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MS 413 (B) the Ian Kershaw Archive MS 413 (B) The Ian Kershaw Archive University of Sheffield Library. Special Collections and Archives Ref: MS 413 (A), MS 413 (B) Title: The Ian Kershaw Archive Scope: Research material of Professor Ian Kershaw relating to his research on the social history of 20th Century Germany, the Third Reich and Nazism, and medieval history. Dates: 1933-2008 Level: Fonds Extent: 36 boxes (MS 413 (A)); 118 boxes (MS 413 (B)) Name of creator: Ian Kershaw Administrative / biographical history: A collection of material from various archives compiled by Professor Sir Ian Kershaw, historian, author and university academic, covering the social history of twentieth- century Germany, and Nazism and the Third Reich. MS 413 (B) also contains research material in medieval history. Ian Kershaw was born in Oldham, Lancashire in 1943. He was educated at Counthill Grammar School and St Bede's College, Manchester, before studying for a BA in History at the University of Liverpool. He followed this with a DPhil at Merton College, Oxford, editing a manuscript of the accounts of Bolton Priory in the late 15th and early 16th century, and producing his thesis Bolton Priory, 1286-1325: an economic study in 1969. Following his time at Oxford, Professor Kershaw took a post as lecturer in medieval history at the University of Manchester. He began learning German to assist in his research of the German peasantry in the Middle Ages. As his language skills improved he became increasingly interested in what was happening in Germany and how it was coping with the legacy of the Second World War. On a visit to West Germany in 1972 he encountered an aging Nazi who remarked that 'if you English had come in with us, we'd have destroyed Bolshevism' and that 'the Jew is a louse'. This outburst shocked him and prompted him to research the social history of the Nazi era in Germany. He eventually abandoned his work on the medieval period and was able to move to a post teaching modern history at Manchester. In 1975, he joined Martin Broszat's 'Bavaria Project' where he examined how ordinary people viewed Hitler. As a result of this work he wrote his first book on the Third Reich, The 'Hitler Myth': Image and Reality in the Third Reich, which was first published in German in 1980 as Der Hitler-Mythos: Volksmeinung und Propaganda im Dritten Reich. He saw the framework of the Nazi state and the social conditions at that time as far more significant than the personality of Hitler as an explanation for the way Nazi Germany developed. 1 MS 413 (B) The Ian Kershaw Archive He was Visiting Professor of Modern History at the Ruhr University in Bochum, West Germany from 1983 to 1984, and from 1987 to 1989 he was Professor of Modern History at the University of Nottingham. In 1989 he took up the post of Professor of Modern History at the University of Sheffield where he remained until his retirement in 2008. Throughout his career Professor Kershaw has written numerous books on Nazism, the Third Reich and Hitler. His books, particularly the two volume biography of Hitler, have been translated into many languages and been awarded several prizes. Professor Kershaw is widely regarded as one of the world's leading experts on Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany. He was the consultant to the BAFTA-winning BBC-TV series, 'The Nazis: A Warning from History', BBC2's 'War of the Century', German television (ZDF)'s 'Hitler: eine Bilanz', and 'Holokaust', BBC's 'Timewatch' programmes on 'Operation Sealion' (planned invasion of Britain), Himmler, and 'The Making of Adolf Hitler', and to the BBC TV series 'Auschwitz'. Professor Sir Ian Kershaw was knighted in 2002 for services to history. