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Volksbund für Frieden und Freiheit: anti-communist propaganda material (microfilm)

IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 1556 WL 550

Held at: Wiener Library

Title: Volksbund für Frieden und Freiheit: anti-communist propaganda material (microfilm)

Date(s): 1950s

Level of description: collection

Extent: 57 frames

Name of creator(s): Volksbund für Frieden und Freiheit (People's League for Peace and Freedom)

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

The Volksbund für Frieden und Freiheit e.V. was an anti DDR propaganda and news organisation. It was founded under secret circumstances on 29 August 1950 in Gasthof 'Zum Patzenhofer' in Hamburg. The initiative came from Franz Wilhelm Paulus (publisher of the Hamburger Allgemeine Zeitung) and the journalist 'Dr. Erwin Kohl' (cover name of the former Goebbels' assistant Dr Eberhard Taubert). A number of former functionaries in the Nazi propaganda apparatus were involved from the outset. The foundation of the organisation was also supported by the US secret service, CIC. The presidents of the VFF were from 1950 to 1951 Jürgen Hahn-Butry and from 1951 to 1966 Fritz Cramer.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Miscellaneous anti-communist posters and leaflets associated with Volksbund für Frieden und Freiheit (People's League for Peace and Freedom), [1950-1959].

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: German

System of arrangement:

None

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: October 2007

INDEX ENTRIES

Subjects
Cold War | Wars (events)
Communism | Collectivism | Political doctrines
Propaganda | Persuasion | Communication process
War | International conflicts

Personal names
Paulus | Franz Wilhelm | fl 1950 | publisher

Corporate names
Volksbund für Frieden und Freiheit (People's League for Peace and Freedom)

Places
Hamburg | Germany | Western Europe | Europe