I’m delighted to announce that Oxford historians now have online access to Hitler Quellen 1924-45. Access is via SOLO (shortly) and OxLIP+.
Compiling 3 key German sources on Hitler in a single database, this resource gives online access to Hitler: Reden, Schriften, Anordnungen, Februar 1925 bis Januar 1933 (Saur, 1992-) and Hitler : Reden und Proklamationen, 1932-1945 (Max Domarus ed., 1962-1963) as well as documentation of Hitlers trial for high treason in 1924.
The database can be searched by topic thanks to an integrated subject index; it is also searchable by date, place, name, and publication title. The source texts are in German.
Can’t read German? There is a translation of the second title here: Hitler : speeches and proclamations, 1932-1945 : the chronicle of a dictatorship / [compiled by] Max Domarus ; translated from the German by Mary Fran Gilbert. (London : Tauris, 1990-).
Related resources in Oxford:
Diaries of Joseph Goebbels Online/ Tagebücher von Joseph Goebbels Online (Oxford readers only). Includes a transcription of all handwritten entries from the years 1923 to July 1941 and the subsequent dictations up until 1945. This edition, issued by the Institut für Zeitgeschichte, is based on the reproduction of the entire diaries on glass microfiches – commissioned by Goebbels himself – that was discovered by Elke Fröhlich in the former special archive in Moscow. For the first time, the database gives researchers the chance to access the diaries of Joseph Goebbels electronically using the valuable subject index that until now was available in print only.
Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei (NSDAP): Akten der Partei-Kanzlei der NSDAP [microfiche]: Rekonstruktion eines verlorengegangenen Bestandes; herausgegeben vom Institut für Zeitgeschichte. (München: Saur: Oldenbourg, c1983-1992). [BOD Microfiches 562]
Akten der Reichskanzlei. Regierung Hitler 1933-1945 / bearbeitet von Karl-Heinz Minuth (Boppard am Rhein : Boldt, 1983-)
Der Kirchenkampf: the Gutteridge-Micklem collection at the Bodleian Library, Oxford. 515 microfiches. (London : Saur, [1988]). Includes materials, assembled from private collections, which detail the attempts of the German clergy to maintain a separate identity under the Third Reich. These materials document two struggles: that of the evangelical church against the Nazi attempt to impose a unified Reichskirche; and the struggle within the church to establish and define its own development and structure while under siege. The collection includes books, periodicals, pamphlets, correspondence, reports, memoranda and manuscripts. Most of this material originated in the Bekennende Kirche, but there is also coverage of the Roman Catholic Church, the National Socialists and their various subsections, as well as other German and British Christian churches. Also included are unique manuscripts describing the precarious situation of the pastors, bishops, religious publishers and printers whose lives and livelihoods were threatened by the Third Reich. There are lists of pastors who were imprisoned or suspended from duty, press service reports and banned literature.
Using microfilms and fiches?
Don’t be put off by old technology. There is a shiny new microfilm reader/scanner in the Upper Reading Room, Old Bodleian Library.
