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The Second World War, History and Aftermath, 1939-1945

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Collection Overview

Title: The Second World War, History and Aftermath, 1939-1945

Predominant Dates:1939 -- 1945

ID: RG-41/

Creator: US Military Administration in Germany

Extent: 2.0 Boxes

Arrangement: Materials are arranged by subject/creator, then by identifier, as assigned by the processor

Abstract

This Record Group consists of two sub-collections and one collection of a folder-level. The first sub-collection, RG-41.01 is an oral history narrated by the US military officer who served  in the 12th Armored Division, ini its chemical warfare unit. The second sub-collection consists of the numerous aerial photographs, depicting the German territories at the last months of the war and after the war. The folder-level collection, Resistance in Poland, contains documents and evidences of the German crimes in Poland in 1939 -- 1945

Scope and Contents of the Materials

This Record Group comprises two sub-collections and a folder-level collection vaguely correlated to each other. They largely relates to the chronological criterion of the end of the war and with the aftermath of the war.

RG-41.01, Video testimony of Lieutenant Colonel Julien D. Saks

RG-41.02, Photo-documents of the warfare in Germany

RG-41.03, Resistance in Poland

Box and Folder Listing

Sub-Collection RG41.01: RG-41.01, Lieutenant Colonel Julien D. Saks, oral history, video, 1945Add to your cart.View associated digital content.
Transcript of an oral history video featuring Lieutenant Colonel Julien D. Saks of the 12th army division in which he describes what he saw in 1945 Germany when liberating political prisoner and concentration camps at Dachau near Landsberg, Germany
Subject/Index Terms:
Dachau (Concentration camp)
Landsberg (Germany: concentration camp)
Liberation from German concentration camps
Armed Forces, US
English, language
Order of Battle Detachment of division intelligence section
Wartime atrocities and mass killing, Second World War
Political prisoners of Nazi German prisons
Jewish political prisoners
Nazi gas chambers
Cremation
Germany (1939--1945)
Holocaust, Jewish (1939 -- 1945)
Danube (River)
Creators:
Julien D. Saks, former Lieutenant Colonel (1945)
12th American Army Division (1945)
Sub-Collection 2: RG-41.02, Photo-documents of the warfare in Germany, 1945Add to your cart.
A variety of mostly aerial photographs of post-war Germany taken by the United States Air Force
Subject/Index Terms:
Aerial Photograph
Germany (1945--1949)
Postwar Germany (1945)
Concentration camps, German
Documenting the Nazi crimes in concentration camps
Photographs, concentration camps post-liberation
postcards
Bombed buildings, Germany (1945)
German air fields, 1945
Concentration Camp Crematorium
Wunstorf Aerodrome
German Railroad and Railways
Creators:
United States Air Force (1945) (1945)
United States Army
Document/Artifact of Item-Level RG41.02.04: RG-41.02.04, Aerial shot a railway juncture, 1945Add to your cart.View associated digital content.
Aerial shot of a railway juncture
Subject/Index Terms:
German Railroad and Railways
Aerial Photograph
Photographs, postwar, 1945 -- 1988
Second World War, 1939 -- 1945
English, language
Germany (1945--1949)
Creators:
United States Aerial Reconnaissance, Germany and Western Front (1945)
Document/Artifact of Item-Level RG41.02.03: RG-41.02.03, Aerial shot of a bombed out marine installation, 1945Add to your cart.View associated digital content.
Aerial shot of a bombed out marine installation
Subject/Index Terms:
Aerial Photograph
Photographs, postwar, 1945 -- 1988
Bombed buildings, Germany (1945)
Second World War, 1939 -- 1945
English, language
Marine Installation, Germany (1945)
Creators:
United States Aerial Reconnaissance, Germany and Western Front (1945)
Document/Artifact of Item-Level RG41.02.02: RG-41.02.02, Aerial shot of bombed out German city, 1945Add to your cart.View associated digital content.
Aerial shot of bombed out German city
Subject/Index Terms:
Aerial Photograph
Photographs, postwar, 1945 -- 1988
Bombed buildings, Germany (1945)
Second World War, 1939 -- 1945
English, language
Creators:
United States Aerial Reconnaissance, Germany and Western Front (1945)
Document/Artifact of Item-Level RG41.02.05: RG-41.02.05, Aerial shot of a bombed out territory, 1945Add to your cart.View associated digital content.
Aerial shot of bombed out territory
Subject/Index Terms:
Aerial Photograph
Photographs, postwar, 1945 -- 1988
Photographs, bombing
Second World War, 1939 -- 1945
English, language
Germany (1945 -- 1949)
Creators:
United States Aerial Reconnaissance, Germany and Western Front (1945)