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                      SELECT AUDIOVISUAL RECORDS

                   CAPTURED GERMAN SOUND RECORDINGS

                The National Archives Trust Fund Board
                         Washington, DC 20408
     
     The publication of a list to a heretofore little-known collection
of captured Nazi recordings should require no elaborate justification.
Serious historical inquiry and unflagging popular interest virtually
guarantee that nazism and the Third Reich will be ever topical and
relevant. Similarly, both the public and the scholarly community
readily agree that recorded oral history provides us with a unique
historical perspective on our times. Thus the combination of an
important historical subject and a fruitful form of source material
should, in itself, be sufficient reason to produce such a list,
provided that the material in the collection is historically
significant and does not simply duplicate what is already available
elsewhere.

     Of necessity, there is some duplication in this collection, but as
the list should make readily apparent, it contains many significant
items, especially speeches by Adolf Hitler, Heinrich Himmler, Hermann
Goering, Albert Speer, and other Nazi leaders. Most of these speeches
are not available on recordings and many are not extant in any other
form. Stated simply, the collection contains material of genuine
historical importance.

     But there is a special dimension to the value of this material
that goes beyond general considerations of documentary significance and
the appeal of oral history, for the heart of the collection consists of
voice recordings, and nazism had an unusually close relationship with
the spoken word. Throughout its history, the Nazi party and its leaders
placed heavy stress on the importance of speech to publicize their
programs. Hitler and Goebbels, excellent public orators, pushed the
party into prominence by means of mass rallies. Through political
speeches they provided the essential oral punch for the Nazi drive to
power.

     In utilizing speech as a propaganda device, the Nazis were quick
to exploit two technical devices for the dissemination and preservation
of the spoken word, namely, radio and phonograph recordings. They used
the radio, on one hand, to create the effect of an enormous electronic
mass rally. As E. H. Gombrich observed:

     It was the mass rally that carried Hitler and Goebbels from
     strength to strength and ultimately to victory through intrigue
     and intimidation. Small wonder that the novel instrument of radio
     was conceived by them first of all as a means to extend the range
     of listeners and thus to convert the whole of the nation into a
     super-monster rally which hung on the lips of the Fuehrer and at
     least vicariously joined in the cheering and the chanting of
     slogans.(1)

   For the speaker, as well as the audience, Nazi radio speeches were
extensions of the political rallies out of which the movement had been
born.

   The Nazis made less effort to tap the propaganda potential of
recordings, but they did grasp the efficiency potential of phonograph
equipment. The SS, for example, used recording equipment to obtain
transcripts of Himmler's speeches. During the 1930's many of Himmler's
speeches were taken down in shorthand by secretaries or SS aides who
later typed texts from these shorthand notes. Then, beginning in 1940,
efforts were made to replace the stenographers with sound recording
equipment. Though initial efforts were not very successful, by late
l942 the technique had been perfected and nearly all the extant typed
and printed texts of Himmler speeches dating from 1943 and 1944 were
derived from recordings made while Himmler was speaking.(2) Goebbels
also found speech recordings useful. After delivering an address, he
could leisurely listen to the recording and make the changes that he
felt would heighten the speech's propaganda effect. Then the propaganda
ministry would issue a press release containing the edited text, or
parts of it, which German newspapers would publish as if they were
presenting the text of the original speech.(3)

   Though the recordings were chiefly just useful tools, Himmler,
Goebbels, and other prominent Nazis were careful not to destroy the
original discs. The Nazis' interest in preserving oral records matched
their prodigious efforts to save written records of their rise to power
and days of glory.(4) The leaders of the Third Reich were convinced
that they were participating in events of great historical magnitude,
and, because of the importance they attached to the spoken word, it
must have seemed obvious to them that the recordings should be
preserved.

   As World War II entered its last destructive phase and the rapid
advance of the Allied armies turned the Nazi recordings into genuine
"dustbin" history, havoc, disorganization, and the collapse of the
German civil government scattered collections and destroyed materials.
In this dazed and defeated country, overrun by conquering armies, there
was little time or opportunity to worry about the preservation of
anything as fragile and seemingly unimportant as Nazi phonograph
records. Furthermore, Allied military authorities, as well as
individual soldiers, had sharply different ideas about what should be
done with the recordings they found. Some left them where they were,
some seized them as captured documents, and others, presumably,
destroyed them. In consequence, pure chance determined the selection
process by which certain recordings moved upward through the chain of
command to take their place as part of a U.S. Army collection of
captured enemy records. The very randomness of this wartime and
immediate postwar collection procedure should allay any suspicion that
what remains is a group of recordings purposefully arranged to further
the ends of Nazi propaganda.(4)

   By June 1947 so many Nazi recordings had found their way to the
higher levels of the U.S. War Department that the Army initiated a
program to transfer some of them to the National Archives. The Adjutant
General, Maj. Gen. Edward F. Witsell, requested on June l7 that the
National Archives take custody of "approximately 525 sound recordings
of Axis leaders and other propaganda material which appear to have
permanent value."(5) At that time the recordings were on loan from the
Army to the Foreign Activities Correlation Division of the Department
of State in Washington, D.C. The National Archives readily agreed in
July 1947 to the transfer and assigned the 525 recordings to Record
Group 242, National Archives Collection of Foreign Records Seized,
194l- , with the understanding that "these recordings are only a part
of captured enemy records in the custody of the War Department" and
that "other records will be transferred to the [National] Archives from
time to time."(6)

