Unused Nazi banner with a swastika found by a US soldier
Unused Nazi banner found by an American soldier, Earl Kinne, in a boxcar near Ludwigslust, Germany, in 1945. Kinne and a fellow soldier were ordered to go to Ludwigslust, a small town in Germany, to take the townspeople to Wöbbelin, a nearby sub-camp of the Neuengamme concentration camp, to witness the unburied bodies and other evidence of the atrocities that had been committed there by the Nazi government. The United States Army forced the townspeople to bury the dead. Earl found several newly manufactured Nazi flags, rolled in bundles, in a boxcar near the camp. The flags had never been used. Earl served as a paratrooper in the 82nd Airborne in Germany, Sicily, and Italy. Earl Kinne was born January 6th, 1920, in Pomona California. He grew up in southern California and joined the US Army in 1942. He served as a paratrooper in the 82nd Airborne Division in Germany, Sicily, and Italy. While in Germany in 1945, Kinne and a fellow soldier were ordered to go to Ludwigslust, a small town in Germany, to take the townspeople to Wöbbelin, a nearby sub-camp of Neuengamme concentration camp, to witness the unburied bodies and other evidence of the atrocities that had occurred there. The United States Army forced the townspeople to bury the dead. Kinne passed away at age 90, July 19th, 2010. No restrictions on access
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- World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Western Front.
- Propaganda.
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