Colonel John Hinkel collection
Extent and Medium
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
Chris Hinkel donated his father's documents to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on May 23, 2005.
Scope and Content
Consists of three documents from the collection of Colonel John Hinkel, a paratrooper who fought in the Italian campaign during World War II. Included are a military identification card, a small pamphlet instructing American soldiers on relations with German citizens, and a visitor's pass to the Dachau concentration camp for 15 July 1945. Colonel (then Major) Hinkel escorted Father Edmund Walsh, a Jesuit consultant to Justice Robert Jackson, on his tour of the camp.
Genre
- Document