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Waffen SS recruitment office: recruitment from higher and technical schools

IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 1556 WL 780

Held at: Wiener Library

Title: Waffen SS recruitment office: recruitment from higher and technical schools

Date(s): 1941

Level of description: collection

Extent: 1 item

Name of creator(s): Waffen SS Fulda-Werra regional recruitment office

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

The Waffen-SS was the combat arm of the Schutzstaffel or SS. In contrast to the Wehrmacht, Germany's regular army, the Waffen-SS was an elite combat unit composed of volunteer troops with particularly strong personal commitments to Nazi ideology.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Letter from the Waffen SS Fulda-Werra regional recruitment office to the regional chief administrators seeking permission to recruit from the higher and technical schools, 16 Jan 1941.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: German

System of arrangement:

N/A

Conditions governing access:

Open

Conditions governing reproduction:

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

Physical characteristics:

A number of names in the document have been blotted out.

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

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Archivist's note: Entry compiled by Sarah Drewery.