   In fact there were additional groups of recordings being held by
various military and civil authorities.(7) One of the largest, and
probably the most significant, was the collection that was assembled by
the war crimes investigators at Nuernberg. This collection seems to
have included a substantial number of Himmler's speeches. The
prosecution readied some of these for use against SS men in the trials
held between 1946 and 1949. Two of these recordings were covered by
prosecution document numbers NG 4977 and NO 5909 for case 11, United
States v. Weiszacker et al., but the recordings do not seem to have
been used in court; one additional recording, however, was played in
court during the same case as part of the evidence against SS
Obergruppenfuhrer Gottlob Berger.(8)

   Some time after the American series of trials ended in 1949, the
recordings in Nuernberg and perhaps recordings from other sources were
transferred to the National Archives. Two of the items that had been
prepared for case 11 were assigned to Record Group 238, National
Archives Collection of World War II War Crimes Records, but the other
319 recordings were added to Record Group 242, where they took their
place alongside the 525 items that the National Archives had earlier
acquired from the War Department.(9)  

   In 1962 the National Archives initiated a process of re-recording
and systematizing the 844 items in Record Group 242. Some confusion
arose because most of the original recordings had been made with pairs
of disc recording machines, which meant that there was a good deal of
overlapping at the beginning and end of each disc. A more serious
problem was the breakage, disorganization, and confusion that had
occurred since 1945. Consequently, not much headway was made in
reorganizing the collection, but all of the material was re-recorded on
tape. In 1971, as part of a research project on Himmler's speeches, the
editors of the present list became interested in the collection and,
with the generous assistance of Leslie Waffen of the Audiovisual
Archives Division, began to locate and reassemble the Himmler speeches.
The Himmler recordings were not only the most numerous of the items in
the collection (over 500 of the original discs and tapes); they were
also the ones that had been most widely scattered and often lacked
identifying labels. Once these items were correctly identified and
collated, the systematizing of the rest of the collection was
relatively simple.  Subsequently, a new master tape of all the disc
recordings was made to conform with the entries in the select list.
Duplication and disc overlaps have been eliminated to produce as
complete a speech as possible. A 10-second pause occurs in the master
tapes to indicate each instance where disc sides were missing.

   In the preparation of this list, our primary concern has been to
ease the researcher's task of identifying and locating materials in the
collection. Rather than simply listing the items by record number, they
have been arranged in three general sections. Section I contains
recordings of individual speakers arranged alphabetically and
thereunder by date. Section II contains ceremonial performances
arranged chronologically. Section III includes a unique set of radio
broadcasts arranged chronologically and made by Allied authorities in
the summer of 1944 that were monitored by the Germans in Lille, France.
Included are recordings of intercepted code messages as well as one
item (242-231; entry 64) that appears to be the monitoring of a meeting
of British and American POW's in a German prisoner-of-war camp.

   Additional recordings that were found among the captured German
recordings have not been included in this list because of their
marginal historical value. Such recordings, which may have been used
for propaganda purposes, were originally recorded on magnetic tape at
30 IPS (inches per second). They contain brief fragments and disjointed
segments of popular American songs sung in English with a heavy German
accent. Also excluded were several miscellaneous recordings of
industrial machinery, gunfire and battle noise.

   To enable the researcher to quickly locate relevant information, the
following format has been used:

   l. Speaker and/or subject.
   2. Place and date.
   3. Length of the recording.
   4. Item number (the first part of which is the Record Group   number
      and the second part is the file number). When there is more than
      one reel, the reel number appears.
   5. A descriptive paragraph, including a notation if the recording is
      incomplete and giving comparisons with other sources, additional
      information, and cross-references.

   Throughout this publication various file numbers are used. For the
reader's information, file numbers containing the letters "NG" or "NO"
refer to prosecution documents that were used by the 12 U.S. military
tribunals at Nuernberg. Some file numbers are prefaced by the letters
"EAP," which refer to an archival classification used by the Germans.
The German designation "Heft Nr.," which is used before some file
numbers, simply means pamphlet number. The designation "IMT" stands for
International Military Tribunal. Occasionally a file number contains
the letters "PS," which refer to a prosecution series of the IMT.
Finally, in section III, the file numbers are the original ones that
were used by the Germans.

   Inquiries concerning the availability and cost of tape copies of
items in this list should be addressed to the Motion Picture and Sound
Recording Branch (NNSM), National Archives and Records Administration,
Washington, DC 20408 (301-713-7060).

   The National Archives holds large accumulations of textual, still
photographic, and motion picture records that are closely related to
the sound recordings described in this list. These records are located
in Record Group 238, National Archives Collection of World War II War
Crimes Records, and Record Group 242, National Archives Collection of
Foreign Records Seized, 1941- . Several other record groups include
related documentation that is important but less extensive than that
found in these collections.

   We have received generous help from many people while engaged in
this project, including James W. Moore, Director of the Audiovisual
Archives Division of the National Archives; George Stein of the State
University of New York at Binghamton; Walter Roller of the Deutsche
Rundfunk Archiv, Frankfurt am Main; Dietrich Fleischhauer of the
Norddeutsche Rundfunk, Hamburg; Helmut Regel of the Bundesarchiv,
Koblenz; and especially from Helen Berman of the Hoover Institution,
Stanford University; Leslie Waffen of the Audiovisual Archives Division
of the National Archives; and William E. Dunstan of the Editorial
Branch, who edited this publication. A grant-in-aid from the National
Endowment for the Humanities assisted in the background research for
this list as well as for a project on Himmler's speeches. To all of
these individuals and organizations we should like to express our
thanks.

Agnes F. Peterson
Hoover Institution
Stanford, CA

Bradley F. Smith
Aptos, Calif.

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NOTES:

(1)   E. H. Gombrich, Myth and Reality in German War-Time Broadcasts
      (London, 1970), p. 4. 

