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Europe

  • Overview

    • Overview

    Against the background of the great European war of the early twentieth century,  Herbert Hoover’s idea of a scholarly institution collecting documentation on war, revolution, and peace was conceived and developed. Greatly expanded during the decades that followed, European materials now constitute the largest and most comprehensive part of Hoover’s international holdings.

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    History of the Collections: Europe

    Explore the growth of our Eastern and Western European collections

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    Ralph Lutz Papers

    Explore the papers of this revolutionary collector of World War I materials

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    Austria Collections

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    Poland: Collections Pre-World War II

    Poland: Collections During World War II

    Poland: Collections Post World War II

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    Yugoslavia & Its Successor States Collections
    Katharina Friedla

    Katharina Friedla

    Taube Family Curator for European Collections / Research Fellow

    Katharina Friedla is a research fellow and the Taube Family Curator for European Collections at the Hoover Institution Library & Archives at Stanford University. She has studied History, East European and Jewish Studies at the Free University in Berlin, the Hebrew Unive...

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    Q&A: Meet Katharina Friedla, The New Taube Family Curator For European Collections At The Hoover Institution Library & Archives

    Katharina Friedla is the newly appointed Taube Family Curator for European Collections at the Hoover Institution Library & Archives. In this interview, Friedla describes her involvement in discussions around  I Saw the Angel of Death, a new volume from the Library & Archives, published on November 1, which presents the first English translation of more than 170 harrowing testimonies of Polish Jews deported to the Soviet gulag during World War II.

    November 03, 2022
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    New Material Added To The Papers Of Karl H. Von Wiegand, The Most Read Hearst Journalist

    The Hoover Institution Library & Archives has acquired a significant new increment to its Karl H. von Wiegand papers. Von Wiegand, the only American-aligned war correspondent allowed to stay in Berlin during WWI, conducted one of the first interviews with Adolf Hitler.  

    October 26, 2022
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    Foreign Intelligence Files Added to Estonian KGB Digital Collection

    Fourteen thousand pages have been added to the Estonian KGB digital collection at Hoover representing sixty-one folders of documents of the KGB Intelligence Service pertaining to Estonian refugees.

    July 03, 2014
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    Hoover Acquires Milovan Djilas Literary Archives

    Before the West became acquainted with Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Leszek Kołakowski, Lech Wałesa, or Vaclav Havel, it was introduced to the works of Milovan Djilas, the first prominent dissident in the history of communist Eastern Europe.

    May 21, 2014
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    Hoover Institution Tapestry Unveiled in Belgium

    A work of art by Belgian artist Floris Jespers was unveiled today at the Leuven Museum as part of its exhibition Ravaged: Art and Culture in Times of Conflict, commemorating the centenary of the beginning of World War I and the devastation it brought to Leuven.

    March 20, 2014
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    Memoirs of <i>King Kong</i> Director and War Hero at Hoover

    Merian Caldwell Cooper would be a top candidate for the "Most Interesting Man in the World." Although Cooper is known for his 1933 production of King Kong, there were many more interesting episodes in his life in addition to that iconic movie. Indeed, in the words of the film historian Richard Schickel, “his career was larger than life.” Expelled from Annapolis in his senior year for advocating air power, a view the navy frowned on, in 1916 he joined the Georgia National Guard and served with General Pershing’s expedition against Pancho Villa.

    March 04, 2014
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    <i>Revolutions in Eastern Europe</i> Exhibition Opening on March 11

    The Hoover Institution’s new exhibition, Revolutions in Eastern Europe: The Rise of Democracy, 1989–1990, will open on Tuesday, March 11, 2014, in the Herbert Hoover Memorial Exhibit Pavilion (next to Hoover Tower) on the Stanford University campus and run through Saturday, August 16, 2014.

    February 12, 2014
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    Helena Paderewska Memoirs Discovered in the Hoover Archives

    Not long ago the Hoover Archives received the papers and memorabilia of the US musician and military intelligence officer Ernest Schelling. Found during initial sorting of the materials was a tattered manila envelope containing two unsigned typewritten copies of a text in English ending with “Riond Bosson, Morges, Switzerland, May 29, 1920.”

    February 06, 2014
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    The Papers of Joseph Goebbels Come to Hoover

    Eric Wakin, director of the Hoover Library and Archives, has announced the acquisition of an extensive collection of the papers of Joseph Goebbels, one of Adolf Hitler’s closest associates and followers, who in his later years was the infamous Reich’s minister of propaganda. The papers are mostly from Goebbels’ youth and university studies, before he joined the Nazi party in 1924. These papers are a strong complement to the original portions of the Goebbels’s diaries, which have been housed at Hoover since 1947 and are discussed in a recent Hoover Digest article.

    August 06, 2013
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