NSDAP Hauptarchiv, 1919-1945
Contributors: Berlin Document Center; Bundesarchiv (Germany); Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace
Publisher: Hoover Institution
Published: 1919
Place of publication: Berlin
Language: ger
Number of pages: 155
Subjects: History; Sources; National socialism; Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei
Notes: Selected items from documents assembled in 1946 at the Berlin Document Center and later transferred to the Bundesarchiv at Koblenz (except police records now in the Bavarian Geheimes Staatsarchiv, Munich, and materials relating to Himmler and Streicher in the Berlin Document Center)

Reels 1-96, 1A-37A and reel B reproduce the Collection NSDAP Hauptarchiv, containing the most valuable documents on the background, history, and organization of the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei; reels 97-99 and 38A reproduce a small selection of documents from the Julius Streicher and Heinrich Himmler collections, not originally part of the NSDAP Hauptarchiv, but supplemental to it.

Accompanied by reel guide with title: NSDAP Hauptarchiv: Guide to the Hoover Institution Microfilm Collection.

Copies of reel guide at: CD 1259.H364 (ref. copy) and at: E-8813 (circulating copy)

Described in: Heinz, Grete and Agnes F. Peterson, comp. NSDAP Hauptarchiv: Guide to the Hoover Institution Microfilm Collection. Stanford, Calif.: Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace, 1964.

The NSDAP archive was set up primarily as a depository for source materials on which historians in the future would draw to write the history of the Nazi party. It was to be the main depository for documents related to the party's history, from its earliest days, but had difficulty in finding original material. The archivists appealed for donations from old party members for records from 1919 to 1933, although they collected materials back to 1890 on the ideological forerunners of National Socialism. Material for the years 1933-1945 is spotty; it covers the Reichsparteitage (1923-1939) in full organizational detail. The archive acquired the files of the Munich police and Bavarian Ministry of the Interior covering the origins of the party as well as political opponents. The archive was the depository for Hitler's documents but not other high-ranking Nazi officials.