Overview
- Description
- Contains mainly personal papers, correspondence, diaries, and similar materials written by German officers and soldiers during World War II.
- Alternate Title
- Military Historical collections
- Date
-
inclusive:
1917-1959
Physical Details
- Language
- German
- Genre/Form
- Diaries.
- Extent
-
5,669 digital images : JPEG ; 4.68 GB.
6 microfilm reels (digitized) ; 35 mm.
- System of Arrangement
- Organized in the following order: Reel 1: Files Msg1/867, 2474; File RH37/6732; Reel 2: File Msg1/1000; Reel 5: File Msg2/1283; Reel 6: File Msg1/1410; Reel 5: File Msg2/1283: Dr. Gustav Krukenberg, General-Major, Waffen SS -Typed manuscript regarding operations in defense of Berlin, April 1945, 48 pp.; Reel 6: File Msg1/1410: No title, possibly written by Rudolf Rutz, war diary, in typed draft, 1939-1943, 130 pp
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- This material can only be accessed in a Museum reading room or other on-campus viewing stations. To access Bundesarchiv collections researchers must fill out a "Request for Access to Bundesarchiv Documents." German and English-language copies of the "Law on the Preservation and Use of Federal Archival Documents" are available at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives reference desk. The requirement was stipulated by the Bundesarchiv in the cooperative agreement signed with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
- Conditions on Use
- Requests for reproduction must be directed to the Bundesarchiv. A copy of all publications based on its material must be provided to the Bundesarchiv. Researchers may not publish any Bundesarchiv material on the Internet, the World Wide Web, or any other publicly accessible on-line network without permission from the Bundesarchiv.
- Copyright Holder
- Bundesarchiv (Germany)
Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- Waffen-SS--History. World War, 1939-1945--Germany--History. Generals--German--Diaries. Soldiers--German--Diaries. Germany--History--World War, 1939-1945.
- Geographic Name
- Berlin (Germany)--History--1945-1990.
- Personal Name
- Krukenberg, Gustav. Rutz, Rudolf.
- Corporate Name
- Waffen-SS
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
-
Bundesarchiv (Germany)
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Source of acquisition is the Bundesarchiv-Militärarchiv Freiburg, Germany. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum received the filmed collection via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum International Archival Programs Division in Jan.2007. The entire collection was digitized in 2012.
- Record last modified:
- 2023-08-28 08:09:09
- This page:
- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn524071
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