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Wittig, Karl (fl 1939-1950)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 1556 WL 856

Held at: Wiener Library

Title: Wittig, Karl (fl 1939-1950)

Date(s): 1938-1947

Level of description: collection

Extent: 1 folder

Name of creator(s): Wittig | Karl | fl 1939-1950

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

During World War Two, Karl Wittig was a political prisoner in a number of Nazi concentration camps including Sachsenhausen. In the early 1950s Wittig was a key witness in the trial of Otto John, head of the West German Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz), 1950-1954. John was found guilty of spying for the communists as a result of Wittig's evidence.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Copies of papers documenting the time spent by Karl Wittig in concentration camps during the Nazi era, 1938-1947, including letters to his wife and sworn statements, including by Martin Niemöller that he knew Karl Wittig as a political prisoner in Sachsenhausen concentration camp.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: German

System of arrangement:

Arranged and numbered chronologically.

Conditions governing access:

Open

Conditions governing reproduction:

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

Physical characteristics:

Finding aids:

Detailed description on the Wiener Library's online catalogue www.wienerlibrary.co.uk.

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Received 15 May 1988.

ALLIED MATERIALS

Existence and location of originals:

These copy documents are but a small sample of the complete archive, which, according to the depositor, is to be deposited in its entirety at the Institut für Zeitgeschichte in Munich after the death of the 'last person connected to it'.

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
Concentration camps | War crimes | Humanitarian law
Political prisoners | Civil and political rights | Human rights
Third Reich | Nazism | Totalitarianism | Political doctrines

Personal names
Wittig | Karl | fl 1939-1950

Corporate names
Sachsenhausen concentration camp

Places