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Documentation of the Ministry for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda (Reichsministerium für Volksaufklärung und Propaganda), Germany, 1934-1944

Documentation of the Ministry for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda (Reichsministerium für Volksaufklärung und Propaganda), Germany, 1934-1944 The ministry was established by law, on 13 March 1933, and received its authority by virtue of an order published, 30 June 1933; its areas of responsibility were defined as Geistigen Einwirkung auf die Nation, der Werbung fuer Staat, Kultur und Wirtschaft, der Unterrichtung der Oeffentlichkeit (emotional impact on the nation, the advertising for State, Culture and Economy, information to the public: The materials that reached Yad Vashem include correspondence...

Type of Material : Survey Report, Official Documentation

Language : German

Two urgent telegrams sent to Berndt, the Ministerialdirektor (Department Director) in the Propaganda Ministry in Berlin, by the Propaganda Division of the Generalgouvernement in Krakow, 1943, regarding the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Signature of Ohlenbusch on the telegrams; - Telegram notifying of [the receipt of] telegrams reporting on the uprising that occurred in the Warsaw Ghetto, sent on 30 April 1943; - Telegram notifying regarding the breaking of the rebels' resistance on the ground and the increase of the "battle of the bunkers", information regarding the German forces that are acting to suppress...

File Number : 401

Type of Material : Survey Report, Official Documentation

Language : German

M.59- documentation from the US National Archives

M.59- Alexandria Collection: Nazi documentation from the US National Archives The Record Group contains Nazi documentation confiscated by the US Army and transferred to the US National Archives in Alexandria, Virginia, USA. The documentation includes documents from German government offices, Nazi organizations (including the Nazi party), SS Headquarters and the German Police, as well as German Army units on various levels, from Army Groups to Divisions. Additionally, copies of documentation regarding the persecution of the Jews of Germany, some of them from Nuremberg Trial files, have been transferred to...

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : German

Printed advertisement for an anti-Jewish publication in serial form, Theodor Fritsch Publishers, in Berlin, together with the Reich Ministry for Propaganda, 1939

Printed advertisement for an anti-Jewish publication in serial form, Theodor Fritsch Publishers, in Berlin, together with the Reich Ministry for Propaganda, 1939 The series was planned to contain 6 booklets.

File Number : 44

Type of Material : Propaganda, Caricatures, Announcement

Language : German

Report from the representative of the office of the Reich Ministry of Propaganda and People's Education in Koenigsberg to the office in Berlin dated 23/9/1943, on the liquidation of the Bialystok ghetto on 16/8/1943

A report sent by a representative of the office of the Reich Ministry of Propaganda and People's Education in Koenigsberg to the office in Berlin on September 23, 1943; The report describes the process of liquidating the Bialystok ghetto that began on August 16, 1943; armed resistance of the Jews in the Bialystok ghetto; the shooting death of a large number of those who resisted; the death of nine Germans in the fighting, sealing the ghetto area and declaring it Judenfrei on September 8, 1943.

File Number : 329

Type of Material : Reports

Language : German

Benjamin Sagalowitz Archive: Newspaper clippings regarding the trial of Wolfgang Diewerge, advisor on Jewish affairs in Goebbels' Propaganda Ministry, held in Essen, 1965-1966

Benjamin Sagalowitz Archive: Newspaper clippings regarding the trial of Wolfgang Diewerge, advisor on Jewish affairs in Goebbels' Propaganda Ministry, held in Essen, 1965-1966 In the file: Newspaper clippings and articles regarding events following the murder of the German diplomat, Ernst von Rath, by Herschel Grynszpan, a young Jew, and the part that Diewerge played in the Kristallnacht events, which followed in the wake of the murder, and the incitement of antisemitism among the German population; - Survey by Lucien Steinberg, "German Documents Regarding the Grynszpan Affair", which appeared in "Le...

File Number : 188

Type of Material : Research Article, Newspaper Clippings

Language : French, German

Report of Magunia Waldemar, born in Königsberg, Prussia, 1902, regarding his activities as General Reichskommissariat for the district of Kiev, Ukraine, February 1942-summer 1944

Report of Magunia Waldemar, born in Königsberg, Prussia, 1902, regarding his activities as General Reichskommissariat for the district of Kiev, Ukraine, February 1942-summer 1944 Survey report of activities including: - Civil administration in the occupied territories; personal experiences as a General Commissioner; assessment of military, political and economic issues; underestimating the Soviet Union's military and political capabilities; trial and error; Criticism of Reich activities including: - Delegation of non-party clerks to the East; lack of a disciplinary law; critique of the prevailing brown...

File Number : 198

Type of Material : Survey Report

Language : German

Testimony of Hanna Johanna (Memelsdorff) Marcus, born in Samter, Germany, 1886, regarding the "Juedisches Nachrichtenblatt" Jewish weekly newspaper published in Berlin, November 1938-October 1939, and testimony of Dr. Fritz Simon Neumann, born in Berlin, Germany, 1891, regarding the Jews associated with the Mitteldeutsche Bodenkreditanstalt (mortgage bank) in Berlin, 1933-1936 Pages 2 - 7 Hanna Marcus - Biography of Hanna Marcus until 1933; her work as part of the administration of the "Juedische Rundschau" (Jewish weekly newspaper), 1934-November 1938, and as manager of the building at Meinekestrasse...

File Number : 136

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Testimony

Language : German

Testimony of Hanna Johanna (Memelsdorff) Marcus, born in Samter, Germany, 1886, regarding the "Juedisches Nachrichtenblatt" Jewish weekly newspaper published in Berlin, November 1938-October 1939

Testimony of Hanna Johanna (Memelsdorff) Marcus, born in Samter, Germany, 1886, regarding the "Juedisches Nachrichtenblatt" Jewish weekly newspaper published in Berlin, November 1938-October 1939 - Biography of Hanna Marcus until 1933; her work as part of the administration of the "Juedische Rundschau" (Jewish weekly newspaper), 1934-November 1938, and as manager of the building at Meinekestrasse 10 which housed the Zionistische Vereinigung fuer Deutschland (ZVfD -Zionist Federation of Germany), the Palaestina-Amt (Palestine Office), the "Juedischer Rundschau", the "Hechalutz" youth movement and other...

File Number : 36

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Testimony

Language : Hebrew, German

Instruction to delete the name of Siegfried Marcus from the encyclopedia volumes in which he is recorded as the creator of the first automobile and to replace his name with the names of two German engineers, 1940

- an instruction from the Ministry of Popular Education and Propaganda, July 1940, to delete the name of Siegfried Marcus from the encyclopedia volumes in which he is recorded as the creator of the automobile and to replace his name with the names of two German engineers because he is Jewish (including translation into Hebrew). Also in the file: letter from the submitter to Yad Vashem, 2011, in which he explains the historical falsification by Nazi Germany of the identity of the creator of the first automobile.

File Number : 525

Type of Material : Instruction

Language : German

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