And here’s more good news – and more online resources newly acquired for historians!
Oxford users now also have access to East Germany from Stalinization to the New Economic Policy, 1950-1963. Access is via SOLO (shortly) or OxLIP+.
This publication reproduces the US State Department Decimal Files 762B, 862B and 962B from the General Records of the Department of State, in the custody of the National Archives. It was originally microfilmed as Records of the U.S. Department of State, relating to the Internal Affairs of East Germany.
12 May 1950 – Kenneth Holland note regarding status of historic monuments in East Germany
It specifically looks at in depth the creation of the East German state, living conditions and its people. Documents included in this collection are predominantly instructions to and dispatches from U.S. diplomatic and consular personnel, regarding political, military, economic, social, cultural, industrial and other internal conditions and events in East Germany.
Related resources:
See yesterday’s blog about online access to three East Germany newspapers.
Declassified Documents Reference System US (DDRS). Provides online access to over 500,000 pages of previously classified government documents. Covering major international events from the Cold War to the Vietnam War and beyond, this single source enables users to locate key information underpinning studies in international relations, American studies, United States foreign and domestic policy studies, journalism and more.
Digital National Security Archive (DNSA). Collection: The Berlin Crisis 1958-1962. Beginning with documents from late 1953 when the Eisenhower administration began to formulate its Berlin contingency plans and closing with a series of newly declassified State Department histories from the late 1960s, The Berlin Crisis contains more than 11,500 pages from almost 3,000 documents.
Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) 1974-1996 [selections]: Eastern Europe, 1974–1996. The Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Daily Report has been the United States’ principal record of political and historical open source intelligence for nearly 70 years.
