Scope and Content

Photocopied records of men who served in the German S.S. Cavalry from 1930 to 1945. Purchased from the Berlin Document Center in 1990 and received in 2006 from Dr. Johnpeter Grill. Records are written entirely in German. Some photocopies of photographs of the men are included in their records.

Scope and Content The Carl Schurz collection is organized into three series. The first and most substantial series is a collection of correspondences mostly written by Carl Schurz himself. The collection is comprised mostly of original documents; however, some of the correspondences are also photocopies and have been noted as such in the breakdown. Other authors in the collection include Abraham Lincoln and Gideon Welles. The addressees of the letters are incredibly varied and range from other statesmen like...