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Oral History Collections at the Hoover Institution Library & Archives

Materials

Claremont Graduate School. Oral History Program - transcripts of oral history interviews

     1964-1966

Relates to persecution of the Jews in German-occupied Austria and Poland during World War II. Includes miscellaneous printed matter relating to antisemitism. Photocopy.

GDR Oral History Project Interviews

     1990-1994

Sound recordings and transcripts of interviews of East German government and Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands leaders, and East German dissidents, relating to political processes and policymaking in East Germany from 1945 to 1990. Project directed by A. James McAdams, and sponsored by the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace and other organizations.

Hart (Eric) interview

     2010

Sound recording of interview, relating to social conditions in Germany and to Allied military activities during World War II. Interview conducted by Bradley Bauer.

Heidemann (Gerd) collection

     1950s-2000s

The Gerd Heidemann collection documents major world events, war, and dictatorship in the 20th century through the eyes of German investigative reporter and photojournalist Gerd Heidemann. Compiled research materials and collected records focus on the history of Germany, the Third Reich and the Nazi Party, while Heidemann's own body of writings, photographic materials, and recorded interviews document his career with the German current-affairs magazine Stern, including his reportage of thirteen conflicts across Africa and the Middle East throughout the 1960s and 1970s. The collection includes Heidemann's recorded interviews with former Nazi Party officials and their associates conducted both in Germany and South America during the 1970s and 1980s, as well as extensive documentation of the "Hitler Diaries" scandal of the 1980s through Heidemann's personal documents, recordings of phone conversations with Konrad Kujau, and a complete set of copies of the forged diaries.

Owings (Alison) interviews

     1984-1989

Phonotape sound recordings of interviews of German women from a variety of societal backgrounds, relating to their experiences and recollections of life in Germany during the Nazi period. Used as research material for the book by Alison Owings, Frauen: German Women Recall the Third Reich (New Brunswick, N.J., 1993).

Waldheim (Kurt) interview transcript

     1988

Relates to allegations of participation in war crimes by Waldheim as a German officer in Yugoslavia and Greece during World War II. Interview conducted by Mary Ann Sieghart for a London television station. Photocopy.