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Reichsministerium für Volksaufklärung und Propaganda : Correspondence and papers


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 1556 WL 573

Held at: Wiener Library

Title: Reichsministerium für Volksaufklärung und Propaganda : Correspondence and papers

Date(s): 1944-1945

Level of description: collection

Extent: c145 frames

Name of creator(s): Reich Ministry for Popular Enlightenment and Propaganda

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

The Reich Ministry for Popular Enlightenment and Propaganda (Reichsministerium für Volksaufklärung und Propaganda or Propagandaministerium) was the Nazi ministry dedicated to enforcing the Nazi ideology in Germany and regulating its culture and society. Founded on March 13 1933 by Adolf Hitler's new National Socialist government, the Ministry was headed by Dr Joseph Goebbels and was responsible for controlling the press and culture of Nazi Germany.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Microfilm of correspondence and papers of the Reich Ministry for Popular Enlightenment and Propaganda (Reichsministerium für Volksaufklärung und Propaganda), 1944-1945, chiefly comprising anti-semitic material.

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:

Microfilm.

Finding aids:

Detailed description 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

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Archivist's note: Entry compiled by Sarah Drewery.

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: Mar 2008


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Antisemitism | Racial discrimination
Fascism | Totalitarianism | Political doctrines
Propaganda | Persuasion | Communication process
Third Reich | Nazism | Totalitarianism | Political doctrines

Personal names

Corporate names
Reich Ministry for Popular Enlightenment and Propaganda x Reichsministerium für Volksaufklärung und Propaganda

Places
Germany | Western Europe | Europe