German Foreign Policy, 1918-1945

A Guide to Current Research and Resources, Third Edition

Christoph M. Kimmich

Christoph Kimmich’s German Foreign Policy, 1918-1945: A Guide to Current Research and Resources is the most comprehensive guide to archival resources and published materials on the foreign policy of Weimar and Nazi Germany. It lists the archives, libraries, and research institutes, public and private, that hold important collections. While Kimmich’s survey emphasizes archives in Germany, it also covers archives in Europe and in the United States, describing their holdings, terms of access and use, and the guides and inventories available.
German Foreign Policy, 1918-1945 also includes a substantial bibliography of published sources, from documentary series to significant contemporary accounts, from the memoir literature to secondary works, with annotations appearing for the more important and the more obscure. This select bibliography concentrates only on works that are serious, innovative, and accessible. It describes the various series of the Nuremberg War Crimes Trial Records and the original trial documents available in archives and libraries. Particular attention is given to the vast and ever increasing availability of materials on the Web, ranging from digitized print materials to archival inventories and source materials. Moreover, in order to facilitate work in the archives, the guide explains the organization and functioning of the German foreign ministry between 1918 and 1945 and notes how it kept and stored its records.
This third edition differs from its predecessor by offering new and critical information on German archives that have since been consolidated and relocated after German reunification, on archival sources of hitherto unknown provenance, and on materials available on the Web. It is a reference source for both the established scholar and the novice planning research and a guide for their visits to archives and libraries, enabling them to find their way quickly and efficiently through the voluminous research and research materials that have come to light in recent years.

Scarecrow Press

Pages: 342 • Trim: 6¼ x 9¼

978-0-8108-8445-8 • Hardback • March 2013 • $142.00 • (£109.00)

978-0-8108-8446-5 • eBook • March 2013 • $134.50 • (£104.00)

Subjects: History / Europe / Germany, Political Science / World / European

German Foreign Policy, 1918-1945

A Guide to Current Research and Resources, Third Edition

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Christoph Kimmich’s German Foreign Policy, 1918-1945: A Guide to Current Research and Resources is the most comprehensive guide to archival resources and published materials on the foreign policy of Weimar and Nazi Germany. It lists the archives, libraries, and research institutes, public and private, that hold important collections. While Kimmich’s survey emphasizes archives in Germany, it also covers archives in Europe and in the United States, describing their holdings, terms of access and use, and the guides and inventories available.
German Foreign Policy, 1918-1945 also includes a substantial bibliography of published sources, from documentary series to significant contemporary accounts, from the memoir literature to secondary works, with annotations appearing for the more important and the more obscure. This select bibliography concentrates only on works that are serious, innovative, and accessible. It describes the various series of the Nuremberg War Crimes Trial Records and the original trial documents available in archives and libraries. Particular attention is given to the vast and ever increasing availability of materials on the Web, ranging from digitized print materials to archival inventories and source materials. Moreover, in order to facilitate work in the archives, the guide explains the organization and functioning of the German foreign ministry between 1918 and 1945 and notes how it kept and stored its records.
This third edition differs from its predecessor by offering new and critical information on German archives that have since been consolidated and relocated after German reunification, on archival sources of hitherto unknown provenance, and on materials available on the Web. It is a reference source for both the established scholar and the novice planning research and a guide for their visits to archives and libraries, enabling them to find their way quickly and efficiently through the voluminous research and research materials that have come to light in recent years.

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Scarecrow Press

Pages: 342 • Trim: 6¼ x 9¼

978-0-8108-8445-8 • Hardback • March 2013 • $142.00 • (£109.00)

978-0-8108-8446-5 • eBook • March 2013 • $134.50 • (£104.00)

Subjects: History / Europe / Germany, Political Science / World / European

Author

Educated at Haverford College and Oxford University, Christopher Kimmich has taught modern European and German history at Columbia University and at Brooklyn College and held senior administrative roles as provost and president in the City University of New York (CUNY) system. He is currently professor in the doctoral program in History at the CUNY Graduate Center. He has written several key works on German foreign policy from 1918 to 1945.

Reviews

The approaching centennial of World War I will turn public and academic attention to this conflict and World War II as well as the period between these conflagrations. This work will be very beneficial to users desirous of conducting substantive research on German foreign policy over the period from the end of World War I through World War II's conclusion. It provides detailed overviews and descriptions of the organizations, contributing documentation on German foreign policy including the Foreign Ministry and competing agencies including the Abwehr, Reichstag, and the German Chancellor's office. This same introductory section also includes the names and positions held by major German foreign policymakers during this time period. . . .This work is highly recommended for upper division undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty desirous of conducting primary source and archival research on this time period in German history.
— American Reference Books Annual