Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945

Abstract:

The collection contains contact sheets, negatives, transparencies, slides, photographic prints, scrapbooks, writings, professional and personal papers, correspondence, printed material, cameras and other recording equipment, and audiovisual and computer media created and collected by Hungarian photojournalist Lucien Aigner.

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Printed Christmas card and New Year's greeting, with printed signature and stamp.

Abstract:

The collection comprises printed material, including books, posters, postcards, and related ephemera, that pertain to the country of Germany, its people, history, and culture. The bulk of the material relates to the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei (Nazi Party). The majority of items cover the years 1927 to 1947.

Abstract: This collection consists of daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, tintypes, miniature paintings, and other direct positive photographic and non-photographic pictures, brought together here from numerous collections for special preservation and protection. Many of these pictures were formerly listed as part of the Yale Objects and Yale Picture Collections. Others were removed from various collections of personal and family papers: George Kittredge Collection, Gilman Family Papers, Chauncey Family...

Abstract: The papers consist of correspondence, writings, research material, and personal memorabilia which document Harold Dwight Lasswell's boyhood and his career from 1939-1978, primarily as director of War Communications Research at the Library of Congress and as professor of law and political science at Yale University. The papers also reflect Lasswell's diverse research interests in content analysis, communications, psychology, values, policy sciences, and other fields in political and social...

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Two reports by Truman Smith prepared during his army service. One on Hitler and the National Socialists in Munich in November 1922 and the other on "Air intelligence activities... with special reference to the services of Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh."

Abstract: Correspondence of Nazi Party officials, including Hitler, Goering, and Goebbels, before and during Hitler's rise to power. Several letters are to Nazi officials from other sources, including one from Cardinal Pacelli, later Pope Pius XII. Letters to Franz Gurtner and Otto George Thierack from Himmler and Heydrich reveal the political intrigue and extra-legal procedure carried on without the knowledge of the Ministry of Justice. English translations of the more important letters have been...