Description
Correspondence, reports, statistics, and financial records, relating to railway operation, fuel production, and other aspects
of economic reconstruction in Austria, Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Yugoslavia.
Background
The
European
Technical
Advisers was a private American advisory organization created in the spring and summer of 1919 by Herbert Hoover, head of the American
Relief Administration, in response to concerns that post-peace treaty demobilization of the Central European network of military
advisers would leave a serious vacuum in the coordination of highly-complicated economic and technical functions. Technological
novelty, governmental disorganization and international antagonisms, as well as wartime disruption of industrial infrastructures,
were major problems threatening the rapid re-establishment of economic stability in the area.
Extent
69 manuscript boxes
(28.7 Linear Feet)
Restrictions
For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Availability
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.