Publication office Berlin-Dahlem

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The Berlin-Dahlem Publication Center was set up as a department of the Prussian State Archives under Albert Brackmann from 1931 and closed in 1945.

task

The Jomsburg

Their task was to promote German research on the East and to monitor and document Polish and other research on the West . Extensive translations were made for this purpose.

Among other things, statistics from censuses in the Soviet Union as well as data and reports from individual Soviet areas on materials for the General Plan East , which a group around Konrad Meyer worked out, were made available. In addition, the agency, briefly called "Puste", administered the German Jewish files on behalf of the SS . In coordination with the Bund Deutscher Osten , it performed censorship functions by deciding whether to publish or suppress works on German Ostforschung.

The publication center was largely identical in terms of personnel to the Northeast German Research Association ( NOFG ) founded in 1934 , which also used the same rooms (cf. Volks- und Kulturbodenforschung ).

In addition to its scientific-political and propaganda function, the publication agency also worked on a "Volkstumskartei" (national index card ), which last led to 400,000 "foreign" persons such as Jews or " Gypsies ", in order to make this index available to the authorities. In addition, the publication office prepared maps that were used for warfare.

In addition, the publication office was an authority for the assessment and censorship of publications from the field of Eastern research that appeared in the Reich.

For this reason, the publication center, which was also responsible for the Lusatian Sorbs , was evacuated to Bautzen in 1943, along with the library, from Berlin, which was increasingly affected by air raids, and in February 1945 it was initially taken by train to Coburg and, for the most part, after it was confiscated the Americans and transfer to the Library of Congress in Washington finally to the Herder Institute in Marburg, founded in 1950 . The former head of the publication office, Johannes Papritz, was head of the archive school in Marburg from 1954 to 1963 .

Employee

Publications

The transmission of the publication point and NODFG is incomplete, a bibliography is missing so far. Selection, information from library catalogs:

