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The collection's contents are catalogued in two inventories. The inventories are, for the most part, arranged chronologically. The collection contains dispatches, German translations of documents, minutes, circulars, orders, reports, reviews, secret publications, accounts, correspondence, special bulletins, transcripts of testimony, and assorted other materials, such as copies of documents (from the ...

Independence from colonial rule did not usher in the halcyon days many North Africans had hoped for, as the new governments in Morocco, Tunisia, and Algeria soon came to rely on repression to reinforce and maintain power. In response to widespread human rights abuses, individuals across the Maghrib began to form groups in the late 1970s to challenge the political practices and structures in the region, ...

Using Dannecker's case, profiles and analyzes the motives of Nazi "Judenberater" ("advisers on Jewish topics") who functioned in the SS and the SA. States that the focus on Dannecker facilitates the presentation of the order, method, and structure of the Nazi regime, seen from the point of view of a subordinate functionary who was directly involved in the annihilation of European Jewry. Dannecker (1913-1945), ...

In 1933, the Jewish community of Zagreb set up a local committee to aid Jews from Germany; it was sponsored by the JDC, HICEM, and the Jewish communities of Yugoslavia. The committee was headed by Zagreb Jewish community council vice president Makso Pscherhof. In 1933, 4,400 Jewish refugees from Germany settled in Zagreb; in 1934, 4,200. In all — from 1933 to 1941 — 55,000 Jewish refugees passed through ...

Julien Hequembourg Bryan (1899-1974) was an American documentarian and filmmaker. Bryan traveled widely taking 35mm film that he sold to motion picture companies. In the 1930s, he conducted extensive lecture tours, during which he showed film footage he shot in the former USSR. Between 1935 and 1938, he captured unique records of ordinary people and life in Nazi Germany and in Poland, including Jewish ...

Formation of the Secretariat of GPU-KGB USSR can be traced down since 1930. The detailed structure and functions of the Secretariat were defined by the order of the Minister of State Security of the Ukrainian SSR in August 26, 1952, No. 00271 "Announcement of the MGB stuff". Subsequently, the structure and functions of the unit did not changed until 1991.

Arnold Schleifer (1872-1950) was a Vienna-born restaurateur who leased and managed the Claremont Inn and Tavern-on-the Green in New York City for many years. In 1943, Arnold Schleifer and his nephews, Arthur Schleifer and Julius Berman, won the contract to operate the restaurant. They enlarged the dance floor and offered nightly music. A large outdoor patio offered dining al fresco. Trees were first ...

"Germany's Nazi government made its primary headquarters in one of Berlin's oldest buildings: the Reich Chancellery. The site was frequented by Hitler and his inner circle. This complete history of the site focuses on the Nazi occupation"--Provided by publisher. Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-202) and index. vii, 206 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm

Selected records of the Senate of the Free City Gdańsk (Senat Wolnego Miasta Gdańska): correspondence related to expulsion of Polish citizens, unlawful arrests and closures of Polish companies, notes about German attacks on Poles and Jews, German newspaper clippings, reports, telegrams, lists of the personnel of the Senate of the Free City Gdańsk, and lists of inhabitants of Gdańsk, petitions of the ...

In 1852, the Austrian authorities gave de facto recognition to the Jewish Religious Community as the sole organization authorized to conduct religious, educational, and charitable operations among Jews in Vienna. The community's charter was ratified in 1867 and revised in 1890. The community oversaw the maintenance of various components of Jewish religious life — including the rabbinate, religious ...