Adolph Hitler’s top hat has a new home at the New York State Military Museum in Saratoga Springs, New York.
The hat was “liberated” from the Nazi dictator’s Munich apartment by a 19-year-old Jewish Soldier from Brooklyn on April 30, 1945.
Eighty years later, the hat found by Private 1st Class Richard Marowitz, a regimental recon Soldier in the 42nd Infantry Division, as the Third Reich collapsed, was donated to the museum by his children, Larry, Linda and Roberta.
Hitler’s hat will be displayed as part of the museum’s 80th commemoration of the actions of the 42nd Infantry Division in liberating the Dachau Concentration Camp and the end of the Holocaust in WWII.
“We’re thrilled that the New York State Military...
04.24.2025 | SARATOGA SPRINGS, NEW YORK, US |
Story by Richard Goldenberg
