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Hauptamt Wissenschaft (RG 216)

Document | Accession Number: 2017.319.1 | RG Number: RG-67.064M

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
inclusive:  1939-1945
Language
German
Genre/Form
Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.)
Correspondence.
Lectures.
Registers.
Reports.
Extent
11,213 digital images : JPEG ; 9.76 GB.
9 microfilm reels (digitized) ; 35 mm.

About This Document

Document Creator
Hauptamt Wissenschaft
Biography
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.
System of Arrangement
Arranged in alphabetical order by the person's name.

Keywords and Subjects

Administrative History

Holder of Originals
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.

Rights and Restrictions

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