Federal Chancellor's Office, Vienna Bundeskanzleramt, Wien (Fond 515)
Extent and Medium
2 microfilm reels (partial), 35 mm
1,909 digital images, JPEG
Creator(s)
- Austria. Bundeskanzleramt
Archival History
Rossiĭskiĭ gosudarstvennyĭ voennyĭ arkhiv
Acquisition
Forms part of the Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. This archive consists of documentation whose reproduction and/or acquisition was made possible with funding from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
Source of acquisition is the Russian State Military Archive (Rossiĭskiĭ gosudarstvennyĭ voennyĭ arkhiv), Osobyi Archive, Fond 515. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the filmed collection via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum International Archival Programs Division in 2002.
Scope and Content
Reports by Austrian envoys abroad in Prague, Berlin, Cairo, and Stuttgart on various subjects; reports by the Viennese police; letters and reports to Kurt Schuschnigg (chancellor of Austria, 1934-1938); a draft law on Austrian/German border issues; correspondence regarding Austrian refugees; surveys of the German press; illegal German bulletin "Deutscher Nachrichtendienst", 1936-39; and correspondence regarding biographical data for Hitler and his relatives. Note: USHMM Archives holds only selected records.
System of Arrangement
Arranged in two series: 1. Fond 515, Opis 1 and Opis 2: Reports, letters, and notes, 1933-1939; 2. Fond 515, Opis 3: Correspondence and press survey, 1935-1939. Note: Location of digital images; Partial microfilm reels #376-377; Reel 376: Image #480-Reel end; Reel 377: Reel start-Image #208.
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Copyright Holder: Rossiĭskiĭ gosudarstvennyĭ voennyĭ arkhiv
People
- Austria. Bundeskanzleramt
- Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945.
- Schuschnigg, Kurt, 1897-1977.
Corporate Bodies
- Nazi Party
Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Austria.
- Stuttgart (Germany)
- Antisemitism--Austria--History--20th century.
- Cairo (Egypt)--History.
- Berlin (Germany)
- Executive departments.
- Vienna (Austria)
- Jewish refugees--Austria--Vienna--History--20th century.
- Austria.
- Prague (Czech Republic)
Genre
- Notes.
- Reports.
- Document
- Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.)
- Correspondence.
- Letters.
- Bulletins.