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Geissler and Arp: British military court case material (microfilm)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 1556 WL 533

Held at: Wiener Library

Title: Geissler and Arp: British military court case material (microfilm)

Date(s): 1945

Level of description: collection

Extent: 39 frames

Name of creator(s): British Military Court

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

The papers relate to the activities of two anti-Nazi activists, Arthur Geissler and Erich Arp, who, at the end of the war, were indicted by a British Military Court for 'the unlawful appropriation of authority' by arresting the former Ortsgruppenleiter Krömer, Elmshorn, Schleswig-Holstein, at gun point.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Personal papers of Erich Arp mainly concerning his membership of political and student organisations; Military Government Court indictments of Geissler and Arp and notes relating to indictments, 31 May 1945; Enclosures including reports regarding the history of Nazi support and ant-Nazi activity in Elmshorn; pamphlets produced at the end of the war by the Antifaschistisches Deutsches Kampf Komitee, Hamburg.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: German, English

System of arrangement:

By subject matter.

Conditions governing access:

Open

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copies can be made for personal use. Permission must be sought for publication.

Physical characteristics:

Microfilm

Finding aids:

Description exists to this archive on the Wiener Library's online catalogue www.wienerlibrary.co.uk

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Jewish Central Information Office

ALLIED MATERIALS

Existence and location of originals:

Wiener Collection, Tel Aviv University, Israel.

Existence and location of copies:

Related material:

Publication note:

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Archivist's note: Entry compiled by Howard Falksohn.

Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: Oct 2007


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Antifascism | Resistance to oppression | Oppression | Political movements
German history | European history | National history
Military courts | Courts | Administration of justice
Nazism | Totalitarianism | Political doctrines
War | International conflicts
World War Two (1939-1945) | World wars (events) | Wars (events)

Personal names
Arp | Erich | fl 1945
Geissler | Arthur | fl 1945

Corporate names
Antifaschistisches Deutsches Kampf Komitee, Hamburg

Places
Elmshorn | Germany | Western Europe | Europe
Hamburg | Germany | Western Europe | Europe