Overview
- Brief Narrative
- Handbill received by Sergeant Donald Schaufelberger while serving in the US Army in Germany in May 1945. Issued by the US Army, the handbill uses an image of piled rows of concentration camp corpses discovered at Mauthausen concentration camp to remind soldiers not to fraternize with German civilians.
- Artwork Title
- Don't Fraternize
- Date
-
creation:
1945 May
received: 1945 May
- Geography
-
depiction:
Mauthausen (Concentration Camp);
Mauthausen (Austria)
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Donald Schaufelberger
- Markings
- front top, white ink : DONT FRATERNIZE
front bottom, white ink : MAUTHAUSEN
bottom right corner, white ink : PHOTO P R O / I & E OFFICE / 1 1 ∆ - Contributor
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Subject:
Donald Schaufelberger
Producer: United States Army, 11th Armored Division Headquarters, Information and Education Office
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- Classification
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Posters
- Category
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War propaganda
- Object Type
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Handbills--American (tgm)
- Physical Description
- Small paper handbill of a black and white, half tone reproduction photograph image of a row of 3, large stacks of emaciated, naked corpses in front of a large wooden building. A line of male bystanders, most in civilian clothes, and a one in concentration camp uniform trousers, are looking at the bodies. There is white printed text at the top and bottom.
- Dimensions
- overall: Height: 10.375 inches (26.353 cm) | Width: 13.000 inches (33.02 cm)
- Materials
- overall : paper, ink, graphite
- Inscription
- back, black ink: 11th Armored Division, US Third Army. Sgt. Donald Schaufelberger
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 handbill was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1993 by Donald Schaufelberger.
- 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 16:17:48
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn8267
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