Overview
- Description
- 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.
- Alternate Title
- Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Culture: Second World War
- Date
-
inclusive:
1939-1947
- Collection Creator
- Argentina. Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores y Culto.
Physical Details
- Language
- Spanish
- Genre/Form
- Telegrams. Registers. Reports. Memorandums.
- Extent
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35,349 digital images ; 1.09 TB .
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- This material can only be accessed in a Museum reading room or other on-campus viewing stations. No other access restrictions apply to this material.
- Conditions on Use
- Fair use only.
- Copyright Holder
- Argentina. Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores y Culto.
Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- World War, 1939-1945--Diplomatic history--Argentina. World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, German--Registers. World War, 1939-1945--Naval operations, German. Diplomatic and consular service, Argentine--History--20th century. Diplomatic and consular service, Argentine--Europe. Diplomatic and consular service, Argentine--South America. Diplomatic and consular service, Argentine--Russia. Diplomatic and consular service, Argentine--South Africa. Diplomatic and consular service, Argentine--United States. River Plate, Battle of the, 1939. Jews--Legal status, laws, etc.--Argentina--20th century--Registers. Emigration and immigration--Argentina. Executive departments.
- Geographic Name
- Argentina--Politics and government--1943-1955. Argentina--Foreign relations. Argentina.
- Personal Name
- Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945.
- Corporate Name
- Admiral Graf Spee (Battleship)
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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Argentina. Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores y Culto.
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- 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.
- Record last modified:
- 2024-01-05 13:26:05
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