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Berlin collection of YIVO, RG 215

Document | Digitized | Accession Number: 2009.221 | RG Number: RG-67.023M

Overview

Description: Contains fragmentary records of agencies of the Nazi government. It contains primarily reports, clippings, and other documents generated by the Reich Ministry for Propaganda and the Reich Civil Administration for the Occupied Eastern Territories.
Date: inclusive: 1931-1945
Collection Creator: Yivo Institute for Jewish Research

Physical Details

Language: German Yiddish Hebrew Russian French
Genre/Form: Reports. Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.)
Extent: 51,127 digital images : JPEG ; 152 GB .
41 microfilm reels (digitized) ; 35 mm.
System of Arrangement: Arrangement is thematic.

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: For scholarly use only, no reproduction without permission. Files shall not be copied or shared in any way with another individual or institution. Information on these files of a personal or confidential nature shall not be shared with third parties, neither through hard copy printouts nor by making copied files. For permission to reproduce documents write to the Chief Archivist, YIVO Archives at: reference@yivo.org.
Copyright Holder: Yivo Institute for Jewish Research

Keywords & Subjects

Topical Term: Propaganda, German--History--Sources. World War, 1939-1945--Propaganda.
Geographic Name: Germany--Politics and government--1933-1945.
Corporate Name: Germany. Reichsministerium für Volksaufklärung und Propaganda

Administrative Notes

Holder of Originals: Yivo Institute for Jewish Research
Legal Status: Permanent Collection
Provenance: From the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, Record Group 215. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the collection via the United States Holocaust Museum International Archives Program in November 2009.

Record last modified:: 2023-08-25 08:29:06
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