Nazi propaganda
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
460th Heavy Bombardment Group Society papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 01.0046
Scope and Contents
The collection of the 460th Heavy Bombardment Group Society contains a unit history of this B-24 U.S. Army Air Corps Group, 55th Wing, 760th, 761st, 762nd, 763rd Squadrons and Group Headquarters, which served in the Italian Campaign. This collection primarily focuses on the memory of the war and those who served in the 460th. Included is a listing of the airmen who were held as prisoners of war, including their squadrons, positions on the plane (e.g. pilot, gunner), the date, mission, and what country or stalag in which they were held. Also included is a booklet, "Remembering the 460th Bomb Group (H)," which contains photographs, personnel lists, and maps, and was prepared as a...
Dates:
Created: 1943-2015; Other: Date acquired: 02/07/2015
Deborah Gierach papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 02.0144
Scope and Contents
Deborah Gierach's collection of photographs were taken by her late father-in-law (no name given), a B-17 pilot in Europe during the Second World War. The collection consists of scanning from three photograph albums (in German) compiled and produced for the Nazi government as a means to show what the Third Reich was doing during the war. Subjects include Nazi rallies, Adolf Hitler, Heinrich Himmler, Hermann Goering, soldiers, military vehicles, as well as Hitler playing with children and socializing with others. Captions are in German. Organized month to month for separate calendar years of 1939, 1940, 1942.
Note: the majority of the photographs do not contain the...
Dates:
Created: 1939-1942; Other: Majority of material found in 1941; Other: Date acquired: 04/05/2002
William Clayton Greene papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 01.0268
Scope and Contents
This collection relates to William Clayton Greene who served in the U.S. Army during World War II in Belgium and Germany. The collection includes informaton about his experience there. There are letters to his family, a friend, as well as letters from Nuns from a Belgian convent that Greene befriended. Also included is a German publication entitled Sparta: Der Lebenskampf Einer Nordischen Herrenschicht which is signed by Heinrich Himmler.
Dates:
1944-1945; Other: Date accessioned: 2004-04-27
Thomas J. Vickers collection
Collection — 01.0223 - Box 1
Identifier: 01.0223
Scope and Contents
This collection contains two German language cigarette photograph books titled Adolph Hitler: Bilder ais dem leben des Fuhrers and Deutschland Erwacht. These books were published during the Nazi era and were propaganda where individuals would paste photographs received as premiums.
Dates:
Publication: 1936; Publication: 1933; Other: Date accessioned: 2001-06-25