  • Baltic Institute, Thorn
    • Communiqué. Baltic Institute in Thorn, Department for Scientific Information. 3rd ser. 1.1935–32.1936 verified
    • Pomeranian conference. 4.1934 (1936) proven
    • The port of Szczecin. 1933 (1935) detected
  • Silesian Institute, Katowice
    • Communiqué. [1.] Ser. 1.1934 / 35-50.1935; 2nd ser. 1.1936-41.1937; 3rd ser. 1.1938-50.1939; 4th ser. 1.1939–4.1939 [?]
    • Annual report of the Directorate of the Silesian Institute. 1.1934 / 35 (1935) –5.1938 / 39 (1939) [?]
  • [Poland Service.] 1933–1934, May 16
  • Poland reports from the publication office. No. 1.1939-34.1940
  • Economic geography of the USSR. 1.1944; 2.1942-10.1944; 11.1942–21.1944 [?]
  • Publication Office Northeast Reports. No. 35.1940–71.1942 [?]
  • Historical map sequence for the Reichskommissariat Ostland. Berlin 1943
  • Transportation of the Ukrainian territories. Berlin 1942
  • Messages
    • Notices from the publication office. Berlin-Dahlem. 1.1936-27.1943 MR HI Gö
      • No. 3. Content report of the book by Jędrzej Giertych "The tragedy in the fate of Poland". 1936. 7 pp.
      • No. 4. Political geography in Poland in 1936. 1937. 4 pp.
      • No. 9. Hahn, A. The foreign propaganda of the Poles. 1937. 15 pp.
      • No. 10. The struggle for nationality [Vlad. Slaminka, "Boj o národnost"]. 1938. 14 pp.
      • No. 14. Radl, O. "Autostradu?" ["A motorway?"]. 1938. 9 pp.
      • No. 18. Schieche, E. Czech propaganda abroad. 1940. 18 pp.
      • No. 19. Soviet Polish Cultural Policy. 1940. 7 pp.
      • No. 20. Laakmann, H. Report on the Bolshevik cultural policy in Estonia. 1940. 3 pp.
      • No. 21. Historical and geographical factors in the development of the Germans' nationality in the former Poland. 1941. 10 pp.
      • No. 22. The Polish expatriate campaign to restore the Polish state since September 1939 (organization, emigrant army, propaganda). 1941. 10 pp.
      • No. 23. Laakmann, H. The agriculture of Estonia under the rule of Bolshevism. 1941. 6 pp.
      • No. 24/25. Gaessner, H. The Advancement of the Soviet Union and the Prelude to the Finnish-Soviet Winter War. Ministerial speeches and Swedish press reviews from d. Autumn 1939. 1942. 26 pp.
      • No. 27. Krueger, H. On Anglo-American cultural propaganda in Sweden. 1943. 29 pp.
    • Notices from the publication office. Bautzen 28.1944–40.1945 [?]
      • No. 28. Kossmann, O. The organizational structure of the American Poles. 1944. 15 pp.
      • No. 29. Kossmann, O. Polish science in the USA (organization, population, production). 1944. 16 pp.
      • No. 30. Weidhaas, H. The Eastern Catholic Church of Eastern Europe, especially White Ruthenia. 1944. 34 pp.
      • No. 31. Kossmann, O. Kossmann O. The Polish émigré press 1939-1944. 1944. 10 pp.
      • No. 32. Winter, E. The Orthodox Church in Eastern and Southeastern Europe. 1944. 7 pp.
      • No. 33. Kossmann, O. Polish intellectual warfare: Polish emigrant literature during the war (new publications 1942 and 1943). 1944. 6 pp.
      • No. 34. Kossmann, O. Episode I: Press and magazines. 1944. 6 pp.
      • No. 35. Kossmann, O. Episode II: Literature on their military and civil struggle. 1944. 6 pp.
      • No. 38. Laakmann, H. Overview of the Swedish books on the Baltic States that have been published since 1939. With an addendum on the last new publications in the series "Brennende Ostseefracht" by H. Krueger. 1944. 9 pp.
      • No. 40. Weidhaas, H. Eastern European Pan-Slavism and the position of the Poles and Czechs towards it. 1945. 22 pp.
  • Local registers and population statistics
    • Demographic statistics of Estonia: List of the smaller and smallest administrative units of the Free State of Estonia with statistical information on their population based on the official Estonian census of March 1, 1934. 1942
    • Demographic statistics of Ingermanland and its neighboring regions: Directory of the administrative units of the governorates: Leningrad, Novgorod, Pleskau, Tscherepowez, Tver (Kalinin) of the RSFSR with statistical data on their population based on the Soviet census of December 17, 1926. 1942
    • Population statistics of the Kola Peninsula and Karelia: List of the smaller and smallest administrative units of the Murmansk Governorate RSFSR, the Karelian ASSR and the Finnish territories annexed in 1940 with statistical information on their population based on the Soviet official census of December 17, 1926 and the official Finnish census of December 31, 1930. 1942
    • Demographic statistics of Latvia: List of the smaller and smallest administrative units of the Republic of Latvia with statistical data on their population based on the official Latvian census of February 12, 1935. 1942
    • Demographic statistics of the Lithuanian state with special consideration of the Germans: Based on the first Lithuanian census of September 17, 1923. 1935
    • Addendum to "Population Statistics of the Lithuanian State": Based on the first Lithuanian census from September 17, 1923. 1940
    • List of localities with a German population on the territory of the Polish state. 1939
    • Statistical register of municipalities of the previous Polish state: Taking into account the limit of German and Soviet Russian imperial interests established on September 28, 1939. 1939
    • The eastern territories of the German Reich and the General Government of the occupied Polish territories in statistical data. 1940
    • The population of the former Polish national territory west of the border line from September 28, 1939 according to the confession based on the Polish census of 1931. 1944
    • Directory of place names of Ukraine based on the administrative maps of the SSR of Ukraine. 1943
    • Belarusian population statistics: Directory of the smaller and smallest administrative units of the Belarusian SSR including the eastern areas of Poland incorporated in 1939 and the Brjanßk and Ssmolenßk governorates.
  • Translations
    • Translations by the publication office. 1931/32 (1937) -1935/42 (1943)
    • List of typescript translations of Polish works a. Essays. 1934 ff.
    • Activity report of the sea and colonial league. 1933/35 (1935) proven
    • Library of the Institute of Polish Architecture in the Technical University in Warsaw. 2.1941 detected
    • Danzig studies. Society of Friends of Science and Art in Gdansk. 1.1939 [?]
    • Avant-garde library. 11.1938 proven
    • Report on the ceremonial meeting of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Proven 1937–1939
    • Publication of the committee for research into the history of the independence movement in the former Prussia. Sub-area. 1.1935 [?]
    • The ... Meeting of Poles Abroad. The course and the result of the deliberations. 2.1934 proven
    • Activity report of the Organizing Council of the Poles Abroad. 1929/34 (1934) proven
    • Edition of the Society for Research into the History of the Wielkopolska Uprising of 1918/19. Detected February 1932
    • The ethnic composition of the population of the Northwest Region and the Karelian ASSR. Translation from Russian. 1942
  • Translations from the press
    • Czech press extracts. 1934–1945, 21 (January 22) proven
    • Polish press extracts. Proven 1934–1945
      • 1938. No. 1-560.
      • 1939. No. 1-423.
      • 1940. No. 1-290.
    • Lithuanian press extracts. Proven 1934–1945
    • Latvian press extracts. Proven 1934–1945
      • 1938. No. 1-117.
      • 1939. No. 1-83.
    • Estonian press extracts. Proven 1934–1944
      • 1938. No. 1-96.
      • 1939. No. 1-77.
    • Wendish press extracts. Detected 1936–1937
    • Small Czech contribution. 1.1938–13.1944 [?]
    • Finnish press extracts. Proven in 1945
    • Swedish press extracts. Detected 1944–1945
    • Small contribution, Polish. No. 1.1938–89.1943 [?]
    • Small Latvian contribution. 1.1944 [?]
    • Small Estonian contribution. 1.1944 [?]
    • Small Scandinavian contribution. 1.1944 [?]

