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GUIDES to GERMAN RECORDS MICROFILMED at ALEXANDRIA, VA, No. 5. Miscellaneous German Records Collection GUIDES TO GERMAN RECORDS MICROFILMED AT ALEXANDRIA, VA, No. 5. Miscellaneous German Records Collection (Part I) The National Archives National Archives and Records Service General Services Administration Washington: 1958 This finding aid, prepared under the direction of the Committee fer the Study •f War Documents of the American Historical Association, has been reproduced by the National Archives as part of its program of facilitating the use of records in its custody* The microfilm described in this list has been deposited In the National Archives by the American Historical Association and may be identified as Microcopy No. T-8iu It may be consulted at the National Archives. A price list appears on the last page. Those desiring to purchase microfilm should -write to the Exhibits and Publications Branch, National Archives, Washington 25, D. C. AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION COM"ITT3E POH THE STUDY OF WAR DOCUMWTS GUIDES TO GERMAN RECORDS MICROFILMS!) AT AL^XAi-IDRIA, VA. No. 5» Miscellaneous German Records Colloction (Part I) THE AMERICA!* HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION (AHA) COMMITTEE FOR THS STUDY 0? WAR DOCUMENTS GUIDES TO GERMhH K2CORDS MldtOFILKSD AT ALEXANDRIA, VA. This is part of a series of guides prepared by the American Historical Association listing records microfilmed at Alexandria by the American Historical Association Microfilming Project. An American Committee for the Study of the War Documents was established in 1955 as e private group of scholars interested it documentary research and especially in the microfilming of records of foreign offigin kept in American depositories. In 1956 the American Committee became a committee of the American Historical Association. Its present Chairman (195^) is Professor Oron J. Hale, University of Virginia, whs» was pre- ceded by Dean Reginald H. Phelps, Harvard University, and Professor I$rnn K. Case of the University of Pennsylvania. An initial Ford Foundation grant and additional funds provided by the Old Dominion Foundation enabled the Committee to undertake t&e cataloguing and Microfilming of declas- sified German records in the custody of the World War II Records Division of the National Archives (previously TAGO, Departmental Records Branch, more recently Military Records Branch, Federal Records Center, Region 3» General Services Administration) at Alexandria, Virginia. ^he plans for screening and microfilming of these materials were prepared by a Subcommittee on Microfilming under the Chairmanship to the end of 1956 of Professor S. Malcolm Carroll, Duke University, and his successor, Dr. Fritz T» Epstein, The Library of Congress, Professor G~r- hard L. Weinberg of the University of Kentucky directed the microfilming team in Alexandria in 1956/57 which is now under the supervision of Dr. Dagmar Horna Ferman. « The jresent guide is a collection of descriptions of record* groups filmed by the Microfilming Project of the AHA Committee, because the project is not yet complete, this guide will appear in installments. The American Historical Association expresses its appreciation for the cooperation given to its Committee for the Study of War by the staffs of the WbpM Wbr II Records Division, tfce National Archives, and the U. G. Department of the Army. WS&s&ington, B.C., July 195g Dr. Boyd C, Shafer Executive Secretary, AHA PREFACE This Guide is one of a series of finding aids describing those declassified seized German records deposited at the Milit^r;- Records Branch, Federal Records Center, Region 3» General Services Administration, that have "been microfilmed "by the Microfilming Project of the American Commit- tee for the Study of War Documents (now the Committee for the Study of War Documents of the American Historical Association). Tne Guide contains the text of data sheets identifying records filmed, A copy of the data sheet has been filmed as a target sheet at the beginning of each roll of film. The Guide covers 28 rolls of film of records from a record group containing a vide variety of documents organized according to a subject scheme, generally without regard to provenance. The group includes materials pertaining to the activities of leading National Socialist offi- cials, to the opposition against Hitler, the German administration of Austria, and other subjects. Other parts of this record grou..; will be filmed at a later date. The terms "Serial" end "Roll" in this Guide refer to the sequence of the film. Ihe "Item" number is the identification symbol on the origi- nal folder within the captured records collection. "Provenance11 indicates, inhere ascertsinable, the arcuival origin of the documei?ts whose de- scription follows. The symbol "FT" means that the folder has been filmed throughout, the symbol "ITS11 denotes that the folder has Leen filmed selectively. "1st Frame" gives the frame number of the first page of the folder. Every exposure has been given a frame number consecutively