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Europe Collections at Hoover Institution Library & Archives

Austria

Collections about Austria document the outbreak and course of World War I, Austria's struggle to remain independent during the 1930s, its wartime involvement on the side of the Axis, its occupation by Allied forces from 1945 to 1955, and its emergence as an independent, neutral state after 1955. 

ALFRED HERMANN FRIED PAPERS - Austrian pacificist; Nobel Peace Prize winner, 1911

HEINRICH KANNER WRITINGS - Austrian journalist; editor, Die Zeit (Vienna)

NINA ALMOND AND RALPH LUTZ COLLECTION - Writings on the Treaty of St. Germain

GILCHRIST BAKER STOCKTON PAPERS - US minister to Austria, 1930–33

EUROPEAN PICTORIAL COLLECTION - Photographs of the 1934 revolt in Austria

AUSTRIA. TERRITORY UNDER ALLIED OCCUPATION RECORDS - Allied administration of Austria after World War II

ALETA BROWNLEE PAPERS - Director of child welfare in Austria, United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration

JOHN DOANE HARTIGAN PAPERS - Member, US military government in Austria

AUSTRIA SUBJECT COLLECTION - Miscellaneous materials

 

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Belgium

Many of the Belgian collections concern US relief activities in German-occupied Belgium during World War I, especially those headed by Herbert Hoover. Other collections relate to Belgium under German occupation in World War II, politics, and the labor movement in Belgium during the twentieth century.

COMMISSION FOR RELIEF IN BELGIUM (1914–30) RECORDS - Private organization for provision of relief to Belgium during World War I

EDWARD EYRE HUNT PAPERS - Member, Commission for Relief in Belgium, 1914–16

WALTHER SCHEVENELS PAPERS - Belgian trade union official

BRAND WHITLOCK PAPERS - US ambassador to Belgium, 1913–22

BELGIAN SUBJECT COLLECTION - Miscellaneous materials


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Czech Republic and Slovakia

This collection is an important scholarly resource on Czech and Slovak history. The coverage is comprehensive, from the Paris Peace Conference in 1919 to the Czechoslovak Republic through World War II and communist Czechoslovakia to the post-1989 emergence of two democratic republics, Czech and Slovak.

R. GAJDA PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM - Commander, Czechoslovak Legion, 1918

STEFAN TISO DIARY - Premier of Slovakia, 1944–45

STEFAN OSUSKÝ PAPERS - Czechoslovak diplomat

JURAJ SLÁVIK PAPERS - Czechoslovak diplomat

JOSEF ŠKVORECKÝ PAPERS - Czech Canadian novelist

VILÉM PREČAN PAPERS - Czech historian and political dissident

JIŘÍ ŠETINA COLLECTION - Materials related to the Czechoslovak Communist Party

CZECHOSLOVAK INDEPENDENT PUBLICATIONS COLLECTION - Materials published by underground and uncensored presses in Czechoslovakia

FERDINAND PEROUTKA PAPERS - Czech journalist and chief of Czechoslovak Desk, Radio Free Europe, 1950–64

SLOVAK SUBJECT COLLECTION - Miscellaneous materials


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Denmark

The collections largely pertain to Denmark during World War II, including several focusing on the resistance movement that fought against the German occupation. Others contain materials on relations between Denmark and various countries, including Poland and the United States.

CLEVELAND PUBLIC LIBRARY COLLECTION - Materials issued by resistance groups during World War II

FINN A. NIELSEN COLLECTION - Danish and German newspapers issued during World War II

STOYTE OGLEBY ROSS PAPERS - Chief, United States Military Assistance Advisory Group in Denmark, 1956–60

MICHAŁ SOKOLNICKI PAPERS - Polish minister to Denmark, 1931–35


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Estonia

The Estonian collections relate to that country’s first period of independence and its foreign relations during the interwar years. Among these, the Pusta Papers are especially important, as they concern the Soviet annexation of Estonia and efforts to keep the cause of Baltic independence alive during the Cold War. Other collections document political repression in the Soviet period and the renewal of Estonian sovereignty in 1991.

EESTI NSV RIIKLIKU JULGEOLEKU KOMITEE RECORDS - Estonian branch of the Soviet secret police organization Komitet gosudarstvennoi bezopasnosti (KGB)

WAYNE HOLDER PAPERS - US poet and writer; visitor to Estonia

M. OIDERMAN TYPESCRIPT: ESTONIAN INDEPENDENCE - Estonian Foreign Office representative

KAAREL ROBERT PUSTA PAPERS - Estonian diplomat; foreign minister of Estonia, 1924-25

ESTONIAN SUBJECT COLLECTION - Miscellaneous materials


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Finland

The collections on Finland contain significant materials on modern Finnish history; several relate to the Russo-Finnish War of 1939–40, especially US fund-raising efforts to provide civilian relief to Finland. Others pertain to Finnish foreign policy and domestic politics in the twentieth century.

