The Gardelegen atrocity....As I saw it

Identifier
irn523180
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2005.466.1
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn523180

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of William J. Bell III

Funding Note: The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.

William J. Bell III and Alicia Bell donated the The Gardelegen atrocity...to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2005.

Scope and Content

A memoir entitled "The Gardelegen atrocity...As I saw it" by Robert P. Schmidt is writting in letter form describing the Gardelegen massacre from the perspective of a soldier that encountered the scene upon liberation. A notation at top indicates that text was "passed by SHAEF/ FIELD PRESS CENSORS."

System of Arrangement

The memoir is arranged in a single series.

People

  • Schmidt, Robert P.

Subjects

  • Germany.
  • Holocaust victims.
  • Massacres--Germany.
  • Gardelegen Massacre, Gardelegen, Germany, 1945.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Germany--Gardelegen.

Genre

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