Emigrants organizations Emigrantenorganisationen (Fond 1313)

The Bund free press and literature (BFPL) was a German association of independent writers and journalists in exile, which was founded in Paris on 7 July 1937th. The founders obtained from a liberal-humanistic base position against the Nazi and Stalinism. Thus, the BFPL was from the outset isolated among the politically active emigrants, who were committed in their vast majority to the communist-dominated popular front policy and were organized in the Association of German Writers (SDS). BFPL founder Hans Sahl called this exile in exile. As the center of exile after the start of World War II moved to the United States, the BFPL dissolved implied. The founding statute of the BFPL begins with the words: "Convinced that freedom of mind and expression is a precious commodity, and that an independent, clean and responsible press and literature, which is not subject to compulsion and terror, is one of the essential conditions for spiritual development and effective spiritual struggle [... ] " According to Dieter Schiller , nobody should belong to the covenant "who, while opening his mouth to a brown Reich culture chamber, accepts a red Reichskulturkammer."

Rossiĭskiĭ gosudarstvennyĭ voennyĭ arkhiv

Forms part of the Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. This archive consists of documentation whose reproduction and/or acquisition was made possible with funding from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.

Source of acquisition is the Russian State Military Archive (Rossiĭskiĭ gosudarstvennyĭ voennyĭ arkhiv), Osobyi Archive, Fond 1313. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the filmed collection via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum International Archival Programs Division in 2006.