For more than 35 years USM Inc. has been a principal source of incredibly rare World War II era material, and obscure facts and details related to history's greatest conflict.

We are regularly used as a unique resource by film production companies, libraries, musuems and collectors worldwide when difficult challenges must be met on a timely basis.

This is a private, scholarly website of historical information and material which embraces NO political point of view and has NO political or social agenda. The material we offer for sale is often unique and most items in our inventory are one-of-a-kind. All items depicted on this website are subject to prior sale. Prices are subject to change without notice.

Those who buy from us are typically museums, libraries and collections around the world. We sell historical material to government agencies of the United States, Germany, Israel and many other countries.

We take pride in offering good value for money spent, but buyers must understand that this is a field of growing demand and shrinking supply. We often find ourselves in the position of not being able to replace an item for our listed price, or not being able to replace it in our inventory at all.

We are always looking for items to offer for sale on this website. If you have mid-20th century German historical material for sale, feel free to contact us in absolute confidentiality. Tell us what you have and how much you want for it in a letter or e-mail. If you send photographs by e-mail, please send them in a .jpg format in a size of about 5 x 7 inches at a resolution of 72 and do not send more than three photos in any one e-mail.

There are no laws in the United States of America that prevent citizens from owning historical material regardless of its original political orientation. In some countries such as those of the European Union (EU), Canada and Australia various laws may impact a citizen's right to buy, own, and/or display historical Third Reich material to the extent that purchase, ownership or display of such material could result in confiscation, a fine, incarceration or all three. Far be it from us to suggest that we are familiar with the fine points of any foreign law. As we have no way to determine what historical Third Reich objects may or may not be considered harmful, dangerous, anti-Semitic, racist, violent, crime inducing, pornographic, offensive or forbidden by the various authorities within the government of the country of Germany, we do not ship historical Third Reich items to Germany except those which we ship to the government or its museums and libraries. While we purchase many Third Reich era items from German sources, we are in complete agreement with the German government's desire to prevent certain of these items from ever returning to Germany.

Therefore, it is a responsibility of any and all vistors to this website and/or potential buyers of the material offered for sale on this website, to assertain in advance if it is importable into his or her country. By making a purchase of material from this website, citizens of foreign countries are also assuring USM that they are acting within the laws of their country and recognize that all responsibility of USM, Inc. ends when the material is correctly addressed and mailed at a US post office. USM will e-mail all foreign customers proof of shipment when requested to do so.

A NOTE TO GERMAN VIEWERS:
We have received a number of e-mails from German internet users attacking us for selling items, “stolen in Germany by American GIs”. Nothing could be further from the truth! 99.5% of the items offered on this website were purchased by employees of USM Inc. in Germany and other European countries. If they were stolen, they were stolen by Germans and other Europeans, NOT by Americans.

Our staff has long traveled the world purchasing rare 20th century military history books, photographs, maps, documents and other historical Third Reich German material. Items that are no longer needed for research and duplicate material are offered for sale in the rare books, militaria and documents section of this website. Click HERE.

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