UUM_Accn2374 Inventory of the Ronald M. Smelser papers, 1919-2008 Smelser (Ronald M.) papers Finding aid created by Jonathan D. Hepworth Manuscripts Division, J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah
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Accn2374 Ronald M. Smelser papers 1919-2008 Smelser, Ronald M., 1942- 96.1 linear feet The Ronald M. Smelser papers (1919-2008) contain correspondence, research documents, book drafts, journal articles, conference materials, newsclippings, microfilm and CDs. Professor Smelser, a professor at the University of Utah, is a noted historian of Nazi Germany. Collection materials are in English and German. Biographical Sketch

Ronald M. Smelser (b. 1942) is a Pennslyvania native. He graduated from Juanita College with his B.A. in 1964 and obtained his M.A. in history in 1966 and his Ph.D. in history in 1970 from the University of Wisconsin. Concurrent with his education in the United States, he also attended two German Universities: Phillipps-Universitat-Marburg and Rheinische-Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universitat Bonn. After finishing his doctoral work, he was appointed as an assistant professor at Alma College (Michigan) and was a visiting professor at Iowa State University. He came to the University of Utah in 1974 as an assistant professor and became an associate professor in 1976 and a full professor in 1983. Most of Smelser's work centers on Nazi Germany and the Holocaust. Among his books are The Sudeten Problem,Robert Ley: Hitler's Labor Front Leader, and The Myth of the Eastern Front. He has also edited many volumes on Nazi leaders and the Holocaust. In 2001, Smelser was instrumental in bringing the National Holocaust Museum's Nazi Olympics exhibit to the Marriott Library as part of the Cultural Olympiad. He continues to teach at the University of Utah and also teaches classes at the Free University of Berlin during the summer.

The Ronald M. Smelser papers (1919-2008) contain correspondence, research documents, book drafts, journal articles, conference materials, newsclippings, microfilm and cds. The papers begin with Smelser's research projects which are found in boxes 1-18. Boxes 19-35 contain research files and newsclippings. Smelser's articles and correspondence are located in boxes 36-38. Boxes 39-42 include documents relating to the German History academic community. Smelser's activities at the University of Utah, including his yearly participation in Days of Remembrance, which is a discussion of the Holocaust, can be found in box 43. Boxes 44-47 focus on articles and educational materials pertaining to the Holocaust while boxes 48-50 consist of reviews and academic articles. Smelser's research notes on various subjects are filed in boxes 51-67. Boxes 68-70 house various media articles on German culture and history. Material from the United States Justice Department's Office of Special Investigations (OSI) relating to the civil cases of ex-Nazis living in the United States illegally is stored in boxes 71-87. These boxes have been restricted from public viewing until July 1, 2019. Boxes 89-92 are comprised of a variety of sources related to Smelser's monograph on Robert Ley. Archival documents examining the role which former S.S. concentration camp officers and guards performed during World War II can be accessed in boxes 93-96. Reels 1-12 contain issues of the Stars and Stripes while reels 13-29 include copies of German interwar publications. German and Czech materials regarding interwar relations and other issues can be viewed on reels 30-48. Reel 49 possesses a work on Saint-Simonism. Information discussing Nazi concentration camps and S.S. activities is available on CDs 1-5 while interwar German embassy reports can be seen on CD 6.

Boxes 71-87 are restricted and unavailable until July 1, 2019.

Twenty-four hour advanced notice encouraged. Materials must be used on-site. Access to parts of this collection may be restricted under provisions of state or federal law.

It is the responsibility of the researcher to obtain any necessary copyright clearances.

Permission to publish material from the Ronald M. Smelser papers must be obtained from the Special Collections Manuscript Curator.

Initial Citation: Ronald M. Smelser papers, Accn 2374, Box [ ]. Special Collections and Archives. University of Utah, J. Willard Marriott. Salt Lake City, Utah.

Following Citations:Accn 2374.

Donated by Ronald Smelser (boxes 1-35) in 2007.

Donated by Ronald Smelser, (boxes 36-87) in 2008.

Donated by Ronald Smelser (boxes 88-96) in 2009.

Processed by Jonathan D. Hepworth in 2008.

Addendum processed by Roger V. Paxton in 2010.

See also the Myth of the Eastern Front records (Accn 2375) which consists of materials Smelser and Davies used in writing the book.

 Smelser, Ronald M.,1942- Germany--Politics and government--1933-1945 World War, 1939-1945--Germany Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Civil Rights International Relations Military Correspondence Clippings Drafts (documents) 1 The Nazi Olympics Exhibition at the Marriott Library 1998-2002 1 Early Planning Documents 2 Previous Exhibitions of the Nazi Olympics 3 Later Planning and Notes 4 Exhibit Correspondence 1998-2001 5 Marriott Library Exhibition Programs 2001-2002 6 Educational Booklets 7 Reserve Teaching Materials 8 Publicity 9 Related Materials 2 Lessons and Legacies V Conference and Book 1998-2002

Folder 1 contains information about the conferences themselves while Folders 2-7 are about the published proceedings

