The Press: Nazis Outwitted

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On the prison ship which picked up the prisoners next day, Photographer Scherman hid one roll of film in a tube of tooth paste, taped the others into the back of his camera, first wrapping them with Scotch Tape with rice inside to absorb moisture. But figuring (correctly) that the Nazis would eventually seize his cameras, before reaching France he got a missionary doctor to stow the films with surgical neatness in packages of gauze bandages (see cut), which were then resealed. Another went into the lower end of a tube of shaving cream. On landing, Scherman had to give his films up to the Nazis "for examination." He gave up 104 rolls which he never saw again but kept the four rolls that counted.