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Ref NoDF/ENT/306/54
Alt Ref NoDF306/54
TitleAir raid precautions and other wartime matters
DescriptionIncludes a message from the (Russian) Session of the Scientific Council of the Regional Lore and Museum Work Research Institute to Workers in the Museums of Great Britain…'Hitlerism is the bitterest enemy of civilisation…hatefully deliberate mockery and rapine of the national culture of another civilisation…Comrades-in-arms, museum workers of Great Britain! We workers in Soviet museums appeal to you, arise as active participants against Hitler'. Also details a gramophone concert in the shelter, detail of bomb damage, a memo to staff to carry india rubber to put between their teeth in an air raid and a censorship ban on sending maps, charts, information on waterways, harbours etc.
Date1938-1942
AccessStatusOpen
Held ByNHM Archives
LevelFile
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