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Austrian Anschluss: Papers relating to a TV documentary


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 1556 WL 1057

Held at: Wiener Library

Title: Austrian Anschluss: Papers relating to a TV documentary

Date(s): 1980s

Level of description: Collection level (fonds)

Extent: 2 boxes

Name of creator(s): ZDF Television

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

These papers were created during the course of the making of a film about the Austrian Anschluss (1938), which was shown on the German television station, ZDF, in 1988.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

The Austrian Anschluss papers, 1980s, comprise records created during the making of a documentary about the Anschluss and most notably comprise transcripts of interviews of a variety of people who experienced the Austrian Anschluss (1938) ranging from modern well-known personalities, former resistance members, former Nazis and diplomats, c 1987 (1057/1-2). The remainder of the collection includes notes on the programme design, biographical notes and cuttings on the interviewees c 1987 (1057/3-9).

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: German

System of arrangement:

Transcript interviews alphabetically by name of interviewee.

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:

Lutz Becker

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
Austrian history | European history | National history
Documentary films | Films
German history | European history | National history
Interviews | Field work | Research work
Nazism | Totalitarianism | Political doctrines

Personal names

Corporate names
ZDF Television

Places