Nazis Reinefarth and Greiser captured in Austria, May 1945

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Photograph. German Lieutenant General Heinz Reinefarth, Defender of Kuestrin, and Otto Greisser, former President of the City of Danzig, shortly after their capture by U.S. forces. Official Caption: "Rome, 6/12/45--Reinefarth and Greiser captured--Former SS [Schutzstaffel] Lt. Gen. Heinz Reinefarth (left), Defender of Kuestrin, one of the last German strongholds east of Berlin, and Otto Greisser, former President of the City of Danzig, are shown shortly after their capture by U.S. Seventh Army Infantry Division men on May 14, 1945, in Austria. Greiser was formerly Nazi Governor of the Province of Pozen in Poland and was one of the original members of the Nazi party. Both the Germans were noted for their Nazi atrocities, and persecution of the people under their control.--U.S. Signal Corps Photo--Serviced by Rome OWI (B List only). Approved by appropriate military authority. 6613." Austria. 14 May 1945

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Donor: 
Dylan Utley
Accession Number: 
2012.019.432
Date: 
05/14/1945
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Topical Subjects: 
Prisoners of war--German--Germany
Generals--German--Germany
Government officials--German--Germany
Military uniforms--German--Germany
Nazis--Germany
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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.
Geography: 
Deutschland
Latitude: 
51.500
Longitude: 
10.500
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials: 
Prisoners of war--German--Germany
Generals--German--Germany
Government officials--German--Germany
Military uniforms--German--Germany
Nazis--Germany