Bank of Algeria, 100 franc note, acquired by a war crimes trials court reporter
1942 July 22, approximately 1946-before 1948 January
Dixie Foster was born on September 6, 1912, in Cedar City, Utah, to Solon and Emma Morris Foster. Her father was a bank cashier and she had five siblings. Dixie’s mother passed away on February 20, 1920, and her father remarried that year to Helen Nelson, originally from Sweden. Dixie attended Branch Agricultural College in Cedar City. In 1940, Dixie worked as a court reporter for the Public Service Commission in Salt Lake City. The United States entered World War II on December 8, 1941, and declared war on Nazi Germany on December 11. On May 7, 1945, Germany surrendered to the Allies, ending the war in Europe. The 1943 Moscow Declaration had determined that those responsible for war crimes would be tried for those crimes after the war. In addition to the trials of major war criminals by the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg, the Allies held trials in their zones of occupation. A US Military Tribunal was held at the site of the former Dachau concentration camp in Germany to try concentration camp guards and other persons who had committed crimes against Jews and others in the area. The evidence and eyewitness testimonies presented at these trials brought to view the extent of the Nazi concentration camp system. Dixie obtained a position as a civilian court reporter for the US Military Tribunal known as the Dachau war crimes trials. She was present at the following judicial proceedings: a US prisoner of war trial, US v. Heinrich Birnbreier et al, on April 21-25, 1947, a Mauthausen-Gusen camp trial, US v. Karl Glas et al, on August 11-12, a Dachau camp trial, US v. Johannes Berscheid et al, on August 21-25, and a Mauthausen-Gusen trial, US v. Karl Moegle, on September 8-9. Dixie returned to the United States in January 1948. The Dachau Trials adjourned in August 1948. Dixie passed away on April 4, 1998, at the age of 85, in Utah.
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overall: Height: 3.625 inches (9.208 cm) | Width: 6.250 inches (15.875 cm)
The paper currency was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2004 by Gretchen Davenport, the great-niece of Dixie Foster.
French Algerian bank note valued at 100 francs acquired by Dixie Foster when she worked as a civilian court reporter during the US War Crimes Tribunal at the former Dachau concentration camp in Germany, also known as the Dachau war crimes trials. The trials were conducted in the American postwar occupation zone by the US Army from November 1945 to August 1948.
Rectangular, offwhite paper currency with a pictorial design in blue, brown, orange, yellow, red, green, pink, white, and black ink. The face has a central background image of a mountain and a building and palm trees, bordered with wheat stalks and fig leaves. On the left is a portrait of a bearded turbaned Algerian man; on the right is a white octagon with a date. In the upper corners is the numeric denomination 100. On the lower border are banners with French text and boxed numbers. On the center is Arabic and French text, engraved signatures, and a number. There are names below on the offwhite border. The back has a background image of mountains, a village, and a farmer plowing with oxen and a border of date palms and grape vines. On the left is an octagon. On the upper border is a banner with French text and on the lower is one with Arabic text. The numeric denomination 100 is on the upper right. On the offwhite lower border are names. There is a hole in the center and small tears on the edges.
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