FINNISH RELIEF FUND RECORDS - US relief organization

HAROLD H. FISHER PAPERS - US historian; director, Hoover Institution, 1943–52

MALBONE W. GRAHAM PAPERS - US political scientist

RUDOLF HOLSTI PAPERS - Finnish foreign minister, 1919–22, 1936–38

NATIONAL COMMITTEE ON FOOD FOR THE SMALL DEMOCRACIES RECORDS - US relief organization

FINNISH SUBJECT COLLECTION - Miscellaneous materials


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France

Among the numerous collections concerning France, many relate to its experiences in the two world wars, including US military operations in the country. For World War II, there are papers of prominent Vichy government officials and collections documenting the French resistance movement. Other collections cover the Algerian war, the presidency of Charles de Gaulle, and the student revolt of May 1968.

GEORGES ALBERTINI PAPERS - French politician and publisher; founder, Association d'Études et d'Informations Politiques Internationales

JACQUES BENOIST-MÉCHIN PAPERS - French author and historian; secretary of state, 1942

ROBERT D. BURHANS PAPERS - Colonel, United States Army; member, First Special Service Force

WORLD WAR II SUBJECT COLLECTION - Miscellaneous materials

FRENCH SUBJECT COLLECTION - Miscellaneous materials


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FRANCE LIBRARY & ARCHIVES MATERIALS

Heinz, Grete, and Agnes F. Peterson. The French Fifth Republic, Establishment and Consolidation (1958-1965): An Annotated Bibliography of the Holdings of the Hoover Institution.Hoover Institution Bibliographical Series, 44. Stanford: Hoover Institution Press, 1970.

Heinz, Grete, and Agnes F. Peterson. The French Fifth Republic, Continuity and Change, 1966-1970: An Annotated Bibliography. A Sequel to The French Fifth Republic, 1958-1965. Hoover Institution Bibliographical Series, 54. Stanford: Hoover Institution Press, 1974.

Germany

The archives' extensive German collections cover German participation in World War I, the 1918–19 revolution, the Weimar Republic, the rise of Nazism, the Third Reich and its leaders, the Allied occupation after World War II, the founding of the Federal and Democratic Republics in 1949, and the reunification in 1990. The library's coverage begins with the establishment of the First Reich and the Reichstag debates of 1871. 

ROSA LUXEMBURG AND MATHILDE JACOB PAPERS - German-Polish revolutionary leader and her secretary

FRANZ SCHOENBERNER PAPERS - German journalist; editor, Simplicissimus, 1929–33

WOLFGANG JANISCH PAPERS - East German artist and peace activist

FRIEDRICH-WILHELM SCHLOMANN PAPERS - German journalist

CURT MAX PRÜFER PAPERS - German diplomat

THOMAS ST. JOHN GAFFNEY PAPERS - US consul in Dresden and Munich, 1905–15

DEUTSCHE KONGRESS-ZENTRALE RECORDS - Government organization regulating all conferences and conventions in Germany, 1870–1943

MENSING FAMILY PAPERS - Vice-admiral, German Navy, and his sons

TRUMAN SMITH PAPERS - US military attaché to Germany, 1935–39

FR. P. MÖNKEMÖLLER COLLECTION - Printed matter related to World War I in Germany and immediately after

KARL C. VON LOESCH COLLECTION - Printed matter related to politics in Germany, 1918–44

NOTGEMEINSCHAFT FÜR EINE FREIE UNIVERSITÄT RECORDS - German organization to promote academic freedom at the Freie Universität Berlin

GERMAN PICTORIAL COLLECTION - Miscellaneous photographs, postcards, and slides

GERMAN SUBJECT COLLECTION - Miscellaneous materials

 

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GERMANY LIBRARY & ARCHIVES MATERIALS

Great Britain

World Wars I and II are a major focus of the numerous collections on Great Britain. Many of them relate to the British army and Allied military operations and propaganda efforts of the British government. Other collections document twentieth-century politics, economics, and social conditions in the country and British foreign policy and colonialism. 

