A desolate street in an unknown post-war German city
A new online exhibit is available on the Archives and Rare Books Library website highlighting the library’s German-Americana collection. This exhibit, entitled A War in Shades of Gray: German-Americans and Germany in the World War II era, examines the thoughts and experiences of a few German-Americans through images and words from the German-American collection. The exhibit begins in Hitler’s pre-war Germany and continues through the end of the war to the clean-up and the questions that remained after the war.
The exhibit displays photographs, essays, and letters from three archival collections:the George E. Armstrong Photograph Collection, GA-08-02, the Gerhard R. Schade Papers, GA-06-03, and Helmecke family papers, GA-09-04, along with images from the Rare Books Collection. Almost twenty images and documents are on display in the exhibit including Nazi propaganda, a letter from a German-American teaching in Nazi Germany, photographs of the destruction to German homes, buildings, and infrastructure taken at the end of the war, and the thoughts of a German-American on the Cold War that began soon after the end of the war.
Have you ever wondered about the man who gave his name to the Blegen Library? Now, thanks to a new exhibit located on the fourth floor of Blegen Library, you can find out more about this icon of the world of archaeology.
School & Country: A Survey of Student Military Life at the University of Cincinnati
The Archives & Rare Books Library has posted on its website indexes to two major Hamilton County Ohio resources, wills and citizenship papers.