Hasso Hinke journal
Extent and Medium
oversize box
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum collection
Acquired by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2019.
Scope and Content
Journal illustrated and written by German POW Hasso Hinke who was held in Rheinwiesenlager in 1945-46 (part of a group of 19 camps built in Allied-occupied part of Germany by the US Army to hold captured German soldiers (held between 1-2 million Wehrmacht personnel) under poor conditions and later in a PG Lager in Grenoble, France. The journal Includes letters and postcards he sent and received. (It looks like a family member or the author later added notes in pen and an article). Hasso Hinke worked as a professional cartoonist and caricaturist in Berlin after the war. Photographs, clippings, drawings, pasted on to some of the pages, with loose correspondence, postcards, programs, and drawings tucked in between some of the pages.
Conditions Governing Access
No restrictions on access
Genre
- Document