Quaker visit to the Gestapo in 1938 reference collection
Scope and Contents
Reference material (largely photocopies) collected by Lawrence M. Miller for a planned study of the visit by Rufus Jones, Robert Yarnall, and George Walton to Gestapo headquarters in Berlin in 1938.
Dates
- Creation: ca. 2005 with photocopies of earlier publications and writings
Creator
- Miller, Lawrence McK. (Compiler, Person)
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research.
Conditions Governing Use
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Biographical / Historical
The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) sent a three-man delegation to Berlin in December 1938 to intercede with the Nazi government on behalf of Germany's Jews. The delegation, composed of Rufus Jones, Robert Yarnall, and George Walton, learned from German Jewish leaders that emigration was more urgent than relief. It met with two of Reinhard Heydrich's lieutenants at the Gestapo on December 19 and proposed that the AFSC assume control of Jewish and non-Aryan emigration. While members of the Quaker delegation initially were hopeful, the proposal was not accepted.
Lawrence M. Miller (1920-2007) was a Quaker activist and long-time employee of the American Friends Service Committee and Friends General Conference, both based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Extent
,5 linear ft. (1 box)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
Reference material (largely photocopies) collected by Lawrence M. Miller for a planned study of the visit by Rufus Jones, Robert Yarnall, and George Walton to Gestapo headquarters in Berlin in 1938.
Arrangement
Arranged by compiler.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of Robert Dockhorn, Acc. 2017.024.
Processing Information
The donor received the papers from the son of Larry Miller who had compiled the material but died in 2007 before he could complete his study. The papers are in the order as received.
Subject
- American Friends Service Committee (Organization)
Topical
- Title
- Quaker visit to the Gestapo in 1938 reference collection
- Author
- Susanna Morikawa
- Date
- June 2021
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
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