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Museum of World War II (Visit this link)

Formed over a period of more than 40 years, the collection documents and
illustrates the period from the Versailles Treaty, ending World War I, to the
Nuremberg and Tokyo war crimes trials, ending World War II. All of the more than
6,000 artifacts on display, as well as 83 mannequins with complete uniforms and
equipment, are original and from the Second World War.



The presentation of the exhibits is a major reason that the Museum is private
and not open to the general public--although visits are scheduled virtually
every day for those who will appreciate and understand the era and the
collection. Most of the artifacts are not behind glass.



Fragile items, important letters and documents, handguns, small spy weapons, and
the like, are in museum cases, but everything else is openly exhibited.



The Museum is arranged chronologically and geographically, and a visitor is
guided by original materials--not signboards--from section to section. '
Political correctness' is found in its proper place - with Joseph Goebbels in
the Third Reich.



There are highly important wartime letters, documents and manuscripts displayed
from all the major personalities, as well as a comparable number from "average"
people: from soldiers' diaries to concentration camp inmates. Hitler, Roosevelt,
Churchill, Eisenhower, Patton, Montgomery, Stalin, Rommel, Mussolini, Joseph
Mengele and Adolf Eichmann, Raoul Wallenberg and Anne Frank's family--all of the
leading characters are represented in original letters.



Of particular importance are Hitler's draft of the Munich agreement, containing
his notations as well as Neville Chamberlain's; the first message alerting armed
forces of the attack on Pearl Harbor; Patton's letter to the Sultan of Morocco
announcing the American landings and threatening destruction; Montgomery's
address to the troops before El Alamein; Patton's annotated map for the invasion
of Sicily; the complete plans for the D-Day invasion in Normandy; and
MacArthur's draft of the Japanese surrender terms.



Artifacts include Hitler's SA shirt; his first sketch for the Nazi flag; his
reading glasses; Patton's battle helmet; Montgomery's beret; and copies of Mein
Kampf belonging to Hitler, FDR and Patton. Five different Enigma code machines,
including the ten-rotor, of which only five are known, are displayed--the most
extensive collection outside of the National Security Agency. Literally hundreds
of spy weapons, clandestine radios and sabotage equipment are shown, together
with thousands of other artifacts that reflect everyday life on the home fronts
and the battle fronts.



The smallest artifacts are the spy weapons and cameras; the largest are an
American Sherman tank from the North African campaign, a German Kubelwagen, a
German Goliath tank from Normandy, and one of the very few surviving original
landing craft (LCVP) from the Pacific.



If a visitor is overwhelmed with the enormity and the complexity of the war, I
have achieved my goal.



Manuscripts and artifacts from the collection have been exhibited at the
National Archives; West Point; Museum of Our National Heritage; Grolier Club,
New York City; University of Southern California; the Newseum, Washington; the
Supreme Court of the United States; the National D-Day Museum, New Orleans; all
of the Presidential Libraries; and many other institutions.



Our new Museum Store offers original World War II artifacts for sale. These
include signed letters and documents from the major personalities, posters, and
other artifacts from World War II. Everything is original--there are no
reproductions.

http://www.museumofworldwarii.com