(2)   See entries 7 and 8 for data on the Himmler speeches of Dec. 13
      and Dec. 18, 1940, the earliest Himmler speeches to SS audiences
      for which any recorded material is extant. The first nearly
      complete recording is of Himmler's speech of June 19, 1942.

(3)   Joseph Goebbels, Goebbels-Reden, ed. Helmut Heiber, 2 vols.
      (Dusseldorf, 1971-72), vol. 1, p. xxii-xxiii.

(4)   In the limited space of this introduction it is not possible to
      do more than suggest some of the diverse forms that this passion
      for preservation assumed. Beyond the holdings of governmental
      archives, the party formed its own Hauptarchiv in 1934 (see Grete
      Heinz and Agnes F. Peterson, NSDAP Hauptarchiv: Guide to Hoover
      Institution Microfilm Collection, Stanford, Calif., 1964). Many
      of the top party leaders nonetheless maintained their own
      personal and organizational collections of historical materials
      (see, for example, the enormous number of items preserved by
      Himmler's Personlicher Stab in Reich Leader of the SS and Chief
      of the German Police, National Archives Microfilm Publication
      T175). Special projects were also undertaken, such as Bormann's
      well-known program to preserve Hitler's table talk, for which an
      unobtrusive stenographer had to be used rather than the
      cumbersome recording equipment then available (see Henry Picker,
      ed., Hitlers Tischgesprache im Fuhrerhauptquartier, 1941-1942,
      Stuttgart, 1963).

(5)   Maj. Gen. Edward F. Witsell, Adjutant General, to Solon J. Buck,
      Archivist of the United States, June 17, 1947, enclosed in
      Accession File No. 2615, National Archives Collection of Foreign
      Records Seized, 1941- , Record Group 242.

(6)   "National Archives Report on Records Proposed for Transfer," July
      25, l947, enclosed in Accession File No. 2615, RG 242.

(7)   The majority of the recordings remained in Germany and are now
      part of the holdings of the Deutsche Rundfunk Archiv and the
      Frankfurt am Main Bundesarchiv, Koblenz.

(8)   See section I for the two RG 238 recordings (Nuernberg document
      numbers NG 4977 and NO 5909). The recording that was used in
      court was apparently 242-229 or 229A. The recording entered in
      evidence bore the Nuernberg citation of Prosecution Exhibit 3508,
      Document No. NO 5909A, and the reference appears in the English
      language transcript of United States v. Weiszacker et al., vol.
      64, p. 28388.

(9)   In the National Archives there is another category of recordings
      that has some World War II material related to Germany, namely RG
      262. The descriptive list for these recordings states that they
      were made or acquired by the Federal Communications Commission"
      or were "sound recordings of foreign broadcasts monitored by the
      Foreign Broadcast Intelligence Service and . . . [containedj
      speeches by foreign statesmen as well as broadcasts by U.S.
      citizens over the German Radio 1940-1945." Many of these items
      appear to have historical significance, but they were not
      captured German recordings and thus have not been covered in this
      list.

(10)  See Bradley F. Smith and Agnes F. Peterson, Heinrich Himmler
      Geheimreden (Frankfurt, Berlin, Vienna, 1974).


                          SECTION I: SPEECHES


   1. Bormann et al. "Speeches to the Reichs and Gauleitertagung."
      Posen, Oct.6, 1943. Approx. 6 hours, 15 min. Item 242-223, reels
      1-13.
      According to the tagesprogramm, (Germany, Reichsfuhrer SS und
      Chef der deutschen Polizei.  Personlicher Stab.  Himmler Files.
      File 342.  In Hoover Institution Collection) the meeting was
      opened by Martin Bormann.  A speech by Albert Speer (there is an
      account of this speech in Albert Speer, Erinnerungen [Berlin,
      1969], p. 325) was followed by speeches of his deputies:  Willy
      Schliecker, the expert on American rearmament; Walther Rohland,
      the head of Panzer production; Karl Frydag, who was in charge of
      aircraft building; and Otto Merker, who was responsible for naval
      expansion.  In the afternoon Erhard Milch spoke on the problems
      of the Luftwaffe, Karl Doenitz on the Navy, Wilhelm Schepmann on
      the SA, and Heinrich Himmler on the SS.
      A comparison with the typed text shows the recordings are
      complete. Disc sequence is numbered 1-87. The text for the
      speeches (with the exception of Heinrich Himmler's speech, in
      Reichsfuhrer SS. Personlicher Stab.  Schriftgutverwaltung. 
      Folder 63. EAP 161-b-12/82. Tl75, roll 85, frames 2610152-200)
      can be located on EAP 161-b-12/275. T175, roll 119, frames
      2644970-075. Recordings of the above event are also available on
      tape at the Deutsche Rundfunk Archiv, Frankfurt.

 2.   Bormann, Martin. "Introductory Remarks to Gauleitertagung." 
      Posen, Oct.6, 1943. Approx. 3 min. Item 242-223, reel 1.  

 3.   Doenitz, Karl. "Speech to Gauleitertagung." Posen, Oct. 6, 1943.
      Approx. 45 min. Item 242-223, reels 11-13.Text of speech in
      Reichsfuhrer SS. Personlicher Stab.  Schriftgutverwaltung..
      Unnumbered folder.EAP 161-b-12/275. NARS Microfilm Publication
      T175, roll 119, frames 2645036-048. For further information see
      entry 1, "Speeches to the Reichs and Gauleitertagung."

 4.   Goebbels, Joseph. "Speech of Introduction for Adolf Hitler."
      Tempelhofer Feld, Berlin, Sept. 28, 1937. Approx. 9 min. Item
      242-108.
      See entry 31 concerning Hitler's speech of same date.

