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     MANUSCRIPTS and ARCHIVAL MATERIAL

Germany (West) -- Politics and government

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Nürnberg Memories photo album

 Collection — Box BW 54, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16782
Content Description This collection contains a photo album of an unidentified African American U.S. Army soldier in Nürnberg during the post-WWII Allied occupation of West Germany. The album includes photographs of fellow squadron members stationed at Merrell Barracks. The album's compiler was a car enthusiast, and several pictures depict a German soap box derby. Subjects of the photographs also include shots of the town and environs, animals at a zoo, soldiers in uniform, tanks, jeeps, a baseball...
Dates: Undated, c.1950s

Stuttgart photographs

 Collection — Box 001: [Barcode: X031579270]
Identifier: MSS 16727
Content Description This collection contains two hard-shell portfolios containing sets of 32 before and after photographs of the impacts of the bombing raids on Stuttgart, Germany during the Second World War. The portfolios are embossed with a seal of the City of Stuttgart; the photographer and the creator of the portfolios are unidentified. The photographs taken prior to the bombing raids are undated but were likely captured prior to 1940. The comparison photographs, depicting the damage to the infrastructure...
Dates: c.1939-2004; Majority of material found within c.1939-1946