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The Piercing the Reich subseries is primarily Persico's research material. The majority of the material is copies of declassified FBI files and the OSS War Report. The Writings subseries includes scripts for the History Channel documentaries "Piercing the Reich: The Deadly Deceivers" and "Nuremberg: Tyranny on Trial" in the "Documentaries, Narration" folder. Additional material collected and created by Persico during the writing of Piercing the Reich was deposited by Persico at the Hoover Institution Library and Archives at Stanford University. The finding aid for this material is available online through the Online Archive of California.

This sub-series has been further sub-divided into two further divisions, with sub-series 2a containing the largest volume of correspondence in the collection.

This sub-section, which is comprised of 348 folders contains approx. 14,953 items of correspondence, is the largest section in the correspondence. Of special note in this section is the lengthy correspondence (over 500 letters) between Friedländer and John Otto Reinemann, 1928-1975, which continues with his widow, Hertha, 1975-1984. Correspondents in this section also include: Angelica Balabanoff, Renée (Ate) Barth and Minna Flake, Jeanne Bauer, Hertha Beese, Erna Blencke, Curt Bondy, Dora von Caemmerer, Kenneth R. Calkins, Madeline DeAntonio, Dorothy Dessau, Walter Fabian, Beverlee Filloy, Ossip and Lillian Flechtheim, Carl Frankenstein, Elisabeth Fricke, Alfred Korach George, Arthur Gottschalk, Ernest Hamburger, Christa Hasenclever, Arthur Hillman, Robert Cuba Jones, Marie Juchacz, Karl Kautsky, Ella Kay, René König, Hilde Richter Köster, Gisela Konopka, Stephan Leibfried, Lotte Lemke, Siegfried Marck, Käthe Mende, Rudolf Pense, Sofie Quast, Käthe Rawiel, Marion (Marid) Rive-Johansen, Emma Steiger and Paul Tillich.