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Feldwebel Schäfer Photograph Album, 1940-1941, Date acquired: 03/16/2016, bulk 1940

 

Summary

Creator:
Schäfer, Feldwebel
Extent:
1 scrapbook
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

[Title of Item], [Date of Item], [Box and Folder number], Feldwebel Schafer Photograph Album, Special Collections & Archives, Florida State University Libraries, Tallahassee, Florida. http://purl.fcla.edu/fsu/16_0005

Background

Scope and content:

This album contains photographs, newspaper clippings, and poetry (all in German) from Schäfer's journal about the 25th Infantry Division during the 1940 Battle of France.  This album also contains a signed document and signed portrait photograph of 25th Division commander Erich-Heinrich Philipp Karl Albert Reinhard Clößner (17 September 1888 – 28 March 1976) who was a highly decorated General der Infanterie in the Wehrmacht during World War II.  He was also a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross.

Acquisition information:

Jeff Ranu and Denise Cusick

Gifted by Jeff Ranu and Denise Cusick.

Custodial history:

Transferred from the Institute on World War II and the Human Experience to FSU Libraries Special Collections & Archives in July 2022.

Arrangement:

chronological

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Access and use

Restrictions:

This collection is open to all researchers.

Terms of access:

All requests for permission to quote, publish, broadcast or otherwise reproduce from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Associate Dean for Special Collections & Archives. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Florida State University Libraries as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the researcher.

Preferred citation:

[Title of Item], [Date of Item], [Box and Folder number], Feldwebel Schafer Photograph Album, Special Collections & Archives, Florida State University Libraries, Tallahassee, Florida. http://purl.fcla.edu/fsu/16_0005

Location of this collection:
116 Honors Way
Tallahassee
FL
32306-2047
USA