Fritz Wetzel collection
Extent and Medium
box
oversize folders
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
Frederick Wetzel donated this collection to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on Apr. 14, 2004. An accretion was added on May 23, 2007.
Scope and Content
Consists of items collected and saved by PFC Fritz Wetzel, a member of the 483rd Medical Collection Company, during World War II. Included are a set of German cigarette cards featuring Hitler and German propaganda, photographs taken after the liberation of Paris, and US Army magazines. Notable are a pocket guide to Germany distributed to US troops and a pass, permission slip, and customs form allowing PFC Wetzel to possess and retain captured German military equipment. Also includes nine photographs taken the liberation of an unknown camp, perhaps Gardelegen, and a July 1945 copy of the Belgian (Flemish) magazine "ABC."
Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.
Genre
- Publications.
- Photographs.
- Document