 1 Programs for Lessons and Legacies V, VI 1998-2000 2 General Materials and Notes 1998-2000 3 Proof Sheets, Front Matter 2002 4-5 Essays With Corrections 2002 6-7 Proof Sheets 2002 3 Lessons and Legacies V Book Authors A-Ha 1998-2001 1-2 Michael Allen 1999-2001 3-4 David Bankier 5-6 Omer Bartov 1998 7-8 Alan Berger 9-10 Peter R. Black 1998-1999 11-12 Vojtech Blodig 13-14 Rachel Brenner 15-16 Insa Eschebach 1999 17-18 Andrew Ezergailis 19-20 Henry Friedlander 1998 21-22 Saul Friedlander 2000 23-24 Peter Hayes 2000-2001 4 Lessons and Legacies V Book Authors He-Y 1942-2000 1-2 Hannes Heer 1942-2000 3-4 Sara Horowitz 5 Hanna Jablonka 6-7 Michael Marrus 1998 8-9 Robert Melson 1998 10-11 Sybil Milton 12-13 Robert Paxton 14-15 Renee Poznanski 1998-1999 16-17 Lynn Rapaport 18-19 Alvin Rosenfeld 20-21 Don Schilling 1998-1999 22-23 Gitta Sereny 24-25 Therkel Straede 1998-1999 26-27 Daniel Weiss, Nahama Tec 5 Lessons and Legacies VII Conference 2000-2002 1 Notes and Correspondence 2 Correspondence 2000-2001 3 Panel I Correspondence 2002 4 Panel II Correspondence 2002 5 Panel III Correspondence 2002 6 Panel IV Correspondence 2002 7 Panel V Correspondence 2002 8 Panel VI Correspondence 2001-2002 9 Panel VII Correspondence 2002 10 Panel VIII Correspondence 11 Panel IX Correspondence 12 Panel X Correspondence 2002 13 Panel XI Correspondence 2001-2002 14 Panel XII Correspondence 2002 15 Roundtable I Correspondence 2002 16 Roundtable II Correspondence 2002 17 Roundtable III Correspondence 2002 18 Workshops Abstract 2002 6 The SS Elite Under Death's Head 1998-1999

Biographies are listed first followed by the name of the author.

 1 Early Correspondence 2 Late Correspondence 1998-1999 3 Introduction, Ronald M. Smelser 4 Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski, Andrej Angrick 5 Gottlob Berger, Gerhard Rempel 6 Werner Best, Fritz Petrick 7 Wilhelm Bittrich, Horst Muhleisen 8 Viktor Brack, Henry Friedlander 9 Gunter D'Alquen, Martin Moll 10 Josef Sepp Dietrich, Christopher Clark 11 Adolf Eichmann, Hans Safrian 12 Theodor Eicke, Charles Sydnor 13 Hermann Fegelein, Volker Riess 14 Herbert Gille, Franz W. Seidler 15 Paul Hausser, Enrico Syring 16 Reinhard Heydrich, Charles Sydnor 17 Richard Hildebrandt, Johnpeter H. Grill 18 Heinrich Himmler, Johannes Tuchel 19 Rudolf Hoss, Gunnar Boehnert 20 Friedrich Jeckeln, Richard Breitman 21 Hans Juttner, Jan Erik Schulte 22 Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Peter Black 23 Hans Kammler, Rainer Frobe 24 Friedrich-Wilhelm Kruger, Larry V. Thompson 25 Werner Lorenz, Valdis O. Lumans 7 The SS Elite Under Death's Head 1 Heinrich Muller, Andreas Seeger 2 Arthur Nebe, Peter Black 3 Otto Ohlendorf, David Hitterman 4 Oswald Pohl, Michael Allen 5 Hanns Rauter, Ruth Bettina Birn 6 Walter Schellenberg, George C. Browder 7 Felix Steiner, Mark P. Gingerich 8 Karl Wolff, Brendan Simms 8 The Military Elite of the Third Reich 1995 1 Introduction 2 Correspondence 3 Forms 4 Introduction, Enrico Syring 5 Johannes Blaskowitz, Christopher Clark 6 Werner von Blomberg, Richard R. Muller 7 Fedor von Bock, Horst Muhleisen 8 Walther von Brauchitsch, Karl Heinz Janssen 9 Eduard Dietl, Winfried Heinemann 10 Joseph Sepp Dietrich, James Weingartner 11 Karl Donitz, Keith W. Bird 12 Werner Freiherr von Fritsch, Williamson Murray 13 Friedrcih Fromm, Bernhard R. Kroener 14 Heinz Guderian, Hans-Heinrich Wilhelm 15 Franz Halder, Christian Hartmann 16 Paul Hausser, Mark P. Gingerich 17 Alfred Jodl, Alan P. Wilt 18 Wilhelm Keitel, Gene Mueller 19 Albert Kesselring, Samuel J. Lewis 20 Hans Gunther von Kluge, Peter Steinbach 21 Erich von Manstein, Enrico Syring 22 Erhard Milch, Horst Boog 1995 23 Walter Model, Joachim Ludewig 9 The Military Elite of the Third Reich 1 Friedrich Paulus, Torsten Diedrich 2 Erich Raeder, Michael Salewski 3 Walther von Reichenau, Brendan Simms 4 Wolfram Freiherr von Richthofen, Edward L. Homze 5 Erwin Rommel, Ralf Georg Reuth 6 Gerd von Rundstedt, Earl F. Ziemke 7 Ferdinand Schorner, Klaus Schonherr 8 Felix Steiner, Franz W. Seidler 10 The Nazi Elite 1 Ernst Wilhelm Bohle, Donald M. McKale 2 Philipp Bouhler, Walter Schmuhl 3 Josef Burckel, Gerhard Paul 4 Kurt Daluege, Caron Cadle 5 Wilhelm Frick, Gunter Neliba 6 Walther Funk, Ludolf Herbst 7 Odilo Globocnik, Peter Black 8 Arthur Greiser, Ian Kershaw 9 Franz Gurtner, Lothar Gruchmann 10 Ernst Hanfstaengl, David G. Marwell 11 Walther Hewel, Enrico Syring 12 Erich Hilgenfeldt, Herwart Vorlander 13 Hjalmar Schacht, Harold James 14 Julius Streicher, Jay W. Baird 15 Otto Wagener, Henry Ashby Turner Jr 16 Robert Wagner, Johnpeter Horst Grill 11 Robert Ley Materials 1 Outline 2 Outline of Chapter 1 3-5 Years of Struggle for Power in the Reich 6-7 Years of Struggle, the Rhineland 12 Robert Ley Materials 1-2 Lohn und Preispolitik 3-5 The Jurisdictional Grasp 6 Kommunalpolitik 13 Robert Ley Materials 1-2 DAF Wartime Activities 3 German Labor Front (DAF) vs. Reichsnahrstand 4 Chapter 8 5 Other Source Materials 14 Robert Ley Materials and Secondary Sources

