Julius Streicher with military escort after capture near Berchtesgaden, Germany, May 1945

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Photograph. Julius Streicher, captured former editor of the Nazi paper 'Der Stürmer', walking with U.S. Major Henry G. Platt. Official Caption: "The former Nazi newspaper editor, wearing a beard cultivated as a disguise, was fairly well dressed when captured at Beskie, near Berchtesgaden. He is shown with U.S. Maj. Henry G. Platt (right). The command post of the 101st Airborne Division, U.S. Seventh Army, can be seen in the background. Streicher walked with a limp and carried a cane. 6615-B." Near Berchtesgaden, Germany. May 1945

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1945-05-
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Items from the service of Isaac "Ike" Bethel Utley, who was born in Smith Mills, Kentucky on 3 March 1920. Ike enlisted in the Army Air Corps on 19 January 1942. He was shipped overseas to the European Theatre and worked with a supply division based out of the city of Naples with an office set up in a residential villa. Utley worked with the Office of War Information and used their photographs in news articles to inform soldiers of the progress of the war. At war's end, Utley returned stateside. A trunk full of over 800 photographs from the O.W.I. arrived on his doorstep from his office in Italy, sender unknown. This collection consists of those photographs.
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Berchtesgaden
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47.633
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13.000
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Prisoners of war--German--Germany
Beards
Military officers--American--Germany
Nazis--Germany