I have a document which is a transcript of Franz Ziereis' (commandant of Camp Mauthausen) "deathbed confessions" It is seven large handwritten pages, front and back, dated 12 August 1945. I searched online and found a similar document, but it is only one page and is worded differently. How do I find out if some of the information in this document should be displayed or studied at all? Who would I have look at it? Could I scan it into the computer and send it to a historian to look at? Who would I send it to? Thanks!
2007-08-17 15:55:37 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
I don't think it's valid. Ziereis was captured on May 3, 1945 in Upper Austria and was wounded by U.S. troops. He died in May of 1945 at the U.S. hospital in Gusen, Austria.
2007-08-17 17:03:06 · answer #1 · answered by desertviking_00 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
holocaust museum in Berlin merely opened, there's a countrywide socialist museum in Nurnberg, Dachau in occasion has an archive section and that i'm specific the library of congress has some information bearing directly to this besides
2016-10-16 00:08:12 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why not contact the Yad Vashem, museum of the holocaust in Jerusalem? They will definitely know if these are rare documents or a fraud
http://www.yadvashem.org/
2007-08-17 19:12:05 · answer #3 · answered by Josephine 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If it is a diary or deathbead confession it is very rare. There should only be one by that person. Ask a historian at a holocaust museum.
2007-08-17 16:28:05 · answer #4 · answered by redunicorn 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
any primary source document of that kind is a valuable historical document.
2007-08-17 16:39:38 · answer #5 · answered by deva 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