Walter Fried collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1270
• English
• overall: Height: 1.500 inches (3.81 cm) | Width: 2.000 inches (5.08 cm) | Depth: 0.125 inches (0.318 cm)
• Updated 7 months ago

Staatliche Kriminalpolizei [State Criminal police] bronze warrant disc [dienstmarken], ID number 1978, taken by Walter Fried, a US Army interrogator, from a Gestapo officer in the SS criminal police division whom he was interrogating. After Himmler centralized the police forces in the mid-1930s, this was the official identification badge, stamped with the individual officer's number. The badge had the authority of a warrant and once displayed during an arrest, investigation, or search, it ensured compliance. Walter, 25, and his family, who were Jewish, fled Austria for America shortly after...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1271
• English
• overall: Height: 2.750 inches (6.985 cm) | Width: 4.625 inches (11.748 cm) | Depth: 0.375 inches (0.953 cm)
• Updated 7 months ago

gray metal knucklebusters taken by Walter Fried, a US Army interrogator, from a Gestapo officer in the SS criminal police division whom he was interviewing. Walter, 25, and his family, who were Jewish, fled Austria shortly after it was annexed by Germany in March 1938 for America. Walter joined the Army in November 1943 and deployed with the 243rd Combat Engineer Battalion. In April 1945, Walter was transferred to the Counterintelligence Corps to be a translator. After Germany surrendered on May 7, Walter was transferred to War Crimes Investigating Team, Judge Advocate Section as a translat...