 5.   Goebbels, Joseph. "Speech on Winterhilfswerk."  Sportspalast,
      Berlin, Sept. 4, 1940. Approx. 70 min. Item 242-175D, 242-175E,
      242-175F.
      Incomplete. For further information, see entry 35.

 6.   Goering, Hermann. "Speech to the Employees of the Hermann Goering
      Reichswerke in Berlin." Berlin, Sept. 9, 1939. Approx. 90 min.
      Item 242-181.
      Incomplete. In a sequence of 43, discs 18, 26, and 28 are
      missing. Speech was broadcast by Grossdeutsche Rundfunk. Also
      available on record Ariola (ADENA 51125K).

 7.   Himmler, Heinrich. "Speech to SS Fuhrer, Fifth Division
      'Deutschland.'", Apeldoorn, Netherlands, Dec. 13, 1940. Approx.
      34 min. Item 242-187, 242-188, 242-191.
      Incomplete. No text or notes are extant. Internal evidence
      indicates that this speech was given to the officers of the 5th
      Division during the brief interval in which it was called
      Division Deutschland. Weidinger dates such a visit and speech as
      December 13, 1940, but his account of the content of the speech
      does not coincide clearly with the extant fragments. See Otto
      Weidinger, Division Das Reich, 3 vols.  (Osnabruck, 1967-73),
      vol. 2, p. 314-316.

 8.   Himmler, Heinrich. "Speech to the Commanders of the Waffen SS"
      ("Kommandeurbesprechung der Waffen SS").  Kasino der
      Leibstandarte, Berlin, Dec. 18, 1940. Approx.  8 min. Item 242-
      213.
      Incomplete. Discs 9 and 35 only. Comparison with speaker's notes
      indicates the recording consists of two brief disconnected
      passages from the speech. Speaker's notes are extant only from
      the files of correspondence kept by E. Lorenz, RF-SS Adjutantur. 
      See EAP 161-b-12/264. T175, roll 112, frames 2636892-896.

 9.   Himmler, Heinrich. "Speech to the Officers of the Division 'Das
      Reich'" ("Rede zu dem Fuhrerkorps der Division 'Das Reich'").
      Place unknown, June 19, 1942. Approx.  100 min. Item 242-202.
      Incomplete. Discs 7 and 21 missing. An abbreviated text is extant
      in the files of Reichsfuhrer SS. Personlicher Stab. 
      Schriftgutverwaltung. Heft Nr. l2. EAP 161-b-12/327B. T175, roll
      90, frames 2612900-910. As a basis of comparison, there are short
      gaps in the recording corresponding to pages 4 and 1O in the
      typed text. It should be noted, however, that the typed text is a
      summary with many cuts and rewordings and that the recording is
      more complete than the typed text.

10.   Himmler, Heinrich. "Speech to the Commanders of an SS  
      Panzerkorps" ("Kommandeurbesprechung SS Panzerkorps").  Charkov,
      Apr. 24, 1943. Approx. 80 min. Item 242-214.
      Text is extant in the unpublished file of PS-1919, IMT. On the
      basis of comparison with that text, there has been considerable
      editorial rewording in the typed text.

11.   Himmler, Heinrich. "Speech to Junkerschule."  Bad Tolz, May 27,
      1943. Approx. 4 min. Item 242-179.
      Incomplete. Only disc 1 extant. This speech fragment is of very
      poor quality. Only notes for the speech are extant in PS-1919,
      IMT unpublished file. No satisfactory comparison can be made.

12.   Himmler, Heinrich. "Speech to the SS Officers" ("Rede zu den SS
      Fuhrern"). Posen, Oct. 4, 1943. Approx. 190 min. Item 242-256,
      242-259, 242-257, 242-251, 242-252, 242-249, 242-264, 242-263,
      242-250, 242-266, 242-180.
      The speech has been published in IMT, Trial of the Major War
      Criminals (Nuernberg, 1947-49), vol. 29, p. 110-173.

13.   Himmler, Heinrich. "Speech to the Gauleiter" ("Rede auf der
      Gauleitertagung"). Posen, Oct. 6, 1943. Approx. 32 min. Item 242-
      189, 242-224. Incomplete. Only a very small section of the middle
      of the speech is reproduced, according to text in Reichsfuhrer
      SS. Personlicher Stab. Schriftgutverwaltung. Folder 63.  EAP 161-
      b-12/82.  Tl75, roll 85, frames 2610152-200. Recording also
      contains Wilhelm Schepmann's  speech of the same date (see entry
      43). For further information, see entry 1, "Speeches to the
      Reichs and Gauleitertagung."

14.   Himmler, Heinrich. "Speech to the Army Generals" ("Rede zu den
      Befehlshabern der Wehrmacht").  Bad Schachen, Oct. 14, 1943.
      Approx. 165 min. Item 242-205.
      Comparison with the published text in IMT, Trial of the Major War
      Criminals (Nuernberg, l947-49), vol. 37, p. 498- 523, indicates
      the recording has one gap corresponding to pages 520-521 of the
      published text. Extant discs are numbered 1-35 in sequence;
      recording and text match very closely. The recording has short
      concluding remarks by an unidentified army officer.

15.   Himmler, Heinrich. "Speech for 'Tag der Freiheit, Warthegau.'"
      Posen, Oct. 24, 1943. Approx. 90 min. Item 242-204.
      Comparison with text in Reichsfuhrer SS. Personlicher Stab. 
      Schriftgutverwaltung.  Heft Nr. EAP  161-b-12/87. T175, roll 91,
      frames 2613053-075, indicates the recording and wording of the
      text match very closely. There are concluding remarks by
      Gauleiter Arthur Greiser.

