National Archives and Records Administration collection
Acquisition
The collection was transferred to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1991 by the National Archives and Records Administration.
Scope and Content
The collection consists of unused prisoner identification badges from Langenstein-Zwieberge concentration camp in Germany which were found by Lieutenant Colonel Charles F. Ottoman, United States Army, after the liberation of the camp by American forces, who captured all camp records intact, and which were presented in evidence at the Subsequent Nuremberg Proceedings, War Crimes Trials, in Dachau, Germany, after the war.
Genre
- Collection