Inventory of the Paramount Pictures Corporation photographs

Finding aid prepared by Sara Ramsey, Jennifer Leather, and Elizabeth Phillips

Hoover Institution Library and Archives

434 Galvez Mall

Stanford University

Stanford, CA 94305-6003

hoover-library-archives@stanford.edu

URL: http://www.hoover.org/library-and-archives

Title: Paramount Pictures Corporation photographs

Date (inclusive): 1942-1943

Collection Number: XX256

Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives

Language of Material: English

Physical Description: 8 manuscript boxes (3.3 Linear Feet)

Abstract: Materials used in preparation of motion pictures released in 1944, the first titled Hitler's Gang, depicting the Nazi rise to power in Germany, scenes of party rallies, parades, SS troops, and Adolf Hitler and other Nazi leaders at various stages of their careers; and the second, titled The Story of Dr. Wassell, depicting scenes from southeast Asia during World War II.

Creator: Paramount Pictures Corporation

Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives

Access

The collection is open for research; materials must be requested in advance via our reservation system. If there are audiovisual or digital media material in the collection, they must be reformatted before providing access.

Use

For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

Acquisition Information

Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 1975.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Paramount Pictures Corporation photographs, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

Historical Note

Hitler's Gang was written by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett and directed by John Farrow for Paramount Pictures. Released in 1944, the film stars Robert Watson as Adolf Hitler, and depicts the Nazi rise to power in Germany, with scenes of party rallies, parades, SS troops, and Adolf Hitler and other Nazi leaders at various stages of their careers. As The New York Times noted in a review on May 8, 1944, "There is little point in considering The Hitler Gang as entertainment in the accepted cinema sense. As the most complete pictorial documentation we have to date on the birth and growth of Nazism, it has a place unique, resisting comparison or qualitative judgment. Those of us, and that is practically all-embracing, who would profit by seeing, close up, the genesis and spread of an ideological virus, would do well to see The Hitler Gang."

The Story of Dr. Wassell, directed by Cecil B. DeMille and starring Gary Cooper, Laraine Day, Signe Hasso, and Dennis O'Keefe, was released in 1944 by Paramount Pictures. A Technicolor World War II film set in the Dutch East Indies, the film is based on the wartime activities of U.S. Navy doctor Corydon M. Wassell, which were described by President Roosevelt in a radio broadcast made in April 1942.

Sources: P.P.K., "The Screen: The Hitler Gang, a Picture of Birth and Growth of Nazism, Revealing Activities of Nest of Vipers, at the Globe," The New York Times, May 8, 1944; The Story of Dr. Wassell (1944), Internet Movie Database

Scope and Content of Collection

Collected by the research division of Paramount Pictures, the materials include photographs and a small amount of paper research material used in preparation for two motion pictures released in 1944, the first titled Hitler's Gang, depicting the Nazi rise to power in Germany, including scenes of party rallies, parades, SS troops, and Adolf Hitler and other Nazi leaders at various stages of their careers; and the second, titled The Story of Dr. Wassell, depicting scenes from southeast Asia during World War II.

The reverse of most photographs includes handwritten notes regarding source or the date the copy was acquired by Paramount Pictures. The materials remain in their original order by film title.

Arrangement

The original order and titles of the creator have been maintained.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Pictorial works