16.   Himmler, Heinrich. "Speech to the SS Fuhrer and Officials of the
      General Government" ("Rede vor den SS Fuhrern und Beam- ten des
      General Gouvernement").  Krakau, Nov. 18, 1943. Approx. 50 min.
      Item 242-218.
      Incomplete. In a sequence of 25, discs 1-7, 14, 16, l7, and 23
      are missing. No typed text is extant. Notes for the speech are in
      Reichsfuhrer SS. Personlicher Stab.  Schriftgutverwaltung. Heft
      Nr. 17. EAP 161-b-12/87. T175, roll 91, frames 2613195-198.

17.   Himmler, Heinrich.  "Speech to the German Press" ("Rede vor der
      deutschcn Presse"). Weimar, Dec. 4, 1943. Approx. 65 min. Item
      242-197.
      Incomplete In a sequence of 25, discs 1, 2, 23, and 24 are
      missing.  Speaking notes are in Reichsfuhrer SS.  Personlicher
      Stab. Schriftgutverwaltung. Heft Nr. l7. EAP 161-b-12/87. Tl75,
      roll 91, frames 2613169-171, the text is in Tl75, roll 91, frames
      2613144-158 and 175. 
      Both the notes and text omit the first part of the speech. An
      unidentified speaker makes concluding remarks, which are
      distorted by recording noise.

18.   Himmler, Heinrich. "Speech to the Commanders of the
      Ordnungspolizei and the Police Presidents" ("Rede zu den
      Befehlshabern der Ordnungspolizei und den Polizeipraesidenten").
      Hotel Ostland, Posen, Dec. 15, 1943. Approx. 72 min. Item 242-
      217.
      Incomplete. In a sequence of 41, discs 1-21 and 28 are missing.
      Only notes are extant in Reichsfuhrer SS.  Personlicher Stab.
      Schriftgutverwaltung. Heft Nr. 16. EAP 161-b-12/87. T175, roll
      91, frames 2613159-162. Comparison with notes indicates that the
      first half of the speech is missing from the recording.

19.   Himmler, Heinrich. "Speech to the Generals."  Sonthofen, May 5,
      1944. Approx. 115 min. Item 242-200, 242-210.
      Speech was held as part of a political education program.
      Comparison with text as found in Reichsfuhrer SS.  Personlicher
      Stab. Schriftgutverwaltung. Heft Nr. 22. EAP 161-b-12/280. T175,
      roll 92, frames 2613448-537, indicates the recording omits the
      equivalent of the text pages 34, 54, and 55. Disc sequence,
      however, is complete and numbered 1-43.

20.   Himmler, Heinrich. "Speech to an Abwehr/SD Meeting" ("Rede zur
      Abwehr/SD Tagung"). Salzburg, May 15, 1944. Approx. 155 min. Item
      242-203.
      Notes for the speech are in Reichsfuhrer SS. Personlicher Stab.
      Schriftgutverwaltung.  Unnumbered folder.  EAP 161-b-12/277.
      T175, roll 94, frames 2614681-688: two typed copies of the text
      are on roll 92, frames 2613547-633. Wording of the recording is
      nearly identical with the typed text.

21.   Himmler, Heinrich. "Speech to the Commanders of the Galician SS
      Volunteer Infantry Division" ("Rede zu dem Fuhrerkorps der
      galizischen SS Freiwilligen Infanterie Division"). Neuhammer, May
      16, 1944. Approx. 55 min. Item 242-206. Incomplete. In a sequence
      of 24, discs 21-23 are missing. Comparison with typed text in
      Reichsfuhrer SS. Personlicher Stab. Schriftgutverwaltung. 
      Unnumbered folder.  EAP 161-b-12/277.  T175, roll 94, frames
      2614657-675, indicated the recording is complete except for the
      last four paragraphs. The recording also includes a sentence-by-
      sentence translation into Ukrainian.

22.   Himmler, Heinrich.  "Speech to High-ranking Wehrmacht Officers"
      ("Rede vor den Teilnehmern des politisch-weltanschaulichen
      Lehrgangs"). Sonthofen, May 24, 1944. Approx. 105 min. Item 242-
      211.
      Incomplete. In a sequence of 25, discs 17-20 are missing. 
      Comparison with text in Reichsfuhrer SS. Personlicher Stab. 
      Schriftgutverwaltung. Unnumbered folder. EAP 161-b-12/277. T175,
      roll 94, frames 2614609-647, indicates the recording has a gap
      equivalent to pages 24-32 of the typed text. The wording on the
      recording is nearly identical with the typed text. This speech
      was one in a series of political education programs for high-
      ranking Wehrmacht officers.

23.   Himmler, Heinrich. "Speech to the Representatives of German
      Justice" ("Rede zu den Vertretern der deutschen Justiz"). Kochem,
      May 25, 1944. Approx. 170 min. Item 242-198.
      Incomplete. In a sequence of 41, disc 1 is missing. Comparison
      with the typed text in Reichsfuhrer SS.  Personlicher Stab.
      Schriftgutverwaltung.  Heft Nr. 27.  EAP 161-b-12/88. T175, roll
      93, frames 2613736-779, indicates the recording has sections
      missing equivalent to pages 1-4 of the typed text. In wording,
      the text and the recording are almost identical. There are brief
      concluding remarks on the recording by Justice Minister Otto
      Thierack.

24.   Himmler, Heinrich. "Speech to the Generals."  Sonthofen, June 21,
      1944. Approx. 100 min. Item 238-3940.
      Incomplete. Using the extant typed text of the speech in 
      Reichsfuhrer SS. Personlicher Stab. Schriftgutverwaltung.  Heft
      Nr. 28.  EAP 161-b-12/88.  T175, roll 93, fromes 2613945-992, as
      a basis of comparison, the equivalent text on the recording of
      pages 47-49 is missing.

