David F. Busch collection

Collection

Overview

Collection Summary: The collection consists of artifacts, including United States and German military clothing, equipment, and insignia, scrip, currency, pins, correspondence, documents, and publications relating to the experiences of David F. Busch in the US Army in Europe during World War II.
Provenance: The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2014 by Tara Barenok, the great-niece of David F. Busch.

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Booklet

Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.1

Date

found: 1945

Administrative badge, Kriegsmarine.

Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.2

Book

Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.3

Date

found: 1945

German propaganda leaflet

Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.4

Date

found: 1945

Czechoslovakian flag

Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.5

Date

found: 1945-1945

Luftwaffe insignia from sports shirt

Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.6

Belgium, ten centime coin

Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.7

Date

issue: 1922-1922

Book

Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.8

Date

publication/distribution: 1943-1943

German Iron Cross ribbon with pin acquired by an American soldier

Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.9 a-b

Date

found: 1945

German Iron Cross ribbon with pin acquired by an American soldier

German identification tag with cord

Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.10

Pamphlet

Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.11 a-b

Christmas card, 8th Infantry division, 1944

Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.12

Date

publication/distribution: 1944-1944

Christmas card, 8th Infantry division, 1944

Schlosshotel Kassel page

Document | Accession Number: 2014.480.13

Leaflet

Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.14

Poem and accompanying envelope

Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.15 a-c

Instructions for Allied Prisoners of War and Displaced Persons

Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.16

Safe conduct pass

Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.17

Hitler youth award for proficiency

Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.18

Bernhard Ramcke clipping

Document | Accession Number: 2014.480.19 a-b

Photograph of a man, Plzen

Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.20

Date

found: 1945

Luftwaffe trade badge with cord

Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.21 a-b

Chain

Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.22

Nazi Party pin for Labor Day 1935 found by David F. Busch

Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.23

Date

commemoration: 1935 May 01
issue: 1935

Nazi Party pin for Labor Day 1935 found by David F. Busch

Commemorative medallion

Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.24

Date

issue: 1937-1937

May Day pin

Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.25

Date

issue: 1939-1939

May Day pin

Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.26

Date

issue: 1936-1936

National Party Day pin

Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.27

Date

issue: 1938-1938

Stickpin with a painted glass heart acquired by a US soldier

Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.28

Date

found: 1945

Stickpin with a painted glass heart acquired by a US soldier

Box containing German chocolate for the Wehrmacht

Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.29 a-d

Date

manufacture: 1944-1944

Box containing German chocolate for the Wehrmacht

Czech paper Flag

Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.30

Camillus TL-29 Signal Corps pocket knife

Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.31

Solingen pocket knife

Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.32

German rank insignia, Obergefreiter

Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.33

German rank insignia

Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.34

German eagle emblem, Kriegsmarine

Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.35

Luftwaffe trade badge, Direction Finder Operator

Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.36

Fork with Luftwaffe eagle

Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.37

Nazi Party pin for Labor Day 1934 found by David F. Busch

Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.38

Date

issue: 1934
commemoration: 1934 May 01

Nazi Party pin for Labor Day 1934 found by David F. Busch

Schirmmutze eagle badge, Wehrmacht

Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.39

Schirmmutze cockade, Luftwaffe acquired by a US soldier

Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.40

Date

found: 1945

Schirmmutze cockade, Luftwaffe acquired by a US soldier

Hitler Youth badge acquired by an American soldier

Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.41

Date

commemoration: 1934 June 21-1934 June 21

Hitler Youth badge acquired by an American soldier

Luftwaffe gull wing rank pin

Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.42

Green pendant

Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.43

Slide rule with case

Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.44 a-b

Slide rule with case

Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.45 a-b

Mechanical pencil acquired by a US soldier

Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.46

Date

found: 1945

Mechanical pencil acquired by a US soldier

Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.47

Emblem from Luftwaffe belt buckle

Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.48

1937 May Day pin with the Nazi eagle insignia acquired by a US soldier

Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.49

Date

commemoration: 1937 May 01
found: 1945

1937 May Day pin with the Nazi eagle insignia acquired by a US soldier

1938 May Day pin acquired by a US soldier

Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.50

Date

commemoration: 1938 May 01
found: 1945

1938 May Day pin acquired by a US soldier

WWI Touring Club of France fundraising medal

Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.51 a-b

Date

commemoration: 1914-1915
found: 1945

WWI Touring Club of France fundraising medal

Schirmmutze cockade, Luftwaffe

Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.52

Date

found: 1945

German Wehrmacht belt buckle

Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.53

Date

found: 1945

German belt buckle

Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.54

Date

found: 1945

German belt buckle

Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.55

Date

found: 1945

German Wehrmacht belt buckle

Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.56

Date

found: 1945

German Wehrmacht belt buckle

Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.57

Date

found: 1945

German mess kit folding fork and spoon

Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.58

Date

found: 1945

German mess kit folding fork and spoon

Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.59

Date

found: 1945

Dark gray shoulder board with gold piping acquired by US soldier

Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.60

Date

found: 1945

Dark gray shoulder board with gold piping acquired by US soldier

Olive shoulder board with gold piping acquired by US soldier

Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.61

Date

found: 1945

Olive shoulder board with gold piping acquired by US soldier

Dark gray shoulder board with gold piping acquired by US soldier

Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.62

Date

found: 1945

Wehrmacht medic shoulder board with navy piping acquired by US soldier

Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.63

Date

found: 1945

Wehrmacht medic shoulder board with navy piping acquired by US soldier

Olive shoulder board with gold crossed swords acquired by US soldier

Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.64

Date

found: 1945

Olive shoulder board with gold crossed swords acquired by US soldier

Glass piece depicting the Holsten gate in Lubeck

Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.65

Date

found: 1945

Glass piece depicting the Holsten gate in Lubeck

Kriegsmarine uniform button

Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.66

Date

found: 1945

Kriegsmarine uniform button

Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.67

Date

found: 1945

Uniform button

Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.68

Date

found: 1945

American uniform button

Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.69

Date

found: 1945

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

Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.70

Geography

found: Germany
manufacture: Prague (Czech Republic)

