Germany

Content Description Research files and notes, transcriptions and translations, government documents, microfilm, photographs, and archival film footage and sound recordings compiled by Beck in the course of conducting research for his dissertation on the life of General der Artillerie [Lt. Gen.] Friedrich von Boetticher and his service as German military attaché in Washington, D.C., 1933-1941. Beck’s original dissertation, "The Ambivalent Attaché (1977, Ph.D. in History, Georgetown University) explored the...

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The collection contains general instructions for interpreters employed at the Nuremberg military tribunals, as well as typed transcripts from several sessions. It also includes a report on Dresdner Bank and a newspaper clipping on denazification in German.

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The collections documents the career of Heinrich Kronstein, including his teaching career at Georgetown University and as a counsellor to officials in post-World War II Germany. The bulk of the collection is in German, particuarly the correspondence.

Please see the External Documents section below to view an inventory to this collection.

Scope and Contents The papers of George Crew McGhee (1912-2005), geologist, oil producer, and diplomat. The papers includes files from McGhee's appointment as the first Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern, South Asian and African Affairs (1949-1951), United States ambassadorships to Turkey (1951-1953) and Germany (1963-1968), as well as his extensive involvement in numerous organizations and committees such as the Combined Raw Materials Board, the Bilderberg Group, the Draper Committee, the Committee...

Scope and Contents The Leland B. Morris Papers include correspondence, a State Department questionnaire, a receipt dating from 1941-1942, and a letter to Leland B. Morris' wife, Marie, dated 1952. Morris' correspondence primarily concerns Germany in 1941. Highlights include Morris' account of Joachim von Ribbentrop declaring a state of war between Germany and the United States on December 11th, 1941, and a copy of Ribbentrop's declaration. The collection also includes a long, completed questionnaire...

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The NSDAP (Nazi Party) Collection consists of 228 items, including photographs, cigarette cards, correspondence, ID cards, stamps, membership books, pins, and more.

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Scope and Contents Collection of papers and photographs owned by Octavio Paranagua, including typescripts, research notes on economics, photographs, postcards, and a letter related to the settling of Jewish refugees in Brazil.The typescripts are related to international economics and the collection also includes an unopened copy of Politique Commerciale Internationale by Paranagua.The photographs (prints and negatives) in the collection are personal in nature and they include images of...

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The collection contains photographs documenting the Nuremberg Trials, as well as caricatures of the following individuals: Francis Biddle, Hjalmar Schacht, Rudolf Hess, Walther Funk, Fritz Sauckel, Karl Dönitz, Wilhelm Keitel, and others. Two of the drawings appear to be signed by someone named "Sperber" (possibly Karel Sperber).

Some of the photographs were produced by the Associated Press and the U.S. Army--others are unattributed.