Motion pictures

World War, 1939-1945 -- Pictorial works

National socialism

Germany -- Politics and government -- 1933-1945

Germany -- History -- 1933-1945 -- Pictorial works

Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei

Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945

Wassell, Corydon McAlmont, 1884-

Hitler's Gang part I, photographs, volume I

box 1, folder 1

Table of contents

box 1, folder 2

Official buildings, pre-Nazi

box 1, folder 3

Official buildings, Nazi

box 1, folder 4

Party offices

box 1, folder 5

Nazi homes, Hitler

box 1, folder 6

Nazi homes, other

box 1, folder 7

Party meetings

box 1, folder 8

Places of entertainment

box 1, folder 9

Army

box 1, folder 10

Miscellaneous

box 1, folder 11

Party before 1933

box 1, folder 12

Party after 1933

Hitler's Gang part I, photographs, volume II

box 1, folder 13

Party rallies, Nuremberg

box 1, folder 14

Armed forces

box 1, folder 15

Official occasions, police

box 1, folder 16

Miscellaneous

box 1, folder 17

General

box 1, folder 18

Specific

box 2, folder 1

German, Foreign

Hitler's Gang part I, photographs, volume III

box 2, folder 2

Automobiles

box 2, folder 3

Trains

box 2, folder 4

Airplanes

box 2, folder 5

Miscellaneous

box 2, folder 6

Nazi

box 2, folder 7

Others

box 2, folder 8

Flags and medals

box 2, folder 9

Youth

box 2, folder 10

Civilians

Hitler's Gang part I, photographs, volume IV

box 2, folder 11

Hitler

box 2, folder 12

World War

box 2, folder 13

Miscellaneous

box 2, folder 14

Anti-Semitism

box 2, folder 15

Concentration camps

box 2, folder 16

Nazis

box 2, folder 17

Others

box 3, folder 1

No Good

box 3, folder 2

Uniforms

Hitler's Gang part II, photographs, volume I

box 3, folder 3

Cast index

box 3, folder 4

Max Amann

box 3, folder 5

Walter Darre Burger

box 3, folder 6

Anton Drexler

box 3, folder 7

Kurt Eisner

box 3, folder 8

Mathias Erzberger

box 3, folder 9

Herman Esser

box 3, folder 10

Cardinal Faulhauber

box 3, folder 11

Gottfried Feder

box 3, folder 12

Wilhelm Frick

box 3, folder 13

Captain Godin Gehrlich, Josef Goebbels

box 3, folder 14

Goebbels aide, Frau Goering

box 3, folder 15

Hermann Goering

box 3, folder 16

Karin Goering

box 3, folder 17

Graf Gurtner

box 3, folder 18

General Hammerstein and General Wilhem Von Groener

box 3, folder 19

Frau Hanfstaengel, "Putzi" Hanfstaengel

box 3, folder 20

Reinhold Hanisch

box 3, folder 21

Rudolf Hess

box 3, folder 22

Reinhard Heydrich

box 3, folder 23

Heinrich Himmler

box 3, folder 24

Adolf Hitler

Hitler's Gang part II, photographs, volume II

box 3, folder 25

Heinrich Hoffmann

box 3, folder 26

Sergeant Hubermeyer, Dr. Alfred Hugenberg

box 3, folder 27

Kriebel

box 3, folder 28

Krupp, Landsberg warden, Robert Ley

box 4, folder 1

General Erich Ludendorff

box 4, folder 2

Lutze

box 4, folder 3

Dr. Otto Meissner

box 4, folder 4

Rudolf Nadolny

box 4, folder 5

Pastor Niemoeller

box 4, folder 6

Poehner

box 4, folder 7

Walter Rathenau

box 4, folder 8

Angela Raubel

box 4, folder 9

"Geli" Raubel

box 4, folder 10

Colonel Reichenau, Ernst Roehm

box 4, folder 11

Alfred Rosenberg

box 4, folder 12

Hjalmar Schachtt

box 4, folder 13

Schaub, Julius Schreck, Dr. Sobottendorf, Dr. Stenglein, Julius Streicher

box 4, folder 14

Frau Strasser, Gregor Strasser

box 4, folder 15

Otto Strasser

box 4, folder 16

Fritz Thyssen

box 4, folder 17

Marinus van der Lubbe

box 4, folder 18

Dietrich von Eckart

box 4, folder 19

Ritter von Epp

box 4, folder 20

Paul von Hindenburg

box 4, folder 21

Gustav von Kahr

box 4, folder 22

General von Lossow

box 4, folder 23

Konstantin von Neurath

box 4, folder 24

Franz von Papen

box 4, folder 25

Joachim von Ribbenthrop

box 4, folder 26

von Schirach, Reichter von Scheubner, General von Schleicher

box 4, folder 27

General von Seekt

box 4, folder 28

von Seisser, Wagner

box 4, folder 29

Weber

box 4, folder 30

Miscellaneous, characters, etc.

