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Anti-Nazi propaganda in Germany


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 1556 WL 597

Held at: Wiener Library

Title: Anti-Nazi propaganda in Germany

Date(s): 1944-1945

Level of description: Collection level (fonds)

Extent: c 33 frames

Name of creator(s): US Office of Strategic Services
Antifaschistisches Deutsches Kampf Komitee Hamburg
Antifaschistischer Gewerkschafts-Ausschuss Elmshorn

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

The Office of Strategic Services (OSS) was a United States intelligence agency formed during World War Two. It was the wartime intelligence agency and was the predecessor to the Central Intelligence Agency.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Microfilm of anti-Nazi propaganda leaflets comprising leaflets produced by the US Office of Strategic Services (especially by W Necker), 1944-1945, for distribution in Germany, 1944-1945, partly in draft form; drafts of letters to be sent to party officials and ministers and serving as disinformation and black propaganda; leaflets possibly from German underground organisations including 'Aktionskomitee West, Abteilung 6 Panzerarmee' and two leaflets directed at Polish soldiers in the German occupation forces in France (in Polish). Leaflets circulated by the Antifaschistisches Deutsches Kampf Komitee Hamburg, April 1945 and nd, and the Antifaschistischer Gewerkschafts-Ausschuss Elmshorn, May 1945.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: German, some Polish

System of arrangement:

Arranged in two sections as follows: leaflets produced by the US Office of Strategic Services and leaflets circulated by the Antifaschistisches Deutsches Kampf Komitee Hamburg and the Antifaschistischer Gewerkschafts-Ausschuss Elmshorn.

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
Nazism | Totalitarianism | Political doctrines
War | International conflicts
War propaganda | Propaganda | Persuasion | Communication process
World War Two (1939-1945) | World wars (events) | Wars (events)

Personal names

Corporate names
US Office of Strategic Services

Places
Germany | Western Europe | Europe