JOHN VAIZEY PAPERS - British economist, educator, and novelist

WILLIAM HENRY BAUMER PAPERS - Staff officer, US military mission to Great Britain, 1942–45

BRITISH SUBJECT COLLECTION - Miscellaneous materials

DAVID EDWARD CHARLES EVERSLEY PAPERS - British social scientist

BARON FRASER OF KILMORACK PAPERS - British Conservative Party politician

INSTITUTE OF ECONOMIC AFFAIRS RECORDS - British organization promoting free-market economic policies

SIR ROBERT HAMILTON BRUCE LOCKHART PAPERS - British government official and author

BRITISH MINISTRY OF INFORMATION LIBRARY COLLECTION - Materials relating to World War I


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GREAT BRITAIN LIBRARY & ARCHIVES MATERIALS

Hungary

Although technically dating from 1918, when Hungary declared its independence from Austria following the defeat in World War I, the Hungarian collections include much earlier documentation as well. The collections provide coverage of the interwar period, World War II, Soviet domination and the 1956 uprising, as well as the peaceful transition to democracy after 1989.

GYÖRGY BARCZA NAGYALÁSONYI PAPERS - Hungarian diplomat

TIBOR ECKHARDT PAPERS - Hungarian politician; delegate to the League of Nations

STEPHEN DENIS KERTESZ PAPERS - Hungarian diplomat

ERICH LESSING PHOTOGRAPHS - Depicts scenes from the Hungarian Revolution

IMRE POZSGAY PAPERS - Hungarian politician

 

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HUNGARY LIBRARY & ARCHIVES MATERIALS

Ireland

These collections contain significant materials on modern Irish history, including the Irish independence movement of the early twentieth century and Ireland's neutrality during World War II. Others document the conflict in Northern Ireland, particularly from 1969 to 1989. The records of the Polish consulate general in Dublin are also included.

SIR ROGER CASEMENT PAPERS - Irish nationalist leader

JAMES AUGUSTINE HEALY COLLECTION - Irish American philanthropist

JAMES O'DONOVAN PHOTOGRAPHS - Depict scenes in Ireland

POLAND KONSULAT GENERALNY IN DUBLIN RECORDS - Polish consulate general in Dublin, 1921–57

IRISH SUBJECT COLLECTION - Miscellaneous materials


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IRELAND LIBRARY & ARCHIVES MATERIALS

Italy

The collections concentrate on Italy in the first half of the twentieth century. Some relate to Italy's role in World War I; many more pertain to World War II, particularly Allied military operations in Italy during the last phases of the war. The World War II collections also include materials on the Italian partisan movement that fought against Mussolini and the German forces’ occupying northern Italy.

ROBERT H. ADLEMAN PAPERS - US journalist and author

FRANCO BANDINI PAPERS - Italian journalist and author

GINETTA SAGAN PAPERS - US human rights advocate

ALFRED CONNOR BOWMAN PAPERS - Senior civil affairs officer, Venezia Giulia, 1945–47

CONSTANTINE M. PANUNZIO PAPERS - Italian American sociologist

GINO CHARLES SPERANZA PAPERS - US military and political attaché in Italy

FRED L. WALKER PAPERS - Major general, US Army

 

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Latvia

The Latvian collections span the period from the founding of an independent Latvian state in 1918 to the contemporary era. They pertain to Latvian diplomacy in the interwar years, the annexation of Latvia by the Soviet Union, and political repression under Soviet rule. Some materials concern Latvian refugees after World War II and the movement leading to renewal of Latvian independence in 1991.

ALFREDS BILMANIS PAPERS - Latvian ambassador to the Soviet Union, 1932–35, and the United States, 1935–48

FĒLIKSS CIELĒNS PAPERS - Latvian minister of foreign affairs, 1926–28; Latvian minister to France, 1933–34

JULES FELDMANS PAPERS - Latvian diplomat

MAVRIKS VULFSONS PAPERS - Latvian journalist, author, and government official

LATVIAN SUBJECT COLLECTION - Miscellaneous materials

 

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Lithuania

The Lithuanian holdings contain significant materials on that country’s modern history. Some collections, including the Turauskas Papers, pertain to Lithuania's first period of independence and its loss of sovereignty following the Soviet annexation of the Baltic States. Other collections concern political repression under Soviet rule, broadcasts to Lithuania by Radio Liberty and Radio Free Europe during the Cold War, and the Lithuanian diaspora after World War II.

