Overview
- Description
- Consists of individual files on German academic personalities, scientists and institutions; checks and reports on their political reliability; and examinations of their political credentials before granting promotions, appointments or honors. Includes also reports, newspaper clippings, summaries of lectures, petitions, applications and correspondence of various Nazi institutions. Records relate to the activities of the division of the Main Office of Science of the Nazi Party (NSDAP-Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei) under the direction of Alfred Rosenberg. The records are incomplete.
- Date
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inclusive:
1939-1945
- Collection Creator
- Hauptamt Wissenschaft
- Biography
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Hauptamt Wissenschaft (Main Office for Science) of NASPD was created by the Alfred Rosenberg’s office, the Commissioner of the NSAD, leader of the Entire Intellectual and Ideological Training and Education of the NSDAP (Beauftragter des Führers der NSDAP für die Überwachung der gesamten geistigen und weltanschaulichen Schulung und Erziehung der NSDAP, DBFU). This division maintained planning for the projected university-level Hohe Schule.
Physical Details
- Language
- German
- Extent
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11,213 digital images : JPEG ; 9.76 GB.
9 microfilm reels (digitized) ; 35 mm.
- System of Arrangement
- Arranged in alphabetical order by the person's name.
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
- World War, 1939-1945--Science. National socialism and science--Germany--History--Sources. Science and state--Germany--History--20th century. Scientists--Germany--History. Political scientists--Germany--History--20th century.
- Geographic Name
- Germany--Politics and government--1933-1945.
- Personal Name
- Rosenberg, Alfred, 1893-1946.
- Corporate Name
- Nazi Party
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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Yivo Institute for Jewish Research
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Source of acquisition is the Yivo Institute for Jewish Research (YIVO), RG-216. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the collection from YIVO via the United States Holocaust Museum International Archives Project in Sept. 2017.
This collection is a part of the Museum joint project (YIVO and USHMM) to film the Holocaust related records kept at YIVO archives in NYC.
- Record last modified:
- 2023-06-01 09:38:11
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn559684
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- Terms of Use
- This record is digitized but cannot be downloaded online.
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