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Box 3

 Container

Contains 18 Results:

Indexing of objectionable books, 1945-05-31 - 1945-11-03

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents Memos and routing/ transmittal slips regarding approaches to censorship. Two memos by Karl Burger, Publications Section, Munich Detatchment, regarding "Index Problems" and objections to specific authors, with attached report in German by Erich Schumacher, "Aussprache über die "Index"-Listen" (Debate on the "Index" lists), giving constructive criticism of the book index sytem; an initial or example Index list; a list of poets (identified as blacklisted authors in marginal note by Hans-Joachim...
Dates: 1945-05-31 - 1945-11-03

Party / Verlage / Writers / Publishers, 1945

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents Typed lists including NS publishing houses and their home cities and NS authors and their respective fields, subjects, or genres; letters, memos, and reports regarding the printer/publisher Joseph Seitz and his applications to publish newspapers and textbooks in Bavaria, 1936-1945; memo dated 1945-07-01 to District Information Service Control Command, SHAEF, "Report of Press Reconnaissance Team for Regensburg, Straubing, Wurzburg, and Aschaffensberg, Germany area", providing background and...
Dates: 1945

Journalism in Munich, 1946 - 1948

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 7
Scope and Contents Memo from Chief of Press Branch Ernest Langendorff dated 1946-12-04 requesting a series of lectures to be delivered by ICD personnel at the Munich School of Journalism, with a list of suggested personnel and topics for each; typed and written notes on possible essays or addresses by Isenstead and other "Amerikaner in Deutschland"; letter from the "Vorbildungskurse für Journalisten in München" dated 1948-01-05 regarding the syllabus and schedule of lectures that semester to be held in the...
Dates: 1946 - 1948

List / Nationalistic / Militaristic / Imperialistic / Publications, 1946 - 1947

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents

Extensive undated lists of publishing firms and authors and associated persons with addresses and employers; list IIIa and IIIb, authors of novels, stories, and poetry; list IV, authors of literature, music, and theater studies; list of Nazi publications.

Dates: 1946 - 1947

Name lists, 1946

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents

Letter from Rudolf Schneider-Schelde, President of "Schutzverband deutscher Schriftsteller" (Association for the Protection of German Writers), dated 1946-07-11, with attached lists of directors and administrators of the organization; letter from the office of the mayor of Munich dated 1946-07-06 with three attached lists of writers, professional and non-professional, free-lance, acceptable and unsuitable writers.

Dates: 1946

Memos and reports, 1945

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents Letter from HQ, Regional Military Government Bavaria, dated August 18, with an attached report in German and English regarding a request from Mathilde Ludendorff for the collection and confiscation of her and her husband's booksas being of value to the study of sources of National Socialism and antisemitism; report dated September 20 regarding "Das Manuskript Kuby-Weilheim (Gedanken zu Deutscchlands Lage und Zukunft)"; letter to Lieutenant Brill at Radio Munich Broadcast House dated October...
Dates: 1945

Memos and reports, 1947 - 1948

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 6
Scope and Contents Memo from the Hessisches Staatsministerium (Ministry of State, Hesse) dated 1947-06-07 by Robert Werner reporting on political reeducation at the internment camp at Darmstadt that was initiated on March 1 that year; a memo by Isenstead dated 1947-12-02 to various ICD detachments regarding the "Munich Brief", an appeal by Bavarian Minister for Food and Argiculture Dr. Josef Baumgartner and the president of the Bavarian Farmers Association Dr. Rothermel regarding the distribution of potatoes...
Dates: 1947 - 1948

Ernst Wiechert, 1945 - 1951

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 8
Scope and Contents Memos, letters, notes, reports, and ephemera regarding the author Ernst Wiechert; includes a typed transcript of an interrrogation of Wiechert dated 1945-12-03, restricted copies of an undated letter by Eithne Wilkins to Ernst Wiechert; typed address, presumably by Isenstead, in honor of Wiechert's 60th birthday; typed copies of a letter by Isenstead to Wiechert dated 1947-05-18; letter by Wiechert to Isenstead dated 1946-03-21 forwarding a threat he had received by mail and requesting a...
Dates: 1945 - 1951

Bavarian Political Roundup, 1947

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 9
Scope and Contents

Two typed draft reports by Isenstead dated September 25 to October 13 and October 14 to October 27 summarizing events of political import such as the arrest and escape of Alfred Loritz, former head of the Economic Reconstruction Party and third minister for denazification in Bavaria.

Dates: 1947

Kurt Desch München, 1945 - 1947

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 10
Scope and Contents

Retrospective report on the publishing house of Kurt Desch, "Zwei Jahre Verlagsarbeit 1945-1947".

Dates: 1945 - 1947

Erich Dethleffsen, 1951-10-15

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 11
Scope and Contents

Speech delivered before the Institute fuer Politik, Frankfurt University, "There Is No Neutrality For Us", 11 pages.

Dates: Event: 1951-10-15

Friedrich Glum, 1950-06-14

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 12
Scope and Contents

Typed lecture by Professor Glum delivered in the "Sommersemester 1950" at the University of Münich, stamped "Received 16 Okt. 1950 Intelligence Branch", 21 pages.

Dates: Event: 1950-06-14

Hans von Hülsen, 1947

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 13
Scope and Contents

Bound typed manuscript titled "Gerichtstag: Sonette Wider Satanas by Hans von Hülsen.

Dates: 1947

Herbert Hupka, 1948-07-22

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 14
Scope and Contents

Typed copy of an (presumably radio) address, "Kommentar von Dr. Herbert Hupka zum Fall von Edwin Erich Dwinger", 6 pages, sent to Isenstead.

Dates: Event: 1948-07-22

Erich Isenstead, 1947

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 15
Scope and Contents

Typed copies of an undated address by Isenstead, with a routing slip and notes by Lt. Lynd of OMGUS / ICD dated September 30, and written corrections on the original; includes a typed corrected copy.

Dates: 1947

Isenstead (continued), 1947 - 1951

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 16
Scope and Contents

Essays and addresses by Isenstead; includes essays "Responsibity of the German People in the Present War", "Demokratie", and "Dositos, oder Das Vorwort".

Dates: 1947 - 1951

Ernst Jünger, 1948

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 17
Scope and Contents

Typed manuscript by Jünger titled "Der Friede: Ein Wort an die Jugend Europas Ein Wort an die Jugend der Welt". A front note concerning the origins of the manuscript is dated 1944-04-04; the book was published in 1948.

Dates: 1948

Arnold Krieger, 1948

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 18
Scope and Contents

Undated typed copies of an 8-page letter from author Arnold Krieger to Isenstead as "Der Richter ohne Urteil und die Vollstreckung".

Dates: 1948