Correspondence with Lamm, Hans
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Biographical History
Dr Hans Lamm (1913-1985) was a publicist and representative of German Jewry. He had left Nazi Germany in 1938 and moved to the US. Upon his return in 1945 he served as translator at the Nuremberg trials. Later he taught at the Volkshochschule in Munich and held leading positions at the Central Council of Jews in Germany, the Jewish Community in Munich and other organisations. A prolific writer, he published several books on German Jewry.
See Röder, W. and H. Strauss (ed.), Biographisches Handbuch der deutschsprachigen Emigration nach 1933, vol. 1: Politik, Wirtschaft, öffentliches Leben, Munich, Saur, 1980, p. 410.
Scope and Content
Correspondence on various subjects including among others: the acquisition of Lamm’s doctoral thesis; options of participation in the Dokumentenwerk project, an edition of documents on the persecution of Jews in the Nazi era the Library was working on at the time; problems of publishing a book in Eugen Kogon’s publishing house Frankfurter Hefte.
The correspondence further centres on enquiries by Lamm for bibliographic information and access to source material. The latter refers to some projects he was working on including a book project about German president Theodor Heuss, a TV show on the November Pogrom from 1938 or a planned translation of Raul Hilberg’s groundbreaking study on The Destruction of European Jews (all 1963).
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People
- Hilberg, Raul
- Weltsch, Robert
- Lamm, Hans
- Kogon, Eugen
- Heuss, Theodor
Subjects
- Refugees
- Publishing
- Postwar
- Jews
Places
- West Germany [1949-1990]