25.   Himmler, Heinrich.  "Speech to the Officers of Infantry Division
      544, Major General Ehrig, C.O." ("Rede zu den Offizieren der
      Infanterie Division 544, Volksgrenadier").  Grafenwohr, July 25,
      1944. Approx. 32 min. Item 242-201. Incomplete. In a sequence of
      33, discs 1-9, 14, 15, 17, and 20-32 are missing. Comparison with
      typed text in Reichsfuhrer SS. Personlicher Stab.
      Schriftgutverwaltung.  Heft Nr. 28.  EAP 161-b-12/88.  T175, roll
      93, frames 2613873-901, indicates the recording has gaps
      equivalent to pages 1-7, 13, and 18-28 of the text.

26.   Himmler, Heinrich. "Speech to the Officers of the 545 Infantry
      Division [Volksgrenadier], Colonel Obenaus, C.O." ("Rede vor dem
      Offizierskorps einer Grenadier Division auf dem
      Truppenubungsplatz Bitsch"). Bitsch, July 26, 1944. Approx. 180
      min. Item 242-209.
      Comparison with text in Reichsfuhrer SS. Personlicher Stab.
      Schriftgutverwaltung.  Heft Nr. 30. EAP 161-b-12/88.  T175, roll
      93, frames 2614140-169, indicates that the typed text and the
      recording match closely.

27.   Himmler, Heinrich.  "Speech to two Volksgrenadier Divisions"
      ("Rede zu zwei Volksgrenadier Divisionen"). Dorn, Aug. 13, 1944.
      Approx. 115 min. Item 242-190.
      Incomplete. In a sequence of 29, discs 17, 19, 21, and 23 are
      missing. No notes or text are extant for this speech.

28.   Himmler, Heinrich. "Speech to Officers of two Volksgrenadier
      Divisions; 543 Infantry, Lieutenant General Rasp, C.O., and 547
      Infantry, Colonel Meiners, C.O." ("Rede vor dem Offizierkorps
      zweier Volksgrenadier Divisionen"). Munsingen, Aug. 27, 1944.
      Approx. 130 min. Item 242-195.
      Incomplete. In a sequence of 35, discs 22 and 23 are missing. No
      notes or text are extant for this speech.

29.   Himmler, Heinrich. "Speech to the Officers of a Volksgrenadier
      Division" ("Rede zu den Offizieren einer Volksgrenadier
      Division"). Place unknown, Aug. 29, 1944. Approx.  118 min. Item
      242-254, 242-255, 242-269, 242-262, 242-253.
      No notes or text are extant. Speech was originally recorded on
      magnetic tape (30 IPS), but because only one recorder was used
      there are no overlapping sections. Based on internal evidence,
      the speech may be complete.

30.   Himmler, Heinrich. "Speech to the Commanding Officers of the
      Wehrkreise and the Commanding Officers of the Training Schools"
      ("Rede zu den Wehrkreisbefehlshabern und den Kommandeuren der
      Schulen").  Jagerhohe, Sept. 21, 1944. Approx. 120 min.  Item
      242-267, 242-258, 242-247, 242-248, 242-260, 242-265.
      Incomplete. Comparison with text extant in Reichsfuhrer SS.
      Personlicher Stab. Schriftgutverwaltung. Heft Nr. 26. EAP 16 1-b-
      12/276. T175, roll 92, frames 2613636-658, indicates the only gap
      in the original magnetic tape recording corresponds to pages 8
      and 9 of the 23-page typed text. This recording, however, is more
      complete in a number of places (i.e., sections equivalent to
      pages 11 and 22) than the text, which contains substantial
      rewording.

31.   Hitler, Adolf. "Speech Introducing Benito Mussolini." Tempelhofer
      Feld, Berlin, Sept. 28, 1937. Approx. 10 min. Item 242-107.
      Text appears in Adolf Hitler, Reden und Proklamationen, 1932-
      1945, ed. Max Domarus, 2 vols. (Wurzburg, 1962-63), vol. 1, p.
      736-738 (hereafter referred to as Domarus).

32.   Hitler, Adolf. "Speech to the Reichstag." Berlin, Apr. 28, 1939.
      Approx. 130 min. Item 242-178. Incomplete. In a sequence of 45,
      discs 1-5, 7, 22, and 24 are missing. Printed text is available
      in Domarus, vol. 2, p.  1147-1179. Concluding words by Hermann
      Goering. Recording of speech also available at Deutsche Rundfunk
      Archiv, Frankfurt.

33.   Hitler, Adolf.  "Speech in Danzig." Danzig, Sept. 19, 1939.
      Approx. 75 min. Item 242-182. Incomplete. In a sequence of 32,
      discs 1-4, 9, and 11 are missing. Printed text available in
      Domarus, vol. 2, p. 1354-1366. Also the conclusion of the
      Deutschlandlied at end of speech is cut short. Recording of
      speech is available at the Norddeutsche Rundfunk, Hamburg, and a
      fragment is preserved at the Bundesarchiv, Koblenz.

34.   Hitler, Adolf. "Speech to Reichstag." Berlin, July 19, 1940. 
      Approx.  135 min.  Item 242-175H, 242-175G, 242-175C.
      Printed text is in Domarus, vol. 2, p. 1540-1559. Introduction
      and conclusion by Hermann Goering. Recording of speech also
      available at the Deutsche Rundfunk Archiv, Frankfurt, and the
      Norddeutsche Rundfunk, Hamburg.

