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Kraschutski, Heinrich Richard Albrecht (fl 1939-1945)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 1556 WL 838

Held at: Wiener Library

Title: Kraschutski, Heinrich Richard Albrecht (fl 1939-1945)

Date(s): 1944

Level of description: collection

Extent: 1 folder

Name of creator(s): Emergency-Bureau for the Rescue of German Anti-Nazi Refugees
British Foreign Office

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Heinrich Richard Albrecht Kraschutski, was commander in the German navy, 1914-1918, becoming a prominent figure in the pacifist movement in Germany after the First World War, and co-editor of the pacifist weekly, Das Andere Deutschland, the publication of which was regarded as particularly pernicious and treacherous by the Reichswehr because of its disclosures of violations of the disarmament clauses of the Treaty of Versailles. He went to Majorca and together with a small group of other anti-Nazi refugees opened a little workshop of arts and crafts at Palma. When the Franco coup succeeded in Majorca the Royal Navy brought most anti-Nazi exiles to safety but local German Nazis managed to prevent the rescue of Kraschutski, who was forbidden by the Spanish police from embarking. After 1940 any trace of Kraschutski was lost until early 1944 when he was discovered to be in a Spanish jail.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Copies of correspondence, 9 Feb 1944-4 Jun 1944, between the Emergency-Bureau for the Rescue of German Anti-Nazi Refugees and the British Foreign Office regarding the fate of Heinrich Richard Albrecht Kraschutski and documenting the attempts made to effect the passage of Kraschutski into safe hands.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Original order

Conditions governing access:

Open

Conditions governing reproduction:

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

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

Existence and location of originals:

Most of the originals of these copy letters are at The National Archives. They bear the Foreign Office class mark.

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
Political prisoners | Civil and political rights | Human rights
Refugees | Migrants
World War Two (1939-1945) | World wars (events) | Wars (events)

Personal names
Kraschutski | Heinrich Richard Albrecht | fl 1939-1945 | German pacifist

Corporate names
Emergency-Bureau for the Rescue of German Anti-Nazi Refugees
Foreign Office x Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Places
Spain | Western Europe | Europe