Chancellery of Adolf Hitler, Berlin Kanzlei des Führers der NSDAP, Adolf Hitler, Berlin (Fond 1355)

Identifier
irn615067
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2004.756.3
  • RG-11.001M.74
Dates
1 Jan 1900 - 31 Dec 1945
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • German
Source
EHRI Partner

Extent and Medium

2 microfilm reels (partial), 16 mm

1,801 digital images, JPEG

Creator(s)

Biographical History

Hitler's Chancellery, officially known as the Kanzlei des Führers der NSDAP ("Chancellery of the Führer of the Nazi Party" was a Nazi Party organization. Also known as the Privatkanzlei des Führers ("Private Chancellery of the Führer"), the agency served as the private chancellery of Adolf Hitler, handling different issues pertaining to matters such as complaints against party officials, appeals from party courts, official judgments, clemency petitions by NSDAP fellows and Hitler's personal affairs. The Chancellery of the Führer was also a key player in the Nazi euthanasia program. The chancellery was established in November 1934 in Berlin as a separate agency, which was parallel to the German Reich Chancellery under Hans Heinrich Lammers and the Nazi Party Chancellery (until 1941: "Staff of the Deputy Führer"), led by Martin Bormann. The Kanzlei des Führers was headed by SS-Obergruppenführer Philipp Bouhler, who bore the title of Chef der Kanzlei des Führers der NSDAP. Originally the agency operated out of their Berlin office at Lützow Ufer.

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 1355. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the filmed collection via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum International Archival Programs Division in 2004.

Scope and Content

The entire collection at the source archive contains correspondence, letters, circulars, instructions, reports, photographs, catalogs of books and art, essays, plays, manuscripts of novels and stories, newspaper clippings of the Chancellery of Adolf Hitler. Includes Hitler's correspondence with private individuals on personal matters, requests for help, letters from members of Jehovah's Witnesses to Hitler with protests against his policy towards Jews (1934), letters to Hitler from abroad with protests against the death penalty to the German Communist Edgar André (1936), Happy Birthday, New Year congratulations, and poems sent to Hitler (1937-1938), lists of employees of German police , who were awarded the medal „In Erinnerung an den 1. Oktober 1938“; a list of persons who received food consignments (December 1944), photo albums and photographs of warfare during WWI and WWII, art and architecture in Germany, a War Diary by Christian Girgue de Richard Jeanion-Saint-Germain (a gift to Hitler); essays by R. Routil "Race and Blood Type", "About the Composition of the Blood of the German people," lists of German professors living in Spain, Portugal, and Latin America, lists of German soldiers who have been awarded Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross, and ant-Soviet propaganda materials, clippings, reports on reception with Hitler, and anti-Soviet posters [Opis 4 (1921-1945), 52 AE] Note: USHMM Archives holds only selected records.

System of Arrangement

Fond 1355 (1900-1945), Opis 1-4; Dela 828. Arranged in four series: 1. Circulars, correspondence, inquires for assistance, printed instruction of NSDAP, and Hitler's addresses [Opis 1 (1925-19450, 37 AE]; 2. Orders and dispositions, congratulation and happy birthday letters, telegrams, etc., poems dedicated to Hitler, protest letters against persecution of Jews, and lists of awarded employees [Opis 2 (1931-1945), 14 AE]; 3. Congratulatory letter and telegrams, photographs, essays relating to blood groups of race and nationality of Hitler’s staff, a list of German professors [Opis 3 (1900-1944), 725 AE]; 4. Hitler's correspondence with private persons, list of German soldiers awarded of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross, speeches, essays, plays, manuscripts of novels and stories, newspaper clippings, reports on reception with Hitler, and anti-Soviet posters [Opis 4 (1921-1945), 52 AE] Note: Location of digital images; Partial microfilm reels #417-418; Reel 417: Image #411-#2197; Reel 418: Reel start-Image #1015.

Conditions Governing Reproduction

Copyright Holder: Rossiĭskiĭ gosudarstvennyĭ voennyĭ arkhiv

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