Henry Smith Leiper papers, 1921 -- 1949

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Series 1: Correspondence, 1932 -- 1949

This series is open for research.

2 linear feet; 2 linear feet; 4 boxes

This series contains correspondence and related materials including reports, clippings, and telegrams on the following: the German Evangelical Church, "Kulturkampf," the Nazi Party seizing Church property, Nazi Party attacks on Jews, Catholics, and other citizens of Europe, as well as letters regarding anti-Semitism in America and Europe. Of note are telegram appeals to Hitler to release Pastor Martin Niemoeller, extracts of Hitler's Public Speeches 1933-1939, a copy of the Nuremberg Laws in Box 4 Folder 7, and the Notes and Information on the Project for Immigration of Displaced Persons in the American Occupied Zones of Germany and Austria in Box 5 Folder 6.

This series is unarranged.



Box Series 1 Box 1 Folder 1-2 Anti-Semitism, 1932 -- 1941


Box Series 1 Box 1 Folder 3 Telegram Appeals and Declaration of Christian Truth, 1938


Box Series 1 Box 1 Folder 4 Chaplains, November-December, 1937


Box Series 1 Box 1 Folder 5 Catholic Church in Hitler Germany, 1933 -- 1941


Box Series 1 Box 1 Folder 6 Universal Christian Council Form Letters, 1934 -- 1942


Box Series 1 Box 1 Folder 7-8 Federal Council of Churches, 1933 -- 1939


Box Series 1 Box 1 Folder 9-10 Kulturkampf, 1938 -- 1943



Box Series 1 Box 2 Folder 1 ReichsbishopLudwig Muller, 1933


Box Series 1 Box 2 Folder 2 Adolf Hitler Public Speeches, 1933 -- 1939


Box Series 1 Box 2 Folder 3 German Evangelical Church, 1934 -- 1939


Box Series 1 Box 2 Folder 4 Office of War Information, 1942


Box Series 1 Box 2 Folder 5 Dr. Hans Schoenfeld, 1936 -- 1939


Box Series 1 Box 2 Folder 6 Sword of the Spirit, 1940 -- 1943


Box Series 1 Box 2 Folder 7-9 A-L on German Church Situation, 1933 -- 1938



Box Series 1 Box 3 Folder 1-4 M-Z on German Church Situation, 1933 -- 1940


Box Series 1 Box 3 Folder 5-6 General on German Situation, 1933 -- 1935


Box Series 1 Box 3 Folder 7 Church Struggle in Nazi Germany, 1936 -- 1937


Box Series 1 Box 3 Folder 8-9 Religious and Political Situation under Nazi Aggression, 1938 -- 1939



Box Series 1 Box 4 Folder 1 German Religion under Hitler, 1940 -- 1942


Box Series 1 Box 4 Folder 2-3 German Ecumenical Movement and Relief to Germany, 1943 -- 1946


Box Series 1 Box 4 Folder 4-5 Church in Pre-and Post-World War II Germany, 1943 -- 1946


Box Series 1 Box 4 Folder 6-7 German Church Situation, 1945


Box Series 1 Box 4 Folder 8-9 Post-War Germany, 1946 -- 1949

Series 2: Writings, 1933 -- 1942

This series is open for research.

0.25 linear feet; 0.25 linear feet; 1 box

This series contains writings by Leiper including articles and radio speeches given by Leiper on Nazi propaganda and terrorism against German people and churches, and what Leiper called "The New Paganism in Germany." Of note is the radio speech which discusses Pastor Martin Niemoeller held prisoner by Hitler in Folder 3.

This series is arranged chronologically.



Box Series 2 Box 1 Folder 1-4 German Church Facing Crisis, 1933 -- 1937


Box Series 2 Box 1 Folder 5 German Church Facing Crisis and Nazi Terrorism, 1938 -- 1942

Series 3: Publications, 1921 -- 1944

This series is open for research.

2.5 linear feet; 2.5 linear feet; 5 boxes

This series contains publications of interest to Leiper, including pamphlets, newspaper clippings, and reports on German Churches and their destruction under the Third Reich. Also included are materials on relief provided to German churches, and human rights efforts. Of note is the Program for The Baptist World Congress, held in Berlin in October 1934 in Folder 5. Materials are in both English and German.

This series is unarranged.



Box Series 3 Box 1 Folder 1 Church Struggle in Germany--Pamphlets - A-C, 1933 -- 1937


Box Series 3 Box 1 Folder 2 European Situation and Relief Efforts--Pamphlets - D-F, 1938 -- 1941


Box Series 3 Box 1 Folder 3 German Churches under Third Reich--Pamphlets-G, 1933 -- 1937


Box Series 3 Box 1 Folder 4-5 Pamphlets H-N, 1921 -- 1941



Box Series 3 Box 2 Folder 1-2 Over There with the Churches of Christ Pamphlets, 1932 -- 1942


Box Series 3 Box 2 Folder 3-4 Pamphlets--P-U, 1930 -- 1941



Box Series 3 Box 3 Folder 1 War Conditions in European/Continental Churches, 1939 -- 1944


Box Series 3 Box 3 Folder 2 Watchman What of the Night Pamphlets, circa 1939 -- 1944


Box Series 3 Box 3 Folder 3 Leaflets on Relief Efforts, 1936 -- 1937


Box Series 3 Box 3 Folder 4 Press Releases from Various Christian Councils, 1933 -- 1938


Box Series 3 Box 3 Folder 5 Clippings including The Churches in Germany Now, 1932 -- 1943


Box Series 3 Box 3 Folder 6-7 Clippings on Church under Nazi Rule, 1932 -- 1943


Box Series 3 Box 3 Folder 8 German Rundbrief Series, 1934 -- 1935

Fragile; please handle with care.


Box Series 3 Box 3 Folder 9 Kulturkampf Series, 1936 -- 1939



Box Series 3 Box 4 Folder 1 Reports on German Religious Conflict, 1937 -- 1940


Box Series 3 Box 4 Folder 2 Reports on Destruction of Churches in Germany, 1944


Box Series 3 Box 4 Folder 3 Correspondence and reports in French and German, 1934 -- 1938


Box Series 3 Box 4 Folder 4 Minutes in German of Meeting in Berlin-Hermsdorf, 1934


Box Series 3 Box 4 Folder 5 Reports about German Evangelical Church, 1934 -- 1935


Box Series 3 Box 4 Folder 6 Minutes of German-European Agency for Religious Relief, 1938


Box Series 3 Box 4 Folder 7-8 Reports in German on the German Church Situation, 1933 -- 1941


Box Series 3 Box 4 Folder 9 Scrapbook of Various German Newspapers Fall DEHN U.S.W., 1932

Fragile; please handle with care.



Box Series 3 Box 5 Folder 1 Scrapbook of newspaper clippings relating to religious conditions in Nazi Germany, circa 1934

Fragile; please use copies in Folder 2.


Box Series 3 Box 5 Folder 2 Copies of newspaper clippings from scrapbook, circa 1934