Preparing some of the 50,000 tracts and treatises, books and documents of the Eric Wasmann collection found in Berlin, f...

Preparing some of the 50,000 tracts and treatises, books and documents of the Eric Wasmann collection found in Berlin, for delivery to its original owners, are (center) Major John W. Bailey, who traced the collection, Dr. Hans Bisschof, who with a squad of SS man took the collection to Berlin for 'protection', and on the right, Army correspondent T/5 Spero Calanopulo. Master Caption. In 1943 the Nazis stole Holland's famous Erich Wasmann scientific insect collection and entomological library. After an intensive search by Major John W. Bailey of the Education Branch of Information and Education Div., commanded by Brig. Gen. P. Thompson, which led through museums of Bremen, Hamburg, Kiel, Munich, Stuttgart, Augsburg, Frankfurt, Wurzburg, Heidelberg and Darmstadt, the collection was finally located in the dust-filled lightless catacombs of the University of Agriculture in Berlin. Located in the Russian zone, the packing and loading was expedited by Russian scientists and quickly turned over to its rightful owners.