Correspondence with Deutsches Institut fur Zeitgeschichte (DIZ)

Identifier
3000/9/1/329
Language of Description
English
Level of Description
File
Languages
  • German
Source
EHRI Partner

Extent and Medium

45 letters

Biographical History

The (DIZ) was an East German archive, library and research institute for contemporary history. Founded in East Berlin in 1949 it was dissolved in 1971, and its stock was merged in a newly established superior institution.

Scope and Content

The correspondence, mainly with DIZ director and survivor of Buchenwald concentration camp Walter Bartel, centres on the exchange of information material. Besides, light is thrown on the Library’s contribution to the document edition (published 1960) as well as on two visits of Alfred Wiener to the DIZ. Contained are notes on the value of the DIZ collections as well as on the political bias of its periodical.

Conditions Governing Access

open

People

  • Bartel, Walter

Corporate Bodies

  • Deutsches Institut für Zeitgeschichte

Subjects

Places

  • East Berlin
  • Berlin, East
  • East Germany [1949-1990]
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