Small poster made to discourage US troops from socializing with Germans

Object | Accession Number: 1996.48.1

Overview

Brief Narrative: Handbill issued by the American Army which uses an image of Holocaust victims to remind soldiers not to fraternize with German civilians.
Artwork Title: Don't Fratenize Mauthausen
Date: issue: approximately 1945 April-1945 June
Geography: depiction: Mauthausen (Concentration Camp); Mauthausen (Austria)
Credit Line: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Eugene John Glantz
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

Language: English
Classification: Posters
Category: Fliers
Object Type: Handbills (tgm)
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

Legal Status: Permanent Collection
Provenance: The handbill was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1996 by Eugene Glantz.