Folder 1 contains source material and folders 2-5 contain secondary sources material.

 1 Other Source Materials 2 Authors A-F 3 Authors G 4 Authors H-He 5 Authors Ho-Ki 15 Robert Ley Secondary Sources 1 Authors Ko-L 2 Authors M-P 3 Authors R 4 Authors Sch 5 Authors Se-St 16 Robert Ley Secondary Sources 1935-1945 1 Authors T-Wi 2 Authors Wo-Z 3 Articles and Documents 4 Bludan, NS and Genossenschoftwesen 5 DAF and Consumer Corps 6 Das Omwarze Corps 1935-1945 7 German Writings and Documents 8 Nazi Organizations Notes and Information 17 The Sudeten Problem 1 Bibliographic Material 2 Sudeten Biography 3 Documents 4 Documents and Notes 5 Documents on the SD 6 Germandom Organizations 7 Henlein and Formation of SHF 8 Internationalization 9 Jung, Nationaler Sozialismus 10 Koch Reports 18 The Sudeten Problem 1 SD Activities 2 SS and SD Enter Volkstumspolitik 3 Sudeten Germandom Organizations 4 Other Documents 19 Research Files: Allied Interviews 1-4 United Kingdom Interviews 5 United States Interviews General Overview 20 Research Files, Allied Interviews 1 United States Interviews A-F 2 United States Interviews G 3 United States Interviews H 4 United States Interviews I-J 5 United States Interviews K-L 6 United States Interviews M-Schw 21 Research Files: Allied-DNSAP 1919-1926 1 Allied Interviews United States, Se-Wa 2 Bachstein, Wenzel Jaksch 3 Biographies 4 German Worker's Party (DAP) 1919-1926 5 Sudeten German National Socialist Workers Party (DNSAP), Austria 6 DNSAP, Biographical 7 DNSAP, Caricatures in Der Tag 22 Research Files DNSAP-German 1 DNSAP, Collaboration with Czech State 2 DNSAP, General 3 DNSAP, Connections with Hitler Movement 4 DNSAP, Ideology 5 DNSAP, Microfilm Materials List 6 DNSAP, Organization 7 Parteitage der DNSAP 8 DNSAP, Kanzlei Riehl 9 Smelser, The DNSAP and the First Republic 10 DNSAP, Women in Politics 11 German Documents and Notes 12 German Magazines on East and West Germany 13 German Reunification Documents 23 Research Files, Hypochondria-NSDAP 1922-1966 1 Hypochondria 2 Rudolf Jaworsky Review 3 Friedrich Meinecke Notes 4 National Lampoon Spoof of World War II 5 Der Nationale Sozialismus 1922 6-7 Nazi Documents 8 Nazi Document Sources List 9 Later Nazi Materials 10 National Socialist German Workers Party (NSDAP), Austria 11 NSDAP, General 12 Jeremy Noakes, Conflict and Development in NSDAP 1966 24 Research Files Sammlung-Verfassungsschutzbericht 1974-1983 1 Schumacher Sammlung 2 Smelser, Library Reserve Readings 3 Sources for Research 4 SS Articles 5 300 Years of Germans in America 1983 6 Treaty Between West Germany and Czechoslovakia 1974 7 Albrecht Tyrell, Von Trommler Zum Fuhrer 1975 8 Bad Wiesee Materials 9 Simon Wiesenthal Center, Holocaust Resources Kit 10 Verfassungsschutzbericht 1980 25 Research Files, Verfassungsschutzbericht 1981-1988 26 Book Manuscripts 1984-2006 1-3 Valdis O. Lumans, Latvia in World War II 2006 4 Schriftliche Hausarbeit, Die NSDAP im Raum Koln 1984 5 Notes for Editing World Almanac Library of the Holocaust 2005 27 Max Domarus, The Essential Hitler 2006 28 Newsclippings 1-2 Book Reviews on European History 3-4 Book Reviews on German History 5 Economics 6 Education 7 Family Values 8 The Future 29 Newsclippings 1 German Books and History 2 German History 3 German History and Culture 4 German History and Politics 5 German Historical Memory 30 Newsclippings 1 (East) German Politics and History 2-4 German Politics 31 Newsclippings 1-3 German Politics and Culture 4 German Society 32 Newsclippings 1-4 Germany and World War II 5 Immigration 6 Interpretations of World War II 33 Newsclippings 1 Religion 2 Rightist Parties in Austria and Switzerland 3 United States Culture and Education 4 United States History, Economy, and Culture 5 United States Issues 6 United States Issues and Politics 34 Newsclippings 1 United States Politics and Problems 2 United States and 21st Century 3 United States and World History 