35.   Hitler, Adolf.  "Speech on Winterhilfswerk."  Sportpalast,
      Berlin, Sept. 4, l940. Approx. 70 min. Item 242-175D, 242-175E,
      242-175F.
      Incomplete. In a sequence of 28, discs 1-4, 13, and 15 are
      missing. Printed text is in Domarus, vol. 2, p. 1575-1583.
      Recording includes introduction by Joseph Goebbels.  Recording of
      speech also available at Deutsche Rundfunk Archiv, Frankfurt, and
      at the Bundesarchiv, Koblenz.

36.   Hitler, Adolf. "Speech at Commemorative Ceremony for November
      1923 Putsch." Munich, Nov. 8, 1940. Approx. 80 min. Item 242-
      175B. Incomplete. In a sequence of 25, discs 1 and 3 are missing.
      Printed text is in Domarus, vol. 2, p.1602-1608. Also available
      at the Deutsche Rundfunk Archiv, Frankfurt, and in parts at the
      Norddeutsche Rundfunk, Hamburg.

37.   Hitler, Adolf. "Speech to the Workers of a Berlin Armaments
      Factory" ("Rede vor den Arbeitern eines Berliner
      Rustungswerkes"). Berlin, Dec. 10, 1940. Approx. 110 min. Item
      242-175A.
      Printed text is in Domarus, vol. 2, p. 1626-1634. Also available
      at the Deutsche Rundfunk Archiv, Frankfurt, and at the
      Bundesarchiv, Koblenz.

38.   Hitler, Adolf. "Speech for Anniversary of the Founding of the
      NSDAP." Hofbrauhaus-Festsaal, Munich, Feb. 24, 1941. Approx. 90
      min. Item 242-87,242-119,242-173.
      Only part of the speech is available in printed text in Domarus,
      vol. 2, p. 1668-1670.

39.   Hitler, Adolf. "Speech to the Reichstag." Berlin, Dec. 11, 1941.
      Approx. 95 min. Item 242-219. Printed text is in Domarus, vol. 2,
      p. 1794-1811. Introduction and conclusion by Hermann Goering. 
      Recording of speech also available at Deutsche Rundfunk Archiv,
      Frankfurt.

40.   Juttner, Hans. "Speech by Chief of SS Fuhrungshauptamt and
      Kommando Amt Waffen SS, to SS Fuhrer." Kienschlag (Bohmen-Mahren)
      [now in Czechoslovakia]  Apr. 13, 1944. Approx. 65 min. Item 242-
      184.
      No printed text or notes are available. Speech is a survey of the
      Waffen SS, updating Heinrich Himmler's report of Nov. 19, 1943.

41.   Milch, Erhard.  "Speech to Gauleitertagung."  Posen, Oct. 6,
      1943. Approx. 95 min. Item 242-223, reels 8-l0.
      Text of speech is in Reichsfuhrer SS. Personlicher Stab.
      Schriftgutverwaltung. Unnumbered folder.  EAP 161-b-12/275. T175,
      roll 119, frames 2645049-075. For further information see entry
      1, "Speeches to the Reichs and Gauleitertagung."

42.   Rosenberg, Alfred.  "Speech Commemorating Second Anniversary of
      Austrian Anschluss." Konzerthaus, Vienna, Apr. 2, 1940. Approx.
      103 min. Item 242-183.
      Incomplete. In a sequence of 21, disc 6 is missing. The missing
      part, however, occurs during an introduction by an unidentified
      speaker. The speech by Rosenberg, which is complete, is followed
      by brief concluding remarks by an unidentified speaker and by
      music. Neither text nor notes are available.

43.   Schepmann, Wilhelm. "Speech to Gauleiter by Chief of SA." Posen,
      Oct. 6, 1943. Approx. 32 min. Item 242-189, 242-224.
      Text is in Reichsfuhrer SS. Personlicher Stab.
      Schriftgutverwaltung.  Unnumbered folder.  EAP 161-b- 12/275. 
      Tl75, roll 119, frames 2645023-035. Recording also includes part
      of Heinrich Himmler's speech of the same date (see entry 13 ).
      For further information see entry 1, "Speeches to the Reichs and
      Gauleitertagung."

44.   Schwerin-Krosigk, Lutz, Graf von. "Speech to Businessmen."
      Probably Cologne in period of Sept. 1932-June 1933. Approx. 10
      min. Item 242-221.
      Incomplete.  The speaker, a financial expert, discusses the
      results of the Ottawa Imperial Economic Conference of July and
      August 1932 and attempts to predict the outcome for Germany of
      the Monetary and Economic Conference in London, June and July
      1933. Recording contains two repeats of same part of speech.

45.   Speer, Albert.  "Speech to Gauleitertagung."  Posen, Oct. 6,
      1943. Approx. 76 min. Item 242-223, reels 5-8.
      Text of speech is in Reichsfuhrer SS. Personlicher Stab.
      Schriftgutverwaltung. Unnumbered folder.  EAP 161-b-12/275. T175,
      roll 119, frames 2644970-990. For further information see entry
      1, "Speeches to the Reichs and Gauleitertagung."

46.   Streicher, Julius.  "Speech at Nurnberg." Ca. 1934. Approx. 90
      min. Item 242-l85.
      Incomplete. In a sequence of 22, discs 1 and l3 are missing.
      Neither text nor notes are available. Recording of speech is of
      very bad quality with excessive background noise.

47.   Weinrich, Karl. "Report to the People of Kassel by the Gauleiter
      of Kurhessen.  Kassel, Jan. 11, 1939. Approx. 45 min. Item 242-
      177.
      Neither text nor notes are available. Speech is a progress report
      on schools, transportation, rebuilding of the city center,
      culture, and the arts. For Weinrich's part in a ceremony on May
      21, 1939, see entry 48.

