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1. Brass knuckles used by a Polish prisoner of war passing as Ukrainian in a German stalag
2004.525.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.525.5
Date:
use: 1941-1945
… landowner, whose land they rented. On September 1, 1939, Poland was invaded by Nazi Germany. Salek was mobilized into the 19th Infantry Battalion, Polish Army…
2. Rubber truncheon used by a Polish prisoner of war passing as Ukrainian in a German stalag
2004.525.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.525.3
Date:
use: approximately 1941 February-1945
… landowner, whose land they rented. On September 1, 1939, Poland was invaded by Nazi Germany. Salek was mobilized into the 19th Infantry Battalion, Polish Army…
3. 6.35mm Mauser 1934 pocket pistol acquired by a Yugoslavian partisan
Object | Accession Number: 1993.167.2 a
Date:
acquired: 1945
…, descendants of Jews who had lived in Germany and France who were forced to migrate due to religious persecution. Lavoslav was named after his deceased…
4. Mauser HSc pistol, magazine, firing pin, and mainspring used by a Yugoslavian partisan
1992.230.1_b front
Object | Accession Number: 1992.230.1 a-d
Date:
manufacture: 1940 December-1945 May
acquired: 1941 April 06-1945 May
… activities, but he was released due to lack of evidence. On April 6, 1941, Germany and Italy, supported by Hungary and Bulgaria, invaded Yugoslavia…
5. Whip acquired by an American soldier
1990.107.85 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.107.85
Date:
1945
found: 1945-1946
… concentration camp in Germany by US troops in April 1945, Vendig was appointed military governor of Dachau Landkreis.…
6. Brass knuckles acquired by a Jewish American soldier
1989.4.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.4.2
Date:
found: after 1945 April 26-before 1946 January 23
… school. He worked at an Austrian paper export company. On March 12, 1938, Nazi Germany annexed Austria. Walter and his family had their citizenship…
7. Semi-automatic Walther PPK pistol, holster, and magazines found at a concentration camp by US military aid worker
1988.112.65_a front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.112.65 a-d
Date:
found: 1945 April-1945 May
…'s Candidate School. Corporal Shurr was then sent to military government school to be trained to rebuild postwar Germany. First Lieutenant Shurr and the rest of…