Selected records from the Reichsforschungsrat (R 26 III)
Extent and Medium
1,610 digital images, JPEG
2 microfilm reels (digitized), 35 mm
Archival History
Bundesarchiv (Germany)
Acquisition
Original records, R 26 III, are located in the Bundesarchiv, Berlin, Germany. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's International Archives Project received the microfilm from Yad Vashem in February 2006 through its mutual microfilm exchange program with Yad Vashem.
Scope and Content
Contains records pertaining to Nazi research including racial and medical research, physics, plant genetics, livestock, aviation, pest control, malaria control in Auschwitz, and typhus control in Dachau. Also includes correspondence concerning confiscation of the Bohr Institute, Einstein, waste material from Dachau, forced labor prisoners, status of war prisoners with scientific knowledge, and the budget of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft.
System of Arrangement
Arrangement is thematic
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Copyright Holder: Bundesarchiv (Germany)
Corporate Bodies
- Nazi Party
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- National socialism--History--Sources.
- National socialism and medicine--Sources.
- Science and state--Germany--History.
- Research--Germany--History.
- Germany--Politics and government--1933-1945.
Genre
- Document