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NSDAP Gauleitung Westfalen-Nord (North Rhine-Westphalia): circulars and information sheets (1941)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 1556 WL 841

Held at: Wiener Library

Title: NSDAP Gauleitung Westfalen-Nord (North Rhine-Westphalia): circulars and information sheets (1941)

Date(s): 1941

Level of description: collection

Extent: 1 folder

Name of creator(s): National Socialist German Workers Party x Nazi Party

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

The Nazi party disseminated information to the regional and area offices such as NSDAP Westfalen-Nord.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Information sheets and circulars disseminating information and instructions from the Nazi party hierarchy, via the regional offices of the NSDAP Gauleitung Westfalen-Nord (North Rhine-Westphalia) to lower level officials, 2 Apr 1941-25 Aug 1941. Topics include orders on the evacuation of women and children; instructions regarding restrictions of Mischlinge and Gypsies and advice on how to deal with enemy propaganda.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: German

System of arrangement:

The material has been arranged chronologically, ranging in date from April through to August 1941 with gaps between issues. The first 5 items are Informationen, information sheets in which each item is numbered, continuing into subsequent issues. The last 3 items are Rundschreiben, circulars, with a slightly different format but containing essentially the same kind of information.

Conditions governing access:

Open

Conditions governing reproduction:

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

Physical characteristics:

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

Related material:

Publication note:

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
German history | European history | National history
Gypsies | Ethnic groups
Jews | Religious groups
Propaganda | Persuasion | Communication process
Third Reich | Nazism | Totalitarianism | Political doctrines
Racial discrimination

Personal names

Corporate names
National Socialist German Workers Party x Nazi Party

Places
North Rhine-Westphalia | Germany | Western Europe | Europe