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Blaney landed with pattons army on normandy june 7th, 1944 dday plus 1 and served in europe until march 1945. The songs lyrics are an extended metaphor linking a trees fruit with. If you have any ww2 ordnungspolizei, polizei or polizeibataillon related photo albums, slides farbdias, photographic material or documents for sale then please get in touch. This man owns the largest collection of nazi artifacts. Us wwii book, the epic of the 101st airborne, france 1945. It is equipped with multiple plastic buttons to close it and also has an extra antigas flap provided for operations. The surveillance of georgia writer and civil rights activist. A rare german third reich police motorcyclists helmet. Strange fruit is a song recorded by billie holiday in 1939, written by abel meeropol and published in 1937. Harvard professor bernard devoto bought a copy of the novel, strange fruit by. German militaria archives page 3 of 4 the military.
Lavishly illustrated with over 600 photographs and over 200 charts, wartime advertisements and other educational aids, it represents the most accurate and detailed look at the rations provided to the german soldier in world war ii. Such lynchings had reached a peak in the southern united states at the turn of the century, and the great majority of victims were black. Strange fruit is the bestselling debut novel by american author lillian smith 18971966, that deals with the then forbidden and controversial theme of interracial romance. I am a avid collector and dealer in my spare time, of some 20 years experience. Strange fruit lilian smiths 1944 novel deals with the racial tensions of the time just, as meeropols song did, though it engages the reader with a tale of the interracial romance between a white man and a black woman. I collect mainly new zealand army badges, from volunteer to today, but also dabble in ww1 and ww2 german militaria, and canadian 1920 to 52 cap badges and collars. Heavy, card covers, the content is primarily pictorial, which chronicles the service of the 101st during wwii.