Rusty Party Badges? On Collecting Objects about National Socialism in the Deutsches Historisches Museum

The blog series on the work of the collections at the Deutsches Historisches Museum (DHM) focuses on key issues such as decisions for or against the acquisition of objects, the different ways of accessing them, the changing research questions of the collections, research into the provenance of the objects, and many other aspects. Sören Kutzner, former trainee in the Collections Department, and Dr Thomas Weißbrich, Head of the Militaria Collection, focus on a special category of objects that repeatedly raises questions about whether and how they should be included in museum collections.