Humorous Hitler postcard
Extent and Medium
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
Pavel Ilyin donated this postcard to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on June 7, 2007. He is a geography consultant for the Survivor's Registry.
Scope and Content
Consists of one postcard depiciting a cartoon Hitler painting an outhouse with a copy of "Mein Kampf" hanging inside the doorframe. The postcard is entitled "The House Painter." The postcard was sent from Pvt. F. Coleman at Fort Sill, OK, on May 24, 1943, to Mr. Francis Gowen in Concord, NH. In the postcard, Pvt. Coleman writes that he hopes that the picture on the postcard were true.
Genre
- Postcards.
- Document