German film director Leni Riefenstahl, Kitzbuhel, Austria, May 1945
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Photograph. German film director Leni Riefenstahl sitting in reclining chair outdoors. Official Caption: "Rome, 5/29/45--Hitler's alleged mistress--Leni Riefenstahl, German actress and allegedly the former mistress of Adolf Hitler, is shown in the garden of her home at Kitzbuhel, Austria, May 16, 1945, shortly after her arrest by soldiers of the U.S. Seventh Army. She was taken into custody on charges of being a close personal friend of Hitler, which she denied. She was recently married to Maj. Peder Jakus of the Third German Army.--War pool photo serviced by Rome OWI (B List Out). Approved by appropriate military authority. 6446."Kitzbuhel, Austria. 29 May 1945
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05/29/1945
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Items from the service of Isaac "Ike" Bethel Utley, who was born in Smith Mills, Kentucky on 3 March 1920. Ike enlisted in the Army Air Corps on 19 January 1942. He was shipped overseas to the European Theatre and worked with a supply division based out of the city of Naples with an office set up in a residential villa. Utley worked with the Office of War Information and used their photographs in news articles to inform soldiers of the progress of the war. At war's end, Utley returned stateside. A trunk full of over 800 photographs from the O.W.I. arrived on his doorstep from his office in Italy, sender unknown. This collection consists of those photographs.
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Kitzbühel
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47.450
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12.383
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Filmmakers--German--Austria
Women--Austria