Archive of Military Government Officer Captain Norman W. Borring, among the liberators of the Laufen concentration camp, 5th May 1945.

Includes: <<*>> Album with crest of the Lafen Landkreiser, containing c. 240 photographs of American Military Operations in WWII taken by Captain and each captioned in English. Album includes Capt. Borring landing at Omaha Bay on D-Day. Other images of interest: The camp liberation, survivors, Military Staff meetings, Jewish Committee workers, Memorial ceremony - with caption noting the lack of empathy on the part of German locals. <<*>> Scrap-book with newspaper articles, documents, military payment and bank notes from France, Austria, Germany, Poland, Belgium, Hungary. A 50kroner "Holocaust" note, under which Capt. Borring has written, "Issued by Germans to Jews in the ghetto." Also: Identification cards, German and American military maps, safe-conduct passes. Grisly photographs of "Polish Jews" and the reburial of concentration camp victims and many other photographs (including of General Patton). <<*>> Three file folders: Monthly Historical Reports, March, May, and July, 1946. All three are marked to 3rd Regiment, Landkreis (county) Laufen and have the SHAEF (Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers in Europe) insignia on the front. The reports each contain details relating to the legal, political and civil situation in post-war Germany. Recording incidents of local criminal activity, bomb disposal, black marketeering, press releases, and details of a Holocaust memorial ceremony.

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