230th Field Artillery collection

Identifier: irn81195
Language of Description: English
Level of Description: Collection
Source: EHRI Partner

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https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn81195

Acquisition

The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1992 by Gerald McMahon.

Scope and Content

The collection consists of a Nazi flag, a Nazi Party hand stamp, and two childrens' books relating to the experiences of members of the 230th Field Artillery, 71st Division, United States Army, who captured the flag during World War II and signed it in 1992.

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Nazi flag captured in Germany by US soldiers and signed at a postwar reunion
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn6268
- English
- overall: Height: 27.875 inches (70.803 cm) | Width: 54.500 inches (138.43 cm)
- Updated 9 months ago
Nazi flag captured in Germany by twelve members of the 230th Field Artillery, 71st Division, U.S. Army, circa 1945. It has the signatures of 66 members of the Battalion, signed in October 1992.
Children what do you know about the Fuhrer? Book
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn6269
- English
- 1933
- Updated 9 months ago
National Socialist German Worker's Party rubber stamp
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn6270
- English
- overall: Height: 3.125 inches (7.938 cm) | Depth: 1.380 inches (3.505 cm)
- Updated 9 months ago
Rubber hand stamp used by the Nazi Party Propaganda Division in the Party headquarters in Altoetting, Upper Bavaria, Germany. It was found by a soldier of the 230th Field Artillery Battalion during the war.
The Poison Mushroom Book
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn6271
- English
- 1938
- Updated 9 months ago
Antisemitic children's book, Der Giftpilz (The Poisonous Mushroom), popular in Nazi Germany. It was published by Der Stuermer Verlag, a division of the viciously anti-Jewish newspaper, Der Stuermer, published by Julius Streicher from 1923-1945. The illustrations are by Fips (Phillip Rupprecht), the paper's well known antisemitic cartoonist. Both men were arrested by the US Army in May 1945. Rupprecht was tried by a German denazification court and sentenced to six years hard labor. Streicher was tried by the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg, convicted, and executed per the ruling...

230th Field Artillery collection

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Nazi flag captured in Germany by US soldiers and signed at a postwar reunion

Children what do you know about the Fuhrer? Book

National Socialist German Worker's Party rubber stamp

The Poison Mushroom Book