Size: 1.15 linear feet. [3 boxes]
Scope
The material consists mostly of correspondence among members of the NSDAP (Nationalsozialistiche Deutsches Arbiterspartei) and with Hitler's adjutants Wiedemann and Bruckner. Original material from Hitler himself is limited and of no real contextual importance (birthday wishes, New Year's wishes, thanks for wishes made unto him, etc.). There are a few letters concerning Nazi "Judenpolitik" (Jewish policy), some regarding arrests and camp conditions, others concerning scandalous associations with Jews. Military concerns are few and interspersed throughout. The majority of the material, mostly directed to Hitler, consists of wishes of health, happy birthdays, thank you's. Most of the Nazi officers present at the Nuremburg Trials are featured in the xcollection.
Originally housed in six boxes, the Hitler collection is now contained in three. Photocopies of original documents were filed separately, along with summary translations. The copies were discarded and translations were placed with the originals. Most documents have translations, some more accurate than others; hand-written correspondence remains for the most part untranslated as the script is a difficult cursive fraktur.
The collection also contains photographs of all types -- at the front, posed officer portraits, and celebrity portraits. There are envelopes holding postcards, ration stamps, Nazi armbands, stamps, passports, Hitler Jugend identification booklets, military identification cards and a race identification kit. Hitler's last will and testament is also present as a photostat.
Provenance: Material in this collection was given to the Library in two accessions. Accession AM19843 was given by the firm Hamill & Barker in 1969 and accession AM13387 by Colonel Given in February 1946.
Photocopying, Literary Rights, and Citation: Single photocopies
may be made for research purposes. Permission to publish material from
the collection must be requested from the Associate University Librarian
for Rare Books and Special Collections. The Library has no information
on the status of literary rights in the collection and researchers are
responsible for determining any question of copyright. Citations should
be as follows: The Hitler Collection, Box #. Used by permission of Princeton
University Libraries.
The Hitler Collection is divided into five series:
Series I: Correspondence (1914-1945)
Series II: Legal Documents (1917-1945)
Series III: Memorabilia (ca. 1930-1945)
Series IV: Miscellaneous (1914-1945)
Series V: Photographs (1940-1945).
Series I: Correspondence (1914-1945) contains correspondence to/from Adolf Hitler and from members and officers of the NSDAP. Correspondence is arranged alphabetically by last name of author (or, in some cases the recipient) within each subseries.
Series II: Legal Documents (1917-1945) consists of bonds and ration coupons issued by the Deutschen Reichs, passports of members of the NSDAP as well as photocopies of Hitler's Political Testament, Private Will, and papers relating to his marriage to Eva Braun.
Series III: Memorabilia (ca. 1930-1945) consists of NSDAP armbands, identification tags, a test kit for hair, eye, and skin coloring, a recording of a speech by Paul von Hindenburg (1932), and a stamp album.
Series IV: Miscellaneous (1914-1945) contains fragments of correspondence, poems, and other unidentified material.
Series V: Photographs (ca. 1927-1945) consists of photographs
removed from correspondence located in Series I as well as photographs
of Hitler at various functions, and members and officers of the NSDAP in
portraits.
Amann, Max 1924
Arab Women's Committee 1938
Axmann, Artur 1940
Baarova, Lida 1938
Blomberg, Werner 1936
Bodenschatz, Karl 1938
Bohle, E.W. 1939 to: Bormann,
Albert 1939-1940
Bormann, Martin 1939-1940 to: Bruckner,
Wilhelm 1935, 1938-1940
Bruning, Heinrich 1932
Buchenwald 1944
Dachau 1937
Darre, R. Walther 1935, 1936,1940
Daluege, Kurt 1940
Eckener, Hugo von 1936
Epp, Franz von 1934
Faulhaber, Cardinal 1933
Forker, Albert 1939
Forro, Hans 1945
Fran, N. 1939
Frank, Hans 1931-1939
Frauenfeld, A.E. 1935
Frick, Wilhelm 1933,1938
Funk, Walther 1938-1940
Furtwangler, Wilhelm 1935
Goebbels, Joseph 1932
Gurtner, Franz 1940
Haerlin, Friede 1937
Haushofer, Albrecht 1938
Haushofer, H. 1938
Haushofer, Karl 1938-1939
Heck, Lutz 1939-1940
Helldorf, Wolf von 1936,1938
Henlein, Konrad 1939
Herrman, Kurt 1939
Hess, Rudolf 1928,1936
Hessen, Philipp von 1938
Heydrich, Reinhard 1937-1940
Himmler, Heinrich 1938-1940
Hitler, Adolf (4 folders) 1921-1937
Hitler, Paula 1939
Hohenzollern Family 1933
Hohenzollern, Prince A. Wilhelm 1934
Hohenzollern, Prince Wilhelm 1940
Horny, R. 1945
Hossbach, Oberst 1938
Hugenberg, Alfred 1939
Jacobsen, Jakob 1938
Jodl, Alfred 1938
Jugo, Jenny 1938
Kalkreuth, Baroness von 1934
Kauss, Willy 1935
Keitel, Wilhelm 1940-1941
Kerrl, Hanns 1936, 1939-1940
Koch, Karl 1938
Krupp von Boglen und Halbach 1936
Kube, Wilhelm 1933,1939
Laval, Pierre 1940
Ley, Inga 1940
Ley, Robert 1932,1935,1939
List, Guido von 1916-1918
Lorenz, Heinz 1940
Ludendorff, Erich 1915,1923
Ludendorff, Frau 1937
Ludwig, Walther 1940
Lutze, Victer 1934,1939
Mayer, D. 1931
Meissner, Otto von 1939-1940
Milch, Erhard 1938
Muller, Ludwig 1934
Niemoller, E. 1938
Neurath, Konstantin von 1934, 1936-1937
Ohlendorf, Otto 1940
Papen, Franz von 1932-1935
Reinhardt, George-Hans 1939
Ribbentrop, Gertrud von 1939
Ribbentrop, Joachim von 1932,1939, 1941,1944
Riefenstahl, Leni 1939
Rohm, Ernst 1923 1932-1934
Rosenberg, Alfred 1924,1937, 1939
Roswenge, Helge 1939
Rothschilds n.d.
Rust, Bernhard 1940
Box 2
Salen Sermiti, Bedi 1939
Saukel, Fritz 1936-1940
Schacht, Hjalmar 1935-1936, 1940
Schaub, Julius 1938-1940
Schirach, Baldur von 1937- 1938
Schmeling-Louis Boxing Match 1939
Schulenburg, Freda von der 1939 1938-1939
Schwarz, Franz Xaver 1930
Seldte, Franz 1936
Seyss-Inquart, Arthur 1938-1940
Stinnes, Hugo 1934
Streicher, Julius 1924, 1932-1939
Stresemann, Gustav 1925
Todt, Fritz 1938
Tramp, Walter 1937
Trost, Robert 1939
Volke, Franz 1939
Wagner, Adolf 1936
Wagner, Eva Chamberlain 1938
Wagner, Winifred 1938
Wiedemann, Fritz 1935-1938, 1940
Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, Fanny G. 1938
Wilson, Hugh R. 1938
Wust, Ida 1938-1939
Miscellaneous Correspondence, A-Z 1914,1923, 1925-1926, 1935, 1938-1940
A-Z (Miscellaneous) ca. 1935-1945
Hitler, Adolf ca. 1927-1944
Ley, Robert ca. 1940
Streicher, Julius ca. 1935-1945
Officers, Third Reich, A-Z (2 folders) ca. 1935-1945
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