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The Zentrales Staatsarchiv of the German Democratic Republic as a Source for Late Ottoman and Middle East History

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2009

Donald Quataert
Affiliation:
University of Houston, Houston, Texas

Extract

The archives of the imperial German government, 1871–1918, are an important but somewhat neglected source for late Ottoman and Middle East history. These collections fell into Soviet, American, French, and British hands after World War II and are presently divided between the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) and the German Federal Republic (West Germany).

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1978

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References

Author's Note: I gratefully acknowledge that the research here reported was made possible by a grant awarded by the Joint Committee on the Near and Middle East of the American Council of Learned Societies and the Social Science Research Council, 1975.

1 See Lötzke, H. et al. , Deutsches Zentralarchiv, 1946–1971 (Potsdam, 1971), for a more thorough discussion of the history of the archive and its holdings.Google Scholar

2 Roderic, H. Davison (“European Archives as a Source for Later Ottoman History,” Report on Current Research on the Middle East, 1958 [Washington, 1958], pp 3345) discusses the value and pitfalls of using European materials in researching Ottoman history.Google Scholar