STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
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COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES)
Lloyd Louis Garnell (formerly Lloyd Louis Goldstein) being first duly sworn upon oath deposes and says:
By court order of the District Court of Los Angeles County, California, No. 508070, dated 8 February 1946, before Judge Samuel R. Blake, my name was changed from Lloyd Louis Goldstein to Lloyd Louis Garnell. At the present time I reside at Hotel Gilbert, 1550 N. Wilcox, Hollywood, California.
From 24 November 1941 to 18 December 1945 I was assigned to the Office of Strategic Services, Field Photographic Branch, from the U.S. Navy, holding the rank of Chief Photographer, USNR, serial number 816-350.
From June 1945 to 22 September 1945 I was assigned to the Office U. S. Chief of Counsel for the Prosecution of Axis Criminality, Nürnberg, Germany. During that period it was my responsibility to take official photographs for the Office U.S. Chief of Counsel to be used in the prosecution of Axis war criminals. On assignments for the Office U.S. Chief of Counsel it was customary for me to work in conjunction with Lt. Robert M. Brag-gins, Jr., USNR, also assigned to the Office U.S. Chief of Counsel from the Field Photographic Branch of the Office of Strategic Services.
On 21 August 1945 Lt. Braggins and I were requested by Captain Sam Harris, JAGD of the Office U.S. Chief of Counsel to take both still and moving pictures of certain materials in the Reichsbank vaults in Frankfurt, Germany. These vaults were located in the cellar of the Reichsbank building and had to be reached by passing through a series of seven vault doors. On entering the final vault we found materials consisting of boxes, suit cases, and trunks which I saw contained such articles as bracelets, eye glass frames, cigarette cases, rings, gold teeth, foreign currency, stamp albums, diamonds, rubies, other precious gems, and gold bouillion bars.
In accordance with Captain Harris' request Lt. Braggins and I took two sets of pictures of these items, one consisting of stills and the other of motion pictures showing Lt. Braggins handling the items described above. I took approximately two dozen still pictures with a 4x5 Speedgraphic camera with a flash gun attachment. The moving pictures were taken with a Mitchell camera and I used approximately 400 feet of Plux X film. Included among the objects photographed were certain sequence markers bearing the legend "SPX War Crimes, OSS take, Reichs-
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bank Frankfurt, 21 August 1945, Braggins and Goldstein". After these pictures were taken the films were delivered to Commander James B. Donovan of the Office U.S. Chief of Counsel for processing.
After the still pictures were printed and the motion pictures developed I saw samples of both and I recognized these prints and movies to be the pictures we had taken.
[signed] I^loyd Louis Garnell Subscribed and sworn to before me this 13th day of May, 1946. [signed] Fred Steele
Affidavit concerning the photographing of valuables stored at the Reichsbank, including, jewelry, jewels, rings, gold, teeth, foreign currency, and stamps
Authors
Lloyd L. Garnell (formerly Goldstein) (photographer for OSS (1941-45))
Lloyd L. Garnell (formerly Goldstein)
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Date: 13 May 1946
Defendant: Walther Funk
Total Pages: 2
Language of Text: English
Source of Text: Nazi conspiracy and aggression (Office of United States Chief of Counsel for Prosecution of Axis Criminality. Washington, D.C. : U.S. Government Printing Office, 1946.)
Evidence Code: PS-3976
HLSL Item No.: 452858
Notes:See also document PS 3952 on the resulting movie that was shown as exhibit 845.
Document Summary
PS-3976: Signed and sworn Affidavit of Lloyd Louis Garnell re: Film and pictures he took of the vaults of the Reichbank at Frankfurt
PS-3976: Affidavit of Lloyd Garnell, los Angeles, California, 13 May 1946, identifying photographs of certain articles found in the vaults of the Reichsbank as those taken by himself and Lieutenant Robert M. braggins, jr., Usnr, at the request of Captain Harris, Jagd