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Nazi Foreign Office: Murder of Hungarian Jews


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 1556 WL 846

Held at: Wiener Library

Title: Nazi Foreign Office: Murder of Hungarian Jews

Date(s): 1944

Level of description: collection

Extent: 1 folder

Name of creator(s): German Foreign Office

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Unknown

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Copy of a letter from the head of a section in the German Foreign Office in Berlin, Wagner to Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Head of Security Police, 5 Jul 1944, containing a German translation of an intercepted telegram from the British Legation in Bern to the British Foreign Office, London. The latter contains an account of the systematic murder of millions of European Jews by the Nazis with particular reference to the fate of the Hungarian Jewish population.

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:

Finding aids:

Detailed description on the Wiener Library's online catalogue www.wienerlibrary.co.uk.

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Received Jul 1986.

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
Holocaust | Genocide | War crimes | Humanitarian law
Jews | Religious groups
Occupied territories | Humanitarian law
Third Reich | Nazism | Totalitarianism | Political doctrines
World War Two (1939-1945) | World wars (events) | Wars (events)

Personal names
Kaltenbrunner | Ernst | 1903-1946 | Nazi

Corporate names
Foreign Office x Foreign and Commonwealth Office
German Foreign Office
SS x Schutzstaffel

Places
Berlin | Germany | Western Europe | Europe
Bern | Switzerland | Western Europe | Europe
Hungary | Eastern Europe
London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe