Gen. Kattengel is included on the OSS report on Nazi Art Looting, described as working under Fritz Goernnert on Goering's administrative staff.
Handwritten title on original film can"General Kattengell Touring Volcano" Bechtler Collection Tape #1
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.
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.
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.
Luftwaffe officers & Goering's staff tour Mt. Vesuvius & Pompeii