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Scrapbooks of German news clippings

Document | Not Digitized | Accession Number: 2014.422.2

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    Description
    Contains four volumes of scrapbooks compiled by Siegfried Wenzel, as a child or adolescent while living in Germany, between 1939 and 1943, consisting of clippings from German newspapers of the era, reporting on wartime events. Consisting of four separate numbered volumes, titled "Kriegstagesbuch," with handwritten annotations added by Wenzel from that time, the volumes report on German military advances from the invasion of Poland in September 1939 through the battle of Stalingrad in early 1943.
    Date
    inclusive:  1939-1943
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Christopher Browning
    Collection Creator
    Siegfried Wenzel
    Biography
    Siegfried Wenzel is an emeritus professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania, who specialized in medieval English literature, and in particular the works of Chaucer and Langland. His books include "The Sin of Sloth: Acedia in Medieval Thought and Literature" (1967), "Preachers, Poets and the Early English Lyric" (1986), "Fasciculus Morum: A Fourteenth Century Preacher's Handbook"(1989), "Macaronic Sermons: Bilingualism and Preaching in Late-Medieval England," and "The Art of Preaching: Five Medieval Texts and Translations"(2013), among other works. He is the recipient of the Medieval Academy of America's Charles Homer Haskins Medal for contributions to the study of medieval literature and religion. Born in 1928, he and his family lived in Chemnitz, Germany prior to and during World War II.

    Physical Details

    Language
    German
    Genre/Form
    Scrapbooks.
    Extent
    1 oversize box

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    Material(s) in this collection may be protected by copyright and/or related rights. You do not require further permission from the Museum to use this material. The user is solely responsible for making a determination as to if and how the material may be used.

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    Provenance
    Browning, Christopher. Gift, 2014.
    Record last modified:
    2023-02-24 13:43:25
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