Small poster made to discourage US troops from socializing with Germans

Object | Accession Number: 1996.48.1

Artwork Title: Don't Fratenize Mauthausen
Date: issue: approximately 1945 April-1945 June
Geography: depiction: Mauthausen (Concentration Camp); Mauthausen (Austria)
Language: English
Classification: Posters
Category: Fliers
Object Type: Handbills (tgm)
Credit Line: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Eugene John Glantz

Physical Description: Small paper handbill of a black and white, half tone reproduction photograph image of a row of 3, large stacks of emaciated, naked corpses in front of a large wooden building. A line of male bystanders, most in civilian clothes, and a one in concentration camp uniform trousers, are looking at the bodies. There is white text at the top and bottom.
Dimensions: overall: Height: 10.375 inches (26.353 cm) | Width: 13.000 inches (33.02 cm)
Materials: overall : paper, ink
Markings: front top, white ink : DONT FRATERNIZE
front bottom, white ink : MAUTHAUSEN
bottom right corner, white ink : PHOTO P R O / I & E OFFICE / 1 1 ∆
Contributor: Producer: United States Army, 11th Armored Division Headquarters, Information and Education Office
Legal Status: Permanent Collection
Provenance: The handbill was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1996 by Eugene Glantz.
Conditions on Access: No restrictions on access
Conditions on Use: No restrictions on use
: Record last modified: 2021-02-10 09:05:29
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