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and of the Royal Historical Society. Related collections: The Ian Kershaw Collection; Fascism in Europe Collection; Mendelson Collection Source: Donated by Ian Kershaw System of arrangement: By category Subjects: Germany--History--20th century; Fascism; National socialism Names: Kershaw, Ian Conditions of access: Available to all researchers, by appointment Restrictions: None Copyright: According to document Finding aids: Listed 2 MS 413 (B) The Ian Kershaw Archive BOX 1 B/1/1 THIRD REICH: Book Chapters B/1/1/1 Böhnke, Wilfried Soziale Schichtung und besondere programmatische Ansatzpunkte der NSDAP des des Ruhrgebiets. In: Böhnke, Wilfried, Die NSDAP im Ruhrgebiet 1920-1933, Verlag Neue Gesellschaft, Bonn-Bad Godesberg, 1974 B/1/1/2 Bollmus, Reinhard Chapter 6: Das Führungs-Chaos im Führer-Staat. In: Bollmus, Reinhard, Das Amt Rosenberg und seine Gegner: Zum Machtkampf im nationalsozialistischen Studien zu Zeitgeschichte, DVA, Stuttgart, 1970 B/1/1/3 Bracher, Karl Dietrich et al. II. Kapitel: Die „Legalisierung“ der Diktatur. In Bracher, K. Sauer, W, Schulz, W. Die nationalsozialistische Machtergreifung, Köln, 1962 B/1/1/4 Broszat, Martin Chapter 8: Reichsregierung und Führergewalt in den ersten Jahren nach 1933, Chapter 9: Polykratie der Ressorts und Formen des Führer-absolutismus seit 1938. In: Broszat, Martin Der Staat Hitlers, München, 1969 B/1/1/5 Broszat, Martin Schlußbetrachtung. In Broszat, Martin Der Staat Hitlers, München, 1969 B/1/1/6 Buchheim, Hans Chapter 6: The Position of the SS in the Third Reich. In Holborn, Hajo (ed.) Republic to Reich, Vintage Books, New York, 1973 B/1/1/7 Courcy, John de Chapter 11. In Courcy, John de Searchlight on Europe (London, 1941) B/1/1/8 Deuerlein, Ernst Partei ohne Zukunft? Generalprobe Das Bekenntnis zur legalen Machtergreifung. In Deuerlein, Ernst (Hrsg.) Der Aufstieg der NSDAP in Augenzeugenberichten, Düsseldorf, 1968 B/1/1/9 Fabry, Philipp Mutmaßungen über Hitler: Urteile von Zeitgenossen, Düsseldorf, 1969 (Assorted pages from his book, no full chapters) B/1/1/10 Faulenbach, Bernd Die „nationale Revolution” und die deutsche Geschichte.. Zum zeitgenössischen Urteil der Historiker. In: Michalka, Wolfgang, Hrsg. Die Nazionalsozialistische Machtergreifung, Paderborn/München/Wien/Zurich B/1/1/11 Fischer, Conan Chapter Six: Ideology and Politics of the SA. (Typescript – possibly in: Fischer, Conan, Stormtroopers) B/1/1/12 Fröhlich, Elke and Broszat, Martin Politische und soziale Macht auf dem Lande die Durchsetzung der NSDAP im Kreis Memmingen B/1/1/13 Frei, Norbert Quellenlage, Forschungsstand, Literatur. In: Frei, Norbert Der Führerstaat. Nationalsozialistische Herrschaft 1933-1945, München, 1987 B/1/1/14 Gruchmann, Luthar Die »Reichsregierung« im Führerstaat. In: Doeker, G, and Steffani, W., Klassenjustiz und Pluralismus, Hannover, 1973, pp.167-87 B/1/1/15 Hofer, Walther Der Reichstagsbrand als Forschungsproblem. In: Doeker, Günther und Steffani, Winfried Klassenjustiz und Pluralismus, Hamburg, 1973 B/1/1/16 Huber, Dr. Ernst