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Professor
Irving Hexham
of Calgary,
Canada, writes on November 9, 2000 to ask
Where are Alfred Rosenberg's Papers?
NO one seems to know where the Nachlass of Alfred Rosenberg went after World War II. Since you are one of the most knowledgeable historians on the Nazi period I wonder if you can advise me where to look for Rosenberg's papers. Thank you.
Yours sincerely,
Irving
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Irving Hexham, Ph.D.
- Professor
- Department of Religious Studies
- University of Calgary
- Department of Religious Studies
Web Sites:
- www.ucalgary.ca/~hexham
- www.ucalgary.ca/~nurelweb
- www.christian-travelers-guides.com
- www.ucalgary.ca/~nurelweb
DAVID
IRVING replies:
THE Rosenberg papers, an interesting question. get hold of the typescript Werner Koeppen table talk notes which he made at Hitler's headquarters for Rosenberg. K is now dead, and the notes (200pp) are on National Archive microfilm (T84 series, or T82 I think).
As for the rest, the first place to look is the Bundesarchiv, but that stuff is well known. Address:
- Bundesarchiv
- Postfach 320
- 56003 Koblenz, oder
- Potsdamer Straße 1
- 56075 Koblenz
- Germany
- Postfach 320
I am not sure if the formerly US controlled Berlin Document Center had a file of them. Those papers are on microfilm at the National Archives and the person to ask there is initially John Taylor. Mention my name.
Try too the Institut für Zeitgeschichte
- Institut für
Zeitgeschichte
- • z. Hd. Dr Werner Röder, Archiv •
- Leonrodstraße 46b
- 80636 München
- Germany
- • z. Hd. Dr Werner Röder, Archiv •
Hans Günter Seraphim published Rosenberg's diaries in extract only, as the bulk of them went missing. He told me, as did Dr Hans Adolf Jacobsen at the Institut für Zeitgeschichte in Munich forty years ago, that they had reason to believe that the Rosenberg diaries had been stolen from Nuremberg trial archives by the late Dr Robert M W Kempner, whose wife was also a religious scholar. Kempner certainly quoted passages from the diaries in his books, which are not the Seraphim edition. I asked Kempner pointblank during a visit in the 1970s, and got the impression that the best of the stuff was safe in his New York apartment.
Where, then are the Kempner papers which may contain them? Well, have a look at my website at
and you will see that there is a real squabble brewing over them.
Finally, a California gentleman has a trunkfull of Frank, Himmler, Rosenberg and other items. I have seen them, and he may provide copies of the Rosenberg stuff to you. He is
- Erich Lorenz von
Benndorff
- 10225 Los Nopalitos
- Lakeside
- CA 92040 USA
- 10225 Los Nopalitos
again mention my name.
Sorry I can't be more of more help. Please keep me informed of the result of your search, particular in the Kempner direction. I myself am now working up on Himmler.
David Irving