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The materials in this series pertain primarily to Hans Speier, and his first wife Lisa (Luise) Griesbach Speier and include school and university certificates for both from Germany. Also included in the series is correspondence with family members, including the Speier children, Sybil and Steven, as well as correspondence pertaining to legal and financial matters, travel and employment (including the New School for Social Research, Department of State, University of Massachusetts, Amherst).

This series contains the autobiographical writings of Hans Speier and also includes transcripts of two interviews. Of particular interest are the typescripts of his published autobiography, From the Ashes of Disgrace: A Journal from Germany 1945-1955. The early versions of many of the typescript sections were taken from Speier's log notes for his trips to Germany for the Rand Corporation in the 1950s. (The complete log notes are located in Series 5: The Rand Corporation materials.).

The correspondence files are arranged in four series, general correspondence with individuals A-Z; correspondence with publishers, newspaper editors, etc.; correspondence relating to the publication of the three volume series Communication and Propaganda in World History, and correspondence relating to the 1975 Thyssen Workshop "Probleme der Regierbarkeit".

This series consists primarily of newspaper clippings about Dr. Wunderlich's activities, promotions, and lectures delivered during the years 1927 to 1931.

Primarily correspondence relating to lectures.

This series contains transcripts of testimonies of Frieda Wunderlich before sessions of the Landstag and other governmental representative bodies.

This series contains Ehrmann's autobiographical writings, his CIA file, newspaper clippings of articles on Ehrmann or related to organizations where he worked, and miscellaneous memorabilia (citations, diplomas, and other documents connected with honors he received). There are also some personal records, such as Ehrmann's marriage certificate, passports, death certificate, and materials documenting Ehrmann's involvement in two academic freedom cases (University of Colorado, 1952, Dartmouth College, 1969) as well as a report of the Faculty Planning Committee, chaired by Ehrmann, which was responsible for the curriculum reform at the Faculty of Arts, McGill University.

This series contains extensive correspondence - in English, German, and French - Ehrmann maintained with his colleagues, friends, publishers, other scholars, and various institutions after his arrival in the United States. Letters from former German prisoners-of-war taught by Ehrmann during the reeducation program at Forts Kearney, Getty and Wetherill, R.I., and Fort Eustis, VA. form another significant part of the correspondence series.

The series contains a typescript entitled "Historical Monograph: Re-education of Enemy Prisoners of War" (2 file folders), which is a large collection of reports, memoranda, copies of letters, and sample examination and questionnaire forms used in the project. Included in the monograph are also: an outline of the series of Ehrmann's lectures "Deutsche Geschichte in neuen Licht", sample issues of POW magazines "Der Ruf" (an English translation) and "Auslese" (in German), and an appendix on the reeducation program of Japanese prisoners-of-war (a short two-page section on Italian POWs appears earlier in the collection). Beyond the monograph, there are several other documents pertaining to the reeducation program, including a report entitled "A Reorientation Program Seen Through the Eyes of German Prisoners" and Ehrmann's report on the German History Department at Forts Getty and Wetherill. The series also contains some educational materials developed especially for the project, such as "Kleiner Führer dürch Amerika", "America from the Inside", and Ehrmann's lectures on the history of Germany, as well as newspaper clippings related to the topic.

Biographical sketches; documents regarding education, employment, imprisonment (1933), and activities of Hans Staudinger and members of his family; family history; photographs.

Personal and professional correspondence.

Correspondence and publications dealing with Alvin Johnson and the establishment of the "University in Exile" and important activities of the Graduate School (conferences, anniversary celebrations, refugee assistance projects, etc.).

This series includes several short biographical statements prepared by Fürth, clippings about him, as well as some documents relating to Fürth, his wife, and several family members.

This series contains isolated letters over the years, including some with relatives. One folder of special interest contains letters received by Fürth relating to his time in Tientsin, China, 1919-1921.

This series is related to the plagerism case surrounding Fürth's play, Dorothea mit Variationen. It contains correspondence, legal documents, as well as both Fürth's version and Paul Jarrico's version of the screen plays, which were the basis of the film Tom, Dick and Harry, starring Ginger Rogers.

This series consists primarily of materials concerning the establishment of The Gerhard Colm Memorial Lecture Series at the New School for Social Research, 1969-1970. Also in this series are memorial addresses and obituaries after the death of Colm.

This series contains a small amount of correspondence of Colm, including correspondence with Hans Staudinger of the New School for Social Research.

