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German military postcard

Document | Not Digitized | Accession Number: 2014.442.1

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    Overview

    Description
    Consists of a Feldpost postcard, postmarked December 7, 1942, written by a member of the German military. The postcard commemorates "Weihnachten in Russland" [Christmas in Russia] and indicates the location where the military unit (as yet unidentified) spent previous Christmases [1939--Hanau; 1940--Caen; 1941--Charkow (Kharkiv); 1942 Woronesh (Voronezh)]. The writing on the postcard is largely illegible.
    Date
    postmark:  1942 December 07
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Lou Charloff

    Physical Details

    Language
    German
    Genre/Form
    Postcards.
    Extent
    1 folder

    Rights & Restrictions

    Conditions on Access
    There are no known restrictions on access to this material.
    Conditions on Use
    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.

    Keywords & Subjects

    Geographic Name
    Voronezh (Russia)
    Corporate Name
    Germany. Wehrmacht

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Lou Charloff worked as an interpreter for the American military after World War II. He brought a copy of the book, "Das ehrenbuch des Fuhrers" home with him, and after he donated the book to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Library in 2014, the postcard was discovered inside.
    Record last modified:
    2023-08-25 08:31:53
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