The collection contains Belgian anti-American newspaper cartoons of the Nazi period and World War II propaganda leaflets that were collected by Paul F. DuVivier during his internment during the war (1943-1944). It also includes some published reports written by Woodruff Wallner documenting the internment of U.S. foreign service and others by the Germans during the war.
The collection also includes letters from author Herman Wouk to DuVivier (1976-1988).
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Paul DuVivier was a U.S. diplomat who was imprisoned in Baden-Baden along with many other U.S. diplomats, foreign service officers, military personnel, and reporters that were in Vichy, France at the outbreak of the war (they were known collectively as the "American Official Group in France"). He died at age 82 in 1997.
0.25 Cubic Feet (1 box)
English
Dutch; Flemish
Gift of Paul F. DuVivier, 1991.
The collection has been rehoused in an acid-free box and folders.
Part of the Georgetown University Manuscripts Repository