4-5 World Issues and History 35 Newsclippings 1-4 World Wars I and II 36 Smelser Articles 1972-1996 1 "Betrayal of a Myth" 1972-1973 2 Sudeten German Party Elites 1974 3 "Limits of a Mass Movement" 1976 4 "Nazis Without Hitler- the DNSAP" 1977 5 "Die Henleinpartei" 1979 6 Hitler and the DNSAP 1979 7 "German-Czech Relations in Frontier Towns" 1981 8 "Germany is as Close as Salt Lake City, UT" 1981 9 "Nazi Dynamics, German Foreign Policy, and Appeasement" 1982 10 Sudeten Issues and Appeasement 1982 11 "Robert Ley- der braune Kollektivist" 1986-1988 12 Munich 1988 13 "NSDAP in the Rhineland" 1988 14 "Eine braune Revolution?" 1989 15 "Dua hrady" 1991 16 "Die amerikanische Weltkriegsforschung" 1993-1994 17 "The Expulsion of the Sudeten Germans" 1996 37 Smelser Articles 1982-2006 1 "Castles on the Landscape" 2 "Czechoslovakia in American Public Consciousness" 3 "German Problem from Economic Perspective" 4 Grass Roots Radicalism 5 "Hans Steinacher" Conservative Revolutionary" 6 "The Holocaust in Popular Culture" 7 Lecture, Modernization in the Third Reich 1989-1990 8 Lecture, "Myth of Clean Wehrmacht" 9 Lecture at University in Oldenburg, Germany 2006 10 Lecture, "Romancing the Swastika" 11 "Saint Simonians and Hitler's SS" 12 "The Saint-Simonian Traditions" 1982 13 Wehrmachtsausstellung- Crimes of Wehrmacht Exhibit 38 Correspondence 1967-1995 1 Austrian Project Correspondence 1976-1978 2 Financing 1967-1976 3 Correspondence in German 1988-1989 4 German Genealogical Society of America 1987-1991 5 Grants 1973-1977 6 Robert Ley Research 1983-1986 7 Macmillan Press Ltd 1989-1995 8 Enrico Syring 1991-1993 9-10 Rainer Zitelmann 1984-1991 39 Conferences 1974-2006 1 Berlin, Widerstand Conference 1984 2 Claremont McKenna College Holocaust Center 2003-2004 3 Collegium Carolinum 1981-1988 4 Czechoslovak Society of Arts and Sciences (SVU) Congress 1974-2006 5 Edmonton, The Germans and the East 2000-2002 6-7 Germans and the East Volume Edited by Smelser 40 Conferences 1977-2005 1 Harrowgate 1989 2-3 Oldenburg 2005 4 Toronto 1988-1989 5 US Holocaust Memorial Museum 1999 6-7 Western Association of German Studies 1977-1978 8 Wichita, Kansas 9 papers from Dallas Meeting of American Historical Association 1977 10 Conference Group on German Politics Directory 2000 41 German Studies 1986-2006 1-4 German Studies Association 1986-2006 5 German Studies Association, Archives Committee 42 German Studies 1992-2007 1 German Studies Association, Archives Committee 2 German Studies Association, Election Committee 3 Conference Group on Central European History 2005-2006 4 German Historical Institute 1992-1994 5-6 Friedrich Meinecke Proposal and Materials 7 Free University of Berlin (FUBiS) 2004-2007 43 University of Utah Materials 1992-2006 1 Nazi Olympics Exhibition Correspondence 1999-2001 2-3 Days of Remembrance 1992-2006 4 Class Materials, Friedrich Meinecke Booklet 5 Class Materials, Institute in Human Services 6 Class Materials, Readings on "Racial Inequality" 7 Class Materials, Cold War Lecture 8 Other Utah Materials 44 Holocaust, Articles Correspondence 1921-2008 1 Academic Articles and Bibliography 2 Auschwitz-Birkenau, Layman's Guide 1994-1995 3 Century Magazine, "The Jewish Problem" 1921 4-8 Correspondence and Notes 9-10 Holocaust Denier Correspondence 2006-2008 11 Burton J. Hendrick, "The Jews in America" 1922-1923 45 Holocaust, Education 1981-2006 1 Educational Materials 1981-2000 2-4 Holocaust Educational Foundation, Lessons and Legacies 1994-2006 5 US Holocaust Memorial Museum 1993-1999 6 Wiesenthal Center Materials 46 Holocaust, Articles in English 1 Magazine Articles 2-5 Newspaper Articles 47 Holocaust, Articles in German 1994-1999 1 Articles from Der Spiegel 1994-1999 2-4 German Internet Articles 5-6 German Newspaper Articles 48 Reviews 1988-2003 1 Reviews of Smelser Books 2 Berg Publishers Catalog 1988

Contains advertisement for Smeler's book on Robert Ley.

