Small poster made to discourage US troops from socializing with Germans received by a soldier
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The handbill was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1993 by Donald Schaufelberger.
1945 May
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Small poster made to discourage US troops from socializing with Germans received by a soldier
overall: Height: 10.375 inches (26.353 cm) | Width: 13.000 inches (33.02 cm)
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.
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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.
back, black ink: 11th Armored Division, US Third Army. Sgt. Donald Schaufelberger