Abstract The Allied Control Council or Allied Control Authority, also referred to as the Four Powers, was a military occupation governing body of the Allied Occupation Zones in Germany after the end of World War II in Europe. Following its establishment on August 30, 1945, the Council began issuing a series of laws, orders, proclamations and directives. The collection contains 13 broadsides and 2 gazettes issued by the Council beginning in 1945. The broadsides include Laws no. 1, 4, 5, 6, 15, 52...

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Copies of 7 "Review and Recommendations of the Deputy Judge Advocate for War Crimes" for United States vs Hans Altfuldisch et al, United States vs Friederich Becker et al, United States v. Josias Prince zu Waldeck et al, United States v. Alfons Klein et al, United States v. Jurgen Stroop et al, and United States v. Kurt Andrae et al. 6 of the cases were tried at Dachau, the seventh (US v Alfons Klein) was tried at Wiesbaden.

Abstract The Der Politische Soldat: Politischer und Kultureller Informationsdienst für den Einheitsführer collection comprises a sequential run of all but seven issues of a Nazi Party periodical published by the Nationalsozialistische (NS) Führungsstab der Wehrmacht in cooperation with the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (NSDAP) toward the end of World War II. The intended audience of Der Politische Soldat was the unit...

Abstract A prison diary written by Walter Koske, a documented member of the Nazi resistance. Walter Koske was one of twelve members of the illegal resistance cell Mix & Genest (named after the electronics company they worked for) who were arrested in 1937 for participating in communist party activities. Six of the arrested Mix & Genest members were sentenced to prison and six were released. Walter Koske (born in 1902), was arrested on his 35th birthday and charged with treason (...

Abstract A photograph album compiled by Geraldine Liniger of Medford, Oregon to document her 1950 trip to a Brethren youth work camp in Kassel, Germany, where she helped build homes for refugees displaced by World War II. The album begins with a series of photographs showing Liniger and other young women sightseeing in Italy, Paris, and the Netherlands and attending a Brethren Service Committee conference in Germany. The remainder of the album dates from Liniger's time in at the Kassel work camp in...

Abstract Correspondence and personal documents, 1937-1947, created and collected by Rolf Ransenberg. Consisting chiefly of correspondence from the Ransenberg family in Wanneman, Germany to their son Rolf in the United States, the papers also contain along with some personal documents of Rolf and Friedel Ransenberg. The Ransenberg family consisted of Jakob, Matilde, Rolf, Friedel, Guenther, Alfred, Karl-Heinz, and Inge. Jakob, the father, was a butcher; he was married to Mathilde, with whom he had six...