 3-4 Reviews by Smelser 5 Reviews by Rainer Zitelmann 6 Michael W. Campbell, Dissertation: A Crisis of Democracy 2003 49 Academic Articles by Subject 1961 1 General Academic Articles and papers 2 General Academic Articles and papers in German 3 Czechs, Germans, and the Sudeten Problem 4 Nationalism and Ideology During War 5 "Germany's Eastern Territories: A European Problem" 1961 6 Resistance Within Nazi Germany 7 "Sexual Violence in Occupied Germany" 50 Academic Articles by Author 1989 1 Evan B. Bukey, "Nazi Party in Linz, Austria" 2 John Mendelsohn, War Crimes Trials in Germany and Japan 3 Bogdan Musial, "Pogrom in Jedwabne" 4 Alvin H. Rosenfeld, "Feeling Alone Again" 5 Nancy M. Wingdield, Minority Politics 1989 51 Smelser Student Notes 1961-1965 1 Medieval Civilization 1961 2 Modern Europe 1961-1962 3 Political Science 1962 4 History of England 5 American History 6 European Culture 7-8 European Diplomacy 9 History of the Soviet Union 1965-1966 52 Smelser Notes 1969-1970 1-3 Class Notes and Materials, History of Russia 1969-1970

Smelser was a teaching assistant for this class at the University of Wisconsin.

 4-6 Notes and Documents 7 G. D. H. Cole, A History of Socialist Thought 53 Smelser Notes and Research on Sudeten Issue 1 Anderaitige Verurndung 2 Articles on Sudeten Issue 3 Biographical 4 Colloquium on Bohemian Lands 5 Expulsion of Sudeten Germans 6 Footnotes for Sudeten Research 7 Germany 8 Microfilm Notes 9 Power Struggle Within Party, 1935-1937 10-11 Sudeten Issues 54 Sudeten Documents, Real or Forged? 1 Copies of Documents 2 Copies and Notes 3 Forgeries 4 Interviews on Hitler's Foreign Policy 5-7 Notes and Documents 55 German Embassy Reports from Prague: Domestic Policy and Minority Problems in the First Czechoslovak Republic 1921-1926 1 German Embassy Reports from Prague 1921-1923 2 German Embassy Reports from Prague 1923-1925 3 German Embassy Reports from Prague 1925-1926 4 German Embassy Reports from Prague 1926 5 German Embassy Reports from Prague 1921-1926 56 German Embassy Reports from Prague: Domestic Policy and National Minority Problems in the First Czechoslovak Republic 1926-1932 1 German Embassy Reports from Prague 1926-1929 2 German Embassy Reports from Prague 1929-1932 3 German Embassy Reports from Prague 1926-1932 57 Saint-Simonians Research

Most of the research here was used in Smelser's article, "The Saint-Simonians and the German SS."

 1 Biographies 2 Businessmen and Elites 3 Economic History 4 European Socialist Movements 5 Feminism 6 France 7 French Economic Development 8 General 9 German SS 10 Impact Outside France 58 Saint-Simonians Research 1 Imperialism and Racism 2 Intelligentsia and Messianism 3 Monastic Technocrats 4 Pere Enfantin 5 Religion 6 Resources 7 Secular Religion 8 Socialism and Utopia 9 Totalitarian Tradition 59 General Research 1 American Views of West Germany 2 Berlin Document Center 3 Bibliography 4 Central Intelligence Agency Files on World War II 5 General Nazi Materials 6 German Investments 7 Hitler Medical Records 8 Holocaust Denier Materials 60 US National Archives Microfilm Finding Aids and Indexes 61 Smelser Notecards 62 Smelser Notecards 63 Smelser Notecards 64 Smelser Notecards 65 Smelser Notecards 66 Smelser Notecards 67 Smelser Notecards 68 Telephone Book and News Articles 1946-1972 1 Salt Lake City Telephone Book 1946 2-3 News Media Articles in English 4 Saturday Review on Munich Olympics 1972 5-6 German News Media Articles 69 German News Media Articles 1 German News Articles 2-3 Articles from Der Spiegel 4 Articles on the Hitler Diary Controversy 70 Oversized 1945-1968 1 Newspapers on Prague Spring 1968 2 Masters for Meinecke Booklet 3 Life Magazine on Allied Victory 1945 71 Office of Special Investigations: General Materials 1938-2006

Boxes 71-87 contain materials from the Office of Special Investigations (OSI) which is within the Criminal Division of the Department of Justice. These copies of documents and publications were used in civil cases against former Waffen-SS concentration camp guards. Professor Smelser wrote expert reports and testfied at some of these trials. At the request of the donor, these boxes are restricted from public viewing until July 1, 2019.

1 German Concentration Camps: Buchenwald and Majdanek 2 Waffen S.S. and Concentration Camps 3 The Development of the Police State: Hitler's 1938 Decree 1938 4 U. S. Department's "National Socialism" 1943 5 U. S. Department of State's "National Socialism": Documents and Charts 1943 6 Bernd Joachim Zimmer's "Deckname Arthur" 1994 7 Simon Wiesenthal Center's Report: "Worldwide Investigation and Prosecution of Nazi War Criminals" 2004 8 C.I.A. and Adolf Eichmann 2005-2006 9 U.S. Deportation of Concentration Camp Guard 2006 72 Concentration Camp Literature and Materials 1933-1999

This box is restricted and unavailable until July 1, 2019.

