German subject collection

Identifier
XX741
Language of Description
English
Dates
1873 - 2001
Level of Description
Collection
Languages
  • German
Source
EHRI

Scope and Content

Pamphlets, leaflets, serial issues, election campaign literature, other printed matter, reports, memoranda, letters, depositions, and miscellany, relating to political, social and economic conditions in Germany, primarily since the German Revolution of 1918, and relating especially to the Weimar period, post-World War II West German elections and student radicalism, the end of the communist regime in East Germany in 1989, the reunification of Germany in 1990, and post-reunification elections. Includes the former "Berlin nach der Revolution Collection", consisting of handbills, proclamations, political campaign literature, pamphlets, posters, and newspaper issues, l9l8-l920, relating to the end of World War I, the Spartacist uprising, the Bavarian communist regime, the Kapp Putsch, elections of l920, German nationalism, and antisemitism. Also included is the former "German Revolution, l9l8-l9 Collection". This is a collection of reports, leaflets, clippings and miscellaneous printed matter, l9l9, relating to the German Revolution of l9l8-l9 and to antisemitism in Germany.

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

121 ms. boxes, 1 cu. ft. box, 22 oversize boxes, 21 videotape cassettes, 6 phonotape cassettes, 2 phonotape reels, 1 phonorecord, memorabilia.

Archivist Note

Status: October 1980, revised most recently August 2016 by Agnes F. Peterson

Sources

  • The Hoover Institution Archives: Annotated list of archival materials relating to the Holocaust (Inclued materials relating to Jews, Jewish communities in various countries, Zionism, and antisemitism)

Rules and Conventions

EHRI Guidelines for Description v.1.0