The Gardelegen atrocity....As I saw it
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of William J. Bell III
Funding Note: The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
William J. Bell III and Alicia Bell donated the The Gardelegen atrocity...to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2005.
Scope and Content
A memoir entitled "The Gardelegen atrocity...As I saw it" by Robert P. Schmidt is writting in letter form describing the Gardelegen massacre from the perspective of a soldier that encountered the scene upon liberation. A notation at top indicates that text was "passed by SHAEF/ FIELD PRESS CENSORS."
System of Arrangement
The memoir is arranged in a single series.
People
- Schmidt, Robert P.
Subjects
- Gardelegen Massacre, Gardelegen, Germany, 1945.
- Germany.
- Holocaust victims.
- Massacres--Germany.
- World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Germany--Gardelegen.
Genre
- Personal narratives.
- Document
- Letters.