GB 1556 WL 612 - Komitee ehemaliger politischer Gefangener: reports and statistics about concentration camps

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The reports were sent to Paul Anderson by Hans Schwarz and Franz Heitgres of the Komitee ehemaliger politischer Gefangener in order that he might get them published in The Observer newspaper where he worked as a journalist, the intention being to disseminate information about what happened during the war more widely.

GB 1556 WL 612 1945 Collection level 2 files Komitee ehemaliger politischer Gefangener

The Komitee ehemaliger politischer Gefangener was founded in the immediate post-World War Two years to represent the interests of former political prisoners. In 1947 it changed its name to the Vereinigung der Verfolgten des Naziregimes to include all those who suffered under the Nazis. This anti-fascist organisation still exists with branches all over Germany.

The reports were sent to Paul Anderson by Hans Schwarz and Franz Heitgres of the Komitee ehemaliger politischer Gefangener in order that he might get them published in The Observer newspaper where he worked as a journalist, the intention being to disseminate information about what happened during the war more widely.

Evelyn Anderson

Papers compiled by the Komitee ehemaliger politischer Gefangener, 1945, including original reports and personal accounts concerning conditions in concentration camps with special reference to Neuengamme and Dachau and papers on topics including political resistance to Nazism and plans for creating a free, democratic Germany.

Chronological

Open

Copies can be made for personal use. Permission must be sought for publication.

German

Fragile. Use surrogates.

Description exists to this archive on the Wiener Library's online catalogue www.wienerlibrary.co.uk.

Entry compiled by Howard Falksohn.

Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

November 2007 Antifascism Association of Victims of the Nazi Regime X Committee for Former Political Prisoners Bergen Belsen concentration camp x Belsen Buchenwald concentration camp Civil and political rights Concentration camps Dachau concentration camp Democracy Europe European history German history Germany Humanitarian law Human rights National history Nazism Neuengamme concentration camp Oppression Political doctrines Political movements Political prisoners Political systems Ravensbrück concentration camp Resistance to oppression Theresienstadt concentration camp Third Reich Totalitarianism War crimes Western Europe

Evelyn Anderson

Papers compiled by the Komitee ehemaliger politischer Gefangener, 1945, including original reports and personal accounts concerning conditions in concentration camps with special reference to Neuengamme and Dachau and papers on topics including political resistance to Nazism and plans for creating a free, democratic Germany.

Chronological

Open

Copies can be made for personal use. Permission must be sought for publication.

• Engels

• Latijn

German

Description exists to this archive on the Wiener Library's online catalogue www.wienerlibrary.co.uk.

Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

• Engels