Overview
- Brief Narrative
- 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.
- Date
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found:
approximately 1945 May
- Geography
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use:
Nazi Party Propaganda Division;
Altotting (Germany : Landkreis)
found: Nazi Party office; Altotting (Germany : Landkreis)
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Gerald McMahon
- Markings
- rubber stamp text : Nationalsoz. Deutsches Arbeiterpartei*Abt:Propaganda*Kreis Altoetting (obb.) [National Socialist German Worker's Party*Division: Propaganda*Division Altoetting Upper Bavaria]
- Contributor
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Original owner:
Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei: Propaganda Division, Kreis Altoetting
Physical Details
- Language
- German
- Classification
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Office Equipment and Supplies
- Category
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Marking devices
- Object Type
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Rubber stamps (lcsh)
- Physical Description
- Polished, turned, light brown wooden handle with a globelike end, a short cylindrical center. It also has a globelike end with a flat bottom where the rubber stamp is adhered. The stamp is etched with German text that includes a central, German national insignia.
- Dimensions
- overall: Height: 3.125 inches (7.938 cm) | Depth: 1.380 inches (3.505 cm)
- Materials
- overall : wood, metal, rubber
- Inscription
- on handle? : Buchdruckerei Stampet u...(illegible)
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 rubber stamp was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1992 by Gerald McMahon.
- 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 16:54:28
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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
Nazi flag captured in Germany by US soldiers and signed at a postwar reunion
Object
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.
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.
