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Title: James F. Tent collection
Dates: 1936-2003
Collection Number: 86035
Collector: Tent, James F., collector
Collection Size:
11 manuscript boxes
(4.4 linear feet)
Repository:
Hoover Institution Archives
Stanford, California 94305-6010
Abstract: Reports, memoranda, studies, correspondence, minutes, conference proceedings, and interview transcripts, relating to educational
policy and denazification in the American-occupied zone of Germany after World War II, the establishment of the Freie Universität
Berlin, and Nazi persecution of persons of partial Jewish ancestry. Includes photocopies of records of the Education and Cultural
Relations Division of the United States Office of Military Government for Germany, 1945-1949, and photocopies of Nazi police
files. Used as research material for the books by J. F. Tent, Mission on the Rhine: Reeducation and Denazification in American-Occupied
Germany (Chicago, 1982), The Free University of Berlin (Bloomington, 1988), and In the Shadow of the Holocaust: Nazi Persecution
of Jewish-Christian Germans (Lawrence, 2003).
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Archives
Languages: In
English
German
Collection is open for research.
The Hoover Institution Archives only allows access to
copies of audiovisual items. To listen to sound recordings or to view videos or films during your visit, please contact the Archives
at least two working days before your arrival. We will then advise you of the accessibility of the material you wish to see
or hear. Please note that not all audiovisual material is immediately accessible.
For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Archives.
[Identification of item], James F. Tent collection, [Box number], Hoover Institution Archives.
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Archives in 1986.
Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. To determine if this has occurred, find
the collection in Stanford University's online catalog at
http://searchworks.stanford.edu/ . Materials have been added to the collection if the number of boxes listed in the online catalog is larger than the number
of boxes listed in this finding aid.
In part, originals in: National Archives, Washington, D.C.
Scope and Content of Collection
Reports, memoranda, studies, correspondence, minutes, conference proceedings, and interview transcripts, relating to educational
policy and denazification in the American-occupied zone of Germany after World War II, the establishment of the Freie Universität
Berlin, and Nazi persecution of persons of partial Jewish ancestry. Includes photocopies of records of the Education and Cultural
Relations Division of the United States Office of Military Government for Germany, 1945-1949, and photocopies of Nazi police
files. Used as research material for the books by J. F. Tent, Mission on the Rhine: Reeducation and Denazification in American-Occupied
Germany (Chicago, 1982), The Free University of Berlin (Bloomington, 1988), and In the Shadow of the Holocaust: Nazi Persecution
of Jewish-Christian Germans (Lawrence, 2003).
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Freie Universität Berlin.
Education--Germany
Denazification
Military government
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Germany--History--1933-1945.
Germany--History--1945-1955
Germany (Territory under Allied occupation, 1945-1955 : U.S. Zone) Office of Military Government. Education and Cultural Relations
Division