¹ This article is based on the fifty-nine catalogues which were issued up to the end of 1968. Approximately eighty volumes will have been published when the series is completed around 1970. Letter from George O. Kent to the authors, Washington, D. C, May 19, 1967. A list of the catalogues as of June, 1966, can be found in Publications of the National Archives and Records Service, issued by the National Archives, Washington, D. C. Another guide in the same general series is Ernst, Schwändt, Index of Microfilmed Records of the German Foreign Ministry and the Reich's Chancellery covering the Weimar Period deposited at the National Archives (Washington, D. C.: The National Archives, 1958)Google Scholar. Three catalogues of great value, which list data including sound recordings of the 1930's, are Gerhard L. Weinberg and the War Documentation Project Staff, under the direction of Epstein, Fritz T., Guide to Captured German Documents (Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama: Air University Human Resources Research Institute, 1952)Google Scholar; Weinberg, Gerhard L., Supplement to the Guide to Captured German Documents (Washington, D. C.: The National Archives, 1959)Google Scholar; and Grete, Heinz and Peterson, Agnes F., NSDAP Hauptarchiv. Guide to the Hoover Institution Microfilm Collection. In Hoover Institution Bibliographical Series, Vol. XVII (Stanford, Calif.: The Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace, Stanford University, 1964)Google Scholar. See also U. S. National Archives, List of National Archives Microfilm Publications (Washington, D. C.: The National Archives, 1947-)Google Scholar; U. S. Library of Congress, Union Catalog Division, Newspapers on Microfilm (Washington, D. C.: Library of Congress, 1948-)Google Scholar; Hale, Richard Walden (ed.), Guide to Photocopied Historical Materials in the United States and Canada (Ithaca, N. Y.: Cornell University Press, [1961])Google Scholar; U. S. National Historical Publications Commission, A Guide to Archives and Manuscripts in the United States, edited by Hamer, Philip M. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1961)Google Scholar; Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei, Captured German Documents filmed at Berlin. Index, by Koehl, Robert L. (Washington, D. C.: National Archives and Records Service, 1961)Google Scholar; The National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections, 1959–1961 (Ann Arbor, Mich.: J. W. Edwards, 1962), pp. 261 and 657Google Scholar; National Register of Microform Masters (Washington, D. C.: Library of Congress, 1965-)Google Scholar; and Supplement to the List of National Archives Microfilm Publications 1966 (Washington, D. C.: National Archives and Records Service, General Services Administration, 1967)Google Scholar. A recent undertaking that promises to be of great importance for both German and Austrian history is the microfilming of the German- language press, a project that is presently being carried out by the Mikrofilmarchiv der deutschsprachigen Presse in Dortmund.

² On the Kriegstagebuch as an important historical source, see Walther, Hubatsch, “Das Kriegstagebuch als Geschichtsquelle,” Wehrwissenschaftliche Rundschau, Vol. XV, No. 11 (November, 1965), pp. 615–623Google Scholar. For an introduction to research in Austrian economic history, see Wolfram, Fischer, “Some Recent Developments of Business History in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland,” Business History Review, Vol. XXXVII, No. 4 (Winter, 1963), pp. 416–436Google Scholar.

³ On this important ministry, the Wehrwirtschafts- und Röstungsamt (Wi Rü Amt), see Carroll, Bernice Jacobs, Design for Total War: the Contest for ‘Wehrwirtschaft‘ under the Third Reich (unpublished doctoral dissertation, Brown University, 1960)Google Scholar. For the development of the Austrian armaments industry under German occupation, see Norbert, Schausberger, Geschichte der Rüstungsindustrie auf dem Gebiet der sogenannten Donau- und Alpenreichsgaue 1938–1945 (unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of Vienna, 1967)Google Scholar.

⁴ A useful general introduction to Austrian military history is Unser Heer. 3OO Jahre österreichisches Soldatentum in Krieg und Frieden (Vienna: Fürlinger, 1963)Google Scholar.

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¹⁰ Microfilms of the German foreign ministry archives offering vast documentation on Austro-Hungarian-German diplomatic relations from the Bismarck era through the years of the Third Reich are listed in Committee for the Study of War Documents of the American Historical Association (ed.), A Catalogue of Files and Microfilms of the German Foreign Ministry Archives 1867–1920 ([Oxford: Oxford University Press,] 1959)Google Scholar; United States Department of State, Historical Office, A Catalogue of Files and Microfilms of the German Foreign Ministry Archives 1920–1945, edited by Kent, George O. (4 vols. projected, Stanford, Calif.: The Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace, Stanford University, 1962-)Google Scholar; Great, Britain, Public Record Office, Guide to the Contents of the Public Record Office, Vol. II: State Papers and Departmental Records (London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1963), pp. 45–49Google Scholar; National Archives Accessions, No. 53 (January, 1957), p. 31; The Library of Congress Quarterly Journal of Current Acquisitions, Vol. IX, No. 3 (May, 1952), pp. 145–146Google Scholar; and University of Michigan Library, A Catalogue of German Foreign Ministry Archives 1867–1920 microfilmed at Whaddon Hall for the University of Michigan under the Direction of Howard M. Ehrmann ([Ann Arbor, Mich.]: n. p., 1957)Google Scholar. On the source materials for a history of Jewish exterminations, see Jacob, Robinson and Philip, Friedman, Guide to Jewish History under Nazi Impact. In Yad Washem Martyrs' and Heroes' Memorial Authority, Jerusalem, and Yivo Institute for Jewish Research, New York, Joint Documentary Projects, Bibliographical series, No. 1 (New York: [Yivo Institute for Jewish Research], 1960)Google Scholar; and Blackbook of Localities whose Jewish Population was exterminated by the Nazis ([Jerusalem]: Yad Vashem Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority, 1965), pp. 279–289Google Scholar.

¹¹ The structure of the Nazi party organization in Austria is outlined in the volume published by the NSDAP Reichsorganisationsamt entitled Gau-, Kreis- und Ortsgruppen-Verzeichnis der NSDAP in der Ostmark (Vienna: J. Möller, [c. 1938]). The Library of Congress has a microfilm copy of this rare volume (Microfilm 802 DB)Google Scholar.

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¹³ Material for a history of Austrian-Japanese relations during this period can also be found listed in Uyehara, Cecil H. and Beal, Edwin G., Checklist of Archives in the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Tokyo, Japan, 1868–1945 (Washington, D. C.: Photoduplication Service, Library of Congress, 1954)Google Scholar.

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