KAJETONAS JULIUS ČEGINSKAS PAPERS - Director, Lithuanian service, Radio Liberty/Radio Free Europe

PETRAS PAULIUS DAUZVARDIS PAPERS - Lithuanian diplomat; consul general, Chicago, 1937–71

MIECZYSŁAW JAŁOWIECKI MEMOIRS - Polish Lithuanian agricultural expert; chairman, Vilnius Agrarian Association

LIETUVOS SSR VALSTYBĖS SAUGUMO KOMITETAS SELECTED RECORDS - Lithuanian branch of the Soviet secret police organization Komitet gosudarstvennoi bezopasnosti (KGB)

ONA ŠIMAITĖ PAPERS - Lithuanian librarian and literary critic

EDVARDAS TURAUSKAS PAPERS - Lithuanian ambassador to Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, and Romania, 1934–39; political director, ministry of foreign affairs, 1939–40


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The Netherlands

Many of the Dutch collections spotlight the experience of the Netherlands under German occupation in World War II, including living conditions in the country and its resistance to the occupiers. Other collections pertain to World War I, politics in the interwar years, and Dutch foreign relations in the twentieth century.

CORNELIA DUTILH-VAN VOLLENHOVEN DIARY - Dutch housewife on conditions in the Netherlands under German occupation

STANLEY KUHL HORNBECK PAPERS - US ambassador to the Netherlands, 1944–47

NIEUWE ROTTERDAMSCHE COURANT NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS - Rotterdam newspaper

MARTINUS NIJHOFF COLLECTION - Materials related to the German occupation of the Netherlands

LOUIS RAEMAEKERS PAPERS - Dutch cartoonist


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DUTCH LIBRARY & ARCHIVES MATERIALS

Poland (Pre-World War II)

Materials pertaining to Poland begin in the 1860s and are particularly rich for the decade 1910–20, which saw the political struggle for Polish independence before and during World War I, the cause of Poland at the Versailles Conference, and the war against Bolshevik Russia in 1920–21. The remaining years of the Second Republic are best documented in the Hoover Institution Archives & Library’s rich Polish interwar holdings.

VALERIAN PLATONOVICH PLATONOV PAPERS - Russian state secretary for Polish affairs, 1864–66

OKHRANA RECORDS - Russian Imperial Secret Police, Paris office, 1883–1917

WŁODZIMIERZ WISKOWSKI COLLECTION - Miscellaneous materials

POLISH SUBJECT COLLECTION - Miscellaneous materials

HELENA PADEREWSKA MEMOIRS - Wife of Ignace Paderewski, prime minister of Poland

JANUSZ CISEK COLLECTION - Miscellaneous materials

IGNACE JAN PADEREWSKI PAPERS - Polish statesman and musician; premier, 1919

MIECZYSŁAW JAŁOWIECKI MEMOIRS - Polish Lithuanian agricultural expert, architect, and engineer

POLAND DELEGACJA PRZY LIDZE NARODÓW TELEGRAMS - Polish delegation to the League of Nations


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Poland (World War II)

Hoover’s Polish holdings are particularly rich for the period 1939–45, largely thanks to its archives of the London Polish government in exile. Included are tens of thousands of documents and testimonies of former prisoners and deportees in Soviet Russia. Private collections, which were acquired later, provide an excellent complement to these government records.

POLAND MINISTERSTWO SPRAW ZAGRANICZNYCH RECORDS- Polish ministry of foreign affairs

AUGUST ZALESKI PAPERS - Polish foreign minister, 1926–32; president, government in exile, 1947–72

WŁADYSLAW ANDERS COLLECTION - General, Polish army

POLAND MINISTERSTWO INFORMACJI RECORDS - Ministry of information of the Polish government in exile in London during World War II

POLAND AMBASADA IN THE SOVIET UNION RECORDS - Polish embassy in the Soviet Union

POLAND AMBASADA IN THE US RECORDS - Polish embassy in the United States

POLAND POLSKIE SIŁY ZBROJNE MISCELLANEOUS RECORDS - Armed Forces of the Polish government in exile (London)

ANDRZEJ POMIAN PAPERS - Polish émigré in the United States; journalist and author; president, Stowarzyszenie Polskich Kombatantów

JAN KARSKI PAPERS - Liaison officer and courier of the Polish government in exile to the Polish underground, 1939–43; author, Story of a Secret State, 1944

WIKTOR SUKIENNICKI PAPERS - Polish American historian and political scientist; research analyst, Radio Free Europe, 1952–59

STANISŁAW MIKOŁAJCZYK PAPERS - Polish politician; prime minister, government in exile (London), 1943–44; second vice premier and minister of agriculture, 1945–47; president, International Peasant Union, 1948–64

