Soldiers from Ansbach-Bayreuth 1776 took part in the American Revolutionary War 1776 against the Kingdom of Great Britain, they had been "sold" there for good money by margrave Christian Friedrich Carl Alexander - his portrait was shown in the exhibition. One third of these mercenaries stayed in America after the war.

From the museum Oshkosh the belongings of Joseph Arnold were exhibited, a Bavarian who fought in the American Civil War: his water bottle, his pipe, a handkerchief and his epaulettes, and a few more things were sent back to Oshkosh now.

The era of the Nazi-regime and the expulsion and deportation of german citizens was represented by two clothes of Henry Landmann: the leather trousers (“Lederhose”) Henry Landman wore when imprisoned in the KZ Dachau, and the uniform same Henry Landman wore as an American soldier during the invasion of US troops in his former German hometown Augsburg. Oskar Maria Graf's typewriter stood for his fate to be forced into emigration by the Nazis.

From the early times of the occupation after World War II originated „Just-married“-photographs showing G.I.s and their German wives.