Stalag 17 POWs papers
Scope and Contents
This collection was compiled by Edward McKenzie and includes a directory of New Hampshire Ex-POWs book. It is a boxed collection of approroximately 20 individual collections of American POWs who were interned at Stalag 17. The individual collections collectively consist of personal papers, transcripts, documents, photographs, and drawings relating to their experiences as prisoners of war.
Dates
- 1937-1945
- Other: Date acquired: 1998-05-12
- Other: Date accessioned: 2019-09-04
Conditions Governing Access
This collection is open to all researchers.
Conditions Governing Use
All requests for permission to quote, publish, broadcast or otherwise reproduce from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Associate Dean for Special Collections & Archives. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Florida State University Libraries as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the researcher.
Biographical or Historical Information
The materials contained within this box are from a variety of United States Army and Army Air Corps members, officers, enlisted soldiers. and air crews who were captured in the European Theater and sent to Stalag 17B as Prisoners of War. The collections include those belonging to Staff Sergeant Michael Colamonico, Doctor Barbara Stelzl-Marx, Joe Suss, and Rey McMann of the 92nd Bomb Group, Fletcher de Wolf, Marcus Davis, Grover Mullins, Helen Strong, Don Bevan, Sam Roland Magun, Lee Kessler, Ben Phelper, William Chapin, Sergeant Frank Grey, Glen Loveland, Ralph Lavoie, Bernard Hanover, Kenneth Kurtenback, Jerry Ferroggiaro, Lieutenant Louise Birch (Army Nurse Corps), Wilhelm Nowy, Robert Patterson, Colonel Delmar T. Spivey, Edward D. MacKenzie, John E. Wasch, Mark Curtis, Larry Dennis, and Nelson Crawford.
Extent
1 Linear Feet (1 full box)
Language of Materials
English
Custodial History
Transferred from the Institute on World War II and the Human Experience to FSU Libraries Special Collections & Archives in July 2022.
- Ex-prisoners of war--United States--Biography Subject Source: Local sources
- Prisoners of war Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Prisoners of war--Germany--History--20th century Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Stalag XVII B Krems-Gneixendorf
- United States. Army
- United States. Army Air Forces
- United States. Army Air Forces--Military life Subject Source: Lcnaf
- United States. Army Ground Forces Subject Source: Lcnaf
- United States. Army Medical Department (1968- )
- United States. Army--History Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- United States. Army--Military life Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- United States. Army. European Theater of Operations
- World War, 1939-1945 Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- World War, 1939-1945--Aerial operations, American Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- World War, 1939-1945--Aerial operations, American--Personal narratives Subject Source: Local sources
- World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Western Front Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- World War, 1939-1945--Germany Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, German Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- World War, 1939-1945--United States Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Title
- Stalag 17 POW papers
- Author
- Craig Whittington
- Date
- 04/10/2018
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- English
Repository Details
Part of the FSU Special Collections & Archives Repository
116 Honors Way
PO Box 3062047
Tallahassee FL 32306-2047 US
850-644-3271
lib-specialcollections@fsu.edu
