This camera equipment belonged to Walter Hunkler, a sergeant assigned to a medical detachment of the 160th Field Artillery Battalion, ... [LCID: 2522459]
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Camera and equipment that belonged to a US soldier

This camera equipment belonged to Walter Hunkler, a sergeant assigned to a medical detachment of the 160th Field Artillery Battalion, which entered Dachau on April 29, 1945. He took photographs documenting the camp and the prisoners found there. 


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  • US US Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, gift of Roberta Hunkler
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