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biographical history: Gen. Kattengel is included on the OSS report on Nazi Art Looting, described as working under Fritz Goernnert on Goering's administrative staff.
date: October 1942?
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identifier: irn1002564
note: Handwritten title on original film can"General Kattengell Touring Volcano" Bechtler Collection Tape #1
note: Eitel Lange's presence dates the footage as 1940 or later. Lange describes a private journey by Goering, with his two Sonderzuege [Special Trains], to Italy in mid-October 1942, to visit his wife Emmy at a villa in Naples.
note: See Eitel Lange's 1950 book,"Der Reichsmarschall im Kriege" including photos 82-83-84 and text pp 160-161 re. 1942 trip to Italy.
scope and content: Scenes of Mt. Vesuvius and ruins of Pompeii in Italy with uniformed Luftwaffe men. Men in civilian clothes include at least 3 Luftwaffe staff or officers closely associated with Goering (they also appear in Film IDs 2548 and 2549): Fritz Goernnert in lederhosen; wavy-haired man in knickers who may be Kattengel; dark-haired man seen in target practice scenes; and the man with dark-rimmed spectacles and photo camera (Eitel Lange, the personal stills photographer for Hermann Goering, who joined Goering's staff in the summer of 1940). 01:01:02 WS with volcano. Priest in long black frock scampering across rocks. Scenes of visit to Pompeii ruins, posing for camera. 01:08 Naked men sunning themselves, climbing, and diving from volcanic rock by sea. 01:10:22 Men as tourists, at sidewalk cafe table, in civilian suits; includes Eitel Lange, eating ice cream. Coastal scenes, some presumably of Naples. 01:19:42 Two men walking, Bernd von Brauchitsch, Goering's adjutant, on right, very briefly. Horse drawn cart. Pan up from feet to face of sleeping man in boat moving on water.
title: Luftwaffe officers & Goering's staff tour Mt. Vesuvius & Pompeii