 1-2 Concentration Camp Literature: German 1978-1999 3 Articles re Foreign Civilian Workers, Prisoners of War and Forced Laborers 1991 4 Assorted Materials: German 1933-1997 5 Concentration and Extermination Camp Map and Notes 6 Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp Materials 1949-1992 7 Gestapo and S.S. Materials 73 Correspondence and Concentration Camp Regulations 1933-2006

This box is restricted and unavailable until July 1, 2019.

 1 Smelser Correspondence and Materials: Baumgartner Decision 1998-2001 2 Smelser Correspondence and Materials: Breyer and Gruber Cases 2000-2004 3 Smelser Correspondence and Materials 2000-2006 4 Deposition and Interrogation Records: Hansl Case 1961-2003 5 Smelser's Notes re Depositions and Preparation for Testimony 6 Interrogation Records Prepared for War Crimes Proceedings at Nuernberg 1945-1947 7 S.S. Documents: Concentration and Labor Education Camp Regulations 1933-1944 8 Service Regulations for S.S. Prison Guards and Concentration Camps 1933-1944 9 Service Regulations for Concentration Camps 1941 74 Documents: Labor Education and Concentration Camp Materials 1939-1945

This box is restricted and unavailable until July 1, 2019.

 1 S.S. Documents: Labor Education Camps 1940-1944 2 Documents: Regulations re Treatment of East European Workers 1940-1943 3 German-Polish Relations and Concentration Camp Materials 1939-1945 4 U.S. National Archival Documents:Concentration Camp Materials 1939-1944 5 Documents: S.S. and Concentration Camp Materials 1940-1945

Includes list of camps with guard and prisoner numbers as of January 1, 1945.

 75 Documents: Waffen S.S. and Concentration Camp Materials 1934-1999

This box is restricted and unavailable until July 1, 2019.

 1 Jehovah's Witnesses, Waffen S.S. Records and Concentration Camp Materials 1939-1979 2 Buchenwald Concentration Camp Materials: Arolsen Sub-Camp 1944-1967 3 Indices to Waffen S.S. and Concentration Camp Documents: Items 147-152 4 U.S. National Archival Documents: S.S. and Gestapo Materials 1934-1944 5 Documents: Waffen S.S. Materials 1940-1945 6 Documents: S.S. Records and Reports 1942-1948 7 Waffen S.S. Document Index 1999 76 Documents: Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp Materials 1933-1999

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 1 German Publications re Sachsenhausen 1981-1987 2 Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp File Index 1999 3-4 Sachsenhausen S.S. Personnel Lists 1941-1945 5 Sachsenhausen: General Materials 6-7 Waffen S.S. Documents: Sachsenhausen 1933-1945 77 Documents: Sachsenhausen Materials and Interrogation Records 1942-1970

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 1 Waffen S.S. Documents: Sachsenhausen 1942-1945 2 Documents: Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp 1942-1946 3 U.S. War Department's War Crimes' Materials: Interrogations and Sachsenhausen Records 1943-1965 4 Documents: Interrogation Records and Sachsenhausen Materials 1945-1970 5 Documents: Interrogation Records of Sachsenhausen Inmates and Officials 1945-1948 78 Documents: Interrogation Records 1945-1971

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 1 Documents: Interrogation of Anton Kaindl, Commandant of Sachsenhausen 1945-1947 2 Documents: Interrogation Records and War Crimes' Files 1945-1971 3 Interrogation Records of War Criminals and Waffen S.S. Materials 1946-1969 4-5 Documents: Interrogation Records 1947-1970 6 Documents: Judgment in the Trial of Gustav Sorge and Wilhelm Schubert 1960 79 Documents: Court Decisions 1942-2006

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 1 Document:: Judgment in the Trial of August Hohn, Otto Bohm and Horst Hempel 1960 2-3 Document: Judgment in the Trial of Dr. Heinz Baumkotter, Dr. Alois Gaberle and Dr. Otto Adam 1962 4 Documents: Josias Kumpf Materials 1942-2003 5 Document: Affidavit of Dr. Ronald M. Smelser 2004 6 Documents: Depositions and Court Proceedings vs. Josias Kumpf 2003-2006 80 Documents: Geiser and Breyer Court Proceedings 2002-2006

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 1-2 Document: Deposition of Anton Geiser 2005 3 Document: Draft of Smelser's Expert Report on Anton Geiser 2005 4 Document: Expert Witness Report of Valdis O. Lumans re the Geiser Case 2005 5 Document: Expert Report of Dr. Ronald M. Smelser 2005 6 Document: Court Judgment vs. Anton Geiser 2006 7 Smelser's Notes and Materials on the Johann Breyer Case 8 Document: Transcript of Dr. Charles W. Syndor's Testimony at the Breyer-Meissner Trial 2002 9 U.S. Government Breyer Trial Exhibits: Dr. Ronald Smelser Part I 81 Documents: Breyer and Negele Court Proceedings 1998-1999

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 1 U.S. Government Breyer Trial Exhibits: Dr. Ronald Smelser Part II 2 U.S.Government Breyer Trial Exhibits: Dr. Ronald Smelser Part III 3 Document: Court Judgment vs. Johann Breyer 4 Document: Transcript of Dr. Charles W. Syndor's Testimony at the Michael Negele Trial 1999 5 Document: Transcript of Dr. Charles W. Syndor's Testimony at the 1999 6 Document: Expert Report of Dr. Charles W. Syndor 1998 7 Document: Court Judgment in the Trial of Michael Negele 1999 82 Documents: Hansl Court Proceedings 1943-2006

