Scrapbook of the Invasion of France
Extent and Medium
1 scrapbook,
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Edwina Shaw
Edwina Shaw donated this photograph album to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2013. Her father-in-law was a member of the United States military during World War II and brought the scrapbook home with him after the war.
Scope and Content
Consists of one scrapbook, bound with fabric and a red wooden spine, containing mounted aerial military photographs of areas of France, circa 1940, likely taken during the May 1940 invasion of France by a member of the German military. Also includes photographs of the aftermath of ground warfare; many of the images are captioned and some of the aerial photographs are marked.
Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945--Battlefields--France.
Genre
- Document
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