                        SECTION II: CEREMONIES

48.   Ceremony Erecting a Monument for the Fallen of the NSDAP and the
      Wehrmacht in Kurhessen." Kreis Melsungen, Kurhessen, May 21,
      1939. Approx. 26 min. Item 242-176.
      Speakers are identified as Dr. Reinhard, the Gauamtsleiter; Karl
      Weinrich, the Gauleiter; the leader of the Gau Kurhessen Choral
      Society; and Dr. Schwitz, the Kreisleiter. For another speech by
      Karl Weinrich, see entry 47.

49.   "Christmas Address on Radio to German Troops." Place unknown, ca.
      1941. Approx. 10 min. Item 242-222.
      Incomplete. Brief, distorted fragment; speaker unknown.

50.   "Christmas/New Years Greetings to the SS Troops." Place unknown,
      ca. 1943. Approx. 8 min. Item 242-225.
      Incomplete. May be Henrich Himmler's message read by unknown
      speaker.

51.   "Commemorative Ceremony for Establishment of the Anti-Comintern
      Pact." Reichskanzlei, Berlin, Nov. 25, 1941. Approx. 8 min. Item
      242-199.
      Only the speeches of the Foreign Minister of Hungary, Laszlo de
      Bardossy; the Representative of Manchukuo, Lue-i-wen; and the
      Foreign Minister of Spain, Ramon Serrano Suner, are included.

52.   "Commemorative Ceremony for Naming of the SS Standarte Kurt
      Eggers." Place unknown, Nov. 7, 1943. Approx. 50 min. Item 242-
      216, 242-216A.
      Kurt Eggers, an SS Obersturmfuhrer in the Division Wiking, was
      killed on the Eastern Front. His name was given to a propaganda
      unit (Einheit der Kriegsberichterstatter) in a Fuhrerbefehl
      (Hitler order) of October 31, 1943. Recording includes a military
      review, speeches, ceremony, and a reading of the Fuhrerbefehl
      that established SS Standarte Kurt Eggers.

                   SECTION III: MONITORED BROADCASTS

53.   "Monitored Broadcast." Lille, France, n.d. Approx. 15 min. Item
      242-236.
      English language coded messages monitored from Lille by the
      Germans. (No. 190, Lille 20).

54.   "Monitored Broadcast." Lille, France, n.d. Approx. 15 min. Item
      242-237.
      English language coded messages monitored from Lille by the
      Germans. (No. 193, Lille 17).

55.   "Monitored Broadcast." Lille, France, n.d. Approx. 15 min. Item
      242-238.
      English language coded messages monitored from Lille by the
      Germans (No. 194, Lille 26).

56.   "Monitored Broadcast." Lille, France, n.d. Approx. 25 min. Item
      242-239, 242-240.
      English language coded messages monitored from Lille by the
      Germans. (No. 195, Lille 42). Recording also includes a
      discussion on the Royal Armoured Corps, tank usage, a description
      of minesweepers in action, and airborne ambulance operations. All
      descriptions are in English monitored from Lille. (No. 196, Lille
      43).

57.   "Monitored Broadcast." Lille, France, n.d. Approx. 15 min. Item
      242-242.
      English language coded messages with mixture of recorded music
      near the end, monitored from Lille by the Germans. (No. 199,
      [London] Lille 24).

58.   "Monitored Broadcast." Lille, France, n.d. Approx. 15 min. Item
      242-245.
      Incomplete. English language word and number codes, fragmented,
      interrupted by static, monitored from Lille by the Germans. (No.
      203, Lille 1).

59.   "Monitored Broadcast." Lille, France, ca. 1944. Approx. 15 min.
      Item 242-241.
      Incomplete. A monitored radio comedy-routine with Eddie Cantor,
      Lionel Barrymore, and Fred Waring from the Armed Forces Radio
      "Mail Call" series; a fragment of a report by war correspondent
      Frank Gilliard, monitored from the BBC; and a brief, garbled,
      static-laden code section monitored from Lille by the Germans.
      (No. 197, Lille 61).

60.   "Monitored Broadcast." Lille, France, June 18, 1944. Approx. 15
      min. Item 242-244.
      An English language BBC review of parliamentary sessions reported
      by Ernest Atkinson, making references to V-bomb attacks during
      the summer of 1944; a fragment of "News from Canada," a BBC
      broadcast by Jerry Wilmot after D-day; and parts of British coded
      speeches and groups of numbers monitored from Lille by the
      Germans. (No. 201, Lille 70). A more extensive section of the
      "News from Canada" can be found on item 242-234 (entry 62).

61.   "Monitored Broadcast." Place unknown, n.d. Approx. 15 min. Item
      242-232.
      U.S. and British radio communications, presumably for Allied
      units, monitored by the Germans. Probably coded; communications
      are generally in numbers.

62.   "Monitored Broadcast." Place unknown, summer 1944. Approx. 15
      min. Item 242-234. This BBC broadcast made after D-day contains
      two sections of British code messages (in English) and a section
      of Canadian news. Part of the news material is duplicated on
      items 242-244 (entry 60).

63.   "Monitored Broadcast." Place unknown, July 1944. Approx. 10 min.
      Item 242-279.
      Monitored Allied radio broadcasts, including part of a BBC radio
      broadcast commentary.

64.   "Stalag III-B Conference." Place unknown, May 22, 1944. Approx.
      25 min. Item 242-231.
      Incomplete. Although the Germans called this a conference, it
      seems to be a disjointed recording of British and American
      voices, often unintelligible. May be a monitoring of POW's in a
      German camp.


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