Burning the Reichstag (71 page)

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS, WASHINGTON, D.C., USA (LOC)

Martha Dodd Papers

Edgar Ansell Mowrer Papers

NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND RECORDS ADMINISTRATION, COLLEGE PARK, MARYLAND, USA (NARA)

BDC Collections

RG 65 230/86/04/05, Records of the FBI, Hans Bernd Gisevius

RG 238 War Crimes Records Collection

RG 319 Records of the Army Staff, Rudolf Diels, Otto Strasser

RG 263 Records of the CIA, Horst Mahnke, Paul Dickopf, Hubert Schrübbers

ARCHIVE OF THE UNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM, WASHINGTON, D.C. (USHMM)

RG 71 Robert M.W. Kempner Papers

LIBRARY AND ARCHIVE OF HERRN RECHTSANWALT GERHARD JUNGFER, BERLIN (JA)

Documents from the van der Lubbe
Wiederaufnahme
; materials on Arthur Brandt

COLLECTION OF HERRN POLIZEIPRÄSIDENT A.D. DIERK SCHNITZLER, BONN, AND HERRN KLAUS-MICHAEL SCHNITZLER, DÜSSELDORF

Heinrich Schnitzler, Nachlass

Note on the Schnitzler Nachlass: in the endnotes, references to Schnitzler's papers are given as “NL Schnitzler I” and “NL Schnitzler II.” Material cited as “NL Schnitzler I” was in the possession of Schnitzler's sons when they generously gave me the chance to see it in January, 2012; I saw original documents and took photographs of them. Material cited as “NL Schnitzler II” was kindly sent to me by Dr. Alexander Bahar in the form of a pdf of photocopies in August 2009. My efforts to learn something of the provenance of the “NL Schnitzler II” documents yielded an unclear result. Dr. Bahar advised me that the copies came from the Swiss Bundesarchiv, and that they had been made by Professor Christoph Graf. Professor Graf, however, although he remembered visiting Schnitzler's brother and son in September 1976 and seeing the papers, by 2009 no longer possessed any copies of them and also denied that they were deposited in the Swiss Bundesarchiv. Herr Dierk and Herr Klaus-Michael Schnitzler, for their part, say that Professor Graf took documents from them and never returned them. Putting all of this together, I strongly suspect that the copies which Dr. Bahar sent me were those gathered by Professor Graf in 1976. I sent these copies in turn to Herrn Dierk and Herrn Klaus-Michael Schnitzler.

After very careful comparisons of the “NL Schnitzler II” documents with those from “NL Schnitzler I” and other sources, looking at typefaces, typing style, and handwriting and signatures, as well as content, I have no doubts whatsoever regarding the authenticity of the “NL Schnitzler II” documents. Indeed copies of some of these documents can be found in publicly accessible archives. But given the issues that have arisen in the Reichstag fire controversy, the reader is entitled to know of these issues and so I have preserved the distinction.

ARCHIVE OF THE SPIEGEL, HAMBURG (SPA)

Materials from the Augstein Nachlass, Tobias Papers, VIPS Collection

LIBRARY AND ARCHIVE OF HERRN MINISTERIALRAT A.D. FRITZ TOBIAS, HANNOVER (TA)

Materials from his collection on Rudolf Diels

CORRESPONDENCE

Correspondence and conversations with Karl Otmar von Aretin, Alexander Bahar, Heinz Egleder, Hersch Fischler, Markus Henneke, Gerhard Jungfer, Peter-Ferdinand Koch, Hans Mommsen, Thomas Polgar, Peter Schildhauer, Dierk and Klaus-Michael Schnitzler, Peter Sichel, Karl Stephan, Fritz Tobias, Lothar Weber, and Friedrich Winterhager

Abegg, Wilhelm,
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Adenauer, Konrad,
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Adermann, Paul,
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Adler, H. G.,
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Albada, Piet van,
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Albrecht, Herbert,
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Algemeen Handelsblad
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Angriff
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Apfel, Alfred,
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Arbeiter Illustrierte Zeitung
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Arendt, Hannah,
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Aretin, Karl Otmar von,
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Arndt, Adolf,
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Arnim, Achim von,
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Association of Persecutees of the Nazi Regime,
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Augstein, Josef,
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Augstein, Rudolf,
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August Wilhelm (Hohenzollern),
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Bach-Zelewski, Erich von dem,
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Bahar, Alexander,
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Bartov, Omer,
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Baumgarten, Paul,
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Beck, Hermann,
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Becker, Alois Eugen,
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Becker, Hans Detlev,
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Becker, Rudolf,
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Bennemann, Otto,
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Berlin am Morgen
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Berlin Document Center,
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Berliner Tageblatt
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Bernhard, Georg,
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Best, Werner,
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BKA.
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Federal Criminal Police Office

Blomberg, Werner von,
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Blum, Leon,
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Bode, Heinrich L.,
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Boxheimer Documents,
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Bracht, Franz,
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Brandt, Arthur,
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Brandt, Willy,
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Braschwitz, Rudolf,
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Braun, Otto,
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Breimer, Lisa,
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Breiting, Richard,
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Brömme, Albrecht,
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Bross, Werner,
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Broszat, Martin,
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Brown Book
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Brüning, August,
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Brüning, Heinrich,
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Bülow-Schwante, Vicco von,
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Bunge (Commissar),
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Bünger, Wilhelm,
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Buske, Alfred,
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Buwert, Karl,
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BZ am Mittag
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Cabromal (potassium bromide),
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Calic, Edouard,
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Center Party,
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Central Office of the State Justice Ministries for the Investigation of National Socialist Crimes (Ludwigsburg),
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Christo,
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CIA (Central Intelligence Agency),
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CIC (Counter Intelligence Corps),
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Chicago Tribune
,
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Coenders, Hermann,
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Combat League against Fascism (
Kampfbund gegen Faschismus
),
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Comintern (Communist International),
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Communist Party of Germany,
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Daluege, Kurt,
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“Decree Against Betrayal of the German People,”
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“Decree in the Drawer” (
Schubkastenordnung
),
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Deh, Karl,
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Dell, Robert,
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Delp, Ludwig,
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Delmer, Sefton (Tom),
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denazification,
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Department IA (Berlin Political Police)
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Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung
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Deutsche Rundschau
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Dickopf, Paul,
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Diels, Hildegard (Mannesmann),
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Diels, Ilse (Göring),
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Diels, Rudolf,
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Dimitrov, Georgi,
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Dobbert (Berlin prosecutor),
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Döblin, Alfred,
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Dodd, Martha,
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Dodd, William E.,
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