Banner, KZ Dachau
Gift of the Estate of Dr. Max Richter
Id no. 2001.A.74, Textile, German
Subject(s): Camps, Liberation
This red and white banner that hung over a main gate in the Dachau concentration camp, outside Munich, Germany, was procured by Dr. Max Richter at its liberation in 1945. Richter, a Jewish-American, served with the 42nd Division of the US Army as a physician to General Harry Collins.
