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This collection of transcripts of the BBC German Service 'Letter Box' programme documents the opinions of ordinary Germans, Austrians and Jews in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War. Subjects include the question of guilt; de-nazification; living conitions; life under occupation; the experiences of returning Jews.

Trois départements français, la Moselle, le Bas-Rhin et le Haut-Rhin ont vécu, entre 1939 et 1945, une guerre différente de celle du reste de la France. Ils n'ont pas été occupés mais annexés et soumis à une politique de nazification qui s'est traduite notamment par l'incorporation de force des jeunes hommes dans l'armée allemande et l'envoi d'un grand nombre d'entre eux sur le front soviétique. ...

Copy manuscript account apparently by Major General Otto Ernst Remer about his activities on the day of the attempted assassination of Hitler on 20 July 1944. The document is dated 2 April 1946. It is possible that the account was written whilst Remer was in custody during the period of de-nazification after the war. A note states that the first two pages were missing and that these had been supplied ...

Music, the most beloved of the arts in Germany, began to be ideologized in Wagner's time. During the Nazi period, both music and musicology were adapted to the needs of the new regime, including "de-Judaization". The official Nazi policy in the first stage was segregation of Jewish musicians from Aryans. Jews were eliminated from the all-German musical scene, and the Jüdischer Kulturbund was established. ...

Ce fonds contient de la correspondance, des notes et des rapports portant sur diverses questions propres à la période d’après-guerre, mais aussi des documents traitant de la guerre, de l’administration allemande en Belgique, des problèmes de ravitaillements et de la politique extérieure de notre pays. Dans la série correspondance générale, on notera les dossiers n°28 : Ivtcher, n°30 : Kirschen, le ...

Karl Rudolf Werner Best (10 July 1903-23 June 1989) was a German Nazi, jurist, police chief, SS-Obergruppenführer and Nazi Party leader from Darmstadt, Hesse. He studied law and in 1927 obtained his doctorate degree at Heidelberg. Best served as civilian administrator of France and Denmark while Nazi Germany occupied those countries during World War II. After the war, Best testified as a witness at ...

<p><strong style="color: #ff0000; text-decoration-color: initial;">Readers need to book&nbsp; a reading room terminal to access this digital content</strong><br /></p><p>This collection of Peter Johnson's personal papers documents his life up until the immediate post-war period. It includes school reports, family correspondence, documents re naturalisation, papers relating to his service in military ...

This collection of personal papers documents, in part, the life of Robert Philip Baker-Byrne, formerly Rudolf Philipp Becker, a German Jewish emigrant to Great Britain who, having served in the Pioneer Corps, ended his war time activities working for the British Secret Service, and after the war as a war crimes investigator.

"By adopting a unique biographical approach, this book examines the aims and intentions of twelve important and influential individuals who worked for the British Military Government in occupied Germany during the first three years after the end of the Second World War. British policy was distinctive, and the British zone was the largest and economically most important of all four zones. Although the ...

This typescript, annotated, statement by Bernhard Lösener, the former so-called 'racial expert' of the Third Reich, bears the original signature of Bernhard Lösener and is authenticated by the original signature of Walter Speyer, Allied Civilian AGO 20194.