Hitler's Gang part II, photographs and research materials, volume III

box 4, folder 31

Locations

box 4, folder 32

Exterior Western front

box 4, folder 33

Interior section German trench

box 4, folder 34

Interior German regiment headquarters

box 4, folder 35

Exterior woods

box 4, folder 36

Section of battlefield, shell hole

box 4, folder 37

Interior hospital

box 4, folder 38

Interior barracks

box 4, folder 39

Interior hospital, reception, interior hotel, ballroom

box 4, folder 40

Interior meeting hall, exterior street corner, interior army barracks

box 4, folder 41

Exterior barracks courtyard and von Epp's wife, interior von Epp's office

box 4, folder 42

Interior Sternecker's beer house backroom

box 4, folder 43

Interior office, German Worker's Party

box 4, folder 44

Interior beer hall

box 4, folder 45

Exterior woods

box 4, folder 46

Interior Sterneckerbrau beer hall

box 4, folder 47

Interior kitchen Sternecker beer hall, exterior Nazi headquarters

box 4, folder 48

Interior Nazi headquarters

box 4, folder 49

Nazi headquarters, 2nd floor to exterior street, Munich (no photographs)

box 4, folder 50

Interior Jewish store, Munich

box 4, folder 51

Interior church

box 4, folder 52

Interior meeting hall to interior Krone circus (no photographs)

box 5, folder 1

Exterior Ludendorff's villa

box 5, folder 2

Interior Ludendorff's study and exterior field, Munich

box 5, folder 3

Interior Goering's cellar to interior Hitler's office (no photographs)

box 5, folder 4

Interior Burgerbraukeller

box 5, folder 5

Interior artists' room to exterior Munich street barricade

box 5, folder 6

Exterior Munich street, November 9, 1923

box 5, folder 7

Exterior side street or alley to interior Hitler's room (no photographs)

box 5, folder 8

Interior dining room, Landsberg Fortress, December 1924

box 5, folder 9

Exterior Landsberg Fortress

box 5, folder 10

Interior Hitler's bedroom study (Schaub's apartment)

box 5, folder 11

Exterior Hitler's cottage, Bavarian mountains

box 5, folder 12

Interior Hitler's living room to interior Munich café (no photographs)

box 5, folder 13

Interior opera house balcony, Munich

box 5, folder 14

Interior music studio to interior dining room, Hitler's cottage (no photographs)

box 5, folder 15

Interior kitchen, Hitler's cottage

The Story of Dr. Wassell photographs

box 5, folder 16

Bibliography and source list

box 5, folder 17

Unnumbered materials and maps

Numbered photographs

box 5, folder 18

1-25

box 5, folder 19

16-50

box 5, folder 20

51-75

box 5, folder 21

76-100

box 5, folder 22

101-125

box 5, folder 23

126-150

box 5, folder 24

151-175

box 5, folder 25

176-200

box 6, folder 1

201-225

box 6, folder 2

226-250

box 6, folder 3

251-275

box 6, folder 4

276-300

box 6, folder 5

301-325

box 6, folder 6

326-350

box 6, folder 7

351-375

box 6, folder 8

376-400

box 6, folder 9

401-425

box 6, folder 10

426-450

box 6, folder 11

451-475

box 6, folder 12

476-500

box 6, folder 13

501-525

box 6, folder 14

526-550

box 6, folder 15

551-575

box 6, folder 16

576-600

box 7, folder 1

601-625

box 7, folder 2

626-650

box 7, folder 3

651-675

box 7, folder 4

676-700

box 7, folder 5

701-725

box 7, folder 6

726-750

box 7, folder 7

751-775

box 7, folder 8

776-800

box 7, folder 9

801-825

box 7, folder 10

826-850

box 7, folder 11

851-875

box 7, folder 12

876-900

box 7, folder 13

976-1000

box 8, folder 1

1001-1025

box 8, folder 2

1026-1050

box 8, folder 3

1051-1075

box 8, folder 4

1076-1100

box 8, folder 5

1101-1125

box 8, folder 6

1126-1150

box 8, folder 7

1151-1175

box 8, folder 8

1176-1200

box 8, folder 9

1201-1225

box 8, folder 10

1226-1250

box 8, folder 11

1251-1275

box 8, folder 12

1276-1300

box 8, folder 13

1301-1325

box 8, folder 14

1326-1350