Overview
- Description
- Journal illustrated and written by German POW Hasso Hinke who was held in Rheinwiesenlager in 1945-46 (part of a group of 19 camps built in Allied-occupied part of Germany by the US Army to hold captured German soldiers (held between 1-2 million Wehrmacht personnel) under poor conditions and later in a PG Lager in Grenoble, France. The journal Includes letters and postcards he sent and received. (It looks like a family member or the author later added notes in pen and an article). Hasso Hinke worked as a professional cartoonist and caricaturist in Berlin after the war. Photographs, clippings, drawings, pasted on to some of the pages, with loose correspondence, postcards, programs, and drawings tucked in between some of the pages.
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum collection
Physical Details
- Extent
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1 oversize box
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- No restrictions on access
- Conditions on Use
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Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Acquired by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2019.
- Record last modified:
- 2023-09-29 07:44:09
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn713078
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