Date

manufacture: 1939

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

German signal whistle

Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.71

Date

found: 1945

German signal whistle

Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.72 a-b

Date

found: 1945

US Army signal whistle

Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.73

Date

found: 1945

Luftwaffe eagle emblem

Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.74

Packaging from Pilsner Urquelle beer bottle opener, Pilsen, Czechoslovakia

Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.75

Date

found: 1945

Packaging from Pilsner Urquelle beer bottle opener, Pilsen, Czechoslovakia

Booklet

Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.76 a-b

Date

found: 1945

Psychological warfare leaflet in German

Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.77 a-b

Date

found: 1945

Psychological warfare leaflet in German

Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.78

Date

found: 1945

Postcard of Plzen

Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.79

Date

found: 1945

Postcard of Plzen

Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.80

Date

found: 1945

Postcard of Tremosna u Plzne (Plzen)

Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.81

Date

found: 1945

Postcard of Plzen

Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.82

Date

found: 1945

Postcard with multiple images of Plzen

Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.83

Date

found: 1945

Postcard of the State Theater of Plzen

Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.84

Date

found: 1945

Postcard of the Pilsner Brewery in Plzen

Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.85

Date

found: 1945

Postcard of the Pilsner Brewery in Plzen

Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.86

Date

found: 1945

Fifty Kronen scrip

Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.87

1000 Kronen scrip

Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.88

Date

issue: 1902-1902

Twenty Kronen scrip

Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.89

Twenty Kronen scrip

Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.90

Twenty Kronen scrip

Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.91

Date

issue: 1944-1944

French five francs scrip

Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.92

Date

issue: 1944-1944

Belgian ten francs scrip

Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.93

Belgian ten francs scrip

Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.94

Belgian ten francs scrip

Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.95

German one mark scrip

Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.96

Date

issue: 1944-1944

Belgian five francs scrip

Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.97

Ukrainian Five Karbowanez scrip

Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.98

Date

issue: 1942-1942

German One Rentenmark scrip

Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.99

Date

issue: 1937-1937

German One Rentenmark scrip

Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.100

German One Rentenmark scrip

Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.101

French two Francs scrip

Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.102

Date

issue: 1944-1944

French two Francs scrip

Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.103

Date

issue: 1944-1944

French two Francs scrip

Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.104

Date

issue: 1944-1944

French two Francs scrip

Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.105

Date

issue: 1944-1944

French two Francs scrip

Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.106

Date

issue: 1944-1944

French five francs scrip

Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.107

Date

issue: 1944-1944

French five francs scrip

Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.108

Date

issue: 1944-1944

French five francs scrip

Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.109

Date

issue: 1944-1944

French five francs scrip

Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.110

Date

issue: 1944-1944

German one mark scrip

Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.111

Date

issue: 1944-1944

German one mark scrip

Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.112

Date

issue: 1944-1944

German one mark scrip

Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.113

Date

issue: 1944-1944

German one mark scrip

Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.114

Date

issue: 1944-1944

German one mark scrip

Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.115

Date

issue: 1944-1944

German one mark scrip

Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.116

Date

issue: 1944-1944

German one mark scrip

Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.117

Date

issue: 1944-1944

ten kronen scrip

Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.118

Date

issue: 1942-1942

ten kronen scrip

Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.119

Date

issue: 1942-1942

Belgian five francs scrip

Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.120

Date

issue: 1938-1938

ten kronen scrip

Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.121

Date

issue: 1942-1942

ten kronen scrip

Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.122

Date

issue: 1942-1942

ten kronen scrip

Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.123

Date

issue: 1942-1942

German ten Reichsmark Reischsbanknote

Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.124

Date

issue: 1924-1924

German five Reichsmark Reichsbanknote

Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.125

Date

issue: 1939-1939

ten kronen scrip

Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.126

Date

issue: 1942-1942

Czech twenty kronen scrip

Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.127

ten kronen scrip

Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.128

Date

issue: 1942-1942

German 50000 mark scrip

Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.129

Date

issue: 1923-1923

Map, "Germany the Beautiful Travel Country"

Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.130

Date

publication/distribution: approximately 1937-1937

Map, "Germany the Beautiful Travel Country"

Map of Leipzig and surrounding area

Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.131

Date

publication/distribution: 1941-1941

Map of Western Germany, in French.

Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.132

Date

publication/distribution: 1944-1944

Deustches Reich postage stamps

Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.133

Deutsche Feldpost stamps

Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.134

Date

found: 1945

Deutsches Reich postage stamps

Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.135

Date

found: 1945

Deutsches Reich postage stamps

Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.136

Date

found: 1945

Deutsches Reich postage stamp

Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.137

Date

found: 1945

Deutsches Reich postage stamp

Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.138

Date

found: 1945

Deutsches Reich postage stamp

Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.139

Date

found: 1945

Deutsches Reich postage stamp

Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.140

Date

found: 1945

United States four cent postage stamp

Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.141

Date

found: 1945

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