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 1 Documents: John Hansl's Briefs and Interrogations 2004 2 Documents: Materials re the Case of John Hansl 1943-1961 3 Document: Draft of Smelser's Expert Report on John Hansl 2004 4 Document: Affidavit of Dr. Ronald M. Smelser 5 Document: Deposition of Dr. Ronald M. Smelser 2004-2005 6 Documents: Court Proceeding vs. John Hansl 2005 7 Document: John Hansl's Appeal 2006 8 Materials on the John Hansl Case 2005-2006 83 Documents: Gruber Court Proceedings 1942-2000

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 1 Documents: Materials on the Michael Gruber Case 1942-1944 2 Documents: Materials on the Michael Gruber Case 1943-1998 3 Documents: Subpoena and Testimony of Michael Gruber 1994 4 Document: Deposition and Testimony of Michael Gruber 1994 5 Documents: Immigraytion Review of Michael Gruber 1999 6 Document: U.S. Government's Reply Brief to Michael Gruber's Reply Brief 2000 7 Smelser's Notes on the Michael Gruber Case 84 Documents: Gruber Trial and German Minorities 1941-2000

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 1 U.S. Government Gruber Trial Exhibits: Part I 2000 2 U.S. Government Gruber Trial Exhibits: Part II 2000 3 U.S. Government Gruber Trial Exhibits: Part III 2000 4 Smelser's Notes and Materials re the Recruitment of Germans in Croatia into the Waffen S.S. 5 Documents:Recruitment of /Germans into the Waffen S.S. 1941-1951

Affected Germans residing in Hungary, Slovakia, Romania, Croatia and Serbia.

 6 Documents:Recruitment of Germans in Croatia into the Waffen S.S. 1941-1943 85 Notes and Publications: the Slovaks and the German Minority 1931-2002

This box is restricted and unavailable until July 1, 2019.

 1 Smelser's Notes on the Germans in Slovakia 2 Robert G. Waite's Research Trip to Slovakia 2002 3 "The Jews in the Slovakian State, 1939-1945" 1980 4 "S.S. Recruitment in Hungary" 1974 5 German Publications on the History of the Slovaks 1962-2001 6 German Publications on the German Minority in Czechoslovakia and Slovakia 1931-2000 7 English Publications on the History of the German Minority in Czechoslovakia and Slovakia 1960-1995 86 Documents: German Party and German Foreign Office Materials 1938-1944

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 1 Documents: F.S. and the German Party in Slovakia 1938-1943 2-3 Documents: German Party Materials 1939-1944 4 Documents: German Foreign Office Materials re the S.S. in Slovakia 1942-1944 5 Documents: German Foreign Office Materials re Military Service of Germans in Slovakia 1943-1944 87 Documents: S.S. Materials 1938-1974

This box is restricted and unavailable until July 1, 2019.

 1 Documents: Waffen S.S. Recruitment in Hungary and Romania 1940-1974 2 Documents: Waffen S.S. Recruitment in Slovakia and War Crimes Materials 1939-1946 3 Documents: Waffen S.S. Recruitment in Slovakia 1938-1944 4 Documents: S.S. Materials 1942-1944 5 Documents: German-Slovak Relations 1944 88 Robert E. Lee Print 89 Biographical Materials: The German Labor Front/D.A.F. Leaders 1945-1986 1 Robert Ley: Biographical Materials 2 Justice Jackson's File on Robert Ley 1945 3 Robert Ley's Medical Records and Related Materials 1945-1986 4 List of Ley's Chief Subordinates 5 Hans Biallas: Biographical Materials 6 Johannes Engel: Biographical Materials 7 Max Frauendorfer: Biographical Materials 8 Otto Gohdes: Biographical Materials 9 Erich Klapper: Biographical Materials 10 Reinhold Muchow: Biographical Materials 11 Karl Peppler: Biographical Materials 12 Hans Graf Reischach: Biographical Materials 13 Rudolf Schmeer: Biographical Materials 14 Walter Schumann: Biographical Materials 15 Claus Selzner: Biographical Materials 90 Cabinet Meeting Records and the German Labor Front/D.A.F. Materials 1929-1940 1-4 German Cabinet Meeting Records 1929-1935 5-7 The German Labor Front/D.A.F. Materials 1932-1940 91 Nazi Social Welfare and German Labor Front Materials 1932-1945 1 Nazi Organization of Factory Cells/N.S.B.O. Materials 1932-1933 2 The Formation of the German Labor Front/D.A.F. 1933 3 The German Labor Front/D.A.F. Materials 1933-1936 4-5 Nazi Social Welfare and Charity 1934-1945 6 D.A.F.'s "Strength through Joy" Organization Material 1934 7-8 D.A.F.'s Social Housing Program 1934-1942 92 German Labor Front, Industry, and World War II 1934-1944 1-3 German Labor Front/D.A.F. and Industry 1934-1939 4-6 German Labor Front/D.A.F. and World War II 1940-1944 7 Organization and Tasks of the German Labor Front during World War II 8 German Labor Front during World War II 93 Documents and Materials: Trawniki Concentration Camp 1940-2002 1 Trawniki Concentration Camp Document: Part I 2 Trawniki Concentration Camp Document: Part II 3 "Operation Reinhard's Rank and File: The Trawniki Men and the Murder of the Polish Jews" 2002 4 "Letzte Spuren: SS-Arbeitslager Trawniki" 1993 5 Chapter Eight of "Documents and Materials:Trawniki-Poniatowo" 1946 6 Documents: Trawniki Concentration Camp Personnel Files 1943-1944 7-8 Documents: Waffen S.S. Service Records 1940-1943 94 Documents: S.S. Personnel Files and Interrogation Records 1935-1977 1 Documents: Waffen S.S. Personnel Files 1941-1945 2 Documents: Personnel File of S.S. Major Konrad Schellong 1935-1944 3 Documents: Interrogation and Testimony Records 1964-1977 4-6 Documents: Trawniki Interrogation Records 1947-1948 95 Documents: Trawniki Interrogation Records 1947-1995 96 Documents: Verdicts against War Criminals 1973 1 Document: Verdict in the Criminal Case against Georg L. Hoffmann--Part i 1973 2 Document: Verdict in the Criminal Case against Georg Hoffmann--Part II 1973 3 Document: Excerpt of the Judgment against Hoffmann, et. al. 1973 4 Document: Personal Records of the Defendants-Karl Streibel, et. al. 5 Index to Trawniki Concentration Camp Documents 1 Stars and Stripes: Vol.13 1955 2 Stars and Stripes 1955 3 Stars and Stripes 1955 4 Stars and Stripes 1955 5 Stars and Stripes 1955 6 Stars and Stripes 1955 7 Stars and Stripes: Volume 14 1955 8 Stars and Stripes 1955 9 Stars and Stripes 1955 10 Stars and Stripes 1955 11 Stars and Stripes 1955 12 Stars and Stripes 1955 13 Der Tag 1919 14 Der Tag 1919 15 Der Tag 1920 16 Der Tag 17 Der Tag 18 Der Tag 1922 19 Der Tag 20 Der Tag 21 Der Tag 1923

