Documenting the close cooperation between the two institutions the correspondence throws light on the involvement of The Wiener Library in official efforts to fight Antisemitism in post-war West Germany. Contained are bound minutes of a workshop on this subject, conference proceedings, internal memos, a typescript of a survivor report on Belzec extermination camp (1955), an exposé on anti-Semitic incidents in West Germany 1959/1960, and press cuttings.
Issues addressed are among various others: an initial workshop on the fight of Antisemitism and debriefing (1953/54); certain aspects related to the Dokumentenwerk, a joint publication project of The Wiener Library and the Munich based Institut für Zeitgeschichte on the persecution of Jews during the Nazi era; questions related to the publishing of several other studies on National Socialism; financial support by the Bundeszentrale for the print and distribution of bibliographic catalogues on National Socialism compiled by the Library; internal organisational issues of the Bundeszentrale (1960/61).