Correspondence with Bund der Verfolgten des Naziregimes (BVN)

Identifier
3000/9/1/231
Language of Description
English
Level of Description
File
Languages
  • German
Source
EHRI Partner

Extent and Medium

53 letters

Biographical History

The (BVN) is a German anti-communist union of Nazi persecutees. A result of a secession from the left-wing (VVN) it had been founded in West Germany in 1950. The BVN’s political bias focused on a liberal-conservative milieu. See Beaugrand, G.,‘Zeitzeuge am Redaktionstisch. Die Vereinigung der Verfolgten des Naziregimes (VVN) und der Bund der Verfolgten des Naziregimes (BVN) im Spiegel ihrer Presseorgane‘, in: , vol. 4, no. 1, 1997, pp. 261-82.

Scope and Content

Correspondence regarding historical subjects and political activities of the BVN. This includes among others the terms of access to German records in British archives, information about prominent Nazis and now West German officials Werner Naumann and Wilhelm Voss, the fate of Jewish refugees on the MS St. Louis liner, the conditions in Buchenwald concentration camp in the wake of the November Pogrom in 1938, and the controversial German-Jewish author and right-wing activist Josef Ginsburg (aka J. G. Burg).

Conditions Governing Access

open

People

  • Burg, J. G.
  • Voss, Wilhelm
  • Naumann, Werner
  • Elsberg, Heinz
  • Pinkus, Fritz
  • Budde, Eugen

Subjects

  • Holocaust denial
  • Buchenwald (concentration camp)
  • St. Louis [ship]
  • Survivors
  • Postwar
  • Nazis

Places

  • West Germany [1949-1990]
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