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The Wiener Library is the oldest institution in the world established for the task of documenting the Nazi regime and its crimes against the Jewish people.

In 1928, Alfred Wiener was involved with an initiative called the Büro Wilhelmstrasse to collect all available information about the Nazi Party, its leaders and its activities. The Büro Wilhelmstrasse collected newspapers, journals, pamphlets, leaflets and ephemeral matter produced by or relating to the Nazis and used these as the basis for campaigns against the Nazis.

In the few years of its existence, the Büro Wilhelmstrasse amassed a collection of nearly 200,000 items and was probably the largest collection of material about the Nazis at the time. During Hitler’s reign, the material were hidden and presumed lost. Weiner partnered withProfessor David Cohen to set up the Jewish Central Information Office (JCIO) and continued the Büro Wilhelmstrasse’s work. The JCIO would later move to London were it focused on supplying information to government departments while publishing two periodicals, Nazis at War and The Jewish News.

These thousands of pages, articles, documents, photographs and more are now available online only from Gale via Testaments of the Holocaust.