IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 1556 WL 1360
Held at: Wiener Library
Title: Nazis in Greece
Date(s): 1940s-1990s
Level of description: collection
Extent: 15 boxes
Name of creator(s): Mazower | Mark | b 1958 | historian
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
The Axis occupation of Greece during World War Two began Apr 1941 following the German and Italian invasion of Greece, together with Bulgarian forces. It lasted until the German withdrawal from the mainland, Oct 1944. In some cases however, such as in Crete and other islands, German garrisons remained in control until May-Jun 1945.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Copies of primary and secondary sources from archives in USA, Germany, Greece and Great Britain on the Nazi occupation of Greece and the persecution of Greece's Jewish population, used by Mark Mazower for his book, Inside Hitler's Greece: The Experience of Occupation, 1941-1944, (Yale University Press, 1993). Mark Mazower provides a commentary on the sources and their value in the chapter 'Notes on Sources'.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English, German, French, Italian, Greek
System of arrangement:
Unsorted
Conditions governing access:
Open
Conditions governing reproduction:
Contact archives of origin.
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:
Mark Mazower
ALLIED MATERIALS
Existence and location of originals:
NARA USA; Bundesarchiv, Koblenz, Germany; The National Archives, UK.
Publication note:
Mazower, Mark, Inside Hitler's Greece: The Experience of Occupation, 1941-1944, (Yale University Press, 1993).
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: February 2008