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Adolf Hitler Collection

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Hitler

Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) was a German dictator and author.

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.

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).

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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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Publisher
Manuscripts Division
Finding Aid Author
Marta Hanewald
Finding Aid Date
1999
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Collection Inventory

Scope and Contents

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.

Arrangement

Arranged alphabetically by correspondent.

Physical Description

2 boxes

Amann, Max, 1924. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Arab Women's Committee, 1938. 1 box.
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1 box

Axmann, Artur, 1940. 1 box.
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1 box

Baarova, Lida, 1938. 1 box.
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1 box

Blomberg, Werner, 1936. 1 box.
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1 box

Bodenschatz, Karl, 1938. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Bohle, E.W., 1939. 1 box.
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1 box

to: Bormann, Albert, 1939-1940. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Bormann, Martin, 1939-1940. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

to: Bruckner, Wilhelm, 1935. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Bruning, Heinrich, 1932. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Buchenwald, 1944. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Dachau, 1937. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Darre, R. Walther, 1935. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Daluege, Kurt, 1940. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Eckener, Hugo von, 1936. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Epp, Franz von, 1934. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Faulhaber, Cardinal, 1933. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Forker, Albert, 1939. 1 box.
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1 box

Forro, Hans, 1945. 1 box.
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1 box

Fran, N, 1939. 1 box.
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1 box

Frank, Hans, 1931-1939. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Frauenfeld, A.E., 1935. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Frick, Wilhelm, 1933. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Funk, Walther, 1938-1940. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Furtwangler, Wilhelm, 1935. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Goebbels, Joseph, 1932. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Gurtner, Franz, 1940. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Haerlin, Friede, 1937. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Haushofer, Albrecht, 1938. 1 box.
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1 box

Haushofer, H, 1938. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Haushofer, Karl, 1938-1939. 1 box.
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1 box

Heck, Lutz, 1939-1940. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Helldorf, Wolf von, 1936. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Henlein, Konrad, 1939. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Herrman, Kurt, 1939. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Hess, Rudolf, 1928. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Hessen, Philipp von, 1938. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Heydrich, Reinhard, 1937-1940. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Himmler, Heinrich, 1938-1940. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Hitler, Adolf (4 folders), 1921-1937. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Hitler, Paula, 1939. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Hohenzollern Family, 1933. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Hohenzollern, Prince A. Wilhelm, 1934. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Hohenzollern, Prince Wilhelm, 1940. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Horny, R, 1945. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Hossbach, Oberst, 1938. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Hugenberg, Alfred, 1939. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Jacobsen, Jakob, 1938. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Jodl, Alfred, 1938. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Jugo, Jenny, 1938. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Kalkreuth, Baroness von, 1934. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Kauss, Willy, 1935. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Keitel, Wilhelm, 1940-1941. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Kerrl, Hanns, 1936. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Koch, Karl, 1938. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Krupp von Boglen und Halbach, 1936. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Kube, Wilhelm, 1933. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Laval, Pierre, 1940. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Ley, Inga, 1940. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Ley, Robert, 1932. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

List, Guido von, 1916-1918. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Lorenz, Heinz, 1940. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Ludendorff, Erich, 1915. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Ludendorff, Frau, 1937. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Ludwig, Walther, 1940. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Lutze, Victer, 1934. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Mayer, D, 1931. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Meissner, Otto von, 1939-1940. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Milch, Erhard, 1938. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Muller, Ludwig, 1934. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Niemoller, E, 1938. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Neurath, Konstantin von, 1934. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Ohlendorf, Otto, 1940. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Papen, Franz von, 1932-1935. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Reinhardt, George-Hans, 1939. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Ribbentrop, Gertrud von, 1939. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Ribbentrop, Joachim von, 1932. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Riefenstahl, Leni, 1939. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Rohm, Ernst, 1923. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Rosenberg, Alfred, 1924. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Roswenge, Helge, 1939. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Rothschilds, undated. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Rust, Bernhard, 1940. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Salen Sermiti, Bedi, 1939. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Saukel, Fritz, 1936-1940. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Schacht, Hjalmar, 1935-1936. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Schaub, Julius, 1938-1940. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Schirach, Baldur von, 1937-1938. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Schmeling-Louis Boxing Match, 1939. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Schulenburg, Freda von der, 1938-1939. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Schwarz, Franz Xaver, 1930. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Seldte, Franz, 1936. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Seyss-Inquart, Arthur, 1938-1940. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Stinnes, Hugo, 1934. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Streicher, Julius, 1924. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Stresemann, Gustav, 1925. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Todt, Fritz, 1938. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Tramp, Walter, 1937. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Trost, Robert, 1939. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Volke, Franz, 1939. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Wagner, Adolf, 1936. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Wagner, Eva Chamberlain, 1938. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Wagner, Winifred, 1938. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Wiedemann, Fritz, 1935-1938. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, Fanny G, 1938. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Wilson, Hugh R, 1938. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Wust, Ida, 1938-1939. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Miscellaneous Correspondence, A-Z, 1914. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Scope and Contents

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.

Arrangement

Arranged by genre of material.

Physical Description

1 box

Bonds, Ration Coupons, 1917-1918. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Political Testament, Will, Marriage papers, 1945. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Passports, Identification Cards, 1938-1944. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Scope and Contents

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.

Arrangement

Arranged by genre of material.

Physical Description

1 box

Armbands, Identification Tags, undated. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Identification Kit for Eyes, Hair, Skin, undated. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Postage Stamps, undated. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Recording of Paul von Hindenburg speech, undated. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Scope and Contents

Contains fragments of correspondence, poems, and other unidentified material.

Arrangement

Not arranged according to any arrangement scheme.

Physical Description

1 box

Fragments, Unidentified, 1914. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Scope and Contents

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.

Arrangement

Arranged by subject of photograph.

Physical Description

2 boxes

A-Z (Miscellaneous), circa 1935-1945. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Hitler, Adolf, circa 1927-1944. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Ley, Robert, circa 1940. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Streicher, Julius, circa 1935-1945. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Officers, Third Reich, A-Z (2 folders), circa 1935-1945. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Physical Description

1 box

"Saujagd in Springe, ", 1934 December 14. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

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"Roth, ", 1937. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

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"Rominten, ", 1940. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

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Scope and Contents

Contains three books with the bookplate of Adolf Hitler.

Arrangement

Arranged alphabetically by author.

Physical Description

1 box

Ludendorff, Erich, Meine Kriegserinnerungen, 1914-1918 (Berlin: E. S. Mittler, 1919), with ex libris of Adolf Hitler, 1914-1918. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Lunsmann, Fritz, Die Armee des Konigreichs Westfalen, 1807-1813 (Berlin, C. Leddihn, 1935), with ex libris of Adolf Hitler, 1807-1813. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Muhr, Alfred, Kamerad Hund; ein Buch fur Tierfreunde (Berlin: Safari-Verlag, 1934), with ex libris of Adolf Hitler, 1934. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

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