Contains correspondence to/from Adolf Hitler and from members and officers of the NSDAP. Correspondence is arranged alphabetically by last name of author (or, in some cases the recipient) within each subseries.
Arranged alphabetically by correspondent.
Amann, Max, 1924
Axmann, Artur, 1940
Baarova, Lida, 1938
Blomberg, Werner, 1936
Bodenschatz, Karl, 1938
Bohle, E.W., 1939
Bruning, Heinrich, 1932
Buchenwald, 1944
Dachau, 1937
Daluege, Kurt, 1940
Eckener, Hugo von, 1936
Epp, Franz von, 1934
Forker, Albert, 1939
Forro, Hans, 1945
Fran, N, 1939
Frank, Hans, 1931-1939
Frauenfeld, A.E., 1935
Funk, Walther, 1938-1940
Goebbels, Joseph, 1932
Gurtner, Franz, 1940
Haerlin, Friede, 1937
Haushofer, H, 1938
Heck, Lutz, 1939-1940
Henlein, Konrad, 1939
Herrman, Kurt, 1939
Hess, Rudolf, 1928, 1936
Hitler, Paula, 1939
Horny, R, 1945
Hossbach, Oberst, 1938
Hugenberg, Alfred, 1939
Jacobsen, Jakob, 1938
Jodl, Alfred, 1938
Jugo, Jenny, 1938
Kauss, Willy, 1935
Koch, Karl, 1938
Laval, Pierre, 1940
Ley, Inga, 1940
Lorenz, Heinz, 1940
Ludendorff, Frau, 1937
Ludwig, Walther, 1940
Mayer, D, 1931
Milch, Erhard, 1938
Muller, Ludwig, 1934
Niemoller, E, 1938
Ohlendorf, Otto, 1940
Riefenstahl, Leni, 1939
Roswenge, Helge, 1939
Rothschilds, undated
Rust, Bernhard, 1940
Saukel, Fritz, 1936-1940
Seldte, Franz, 1936
Stinnes, Hugo, 1934
Stresemann, Gustav, 1925
Todt, Fritz, 1938
Tramp, Walter, 1937
Trost, Robert, 1939
Volke, Franz, 1939
Wagner, Adolf, 1936
Wagner, Winifred, 1938
Wilson, Hugh R, 1938
Wust, Ida, 1938-1939
Consists of bonds and ration coupons issued by the Deutschen Reichs, passports of members of the NSDAP as well as photocopies of Hitler's Political Testament, Private Will, and papers relating to his marriage to Eva Braun.
Arranged by genre of material.
Consists of NSDAP armbands, identification tags, a test kit for hair, eye, and skin coloring, a recording of a speech by Paul von Hindenburg (1932), and a stamp album.
Arranged by genre of material.
Contains fragments of correspondence, poems, and other unidentified material.
Not arranged according to any arrangement scheme.
consists of photographs removed from correspondence located in Series I as well as photographs of Hitler at various functions, and members and officers of the NSDAP in portraits. An addition consists of 3 photograph albums prepared for Hermann Goring by Lutz Heck containing 183 black and white photographs of Goring, other officers, friends and family mainly on hunting trips in the Bavarian mountains.
Arranged by subject of photograph.
Contains three books with the bookplate of Adolf Hitler.
Arranged alphabetically by author.
- Scope and Contents
The collection contains letters (1912-1940) to and from Hitler and correspondence files (1915-1945) of various members of the NSDAP (Nationalsozialistiche Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei), including Hitler's adjutants Wilhelm Bruchner and Fritz Wiedemann, as well as Hans Frank, Heinrich Himmler, Joseph Goebbels, the Hohenzollern family, and Rudolf Hess. Original Hitler material consists primarily of birthday wishes, New Year's wishes, and such. Other letters and documents concern Nazi Jewish policy, the concentration camps at Dachau and Buchenwald, military issues, and the Joe Louis/Max Schmeling boxing match (1939). Also present are photographs of Hitler, Hermann Goring, and other officers at the front and in posed portraits, celebrity portraits, ration stamps, Nazi arm bands, a race identification kit, passports, bonds, military identification cards, postcards, Hitler Jugend identification booklets, and a recording of a speech by Paul von Hindenburg (1932). Copies of Hitler's will, political testament, and papers relating to his marriage to Eva Braun are also included. Many of the letters and documents are accompanied by English translations. Most of the Nazi officers present at the Nuremburg Trials are featured in the collection.
An addition to the collection consists of three photograph albums prepared for Hermann Goring by Lutz Heck. The albums contain 183 black and white photographs primarily reflecting Goring's interest in hunting as Commissioner of Woods and Forests. The first album, "Saujagd in Springe, 14 Dezember 1934," contains 84 photographs of Goring and others, boar, lodges, antelope, hunting dogs, etc.; the second, "Roth 1937," contains 56 photographs of Goring and others in hunting parties, at Konigssee and of dogs, boar, etc.; the third, "Rominten 1940," contains 43 photographs of Goring, Werner Molders, Erhard Milch, his daughter Edda, and others, as well as stags, boar and other hunting scenes. Also present are three published books with the ex libris of Adolf Hitler: Meine Kriegserinnerungen 1914-1918 (Berlin: E. S. Mittler, 1919) by Erich Ludendorff, Kamerad Hund; ein Buch fur Tierfreunde (Berlin: Safari-Verlag, 1934) by Alfred Muhr, and Die Armee des Konigreichs Westfalen, 1807-1813 (Berlin, C. Leddihn, 1935) by Fritz Lunsmann.
Originally housed in six boxes, the Hitler collection is now contained in five. Photocopies of original documents were filed separately, along with summary translations. The copies were discarded and translations were placed with the originals. Most documents have translations, some more accurate than others; hand-written correspondence remains for the most part untranslated as the script is a difficult cursive fraktur.
- Collection Creator Biography:
Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945.
Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) was a German dictator and author.
- Acquisition:
The collection was formed from three accessions: a 1946 gift to Princeton from a Colonel Given, a 1969 purchase from Chicago booksellers, and a 1999 gift from Harry A. Brooks (Class of 1935).
- Appraisal
No appraisal information is available.
- Processing Information
This collection was processed by Marta Hanewald in May 1992 and updated by Barbara Volz in 1999. Finding aid written by Marta Hanewald in May 1992.
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- Credit this material:
Adolf Hitler Collection; Manuscripts Division, Department of Special Collections, Princeton University Library
- Permanent URL:
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/0z708w50f
- Location:
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Firestone LibraryOne Washington RoadPrinceton, NJ 08544, USA
- Storage Note:
- Firestone Library (scamss): Box 1-5
- Subject Terms:
- Anschluss movement, 1918-1938.
Hunting -- Germany -- Bavaria -- 20th century -- Photographs.
Hunting dogs -- Germany -- Bavaria -- 20th century -- Photographs.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Causes.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Concentration camps. - Genre Terms:
- Correspondence -- 20th century
Memorabilia -- 20th century.
photographs -- 20th century. - Names:
- Germany
Nationalsozialistische deutsche Arbeiter-Partei
Braun, Eva
Goring, Hermann,
Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945.
Louis, Joe, 1914-1981 - Places:
- Buchenwald (Germany : Concentration camp)
Dachau (Germany : Concentration camp)
Germany -- History -- 1918-1933 -- Sources.
Germany -- History -- 1933-1945 -- Sources.