Scrapbook

Identifier
irn14070
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2000.473.1
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • German
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn14070

Extent and Medium

oversize box

1

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Joe Cowden

Donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum by Joe Cowden in 2000.

Scope and Content

Contains a scrapbook titled "Deutschlands Zukunft," and assembled by an admirer of Nazi Germany's military exploits. Contains clippings from newspapers and magazines from 1938 (headed "Die grosse Ereignis am 13.Maerz 1938," in reference to the annexation of Austria) to 1940, with clippings about the Blitzkrieg in Western Europe (invasions of Denmark, Norway, Holland, Belgium, and France).

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Fabric-covered scrapbook filled with "rotogravure" section newpaper photographs, articles, and other half-tone photographs from the German press, covering the rise of the Nazi party through World War II.

Genre

  • Scrapbooks.
  • Document
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