A trial of Daily Reports of the Gestapo HQ in Vienne 1938-1945 is now available to Oxford users via OxLIP+ and History databases desiderata & trials webpage. Staff and students of the History Faculty are encouraged to leave comments on the History databases desiderata & trials webpage or to email the History Librarian. Feedback will be collated and presented to the Committee of Library Provision in History which advises on the prioritisation of funds.
The trial ends 14 December 2012.
Tagesrapport Nr. 6 vom 12., 13. und 14.11.1938: Nationale Opposition: Joahnna Ettenauer, Näherin, wurde wegen Beleidigung des Führers… festgenommen.
From 1934 on, the Regional Gestapo Headquarters throughout the entire German Reich had to report all political incidents of the previous 24 hours to Berlin. The purpose of these reports was to outline the mood, the political situation and security measures. This regulation was later applied to Austria, following its annexation. Shortly before the beginning of the war, the Nazi Regime issued a decree with new instructions for the dispatch of the so-called “Tagesrapporte” or daily reports. Henceforth, they were to be kept shorter and report, above all, on the communist and Marxist movements in the country.
The daily reports of the Gestapo regional headquarters in Vienna are now published for the first time and thus available for historical research. For no other Gestapo regional headquarters is such a concentration of source material available. The first daily report on record from the Gestapo regional headquarters in Vienna dates from September 2nd 1938. Until the demise of the Nazi regime some 810 reports were sent from Vienna to the central headquarters in Berlin.
