Overview
- Brief Narrative
- Nazi flag captured in Germany by twelve members of the 230th Field Artillery, 71st Division, U.S. Army, circa 1945. It has the signatures of 66 members of the Battalion, signed in October 1992.
- Date
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found:
after 1945 May
use: 1992 October
- Geography
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found:
Germany
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Gerald McMahon
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- Classification
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Identifying Artifacts
- Category
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Flags
- Object Type
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Banners (lcsh)
- Physical Description
- Red cloth banner with a black canted swastika on a white circle, signed in ink by 66 soldiers.
- Dimensions
- overall: Height: 27.875 inches (70.803 cm) | Width: 54.500 inches (138.43 cm)
- Materials
- overall : cloth, ink
- Inscription
- front, black ink : signatures, 66 soldiers, 230th Field Artillary
back, black ink : signatures, 12 soldiers, 71st Division, US Army
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- No restrictions on access
- Conditions on Use
- No restrictions on use
Keywords & Subjects
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- The flag was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1992 by Gerald McMahon on behalf of members of the 230th Field Artillery Battalion.
- Funding Note
- The cataloging of this artifact has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
- Record last modified:
- 2023-08-25 16:54:21
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn6268
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Also in 230th Field Artillery collection
The collection consists of a Nazi flag, a Nazi Party hand stamp, and two childrens' books relating to the experiences of members of the 230th Field Artillery, 71st Division, United States Army, who captured the flag during World War II and signed it in 1992.
Date: 1945-1992
National Socialist German Worker's Party rubber stamp
Object
Rubber hand stamp used by the Nazi Party Propaganda Division in the Party headquarters in Altoetting, Upper Bavaria, Germany. It was found by a soldier of the 230th Field Artillery Battalion during the war.
Book
Object
Book
Object
Antisemitic children's book, Der Giftpilz (The Poisonous Mushroom), popular in Nazi Germany. It was published by Der Stuermer Verlag, a division of the viciously anti-Jewish newspaper, Der Stuermer, published by Julius Streicher from 1923-1945. The illustrations are by Fips (Phillip Rupprecht), the paper's well known antisemitic cartoonist. Both men were arrested by the US Army in May 1945. Rupprecht was tried by a German denazification court and sentenced to six years hard labor. Streicher was tried by the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg, convicted, and executed per the ruling that his repeated articles calling for the annihilation of the Jewish race were a direct indictment to murder and a crime against humanity.
