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General George S. Patton with an oversized copy of Mein Kampf under a plaque of Henry E. Huntington, June 11, 1945

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Title: General George S. Patton with an oversized copy of Mein Kampf under a plaque of Henry E. Huntington, June 11, 1945
Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Huntington History
Rights Information: For information on using Huntington Library materials, please see Reproductions of Huntington Library Holdings: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
Description: MS notes on verso read "General George Patton holding copy of Mein Kampf"; "Copy print from item located in Rare Book Stacks"; and "Caption accompanying item says: 'General Patton, on the occasion of this visit to the Huntington Library, June 11, 1945, is shown holding a de luxe folio copy of Hitler's "Mein Kampf." Found by the Third Army near Weimar, the volume was presented to the Library by the General."
Type: image
Format: image/jpeg
Identifier: photPF 21100
3683
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll8/id/471
Subject: Patton, George S. (George Smith), 1885-1945
Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945. Mein Kampf
Source: Huntington History, Huntington Digital Library

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