Kashevarova N. - Documents of the Main Office for Science of the Rosenberg Office as Sources on the Ideological Component of Nazi Policy in the Occupied Territory of Eastern Europe during World War II (2020)

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Kashevarova Nataliia

Documents of the Main Office for Science of the Rosenberg Office as Sources on the Ideological Component of Nazi Policy in the Occupied Territory of Eastern Europe during World War II

Abstract: The purpose of the research is to characterize the documents of the Main Office for Science (German: Haupamt Wissenschaft) by the Commissioner of the Fuehrer for the Supervision of the Entire Intellectual and Ideo-logical Schooling and Training of the NSDAP (German: Beauftragter des Führers für die Überwachung der gesamten geistigen und weltanschaulichen Schulung und Erziehung der NSDAP, and related materials of A. Rosenberg’s other structures as the sources on the ideological component of the Third Reich’s struggle against Bolshevism and their significance for information or ideological component of the Nazi occupation policy in the occupied territo-ries of Eastern Europe. The research methodology consists of historical-archival, historical-comparative research methods, source analysis methods. The scientific novelty is determined by the fact that the materials of the Rosenberg Office and the documents of the Main Office for Science, in particular, have not yet been the subject of a separate comprehensive scientific archival and source review for their possible use as the historical sources on the ideological component of Nazi policy, vision of connection between science and ideology, participation of the Main Office for Science in the so-called «ideological struggle» against Bolshevism, collection of scientific informa-tion in the occupied territories of Eastern Europe, in particular, the USSR. Although these documents are familiar to German researchers, the latter used them as the sources to determine the Rosenberg Office›s place in the NSDAP system and its significance for domestic party policy in the Third Reich. Conclusions. The analysis of the documents from the Main Office for Science of the Rosenberg Office allows us to conclude that a number of his documents for 1942–1945, as well as related documents of the Special Staff Science (German: Sonderstab Wissenschaft), which represented the interests of the department at the Special Command Force of Reichsleiter Alfred Rosenberg orReichsleiter Rosenberg Taskforce (German: Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg), contain the interesting and valuable information not only on the connection between National Socialist ideology and science but also on the collection and processing of various information about the state of science in the Soviet Union, especially the materials of scientific content, consolidated data about state of Soviet scientific institutions during the Nazi occupation, etc. This information has so far been little known or not introduced into scientific circulation at all, but it may be useful to researchers of the history of World War II.

Keywords: World War II, Main Office for Science by the Commissioner of the Fuehrer for the Supervision of the Entire Intellectual and Ideological Schooling and Training of the NSDAP, Special Staff Science, Reichsleiter Rosenberg Taskforce, ideology, propaganda, Bolshevism.


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Kashevarova Nataliia (2020). Documents of the Main Office for Science of the Rosenberg Office as Sources on the Ideological Component of Nazi Policy in the Occupied Territory of Eastern Europe during World War II. Manuscript and book heritage of Ukraine, (26) 239-257. doi: https://doi.org/10.15407/rksu.26.239

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