Rudolf Chapter 4: Der Führer. In: Huber, Dr. Ernst Rudolf Verfassungsrecht des Großdeutschen Reiches Hanseatische Verlaganstalt Hamburg, 1937/39 BOX 2 B/1/1/17 Jäckel, Eberhard Wie kam Hitler an die Macht? In: Erdmann, Karl Dietrich, u. Schulze, Hagen, Hrsg. Weimar. Selbstpreisgabe einer Demokratie, Düsseldorf, 1980 3 MS 413 (B) The Ian Kershaw Archive B/1/1/18 Jacobsen, Hans-Adolf und Jochmann, Werner, Hrsg. Ausgewählte Dokumente zur Geschiche des Nationalsozialismus 1933-45. Teil I. In: Jacobsen, Hans-Adolf und Jochmann, Werner, Hrsg, Arbeitsblätter für politische und soziale Bildung, Bielefeld B/1/1/19 Jacobsen, Hans-Adolf und Jochmann, Werner, Hrsg. Ausgewählte Dokumente zur Geschiche des Nationalsozialismus 1933-45. Teil II. In: Jacobsen, Hans-Adolf und Jochmann, Werner, Hrsg, Arbeitsblätter für politische und soziale Bildung, Bielefeld B/1/1/20 Jacobsen, Hans-Adolf und Jochmann, Werner, Hrsg. Ausgewählte Dokumente zur Geschiche des Nationalsozialismus 1933-45. Teil III. In: Jacobsen, Hans-Adolf und Jochmann, Werner, Hrsg, Arbeitsblätter für politische und soziale Bildung, Bielefeld BOX 3 B/1/1/21 Kater, Michael Sozialer Wandel in der NSDAP im Zuge der nationalsozialistischen Machtergreifung. In: Schieder, Wolfgang, Hrsg. Faschismus als soziale Bewegung, Hamburg, 1976 B/1/1/22 Kershaw, Ian Social Unrest and the Response of the Nazi Regime 1934-1936. In: Nicosia, F and Stokes, L.D., Germans Against Nazism, Berg, Oxford, 1990 B/1/1/23 Kleine, Georg H. Adelsgenossenschaft und Nationalsozialismus B/1/1/24 Kluke, Paul, National Socialist Europe Ideology B/1/1/25 Koehl, Robert Chapter 6. Feudal Aspects of National Socialism B/1/1/26 Krockow, Christian Graf von Einleitung, pp.4-5 Vorbereitung, ch.1, pp.40-43. In: Krockow, Christian Graf von Die Entscheidung, Stuttgart, 1958 B/1/1/27 Lepsius, M. Rainer From Fragmented Party Democracy to Government by Emergency Decree and National Socialist Takeover: Germany. In: Linz, J. J. and Stepan, A., eds., The Breakdown of Democratic Regimes, Baltimore and London, 1978 B/1/1/28 Mason, Tim Transl. of Chapter 2 into English: National Socialism and the Working Class, 1925-May, 1933 In: Mason, Tim Sozialpolitik im Dritten Reich, Arbeiterklasse und Volksgemeinschaft, Opladen, 1977 B/1/1/29 Mommsen, Hans The Political Effects of the Reichstag Fire. In: Turner, H. A., ed. Nazism and the Third Reich B/1/1/30 Mommsen, Hans Nationalsozialismus. In: Sowjetsystem u. demokratische Gesellschaft. Eine vergleichende Enzyklopädie, Kernig, C. D. Hrsg. Freiburg/Basel/Wien, 1971 Bd. IV B/1/1/31 Mommsen, Hans Nachwort . In: Schoenbaum, David, Die braune Revolution. Eine Sozialgeschichte des Dritten Reiches, München, 1980 B/1/1/32 Müller, Klaus-Jürgen Die Reichswehr und die „Machtergreifung “. In: Michalka, Wolfgang, Hrsg. Die Nazionalsozialistische Machtergreifung Paderborn, München, Wien, Zurich B/1/1/33 Noakes, Jeremy Nazism and Eugenics: the Background to the Nazi Sterilization Law of 14 July 1933 (From the Festschrift for James Joll) B/1/1/34 Noakes, Jeremy Chapter 5: Nazism and Revolution. In: O’Sullivan, Noel Revolutionary Theory and Political Reality, Wheatsheaf Books, 1983 B/1/1/35 Orlow, Dietrich Introduction and Conclusion. In: Orlow, Dietrich History of the Nazi Party 1919-1933, David & Charles B/1/1/36 Saage, Richard Das sozio-politische Herrschaftssystem des Nationalsozialismus.
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