Located in a shoe box which can be found in the box section of the collection.

 22 Der Tag

Located in a shoe box which can be found in the box section of the collection.

 23 Der Tag 1925

Located in a shoe box which can be found in the box section of the collection.

 24 Der Tag 25 Der Tag 26 Deutsche Volkszeitung 27 Die Deutsche Arbeitsfront 28 Westdeutscher Beobachter 29 Deutsche Arbeiter-Presse 30 Documents: Staatsarchiv Bremen, 2686, Part 1 31 Documents: Staatsarchiv Bremen, 2686, Part 2 32 Documents: Staatsarchiv Bremen, 2687, Part 1 33 Documents: Staatsarchiv Bremen, 2687, Part 2 34 Documents: Staatsarchiv Bremen, 2688, Part 1 35 Documents: Staatsarchiv Bremen, 2688, Part 2 36 Nazi Party Materials 37 Bundesarchiv Koblenz: State Chancellery papers

Also contains Schumacher Sammlung and Haushofer Nachlass.

 38 Bundesarchiv Koblenz: State Chancellery papers

Also contains Kanzlei Rosenberg.

 39 Bundesarchiv Koblenz: Nachlass Seyss-Inquart 40 Berlin Document Center: Official Records 41 Institut fur Zeitgeschichte Materials

Contains Henlein interview and Fischer's "Ihr Kampf".

 42 Bavarian State Archival Materials

Includes three reels entitled "Sonderabgabe", one reel entitled "Volk Gemeinde" from the Fuhrerbriefe and another reel untitled.

 43 German Foreign Ministry Documents

Includes materials related to the domestic politics and the party sytem of Czechoslovakia during the inter-war era of the twentieth century.

 44 German Foreign Ministry Documents

Contains some Czechoslovak confidential documents of the inter-war era.

 45 German Foreign Ministry Documents

Includes materials concerning Germans who lived in Czechoslovakia during the inter-war period.

 46 German Foreign Ministry Documents

Contains information related to Germans residing in inter-war Czechoslovakia.

 47 German Foreign Ministry Documents

Includes information pertaining to German-Czechoslovak relations during the inter-war period.

 48 Czech Materials

Includes one section on Czechoslovak-German discussions during 1936 and a second section describing the activities of the Fifth Column in Czechslovakia.

 49 Paul F. Mickey's "Le Livre Nouveau: The Vision of Monastic Saint- Simonism" 1 Index and Documents: Waffen S.S. and Concentration Camps

Disk number 1 contains information concerning the Majdanek and Sachsenhausen camps.

 2 Index and Documents: Waffen S.S. and Personnel Files

Disk number 2.

 3 Index and Documents: Concentration Camps

Disk number 3 includes materials pertaining to Buchenwald, Mittelbau and S.S. construction brigades.

 4 Index and Documents: Geiser Case, Buchenwald and Concentration Camp System

Disk number 5.

 5 Index and Documents: Geiser Case, Sachsenhausen, Waffen S.S. and Germans in Croatia

Disk number 6 contains materials relating to ethnic Germans inhabiting Croatia and the Sachsenhausen concentration camp.

 6 German Embassy Reports: Czechoslovakia 1921-1932

Disk number 7 includes materials discussing Czechoslovak domestic policy and minority problems. This information can be found in boxes 55 and 56.