throughout the filming operation. The "Hotes" provide a general idea of the nature of the materials but should be taken as hints* not complete descriptions. V/hen the German file number could be ascertained, it has been included. The nature of the records filmed makes it necessary for researchers to check the whole guide since no index has been prepared. The original records are located in the War Records Division II, National Archives (previously Military Records Branch, Federal Record Center, Region III, General Services Administration) under Record Group lOUg, The microfilms are deposited in the Fational Archives, Washing- ton 25. D.C., as microcopy Fo. T-SU and should be requested by adding to "T-gUn the roll numbers. Gerhard L. Weinberg, 1957 Serial Roll Provenance Item Filmed 1st frame Notes 1 1-3 Amtsgericht MOnchen (?) EAP 105/7, FT 1 Verbatim record of court proceedings, Hauptverhahdlurig gegen Hitler und Envelopes A-B Gen. wegen Hochverrates, 26 Februar 1924 - 1 April 1924. The record is com- plete, including those sessions or parts of session from which the public was excluded. Each Verhandlungstag has its own transcript. A partial index* indicating interrogations of defendants and witnesses, will be found on frames: 2165 - 2166. The final pleadings and judgments follow. Adolf Hitler, Sekretar Hitler Let- FT 2917 Lists, registering Ein- und Ausl&ufe with postage costs. Einlaufe Sept,, ters Folder 1 Oct., 1923; AuslSufe 1 June - 31 Oct., 1923. Contains addresses, but very little on contents. 3 4 Hitler Let- FT 2942 Correspondence with Hitler, July - Oct. 1923, handled by his Secretariat. ters Folder 2 The outgoing correspondence is signed by Laubeck. 4 4 Hitler Let- FT 2963 The bulk of this material appears to be a pencil draft of a register of ters Folder 3 correspondence handled by Hitler's secretariat in 1922 and 1923- At the end of the folder are the following items: a letter, dated 6.5-36, on a camou- flage invention; a picture of a man with the written note "Papa, 1870" on the back; a Meldezettel of Alois Hitler of 4-5 May, 1892; an unidentified group photo; and a letter by Dr. Eduard Htoer, Hitler's former history pro- fessor in Linz, about Hitler and the professor's deposition for 1he 1924 trial, the letter is dated 28 April 1935. 5 4 Hitler Let- FT 3031 3 items, Oct. - Nov 1923 requesting funds and support. Interesting for ters Folder 4 sources of members (1/2 ex-communist in one case), relations with Reichswehr, and Erhardt Brigade. 6 4 Hitler Let- FT 3042 Incoming correspondence September 1923. Letters from a variety of indi- ters Folder 5 viduals and nationalistic organizations. Included is material on the inter- • . nal problems of the Nazi Party in both Germany and Austria. 7 4 Hitler Let- FT 3333 Inc-oning correspondence handled by Hitler's secretariat in Oct. 2923? one ters Folders folder Dringender Einlauf, the other Nicht Eiloider Einlauf. Included is 6, 7 material on the Kampfbund, various nationalistic organizations, and the in- ternal problems of the Nazi Party in Germany and Austria. Also, some local newspapers. (Frame numbers not consecutive in this folder.) 8 4 Hitler Let- FT 3704 Various incoming correspondence, early November 1923. Included is an ters, Folder 8 NSDAP official photostat of a letter of Houston S. Chamberlain to Hitler of 7 October 1923, hailing Hitler in exultation. 9 4 Hitler Let- FT 3756 Incoming correspondence handled by Hitler's secretariat in August 1923• ters, Folder 9 See frame: 3827 for information on the Nazi Party in Austria. 10 5 Hitler Let- FT 3943 A collection of memoranda and documents submitted to Hitler »s secretariat, ters, Folder January - September 1923, arranged chronologically. A list of the contents 10 maybe found on frame: 3845. The documaits deal with the internal problems of the Nazi Party in Germany and Austria, other nationalistic organizations, proposals of various kinds submitted to Hitler, information on current Serial Roll Provenan ce Item Filmed 1st frame Notes Adolf Hitler, Sekretar political problems, and intelligence on political organizations and individ- uals opposed to the Nazis. Hitler Letters, FT 4168 Four memoranda, submitted to Hitler's office in October 1923, and a letter Folder 11 of Dr. Klotz of 2 Oct. 1923, concerning his differences with Streicher. The memoranda deal with the current political situation in Germany and the activ- ity of the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Vaterlandischer KampfverbSnde. Hitler Letters, FT Miscellaneous Eingange November 1922 - November 1923. Party matters, sug- Folders 12, 13 gestions. Issue No. 2 (Nov. 1923) of Deutschlards Rettung. See frames: 4262 and 4263 for relations Hitler-Sauerbruch. 13 Hitler Letters, FT Highly important folder of correspondence addressed to Hitler, 1920-1923, Folder H dealing with the internal problems of the Party and the current political situation in Germany. Especially interesting are the following items: Frames: 4337 - 4338 on the financial status of the Vttlkische Beobachter in Oct. 1920. Frames: 4409 - 4410 on the Dutch minister Jan D.
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