Institute for Study of the Jewish Question

The Institute for Study of the Jewish Question or Institute for Research of the Jewish Question (Institut zur Erforschung der Judenfrage) was a Nazi party-political institution, founded in April 1939.[1][2] Conceived as a branch of a projected elite university (Hohe Schule) of the party under the direction of Alfred Rosenberg,[1][2] it officially opened in Frankfurt am Main in March 1941, during the Second World War,[3][1] and remained in existence until the end of the war, in 1945. Its effective aim was information-gathering for propaganda purposes in support of anti-Semitic policy and, later, the Holocaust. The institute became the recipient of looted books and other cultural materials from Jewish libraries and institutions in the occupied territories.[4][5]


References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Grimsted, Patricia Kennedy (2005). "Roads to Ratibor: Library and archival plunder by the Einsatz Reichsleiter Rosenberg." Holocaust and Genocide Studies, vol. 19, no. 3. pp. 390-458; here: p. 406.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Institut zur Erforschung der Judenfrage (IEJ)" In: Glossary. Jüdisches Museum Berlin (Jewish Museum Berlin). Retrieved 2015-01-18.
  3. ↑ Alan E Steinweis (2009). Studying the Jew: Scholarly Antisemitism in Nazi Germany. Harvard University Press. p. 12, 149. ISBN 0674043995.
  4. ↑ Grimsted (2005), p. 406-407, and passim.
  5. ↑ Kenez, Peter (2013).The Coming of the Holocaust: From Antisemitism to Genocide. New York: Cambridge University Press. p. 96