Institute of Contemporary History (Munich)

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The Institute of Contemporary History (Institut für Zeitgeschichte) in Munich was conceived in 1947 under the name Deutsches Institut für Geschichte der nationalsozialistischen Zeit ("German Institute of the History of the National Socialist Era"). Founded by the German government and the State of

German history
.

History

The institute is funded by the

German government, and the German states of Bavaria, Baden-Württemberg, Brandenburg, Hesse, Lower Saxony, North Rhine-Westphalia and Saxony. The first director of the institute was Hans Rothfels, the second director was Martin Broszat
. Representatives of the supporting states are also members of the institute's board.

The Dokumentationszentrum Obersalzberg

Since 1953, the institute has been publishing the journal

Bundesrepublik Deutschland and Goebbels Diaries
.

In 1994, the institute founded a branch in

German Foreign Office
.

In 1999, the institute conceived the

Nazi leadership circles. Visitors can tour the bunker complex. Access to the bunkers was closed for construction in September 2017 and remained closed in July 2018 "until further notice".[1][2]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Dokumentation Obersalzberg: News". www.obersalzberg.de.
  2. ^ "Dokumentation Obersalzberg: Home". www.obersalzberg.de.

Bibliography

  • Hellmuth Auerbach, "Die Gründung des Instituts für Zeitgeschichte", Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte 18 (1970): 529–554.
  • John Gimbel, "The Origins of the "Institut fuer Zeitgeschichte." Scholarship, Politics and the American Occupation of Germany, 1945–1949," American Historical Review 70 (1965), 714-731.
  • Hermann Graml, Hans Woller, "Fuenfzig Jahre Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte 1953-2003," Vierteljahrshefte fuer Zeitgeschichte 51 (2003), pp. 51–87.

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