Camera lenses used by Hitler's personal photographer

The lenses were donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2011 by Fern M. Schad. 

Camera lenses used by Hitler's personal photographer 

overall: Height: 0.500 inches (1.27 cm) | Diameter: 1.125 inches (2.858 cm) 

Detachable lenses used by Hugo Jaeger, one of Hitler's personal photographers before and during World War II (1939-1945). The lenses are part of a collection that highlights the Nazi rise to power leading up to and during the war. The materials include photographic equipment and accessories, 50 color slides, and a leaflet written by Frank R. Eisner entitled"Shadows of the Pas", which describes the slides. 

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Circular, convex, clear glass lens mounted in a silver-colored, metal ring with a beveled, black-painted inner face and narrow rim. A narrow, raised, ridged band wraps around the midpoint of the exterior sides, with three evenly-spaced, prongs beneath. Fitted to the top of the silver ring is a circular, convex, clear glass lens mounted in a brown-painted, metal ring with a beveled inner face and a narrow, ridged rim. The base has flat sides and three evenly-spaced. Use has worn the paint away on portions of the exterior. Manufacturing information is engraved around the beveled face of both rings.