The correspondence, mainly with DIZ director and survivor of Buchenwald concentration camp Walter Bartel, centres on the exchange of information material. Besides, light is thrown on the Library’s contribution to the document edition Buchenwald. Mahnung und Verpflichtung (published 1960) as well as on two visits of Alfred Wiener to the DIZ. Contained are notes on the value of the DIZ collections as well as on the political bias of its periodical.
Correspondence with Deutsches Institut fur Zeitgeschichte (DIZ)
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- Dates of Creation08/07/1953 - 29/05/1962
- Language of MaterialGerman
- Physical Description45 letters
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The Deutsches Institut für Zeitgeschichte (DIZ) was an East German archive, library and research institute for contemporary history. Founded in East Berlin in 1949 it was dissolved in 1971, and its stock was merged in a newly established superior institution.
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