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Neues Leben (New Life)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 1556 WL 1215

Held at: Wiener Library

Title: Neues Leben (New Life)

Date(s): 1934

Level of description: Collection level

Extent: 1 file

Name of creator(s): Neues Leben | nudist club

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

The organisation Neues Leben was a club devoted to nudism, founded February 1930. The movement had been non-political but by the end of March 1933, following difficulties, avowed publicly their support for Hitler. A meeting adopted a change of name to Bund fuer aufartende Lebensfuehrung und Nordische Sittenklarheit (League for racially pure lifestyle and nordic moral clarity), 19 July 1933.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers of Neues Leben, the club devoted to nudism, including a membership list, 1934; article on its foundation; and miscellaneous papers.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: German

System of arrangement:

Chronological

Conditions governing access:

Open

Conditions governing reproduction:

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

Physical characteristics:

Finding aids:

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

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Jewish Central Information Office

ALLIED MATERIALS

Related material:

Publication note:

DESCRIPTION NOTES

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: January 2008


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Third Reich | Nazism | Totalitarianism | Political doctrines
Health education

Personal names

Corporate names
Neues Leben | nudist club

Places
Germany | Western Europe | Europe