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1936 Continental Standard Serial # 607987-1 1936 Continental Standard typewriter, Serial # 607987-1 Mark Schrad's 1936 Continental Standard typewriter. 2021-01-01 From the Virtual Typewriter Collection of Mark Schrad: 1936 Continental Standard Serial # 607987-1 I'm generally uneasy with Nazi-era German typewriters; not so with this 1936 Continental Standard. As an international law professor, this one will be staying with me for a long time. I purchased it on my birthday in July, 2019, from a Melissa Evans in Malvern, Pennsylvania, as they were preparing to move for retirement. (The residence was literally a stone's throw away from Duffy's Cut: the site of a mass grave of Irish immigrant railroad workers along the old main line of the Pennsylvania Railroad.) She related the entire story to me, that this machine was indeed captured as a war trophy by her grandfather. It was originally sold by Baum & Herzog in Nuremberg, Germany in 1936, and was utilized at Wehrkreis XIII (German domestic military district), headquartered in Nuremberg for the duration of the war. When US troops occupied Nuremberg, it was captured by her grandfather, who was then stationed at Ferris Barracks in nearby Erlangen during the German occupation. However, when it was decided to hold the Nazi War Crimes Tribunal not in the capitol of Berlin but in Nuremberg--symbolic site of Hitler's holocaust laws--there was a shortage of writing hardware. So, this machine was drafted into service for use at the Justizpalast (Palace of Justice) in Nuremberg to serve the Allied War Crime Tribunal. Only after the trials were completed was the machine given back to the soldier, it was partially disassembled, and shipped to the United States, where it was reassembled and used by three generations for writing student term papers and other uses. I'm honored to preserve this machine along with its history.

1936 Continental Standard #607987-1

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Hunter: Mark Schrad (MLSchrad)
Created: 01-01-2021 at 07:56PM
Last Edit: 01-01-2021 at 08:01PM

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I'm generally uneasy with Nazi-era German typewriters; not so with this 1936 Continental Standard. As an international law professor, this one will be staying with me for a long time. I purchased it on my birthday in July, 2019, from a Melissa Evans in Malvern, Pennsylvania, as they were preparing to move for retirement. (The residence was literally a stone's throw away from Duffy's Cut: the site of a mass grave of Irish immigrant railroad workers along the old main line of the Pennsylvania Railroad.) She related the entire story to me, that this machine was indeed captured as a war trophy by her grandfather. It was originally sold by Baum & Herzog in Nuremberg, Germany in 1936, and was utilized at Wehrkreis XIII (German domestic military district), headquartered in Nuremberg for the duration of the war. When US troops occupied Nuremberg, it was captured by her grandfather, who was then stationed at Ferris Barracks in nearby Erlangen during the German occupation. However, when it was decided to hold the Nazi War Crimes Tribunal not in the capitol of Berlin but in Nuremberg--symbolic site of Hitler's holocaust laws--there was a shortage of writing hardware. So, this machine was drafted into service for use at the Justizpalast (Palace of Justice) in Nuremberg to serve the Allied War Crime Tribunal. Only after the trials were completed was the machine given back to the soldier, it was partially disassembled, and shipped to the United States, where it was reassembled and used by three generations for writing student term papers and other uses. I'm honored to preserve this machine along with its history.

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Professor of Political Science and Director of Russian Area Studies at Villanova University. Writes about alcohol politics, Russia, and international law when not refurbishing old typewriters.


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