Collection relating to high treason

Forced labor badge, yellow with a purple P, to identify a Polish forced laborer

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Forced labor badge, yellow with a purple P and a purple border, that would be worn to identify a Polish forced laborer in Nazi Germany. German regulations required the workers to wear the badge with the purple band visible around the P on the right chest to keep them separate from the German populace. During the German occupation of Poland, 1939-1945, many non-Jewish Polish people were sent to Germany as conscript labor for civilian labor details on farms and factories. Workers sometimes volunteered for the forced labor service, but the majority were forcibly recruited and conditions worsened as the war continued. The German work force was depleted by the war and unpaid foreign workers were needed to keep the economy functioning.

[Newspaper]

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8 issue of Uhr-Blatt, a German newspaper for the following dates: Aug. 26, 1939; Aug. 30, 1939; Sept. 2, 1939; Sept. 7, 1929; Oct. 28, 1939; Nov. 5, 1939; Nov. 18, 1939; and Dec. 3, 1939.

Völkischer Beobachter (Berlin, Germany) [Newspaper]

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Tommy at War: Personal Records of the Great War by English Soldiers (Leipzig, Germany) [Magazine]

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Book

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Book

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Booklet

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World War II propaganda fliers

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A collection of propaganda flyers dropped from airplanes during World War II.

Mitteilungen fur die Truppe [Troop Announcement] issued by the German High Commanrd

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Announcement Nr. 222 issued to the troops by the Oberkommando [Supreme Commnad] of the Armed Forced on September 1942, Nr. 222.

Questionnaire distributed in Nazi Germany

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A speech for the Foundation of Life Home

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A speech for the Foundation of Life Home.

Photograph and identification card

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A black and white photograph of a portrait of a young man wearing a jacket and tie and an identification card issued in 1945.