C-6-4

Item — Box: 5

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

From the Collection:

This colleciton contains panels and framed photographs from a 2010 exhibit shown at the University of Alabama in Huntsville's M. Louis Salmon Library. Also included is the website designed to support the exhibit.

Dates

Creation: 2010

Conditions Governing Access

This collection is open for research in the Archives & Special Collections reading room. Handling guidelines and use restrictions will be communicated and enforced by archives staff members.

Biographical / Historical

This portrait by Maurice de La Pintiére of Christian Beham, recalls the SS execution of several prominent German political prisoners held in captivity, often since 1933. These executions took place a few weeks before the end of the war. Beham, a prominent communist leader, was locked up in the camp prison in January 1945 and murdered on April 4, the day of the evacuation of the camp, along with six other German “reds.”