Washington, April 2014: This letter by a U.S. service member, Sgt. Horace Evers, was written on Adolf Hitler’s private personal stationery. Evers and his men found the gold-embossed paper in Hitler’s apartment while they were setting up a command post in Munich. The letter is part of the Legacy Project collection — a collection of more than a 100,000 letters written by troops who fought in every American war and collected for almost three decades by Andrew Carroll. In 2013 Carroll donated the collection to Chapman University who created The Center for American War Letters which Chapman as its director.

Find the story, photos as well as links to the collection at the Chapman University here.