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Paul Gottschalk: the German bookseller who anticipated a contentious Nazi-era elections legacy

September 3, 2015 - Robert Taylor

Paul Gottschalk. Unknown date and photographer.

The Ransom Center’s recently-processed archival collection titled “1932 German Elections Ephemera Collection” was assembled in the 1930s by the German-American book seller Paul Gottschalk. The sequence of events that the collection documents—that is, the rise of Adolf Hitler to [Read more…] about Paul Gottschalk: the German bookseller who anticipated a contentious Nazi-era elections legacy

Filed Under: Cataloging Tagged With: 1930s, 1932, antiquarian, Berlin, bookseller, collector, elections, ephemera, Finding Aid, German, Germany, Gottschalk, history, Hitler, Jews, Nazi, war, WWI

Muddy bootprints on Himmler’s copy of Hitler’s Mein Kampf

May 1, 2015 - Janine Barchas

This week marks the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II. I grew up in Holland where the fifth of May is celebrated as “Bevrijdingsdag,” named for the liberation from German occupation that my father, who was 14 years old in 1945 when he stood by the side of the road and cheered a stream of Allied tanks and trucks into The Hague, still vividly recalls. [Read more…] about Muddy bootprints on Himmler’s copy of Hitler’s Mein Kampf

Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Research + Teaching Tagged With: Heinrich Himmler, Hitler, Penguin Books, Undergraduate

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