Conditions Governing Access

The collection is open for research use.

Preferred Citation

MSS 16782, Nürnberg Memories album, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Library.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

This collection was purchased from Type punch Matrix by the Small Special Collections Library at the University of Virginia Library on 18 January, 2023

Content Description

This collection contains a photo album of an unidentified African American U.S. Army soldier in Nürnberg during the post-WWII Allied occupation of West Germany. The album includes photographs of fellow squadron members stationed at Merrell Barracks.

The album's compiler was a car enthusiast, and several pictures depict a German soap box derby. Subjects of the photographs also include shots of the town and environs, animals at a zoo, soldiers in uniform, tanks, jeeps, a baseball game, and track and field races.

Racial segregation of Army units was officially enforced until Truman's 1948 executive order and unofficially for some time afterward. The European Command, a single-service United States Army Command, began phased integration in 1952.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

• African American soldiers
• African American young men
• Germany (West) -- Politics and government
• Nuremberg (Germany)