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Searching for Lost Archives: The Role of the Deutsche Arbeitsfront in the Pillage of West European Trade-Union Archives

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 December 2008

Karl Heinz Roth
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International Review of Social History , Volume 34 , Issue 2 , August 1989 , pp. 272 - 286
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Copyright © Internationaal Instituut voor Sociale Geschiedenis 1989

References

1 IISG, Inventory IFTU 1919–1953, Introduction.

2 See the unsigned and undated confidential “Schlussbericht über die Einsatzergebnisse der Gruppe Archivwesen in der Militärverwaltung Frankreich 1940–1944”, National Archives Washington, RG 239, Box 25.

3 See the letter from “Referat Partei” in the German foreign office dated March 4, 1941, on social democratic organizations. Politisches Archiv des Auswärtigen Amts, Bonn, Bestand Inland I Partei, bundle 49/3.

4 “Das Zentral-Archiv der Deutschen Arbeitsfront - eine Stätte dokumentarischer Tatbestände des sozialen Geschehens”, in: Arbeitswissenschaftliches Institut (ed.), Wirtschafts- und Sozialberichte, no. 1–2, 05 1944, p. 42.Google Scholar

5 Ibid., p. 42.

6 See excerpted copy of a letter from Marcel Mitschke, former lecturer of the Arbeitswissenschaftliches Institut of the DAF, to the Bundesarchiv Koblenz dated July 10, 1953.

7 In doing so the entire central archives may have been evacuated, because the Arbeitswissenschaftliches Institut building was in extreme danger of being bombed because of its central position. In any case it still existed in the Spring of 1944, because only on this assumption is the self-description of the archives of May 1944 (see note 4) comprehensible.

8 Location of documents. Documents 1 and 6: Politisches Archiv des Auswärtigen Amts, Bonn [henceforth: P A A], Bestand Inland I Partei, bundle 49/3. Documents 3,4, and 5: PAA, Bestand Inland I Partei, bundle 50/2. Document 7: Hamburger Stiftung für Sozialgeschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts, (ed.), Sozialstrategien der Deutschen Arbeitsfront, Part B, section l: Periodika des Arbeitswissenschaftlichen Instituts der DAF, microfiche 5/12, pp. 1120Google Scholar ff.