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(Raul Hilberg, The Destruction of the European Jews, Harper Colophon, 1979, p.768-9)

Appendix IV / Notation on Sources

Documents

In the main, German documents have been cited only by series and number. The following is a key to the various document series referred to in the notes.

1. Nuremberg documents&nbsp: (Reasonably complete collections of mimeographed copies may be found in major depository libraries such as the Library of Congress and the Columbia Law Library.)

EC PS

L R

M RF

NC SA

Nl SS

NO UK

NOKW USSR

All documents beginning vith the name of a defendant, for instance, Funk-13, Speer-10, etc.

A number of the documents (other than NG, Nl, NO and NOKW) may be consulted in two publications:

International Military Tribunal, Trial of the Major War Criminals (Nuremberg, 1947-49), 42 vols. (in German). Office of United States Cousel for Prosecution of Axis Criminality, Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression (Washington, D.C., 1946-48), 8 vols. and 2 supp. (in translation).

Some of the documents used in Nuremberg subsequent trials (including NG, Nl, NO, and NOKW) are printed in:

Nurernberg Military Tribunals, Trials of War Criminals (Washington, D.C., 1947-49), 15 vols. (in translation).

Mimeographed transcripts of the Nuremberg trials are located in depository libraries. A complete transcript of the trial before the International Military Tribunal is included in the Trial of the Major War Criminals  excerpts from the transcripts of the subsequent proceedings are reproduced in the Trials of War Criminals.

2. Original documents in the YIVO Institute, 1048 Fifth Avenue, New York City&nbsp:

G, Occ, the Ghetto Collections (documents of the Jewish councils of Lodz, Warsaw, and Vilna, mostly in Yiddish)

3. Original documents in the Federal Records Center Alexandria, Virginia, declassified for public use, and cited with the permission of the Adjutant General, United States Arrny:

EAP

H

OKW

Wi

4. The Himmler Files in the Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress. The files contain the correspondence of the Reichsführer-SS/Persönlicher Stab.

5. Document collections available to the American public only in printed forrn. Akten zur Deutschen Auswärtigen Politik 1918-1945, containing the German Foreign Office correspondence  volumes dealing with the period 1933-41 have been published so far by the governments of the United States, Great Britain, and France.

Dokumenty i Materialy, containing correspondence of German agencies in Poland, and published by the Jewish Historical Commission in Poland, three volumes, available in the YIVO Institute.

Leon Poliakov (ed.) (Centre de Documentation), La Condition des Juifs en France sous l'occupation italienne (Paris, 1946).

Laws, statutes, etc.

The principal sour_ of German law was the Reichsgesetzblatt (RGB1). In addition, central ministries and regional authorities in areas outside the Reich published ordinances in gazettes of their own. Examples of ministerial gazettes are the Reichsarbeitsblatt of the Labor Ministry and the Ministerial-Blatt of the Interior Ministry. Examples of territorial gazettes published in occupied territory are the Verordnungsblatt des Reichsprotektors in Böhmen und Mähren and the Verordnungsblatt des Generalgouverneurs. Large collections of these decrees may be found in the Columbia Law Library and in the Foreign Law Division of the Library of Congress.

Readers may also be interested in consulting commentaries by German bureaucrats. These commentaries are authoritative insofar as they were prepared by the same people who had drafted the decrees. Examples of such works are Stuckart's Rassenpflege and Oerrnann's Sozialausgleichsabgabe.

Newspapers and periodicals

Two newspapers published in German occupied territories contain an extraordinarv amount of information about Jewish matters. The papers are the Krakauer Zeitung (published in identical editions in Krakow and Warsaw) and the Donauzeitung (published in Belgrade). They are available in the Newspaper Division of the Library of Congress.

One Nazi periodical was devoted entirely to Jewish affairs&nbsp: Die Judenfrage. Its confidential annex (Vertrauliche Beilage) contains interesting information about anti-Jewish action in Germany and other countries. Die Judenfrage may be consulted in the Library of Congress and the YlVO lnstitute.

The Jewish communities in Berlin, Vienna, and Prague published separate editions of the Judisches Nachrichtenblatt. The counterpart of that paper in Poland was the Gazeta Zydowska. Copies of the Jewish ghetto press are on deposit in the YIVO Institute.

Accounts by survivors

The number of titles in this category numbers in the tens of thousands. An exhaustive compilation of the entire catastrophe literature was under preparation by the late Dr. Philip Friedman of Columbia University and the YIVO Institute.

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