mss067 Harold C. Deutsch papers Alan Lathrop University of Minnesota Libraries 1991
University of Minnesota Libraries Minneapolis, MN 55455
EAD encoding by Leslie Czechowski March 2005 English Deutsch, Harold C. (Harold Charles) Harold C. Deutsch papers 1923-1990 (bulk 1942-1946) University of Minnesota Libraries. Literary Manuscripts Collections, Manuscripts Division [mss] 22 boxes The Deutsch papers comprise declassified OSS reports and transcripts of interrogations of German officials of World War II. Mss 67 English Mezzanine Administrative Information Restrictions on Access

Available for use in Manuscripts Division reading room.

 Restrictions on Use

Most materials are government documents and have no copyright restrictions. Some of the Miscellaneous Documents are under copyright and the rights were not transferred to the Archives.

 Preferred Citation

Harold C. Deutsch Papers (Mss 67), Literary Manuscripts Collection, University of Minnesota Libraries, Minneapolis.

 Acquisition

The first group of materials were donated by Dr. Deutsch in 1991. Additional materials were donated by Dorothy Deutsch Thews in 1996.

 Arrangement

The collection is organized in three groups of materials:

Declassified OSS Reports Miscellaneous Documents Nazi Interrogation Transcripts Biographical Sketch for Harold C. Deutsch

Harold C. Deutsch was a professor of History at the University of Minnesota whose research interests focused on World War II. He was a native of Milwaukee, Wisconsin and received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1929. He came to the University of Minnesota at that time and during his tenure served as chairman of the History Department. He retired in 1972.

During World War II he served on the Board of Economic Warfare and with the Office of Strategic Services. After the war he worked as an interrogator of German war criminals at Nuremberg.

 Scope and Content Note

The Deutsch papers comprise declassified Office of Strategic Services' reports that are naval, military, intelligence, diplomatic, and technical studies prepared largely by the U.S. military utilizing decoded and translated enemy communications. The reports are from the SRH, SRMA, SRMD, SRMF, SRMN series.

Acronyms: SRH -- Special Research History; SRMA -- Discrete Records of Historical Cryptologic Import: U.S. Army; SRMD -- Discrete Records of Historical Cryptologic Import; SRMN -- Discrete Records of Historical Cryptologic Import: U.S. Navy.

Also included in the collection are transcripts of interrogations of German officials from World War II.

 Related Material

Dr. Deutsch donated his personal papers to the U.S. Army Military History Institute in Carlisle, Pennsylvania.

 Other Finding Aid

A detailed list of materials in the collection is available in the Manuscripts Division.

 Index Terms

This collection is indexed under the following headings in the catalog of the University of Minnesota Libraries. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons or places should search the catalog using these headings.

World War, 1939-1945 -- Sources. War criminals -- Germany Detailed Contents

The following section contains an overview of the materials in the collection. A detailed listing of reports, documents, and transcripts is available in the Manuscripts Division.

Declassified OSS Reports 1923-1954 (bulk 1942-1946) SRH Reports 1 SRH Reports, #002-077 2 SRH Reports, #078-115 3 SRH Reports, #116-138 4 SRH Reports, #139-160 5 SRH Reports, #162-168 6 SRH Reports, #170-172 part 3 7 SRH Reports, #172 part 4 - 181 part 2 8 SRH Reports, #181 part 3-190 9 SRH Reports, #191-215 10 SRH Reports, #216-237 11 SRH Reports, #238-264 12 SRH Reports, #266-286 13 SRH Reports, #287-317 14 SRH Reports, #318-341 15 SRH Reports, #342-362 16 SRMA Reports #001-010 16 SRMD Reports #001-014 17 SRMF Report #001 17 SRMN Reports #001-013 part 5 18 SRMN Reports #013 part 6-027 Miscellaneous Documents, 1944-1990

Includes unpublished manuscripts, memoranda, memos, and correspondence regarding intelligence and cryptology.

 Nazi Interrogation Transcripts

They are arranged alphabetically by surname. Of special interest may be the transcripts for:

Blomberg, Field Marshal Werner von Blumentritt, General Guenther Dietrich, Sepp Dirksen, Herbert von Funk, Walter Goering, Hermann Halder, Franz Kesselring, Field Marshal Albert Ley, Dr. Robert Messerschmidt, Willi Rundstedt, Field Marshal Gerd von Sauckel, Fritz Speer, Albert Student, General Kurt Warlimont, General Walter