This area is primarily represented by France because of an outstanding collection the furer acquired from a Frenchman who began collecting during the war.
The museum does have extensive archived collections of all the occupied countries in Europe. |
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Phillipe Pétain, French World War I hero, selected by the Germans to head the Vichy government. Document appointing the French delegation to meet with the Germans, June 27, 1940. |
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Posters
from occupied France. |
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Pétain drafts a Christmas message to the French prisoners of war in Germany, December 18, 1940: “Is there any fate more cruel than yours?” |
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Phillipe Pétain, autograph letter signed June 26, 1944: “France is a field of battle….In our hours of anguish and torment, the spiritual life of the prisoners appears inspired by the moving assurance of a miracle….the unification of the French.” |
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Map of Paris for German soldiers showing various headquarters. |
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German Guidebook |
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Martin
Bormann, letter, June 30, 1943: "The Fuhrer stressed...with
Quisling...that we could only win over...Norwegians, Danes, Dutch, etc. if
we treated them in a 100-hundred-percent legal way." |
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Poster
from occupied Belgium. |
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Vidkun Quisling. Norwegian who led pro-nazi government shot as a traitor in 1945. |
