230th Field Artillery collection

• 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.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn6269
• English
• 1933
• Updated 9 months ago

• 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.

• 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...