ZYGMUNT BERLING PAPERS - General, Polish army; deputy commander, Armia Polska w ZSSR, 1944–45

WŁADYSŁAW GOMUŁKA MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS - Polish communist leader; general secretary, Polska Zjednoczona Partia Robotnicza, 1956–70

MARIAN SPYCHALSKI PAPERS - Polish minister of defense, 1956–68

 

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POLAND DURING WORLD WAR II LIBRARY & ARCHIVES MATERIALS

Dwyer, Joseph D., ed. Russia, the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe: A Survey of Holdings at the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace. Stanford: Hoover Institution Press, 1980.

Filipiak, Miroslaw. Archiwalia Ambasady RP w Moskwie-Kujbyszewie (1941-1943) i Ministerstwa Informacji i Dokumentacji (1939-1945) w zbiorach Instytutu Hoovera Uniwesytetu Stanforda. Warszawa: Naczelna Dyrekcja Archiwow Panstwowych, 2002.

Scerbinskis, Valters. "Dokumenti par Latviju Huvera Instituta Arhiva Kalifornija,Latvijas Arhivi, no. 4, 2005.Scerbinskis, Valters. "Dokumenti par Latviju Huvera Instituta Arhiva Kalifornija," Latvijas Arhivi, no. 4, 2005.

Siekierski, Maciej. "Hoover Institution's Polish Collections: An Overview and a Survey of Selected Materials on Polish-Soviet Relations." Polish Review, 33, no.3 (1988): 325-32.

Siekierski, Maciej with Christopher Lazarski, compilers. Polish Independent Publications, 1976-1990. Guide to the Collection in the Hoover Institution Archives. Stanford: Hoover Institution Press, 1999.

Stepniak, Wladyslaw. Archiwalia polskie w zbiorach Instytutu Hoovera Uniwersytetu Stanforda. Warszawa: Naczelna Dyrekcja Archiwow Panstwowych, 1997.

Sworakowski, Witold S. List of Polish Underground Collection (1939-1945) in the Hoover Library. Stanford, 1948. (supplemented and revised by Helena Sworakowska, Stanford, 1961).

Poland (Post-World War II)

Hoover has an outstanding collection of primary source materials on the Polish People’s Republic, the anticommunist opposition, and Poland’s transition to democracy after 1989. Besides substantial holdings of papers of communist functionaries, a vast volume of documentation exists on the Solidarity trade union and related movements.

JAKUB BERMAN PAPERS - Polish communist leader; Polska Zjednoczona Partia Robotnicza Biuro Polityczne member, 1944–56

STEFAN JĘDRYCHOWSKI PAPERS - Vice president, Rada Ministrów, 1951–56; president, Komisja Planowania, 1956–68; minister of foreign affairs, 1968–71; minister of finance, 1971–74

MIECZYSŁAW F. RAKOWSKI PAPERS - Polish journalist and politician; editor in chief Polityka, 1958–82; deputy prime minister, 1981–85; vice-marshal, Sejm, 1985–88; chairman, prime minister, 1988–89

KRZYSZTOF DUBIŃSKI “OKRĄGŁY STÓŁ” COLLECTION - Miscellaneous materials

POLAND RADA MINISTRÓW RECORDS - Polish council of ministers

POLAND SŁUŻBA BEZPIECZEŃSTWA DEPARTAMENT III COLLECTION - Materials collected by Polish internal security police

POLISH INDEPENDENT PUBLICATIONS COLLECTION - Miscellaneous materials

HENRYK PIECUCH COLLECTION - Miscellaneous materials relating to Polish intelligence, counterintelligence, and internal security

IRENA LASOTA PAPERS - Polish dissident; subsequently émigré in the United States; director of programs, Institute for Democracy in Eastern Europe.

JOANNA SZCZĘSNA COLLECTION - Miscellaneous materials

POLISH SUBJECT COLLECTION - Miscellaneous materials

RADIO FREE EUROPE POLISH LANGUAGE SERVICE AUDIOTAPES AND SCRIPTS

 

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POLAND AFTER 1945 LIBRARY & ARCHIVES MATERIALS

Portugal

Many of the collections on Portugal relate to various diplomatic missions in the country, including ones from Hungary, Poland, and Latvia. Some collections pertain to Portuguese colonialism in Africa; others contain materials on the 1974 revolution that brought an end to a long period of right-wing dictatorship in Portugal.  

