Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Culture: Second World War Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores y Culto: Segunda Guerra Mondial
Extent and Medium
35,349 digital images,
Creator(s)
- Argentina. Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores y Culto.
Archival History
Argentina. Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores y Culto.
Acquisition
Source of acquisition is the Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores y Culto in Argentina.The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the filmed collection via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum International Archival Programs Division in March 2015.
Scope and Content
Diplomatic dispatches, cables, and confidential reports sent by the Argentine embassies and consulates in Europe to the Argentine Ministry of Foreign Relations and Culture in Buenos Aires during World War II and in the immediate postwar years. Includes information about Jewish refugees and visa applicants, the political relationship between Argentina and Nazi Germany, a list of the crew of the German battleship "Graf Spee", and situation reports from various Argentine diplomatic posts around the world. This is an ongoing digitization project.
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Copyright Holder: Argentina. Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores y Culto.
People
- Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945.
Corporate Bodies
- Admiral Graf Spee (Battleship)
Subjects
- Argentina--Foreign relations.
- Diplomatic and consular service, Argentine--United States.
- Emigration and immigration--Argentina.
- World War, 1939-1945--Naval operations, German.
- River Plate, Battle of the, 1939.
- Jews--Legal status, laws, etc.--Argentina--20th century--Registers.
- Diplomatic and consular service, Argentine--History--20th century.
- Diplomatic and consular service, Argentine--South America.
- World War, 1939-1945--Diplomatic history--Argentina.
- Diplomatic and consular service, Argentine--Europe.
- Argentina.
- Argentina--Politics and government--1943-1955.
- World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, German--Registers.
- Diplomatic and consular service, Argentine--South Africa.
- Executive departments.
- Diplomatic and consular service, Argentine--Russia.
Genre
- Reports.
- Telegrams.
- Registers.
- Document
- Memorandums.
Copies
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum holds copies of Holocaust-relevant archives from Argentina. Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores y Culto.