Correspondence regarding Dokumentenwerk - with Institut für Zeitgeschichte - Mommsen, Hans

Identifier
WL3000/9/1/22
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 109326
Dates
29 Apr 1961 - 14 Mar 1963
Level of Description
Collection
Languages
  • German
Source
EHRI Partner

Creator(s)

  • Institut für Zeitgeschichte

Biographical History

Beginning in 1954 The Wiener Library and the Institute for Contemporary History (IfZ) in Munich worked jointly on an edition of documents (Dokumentenwerk) regarding the persecution of Jews in the Nazi era. Initiated by the Ministry of Interior (BMI) and funded by the Federal Agency for Homeland Service (BHD) this project was part of larger journalistic endeavors by these two authorities to fight and prevent Antisemitism in West Germany. Due to ongoing problems the Dokumentenwerk was cancelled eventually in May 1963.

Dr Hans Mommsen (1930-2015) was a German historian, and internationally regarded scholar on National Socialism. The later university professor worked as IfZ researcher from 1960-63, and had been recruited for research and editorial works on the Dokumentenwerk.

Scope and Content

The correspondence documents the last stage of the Dokumentenwerk project, focusing on Mommsen’s contribution, i.e. a revision and completion of existing parts of the manuscript on the Nazi persecution of Jews. The letters address different methodological approaches to the topic as well as general delays related to Mommsen’s leave from the IfZ.

The correspondence contains two versions of a memo on a meeting between Alfred Wiener, Johann Wolfgang Brügel, Helmut Krausnick, and Mommsen (1961), two internal notes by Eva Reichmann und Brügel on Mommsen’s work (1961), an unsigned memo on conversations with Krausnick and Mommsen in Munich (1962), and an undated handwritten calculation on project expenses.

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Related Units of Description

  • See the numerous correspondences on the Dokumentenwerk project within the Pre-1963 Correspondence series.

People

  • Mommsen, Hans

Subjects

  • Vergangenheitsbewältigung
  • Publishing
  • Libraries and Archives
  • Jewish history
  • Historiography
  • German-Jewish dialogue
  • Antisemitism, defence against

Places

  • West Germany [1949-1990]
  • England
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