KEITH MIDDLEMAS COLLECTION - Portuguese revolution of 1974 and revolutionary developments in Portuguese colonies

POLAND POSELSTWO IN PORTUGAL RECORDS - Polish legation in Portugal

PORTUGUESE SUBJECT COLLECTION - Miscellaneous materials

 

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Romania

The Hoover Archives is a wonderful place to study twentieth-century Romanian history and politics. The documentation is modest in volume but comprehensive in scope, covering Romanian history from the time of the Balkan war of 1912–13 through the Ceausecscu era, 1964–89.

I. G. DUCA PAPERS - Romanian minister of education, 1914–18; agriculture, 1919–20; foreign affairs, 1922–26; interior, 1927–28; and prime minister, 1933

GEORGE I. DUCA PAPERS - Romanian diplomat; chief of mission to Sweden, 1944–47

NICOLAE PETRESCU-COMNEN PAPERS - Romanian delegate to the League of Nations, 1923–28; ambassador to Germany, 1927–29 and 1932; minister of foreign affairs, 1938

BRUTUS COSTE PAPERS - Romanian chargé d'affaires to the United States, 1940–41, and to Portugal, 1944–46; secretary general, Assembly of Captive European Nations, 1954–65

ALEXANDRU CRETZIANU PAPERS - Romanian diplomat; minister to Turkey, 1943–45

COMITETUL NAŢIONAL ROMÂN RECORDS - Anticommunist Romanian émigré organization

SIGHET MEMORIAL COLLECTION- Interviews with former political prisoners

 

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Spain

The Spanish collections concentrate on twentieth-century political history. Many relate to the Spanish Civil War and include memoirs of US volunteers who fought for the Spanish Republic. Of particular significance are Burnett Bolloten's collected research materials, which are extensive. Other collections pertain to US diplomats in Spain during the Franco era and groups opposed to Franco's dictatorship.

JAVIER BENEDET PAPERS - Secretary, Acción Demócrata Española, San Francisco, California

BURNETT BOLLOTEN PAPERS - US journalist and historian; United Press war correspondent in Spain, 1936–38

JOHN DAVIS LODGE PAPERS - US ambassador to Spain, 1955–61

JOAQUÍN MAURÍN PAPERS - Spanish socialist, journalist, and author

MARIA ANGELS SOLÉ COLLECTION - Miscellaneous materials

 

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Switzerland

These materials emphasize Switzerland's efforts to remain neutral during World Wars I and II. Also included are the records of the Polish legation and the Hungarian embassy in Switzerland, as well as the papers of the United States ambassador to Switzerland, Frances Willis. The Swiss Subject Collection documents youth and radical movements after 1980.

FRANCES E. WILLIS PAPERS - US ambassador to Switzerland, 1953–7

POLAND POSELSTWO TELEGRAMS - Polish legation in Switzerland, 1919–30

HUNGARY KÖVETSÉG RECORDS - Hungarian embassy in Switzerland, 1920–45

SWISS SUBJECT COLLECTION - Relates to youth and radical movements

ALHARD GELPKE COLLECTION - Relates to anti-Nazi movements in Switzerland

WILLIAM MARTIN NOTES - Paris correspondent, Journal de Genève

EIDGENÖSSISCHE TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE ZÜRICH COLLECTION - Printed matter

 

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SWITZERLAND LIBRARY & ARCHIVES MATERIALS

Yugoslavia & Its Successor States

Yugoslav collections date to the Paris Peace Conference and Frank Golder's expedition to the kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes in 1921. The collections are strong on the two world wars and Tito’s Yugoslavia after 1945. The literary archive of a prominent dissident in the eastern bloc, Milovan Djilas, is an important recent addition.

KONSTANTIN FOTIĆ PAPERS - Yugoslav minister and ambassador to the United States, 1935–44

MILAN GAVRILOVIĆ PAPERS - Yugoslav ambassador to the Soviet Union, 1940–41; member, Yugoslav government in exile, 1941–43

FRIEDRICH KATZ COLLECTION - Miscellaneous materials

MILOVAN DJILAS PAPERS - Yugoslav communist leader; subsequently dissident

KRZYSZTOF MILLER PHOTOGRAPHS - Polish photographer in Bosnia, 1992

ROLAND TASHO PHOTOGRAPHS - Albanian photographer

 

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YUGOSLAVIA LIBRARY & ARCHIVES MATERIALS

HOOVER INSTITUTION LIBRARY & ARCHIVES RESOURCES FOR THE HISTORY OF YUGOSLAVIA RESEARCH GUIDE