Collection GB 1556 WL 846 - Nazi Foreign Office: Murder of Hungarian Jews

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Reference code

GB 1556 WL 846

Title

Nazi Foreign Office: Murder of Hungarian Jews

Date(s)

  • 1944 (Creation)

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Collection

Extent and medium

1 folder

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Biographical history

Unknown

Repository

Archival history

GB 1556 WL 846 1944 collection 1 folder German Foreign Office

Unknown

Received Jul 1986.

Copy of a letter from the head of a section in the German Foreign Office in Berlin, Wagner to Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Head of Security Police, 5 Jul 1944, containing a German translation of an intercepted telegram from the British Legation in Bern to the British Foreign Office, London. The latter contains an account of the systematic murder of millions of European Jews by the Nazis with particular reference to the fate of the Hungarian Jewish population.

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

German

Detailed description on the Wiener Library's online catalogue www.wienerlibrary.co.uk.

Entry compiled by Sarah Drewery.

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.

Mar 2008 Berlin Bern Eastern Europe England Europe Foreign Office x Foreign and Commonwealth Office Genocide German Foreign Office Germany Holocaust Humanitarian law Hungary Jews Kaltenbrunner , Ernst , 1903-1946 , Nazi London Nazism Occupied territories Political doctrines Religious groups SS x Schutzstaffel Switzerland Third Reich Totalitarianism UK War crimes Western Europe World wars (events) World War Two (1939-1945) Wars (events)

Immediate source of acquisition or transfer

Received Jul 1986.

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Scope and content

Copy of a letter from the head of a section in the German Foreign Office in Berlin, Wagner to Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Head of Security Police, 5 Jul 1944, containing a German translation of an intercepted telegram from the British Legation in Bern to the British Foreign Office, London. The latter contains an account of the systematic murder of millions of European Jews by the Nazis with particular reference to the fate of the Hungarian Jewish population.

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Accruals

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Conditions governing access

Open

Conditions governing reproduction

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

Language of material

  • English

Script of material

  • Latin

Language and script notes

German

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Finding aids

Detailed description on the Wiener Library's online catalogue www.wienerlibrary.co.uk.

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Wiener Library

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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.

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Language(s)

  • English

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