Joseph A. Thacker collection

Identifier: irn46864
Language of Description: English
Level of Description: Collection
Source: EHRI Partner

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https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn46864

Acquisition

The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2012 by Joan Lanier, a friend of Joseph Thacker.

Scope and Content

The collection consists of a Nazi banner and a photograph relating to the experiences of Joseph A. Thacker during World War II, when he served as a solider in the 80th Infantry Division of the United States Army in Germany.

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Joseph Thacker photograph
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn49833
- English
- folder 1
- Updated 8 months ago
Contains a postwar photograph of Nuremberg, Germany.
Large gold striped Nazi swastika banner retrieved by a US soldier from a Nazi Party building in Berchtesgaden
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn50609
- English
- overall: Height: 186.625 inches (474.028 cm) | Width: 102.500 inches (260.35 cm)
- Updated 8 months ago
Extremely large Nazi banner with a swastika and gold stripes retrieved by 21 year old Joseph Thacker, an American soldier, from the wall of a Nazi Party building in Berchtesgaden, Germany, the location of Hitler's retreat, the Berghof, in the Bavarian Alps. It was the last of several war trophies that Joe sent home to his parents and he told them that he removed it from a wall at Hitler's headquarters. Berchtesgaden had a complex of buildings, including an SS barracks and residences of other influential Nazi leaders. The complex was secured on May 4 by the 7th Infantry Regiment who permitte...

Joseph A. Thacker collection

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Joseph Thacker photograph

Large gold striped Nazi swastika banner retrieved by a US soldier from a Nazi Party building in Berchtesgaden