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| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Map of the people of Wisconsin according to ethnic stocks. |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | Side view of German grandmother using spinning wheel to spin yarn. |
| Date: | 07 28 1944 |
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| Description: | Portrait of H.H. Gerth, assistant professor of sociology at the University of Wisconsin. Gerth was born and grew up in Kassel, Germany, and escaped about s... |
| Date: | 07 13 1945 |
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| Description: | A work shift of German prisoners at a prisoner of war camp marching to trucks to be conveyed to work at a local cannery. |
| Date: | 07 13 1945 |
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| Description: | German prisoner of war pitching pea vines into a viner at a cannery. |
| Date: | 07 13 1945 |
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| Description: | German prisoner of war camp with tents and fencing surrounding the area. Several people are on the grounds. Prisoners are working in the local cannery. |
| Date: | 07 13 1945 |
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| Description: | German prisoners of war line up for inspection outside their barracks before going to work at a local cannery. |
| Date: | 07 13 1945 |
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| Description: | Three German prisoners of war are scrubbing their clothes on the cement floor of their barracks at a prisoner of war camp. The prisoners are engaged in agr... |
| Date: | 07 13 1945 |
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| Description: | Two German prisoners of war, at a prisoner of war camp, cutting rye bread. The food preparation area includes large quantities of bread on another table co... |
| Date: | 07 10 1948 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of six German radiomen from the Western Allies' zone visiting WHA, the University of Wisconsin-Madison radio station. The group was in Madis... |
| Date: | 09 21 1948 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Dr. Elizabeth Schliebe-Lippert, member of the Ministry of Education for Greater Hesse, Germany. Dr. Lippert was a guest of three Madison educat... |
| Date: | 05 1945 |
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| Description: | Members of Dutch Underground arresting a German soldier on the day of liberation in Amsterdam. |
| Date: | 05 1945 |
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| Description: | Disarming of German soldiers after the war in Amsterdam. |
| Date: | 06 29 1941 |
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| Description: | A map showing the national roots of the people of Wisconsin, based on the ethnic stock research by University of Wisconsin-Madison sociologist Prof. George... |
| Date: | 10 1940 |
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| Description: | Street scene of people in the Jewish ghetto in Szydlowiec, Poland, being addressed by two German soldiers. The scene was witnessed by American journalist A... |
| Date: | 09 18 1944 |
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| Description: | Prisoner of war cage at the 2nd Division Camp at Guipavas, France. Groups of Nazi prisoners are being guarded by Allied soldiers. |
| Date: | 09 18 1944 |
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| Description: | High-ranking German Naval Officers arriving at the prisoner of war cage at the 2nd Division Camp at Guipavas, France. Allied soldiers are standing guard an... |
| Date: | 02 26 1942 |
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| Description: | Front cover and menu page from the program for the Third Annual Dinner of the Overseas Press Club of America for Anti-Axis Solidarity, with an illustration... |
| Date: | 1946 |
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| Description: | Front cover of die cut menu from White Oak's Restaurant = Rathskeller in the shape of a decorated beer stein. On the stein is a man and a woman holding alo... |
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