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Title: Michael Burleigh collection,
Dates: 1862-1996
Collection Number: 2003C75
Collector: Burleigh, Michael, 1955- , collector.
Collection Size:
25 manuscript boxes.
(10 linear feet)
Repository:
Hoover Institution Archives
Stanford, California 94305-6010
Abstract: Photocopies of correspondence, government documents, judicial and medical records, and printed matter, relating to German
interest in Eastern Europe and to eugenics in Germany before and during the Nazi period. Used as research material for the
books by M. Burleigh, Germany Turns Eastwards: A Study of Ostforschung in the Third Reich (Cambridge, 1988), and Death and
Deliverance: "Euthanasia" in Germany c. 1900-1945 (Cambridge, 1994). Includes notes by M. Burleigh.
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Archives
Languages:
German
Collection is open for research.
Access to audiovisual materials requires at least two weeks advance notice. Audiovisual materials include sound recordings,
video recordings, and motion picture film. Hoover staff will determine whether use copies of the materials requested can be
made available. Some materials may not be accessible even with advance notice. Please contact the Hoover Institution Archives
for further information.
For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Archives.
[Identification of item], Michael Burleigh collection,, [Box number], Hoover Institution Archives.
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Archives in 2003.
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 Socrates at
http://library.stanford.edu/webcat . Materials have been added to the collection if the number of boxes listed in Socrates is larger than the number of boxes
listed in this finding aid.
Scope and Content of Collection
Photocopies of correspondence, government documents, judicial and medical records, and printed matter, relating to German
interest in Eastern Europe and to eugenics in Germany before and during the Nazi period. Used as research material for the
books by M. Burleigh, Germany Turns Eastwards: A Study of Ostforschung in the Third Reich (Cambridge, 1988), and Death and
Deliverance: "Euthanasia" in Germany c. 1900-1945 (Cambridge, 1994). Includes notes by M. Burleigh.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Eugenics Germany.
Euthanasia Germany.
National socialism.
Germany Relations Europe, Eastern.
Europe, Eastern Relations Germany.