NSDAP Archiv Bilddienst" and added in pencil: "Prozess von Peffersdorf?".
  • -  Confiscated by U.S. military intelligence authorities from the Rehse collection, Munich, in 1945-1946. No identifying marks on items indicate that they are from the Rehse Collection.

Medium

  • 100 photographic prints ; 13 x 18 cm.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • LOT 3675 (F) [P&P]

Repository

  • Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2005686273

Rights Advisory

Online Format

  • image

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Chicago citation style:

Germany. Volksgerichtshof, Dlc Rehse Archiv Für Zeitgeschichte Und Publizistik, Dlc Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei. Hauptarchiv, and Third Reich Collection Dlc, Hoffmann, Heinrich, photographer. Trials of the men and women involved in the attempt on Adolf Hitler's life in July. Germany, 1944. to 1945. Photograph. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2005686273/.

APA citation style:

Germany. Volksgerichtshof, Rehse Archiv Für Zeitgeschichte Und Publizistik, D., Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei. Hauptarchiv, D. & Third Reich Collection Dlc, Hoffmann, H., photographer. (1944) Trials of the men and women involved in the attempt on Adolf Hitler's life in July. Germany, 1944. to 1945. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2005686273/.

MLA citation style:

Germany. Volksgerichtshof, et al., photographer by Hoffmann, Heinrich. Trials of the men and women involved in the attempt on Adolf Hitler's life in July. to 1945. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2005686273/>.