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MS 413 (A) 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 (A) 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 (A) The Ian Kershaw Archive BOX 1 A/1 STAATSARCHIV MUNCHEN A/1/1 Aichach A collection of monthly reports giving details of the General Political Situation. State of Security, Economic Situation LRA 99497 BA Reports A/1/1/1(i) Handwritten notes (6 sheets) A/1/1/1(ii – xxii) Bezirksamt Aichach 21 Documents - October 1934 to December 1938 LRA 99532 GS Reports A/1/1/2 (i) Handwritten notes (11 sheets) A/1/1/2 (ii – xx) Bezirksamt Aichach 19 Documents – August 1934 to June 1938 A/1/2 Altötting A collection of monthly reports giving details of the General Political Situation. State of Security, Economic Situation including Agriculture. NSDAP 285 A/1/2/1 (i) Handwritten notes (4 sheets) A/1/2/1 (ii – xvii) 16 Documents – August 1939- August 1943 A/1/3 Bad Aibling A collection of monthly reports giving details of the General Political Situation. State of Security and Economic Situation. LRA 47140 A/1/3/1 (i - xvi) 16 Documents - November 1935 – July 1938 LRA 113813 A/1/3/2 (i) Handwritten and typed notes 1943-45 (15 sheets) A/1/3/2 (ii – xxxviii) 37 Documents – general overview about the internal political development. A/1/4 Bad Tölz A collection of monthly reports giving details of the General Political Situation. State of Security and Economic Situation. 1934-1939 LRA 134055 A/1/4/1 (i) Handwritten notes (1934) A/1/4/1 (ii- v) 4 Documents – half monthly reports – January 1934 – October 1934 LRA 134056 A/1/4/2 (i) Handwritten notes (1935) A/1/4/2 (ii-vii) Documents – half monthly reports – August 1935 – December 1935 LRA 134057 A/1/4/3 (i) Handwritten notes (1936) A/1/4/3 (ii-ix) 8 Documents – half monthly reports – April 1936 – October 1936 3 MS 413 (A) The Ian Kershaw Archive LRA 134058 A/1/4/4 Handwritten notes (1937) LRA 134059 A/1/4/5 (i) Handwritten notes (1938) A/1/4/5 (ii - viii) 7 Documents – January 1938 – November 1938 LRA 134060 A/1/4/6 (i) Handwritten notes (1939) A/1/4/6 (ii-viii) 7 Documents – August 1939 – January 1940 A/1/5 Berchtesgaden LRA 30678 A/1/5/1 (i-ix) Bad Reichenhall - December 1937 – January 1941 LRA 29654 A/1/5/2 (i- ix) Berchtesgaden – April 1938 – August 1939 LRA 29655 A/1/5/3 (i-xlv) Berchtesgaden – August 1934 – June 1941 A/1/5/3(xlvi) Handwritten notes Berchtesgaden 1940-1941 LRA 29656 A/1/5/4 (i-cxx) Berchtesgaden - August 1941 – March 1945 BOX 2 A/1/6 Ebersberg LRA 76887 A/1/6/1 (i – x) Ebersberg – February 1933 – May 1936 A/1/7 Garmisch LRA 61611 A/1/7/1 (i) Handwritten notes Garmisch (1933) A/1/7/1 (ii – v) Garmisch – February 1933 – December 1933 LRA 61612 A/1/7/2 (i) Handwritten notes Garmisch (1934) A/1/7/2 (ii – v) Garmisch – August 1934 – November 1934 LRA 61613 A/1/7/3 (i) Handwritten notes Garmisch (1935-36) A/1/7/3 (ii – xxxi) Garmisch – January 1934 – January 36 LRA 61614 A/1/7/4 (i) Handwritten notes Garmisch (1936) A/1/7/4 (ii – xxiii) Garmisch – April 1936 - November 1936 LRA 61615 A/1/7/5 (i) Handwritten notes Garmisch (1936 – 1938) A/1/7/5 (ii- xxi) Garmisch - January 1937 – November 1938 4 MS 413 (A) The Ian Kershaw Archive LRA 61616 A/1/7/6 (i) Handwritten notes Garmisch (1937 – 1939) A/1/7/6 (ii - xxix) Garmisch – March 1938 – December 1939 LRA 61617 A/1/7/7 (i) Handwritten notes Garmisch (1940) A/1/7/7 (ii – xiii) Garmisch – February 1940 – November 1940 LRA 61618 A/1/7/8 (i) Handwritten notes Garmisch (1941) A/1/7/8 (ii – xix) Garmisch – January 1941 - December 1941 LRA 61619 A/1/7/9 (i) Handwritten notes Garmisch (1942-44) A/1/7/9 (ii – xxxii) Garmisch – January 1942 – November 1944 LRA 61620 A/1/7/10 (i) Handwritten notes Garmisch (1945) A/1/8 Mühldorf LRA 135112 A/1/8/1 (i) Handwritten notes Mühldorf (1939) A/1/8/1 (ii – x) Mühldorf – (March 1939 – November 1939) LRA 135113 A/1/8/2 (i) Handwritten notes Mühldorf (1940) A/1/8/2 (ii – viii) Mühldorf (April 1940 – December 1940) LRA 135114 A/1/8/3 (i) Handwritten notes Mühldorf (1941) A/1/8/3 (ii) Mühldorf (January 1941 – June 1941) LRA 135115 A/1/8/4 (i) Handwritten notes Mühldorf (1942) A/1/8/4 (ii – xii) Mühldorf (February 1942 – December 1942) LRA 135116 A/1/8/5 (i) Handwritten notes Mühldorf (1943) A/1/8/5 (ii – xx) Mühldorf (February 1943 – November 1943) LRA 135117 A/1/8/6 (i) Handwritten notes Mühldorf (1944) A/1/8/6 (ii – x) Mühldorf (February 1944 – October 1944) A/1/9 Schrobenhausen LRA 59595 A/1/9/1 (i – xxvii) Schrobenhausen (November 1936 – October 1938) A/1/10 Starnberg 5 MS 413 (A) The Ian Kershaw Archive LRA 28340 A/1/10/1 (i) Handwritten notes Starnberg (1933) A/1/10/1 (ii -ix) Starnberg (February 1933) A/1/11 Weilheim NSDAP 617 A/1/11/1 (i – x) Weilheim A/1/12 Oberbayern A/1/12/1 (i) Handwritten notes (56 sides) relating to a wide range of LRA reports including; Bad Aibling, Bad Reichenhall, Ebersberg, Eichstätt, Freising, Furstenfeldbruck, Garmisch- Partenkirchen… A/1/12/1 (ii) List of Xerox/photocopies requested from Staatsarchiv München and receipt.