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Title: James F. Tent papers
Date (inclusive): 1936-2010
Collection Number: 86035
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material: In English and German
Physical Description:
29 manuscript boxes
(12.1 Linear Feet)
Abstract: Correspondence, reports, memoranda, studies, 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 J. F. Tent's books
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).
Creator:
Tent, James F.
Creator:
Germany (Territory under Allied occupation, 1945-1955 : U.S. Zone). Office of Military Government. Education and Cultural
Relations Division
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives
The collection is open for research; materials must be requested in advance via our reservation system. If there are audiovisual
or digital media material in the collection, they must be reformatted before providing access.
For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 1986, with an increment received in 2016.
[Identification of item], James F. Tent papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
In part, originals at the National Archives, Washington, D.C.
American historian, author, and professor. Research focus on post-war German history, education in post-war Germany, and the
fate of the mixed race Jewish-Christian Germans during World War II.
| 1974 | Began teaching New European history, German history, military history, and the history of the Cold War at the University of Alabama at Birmingham |
| 1973 | Published dissertation, Eugen Richter, Manchester Liberal and German Statesman |
| Received PhD from the University of Wisconsin | |
| 1969 | Received master's degree from the University of Wisconsin |
| Published master's thesis, German Social Democracy and the General Strike, 1890-1914 | |
| 2002-2008 | Served as the Dean of the History Department at the University of Alabama at Birmingham |
Scope and Content of Collection
The James F. Tent papers consist of correspondence, reports, memoranda, studies, 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 J. F. Tent's books
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).
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Jews -- Germany
Germany -- History -- 1933-1945
Germany -- History -- 1945-1955
Military government
Denazification
Education -- Germany
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Freie Universität Berlin