Who's behind the news?
Who's behind the news?
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Use of DataThe Institut für Zeitgeschichte (IfZ), or Leibniz Institute for Contemporary History, was founded in Munich in 1949 on the initiative of the American Military Government as the first institution in the world devoted to academic research on the National Socialist dictatorship. Initially named the Deutsches Institut für Geschichte der nationalsozialistischen Zeit, it was renamed the Institut für Zeitgeschichte in 1952 and assumed its current legal structure as a public foundation under civil law in 1961. The IfZ is funded jointly by the German federal government and six federal states (Bavaria, Baden-Württemberg, Brandenburg, Hesse, Lower Saxony, North Rhine-Westphalia, and Saxony) and is a member of the Leibniz Association. A Berlin branch focusing on GDR history was established in 1994 and relocated to its current site in 1996.
The IfZ Archives are mandated to collect, index, and maintain contemporary history sources complementing federal and state archive holdings. The archives' collections focus on non-governmental records from the end of the First World War to the present and include: eyewitness accounts (Zeugenschrifttum) comprising interviews, interrogation records, affidavits, and memoirs; personal papers and papers of associations and political parties; state and party documents; topical collections compiled by researchers, journalists, and individuals on topics including emigration, exile, resistance, anti-Semitism, post-war trials, and right-wing extremism; manuscripts including radio and television broadcast scripts and dissertations; and court records. The press collection holds over 7,000 volumes of newspapers and magazines published after 1914, along with approximately 5,000 rolls of microfilm and 300 CD-ROMs, with a particular focus on ideological publications of the Nazi era. The IfZ library contains over 225,000 volumes of printed media and 37,000 electronic resources.
The press collection is directly relevant to journalism and media history researchers, housing a wide range of newspapers, periodicals, and magazines from the Weimar Republic, Third Reich, and post-war Germany. The archives also hold scripts of radio and television broadcasts, personal papers of journalists, and topical collections assembled by journalists on political and historical subjects. The IfZ has published Goebbels' diaries and other key primary sources on Nazi-era propaganda and media.
The IfZ Archives and library are open to the public free of charge. Reading Room 1 has 24 workplaces and scanning facilities; Reading Room 2 offers six workplaces and microform scanners. Materials can be pre-ordered via the online archival database (archiv.ifz-muenchen.de) up to ten items at a time; items not in the database can be ordered on site. Personal photography of archival materials is not permitted; reproductions are available through the archives' digitisation division.
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