literature

  • Götz Aly / Susanne Heim : thought leaders of annihilation. Auschwitz and the German plans for a new European order , Frankfurt / M. (Fischer) 1995, ISBN 3-596-11268-0 .
  • Michael Burleigh : Germany Turns Eastwards. A Study of 'Ostforschung' in the Third Reich , London 2002, ISBN 0-330-48840-6 .
  • Frank Förster : The “Wendenfrage” in German Ostforschung 1933–1945. The Berlin-Dahlem Publication Office and the Lusatian Sorbs. (= Writings of the Sorbian Institute. Volume 43). Domowina-Verlag, Bautzen 2007, ISBN 978-3-7420-2040-6 .
  • Detlev Franz: The political context of the investigation into Silesia. In: Arbeitskreis Universitätsgeschichte 1945–1965 (Ed.): Elements of a different university history. Mainz 1991.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Götz Aly / Susanne Heim , pioneer of annihilation. Auschwitz and the German plans for a new European order, Frankfurt / M. (Fischer) 1995, p. 402.
  2. ^ Ingo Haar , 'Revisionist' historians and youth movement: The Königsberger example, p. 85; in: Peter Schöttler (ed.), Historiography as a science of legitimation 1918–1945, Frankfurt / M. (Suhrkamp) 1999, pp. 52-103. ISBN 3-518-28933-0 .
  3. ↑ Jessica Hoffmann / Anja Megel // Robert Parzer / Helena Seidel (eds.): Dahlemer Memories , Frank & Timme GmbH 2007, ISBN 978-3-86596-144-0
  4. ^ Frank Förster: The "Wendenfrage" in the German Ostforschung 1933-1945 [= writings of the Sorbian Institute 43]. Domowina-Verlag, Bautzen 2007, pp. 208f.
  5. ^ Herder Institute: Library holdings
  6. ↑ Jan Baumgart, Co tłumaczyła “Publikationsstelle”, Instytut Zachodni, 1948, No. 1: http://www.archiwumpz.iz.poznan.pl/dlibra/docmetadata?id=2205&from=publication .