This series contains correspondence between Hans Staudinger and others in reference to the Colm lecture series, in particular with Mascha Colm and Walter Heller.

(For publications, see Series VIII; for music manuscripts, see Series V).

This series consists of early school and career documents from Vienna, records and correspondence documenting Fried's arrival and early years in the U.S., employment searches, as well as records of his appointments to positions with the U.S. Army and the United Nations. Also included in this series are texts of radio interviews given by Fried, 1949-1975.

John H. E. Fried served as Legal Officer and Program Officer of the United Nations Technical Assistance Administration, headquartered in New York City, from 1951-1954. The series contains some correspondence, primarily concerning personnel matters, as well as memoranda and agreements dated 1948-1954.

This series contains correspondence and typescripts associated with the UNESCO book project, The Third Reich (1955). The correspondence is predominantly from the years, 1949-1952, although the inclusive dates of the entire series are 1938 to 1984. The typescripts are in English, French and German.

This series consists primarily of correspondence and contracts dealing with Furth's employment as an Economist at the Federal Reserve Board, and as a lecturer and professor at various U.S. universities, including Lincoln University in Pennsylvania, The American University and Catholic University in Washington, D.C., and the Foreign Service Institute in Washington, D.C. Also included in this series are several curriculum vitae and short biographical statements.

The largest part of the correspondence consists of correspondence with fellow economists, including a substantial amount with former Austrian émigrés Friedrich A. von Hayek, Gottfried Haberler, Fritz Machlup and Oscar Morgenstern. Also included among the correspondents are fellow economists from the Federal Reserve Board and other noted economists, such as: Frits J. de Jong, Alexander Gerschenkron, Ervin P. Hexner, Charles P. Kindleberger, Fred H. Klopstock, Miroslav Kriz, Arthur W. Marget, François Perroux, Walter S. Salant, Joseph Schumpeter, Wendell E. Thorne, Henry C. Wallich, C. Raymond Whittlesey, and Herbert T. Zassenhaus.

This series contains typescripts of the study Foreign Dollar Balances and the International Role of the Dollar, co-authored with Raymond F. Mikesell (1972). Included are typescripts of chapters, as well as a bound copy of the preliminary draft dated Dec. 1972. Also included in the series is extensive correspondence with co-author Raymond F. Mikesell and with Hal B. Lary of the National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., under whose auspices the study was published, as well as criticisms of the study by other economists.

The biographical materials in this series are a mixture of items from Graf's own files as well as materials were collected by Gisela Graf after his death. Included in the series are a large number of address files, citizenship materials, biographical and autobiographical statements by Oskar Maria and Gisela Graf, two scrapbooks of clippings by other authors collected by Graf, Graf's American passport, and miscellaneous financial documents.

The correspondence in this series consists almost exclusively of photocopies of Graf's letters to and from prominent individuals collected by Mrs. Graf after his death. (Letters of Gisela Graf which continue Graf's correspondence after his death are also included in this series.) Included is a small amount of correspondence with family members, as well as correspondence with: Johannes R. and Lilly Becher, Siegfried Bernfeld, Heinrich Böll, Hermann Broch, Ferdinand Bruckner, Albert Ehrenstein, Albert Einstein, Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Lion and Marta Feuchtwanger, Gustav and Else Fischer, Bruno Frank, Leonhard Frank, Günter Grass, Hugo Hartung, Th. Th. Heine, Hermann Hesse, Franz Jung, Prinz Hubertus zu Löwenstein, Erika, Heinrich, Katja, Klaus and Thomas Mann, Robert Neumann, Rudolf Olden, Rolf Recknagel, Erich Maria Remarque, Will Schaber, Dorothy Thompson, Sergei Tretiakov, Fritz von Unruh, Berthold Viertel, Ernst Waldinger, Wendell L. Wilkie.

The Gisela Graf correspondence files date predominately from the time of her husband's death until 1986. It is a mixture of originals, carbons and photocopies; much of the correspondence deals with the posthumous publication of her husband's works and exhibitions concerning his life and career. Correspondents include: Jean Améry, Günther Anders, Eric Bentley, Ernst Bloch, Hilde Domin, Walter and Anne-Marie Fabian, Erich Fromm, Helmut Hirsch, Uwe Johnson, Mascha Kaléko, Alfred Kantorowicz, Hermann Kesten, Annemarie Koch (Graf's daughter by his first marriage), Ernst Lothar, Helmut Pfanner and the University of New Hampshire, Johannes and Gertrude Urzidil, Walter Wicclair, and Carl Zuckmayer.