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