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Documentation of the Reich Student Leadership-National Socialist German Students' League (Reichsstudentenfuehrung-Nationalsozialistischer Deutscher Studentenbund), Germany, 1927-1944

Documentation of the Reich Student Leadership-National Socialist German Students' League (Reichsstudentenfuehrung-Nationalsozialistischer Deutscher Studentenbund), Germany, 1927-1944 The National Socialist Students' League was established, in 1926, as a branch of the Nazi Party. It obtained great support among the students, and won the leadership of the National Students Union in Germany, in 1931, increasing in power with the rise of the Nazis to power, and in May 1933, it organized a public book burning campaign which opposed "the German spirit"; in October 1935, the union became the only students' union in...

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : German

Memoirs of Dr. Max Geffner, born in western Ukraine in 1904, regarding his experiences in Vienna, Austria during 1914-1940

Memoirs of Dr. Max Geffner, born in western Ukraine in 1904, regarding his experiences in Vienna, Austria during 1914-1940 Memoirs written in 1940 when he is in London, in a booklet titled "My life in Vienna before and after the Anschluss"; arrival of Max Geffner to Vienna at the age of ten, after he became blind due to an eye injury from a rock thrown at him in the town where his father was an agriculturalist; transfer to the Jewish Institute for the Blind in the capital city; studies and training as a teacher at the Jewish Institute for the Blind; hardships due to being blind and due to being a Jew in...

File Number : 10700

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : German

Various materials collected by Professor Gerhard Simonsohn, including copies of articles from the Third Reich period, official letters, posters, quotations and a list of bibliographical sources concerning the student community, higher education, and the science of physics in Nazi Germany Vol. One: The student community and institutions of higher learning in Germany before the Nazi rise to power, and during the first years following: - Der Nationalsocialistische Deutsche Studentenbund - NSDStB (The German Union of Nationalist-Socialist Students), 1926-1933; - The student community in Germany following...

File Number : 720

Type of Material : Newspaper Clippings, Article(s), List(s), Text(s), Poster, Bibliography, Official Documentation

Language : German

Memoirs of Mr. Wand, born in Vienna, Austria, regarding his experiences in pre-war Europe and escape to America

Memoirs of Mr. Wand, born in Vienna, Austria, regarding his experiences in pre-war Europe and escape to America, written in April 1999 - His parents Paul and Hermine Wand and brother Fred; Orthodox way of life of the family in Vienna; grandparents and other relatives; father's job as a travelling salesman; studies at Technical University, harassment of Jewish students from their Nazi schoolmates; job in the insurance business. - German occupation of Austria, 1938; persecution of Jews, different fates of his relatives; fake certificate of baptism, attempts to leave Europe; escape to Abbazia, Italy, with...

File Number : 8958

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : English