Major John W.

Major John W. Bailey explains to an Army correspondent the fragility of the microphotographs of insect antennae included in the vast Wasmann insect collection stolen by the Nazis in Holland and according to German civilian helping in loading, never used scientifically because "the Nazi mind had ceased to function for the last 12 years". Master Caption. In 1943 the Nazis stole Holland's famous Erich Wasmann scientific insect collection and ento; ological library. After an intensive earch 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.