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1. Nazi Party 1939 convention pin with a nude mother with child acquired by a US soldier

Date:: found: 1945
commemoration: 1939

2. Nazi Germany, 5 mark note from the album of a Waffen-SS officer acquired by an American soldier

2013.455.3 front

Date:: issue: after 1939 June 15-before 1941 November

3. SSB blue enamelled badge with a snowflake acquired by a US soldier

Date:: found: 1945
creation: 1907-1945

4. SA brown uniform shirt with Rottenfuhrer insignia acquired by a US soldier

1988.99.5 front

Date:: found: approximately 1945-before 1945 November
manufacture: after 1934-before 1945

5. Leica Standard model E camera used by US soldier and liberator

Date:: use: approximately 1945-1945
manufacture: 1932 October-1939

6. Kadlec liquid filled AK39 German wrist compass found by a US soldier

2014.480.70 front

Date:: manufacture: 1939

7. Barling’s briar wood straight billiard pipe used by American soldier and liberator

2012.427.3 front

Date:: manufacture: 1930-1945
use: approximately 1945

8. Pressed aluminum cap badge with Nazi insignia acquired by a German Jewish refugee and US soldier

Date:: issue: 1936-1945
emigration: 1939 March

9. Pressed aluminum cap badge with Nazi insignia acquired by a German Jewish refugee and US soldier

Date:: issue: 1936-1945
emigration: 1939 March

10. Pressed aluminum cap badge with Nazi insignia acquired by a German Jewish refugee and US soldier

Date:: issue: 1936-1945
emigration: 1939 March

11. Three hangers for a wardrobe trunk used by German Jewish refugees on the MS St. Louis

1998.65.1_i front

Date:: use: 1939 May-1940 April

12. Large black wardrobe trunk used by German Jewish refugees on the MS St. Louis

Date:: use: 1939 May-1940 April

13. Pressed aluminum cap badge with Nazi insignia acquired by a German Jewish refugee and US soldier

Date:: issue: 1936-1945
emigration: 1939 March

14. German marching compass in a case taken from an SS officer by a US soldier

2000.598.2 closed

Date:: found: approximately 1945 May
manufacture: after 1930-before 1945

15. Name tag

Date:: use: approximately 1944 November-approximately 1945
manufacture: approximately 1944
commemoration: 1939-1945

16. Infantry tank officer’s field jacket with several ribbon bars and pins worn by a US soldier

Date:: use: approximately 1944 November-approximately 1945
manufacture: approximately 1944
commemoration: 1939-1945

17. Buchenwald Standort-Kantine concentration camp scrip, 1 Reichsmark, acquired by a US soldier

1988.168.1 front

Date:: issue: after 1938 July-before 1945 April

18. Imperial Japan, 10 yen note, acquired by a US soldier

2013.442.38 front

Date:: issue: approximately 1930-1943

19. US Combat Infantryman Badge in silver bullion awarded to a US soldier

Date:: use: 1944-1945
commemoration: 1939-1945
issue: after 1943 October 07

20. Nazi Germany, 5 mark note, acquired by a US soldier

2013.442.25 front

Date:: issue: after 1939 June 15-before 1942 August 01

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