Private Papers of M S Singer

[Michael Stewart Singer: born Kurt Michael Singer, Vienna / Austria] Papers relating to his British Army service during and after the Second World War, comprising: 5 letters (26pp ms/ts) written during July 1945 while he was serving as an Interpreter with British Military Government in the Berlin-Tiergarten district, recording his impressions of conditions in Berlin in the immediate aftermath of the war, observations on the attitudes and behaviours of the civilian population, a description of the British 'victory parade' in Berlin on 21 July 1945 and of a cross-examination of Josef Goebbels' mother-in-law in which he participated, and commenting on other aspects of his job and of Germany in defeat, from the viewpoint of an Austrian-Jewish refugee in British Army uniform; a small quantity of documents pertaining to his work as a lecturer while serving in the Pioneer Corps during the war and for the Foreign Office Political Intelligence Department after 1945, mainly giving lectures to British Army personnel and to German prisoners of war in British POW camps, with copies of two lectures/talks on Austria during the war and on the `De-poisoning of Germany after the war'; various official documents pertaining to Singer's British Army service; copy of a German publication of works of art by the Romantic painter Caspar David Friedrich, inscribed and presented to Singer in September 1946 by the German interpreters/translators working for British Military Government in Berlin-Tiergarten, as a mark of appreciation of his services; photographs of Singer and colleagues in the Pioneer Corps (UK) and in Berlin; German official press photographs taken in Berlin in 1946 with particular reference to the municipal elections of that year.

[Michael Stewart Singer: born Kurt Michael Singer, Vienna / Austria] Papers relating to his British Army service during and after the Second World War, comprising: 5 letters (26pp ms/ts) written during July 1945 while he was serving as an Interpreter with British Military Government in the Berlin-Tiergarten district, recording his impressions of conditions in Berlin in the immediate aftermath of the war, observations on the attitudes and behaviours of the civilian population, a description of the British 'victory parade' in Berlin on 21 July 1945 and of a cross-examination of Josef Goebbels' mother-in-law in which he participated, and commenting on other aspects of his job and of Germany in defeat, from the viewpoint of an Austrian-Jewish refugee in British Army uniform; a small quantity of documents pertaining to his work as a lecturer while serving in the Pioneer Corps during the war and for the Foreign Office Political Intelligence Department after 1945, mainly giving lectures to British Army personnel and to German prisoners of war in British POW camps, with copies of two lectures/talks on Austria during the war and on the `De-poisoning of Germany after the war'; various official documents pertaining to Singer's British Army service; copy of a German publication of works of art by the Romantic painter Caspar David Friedrich, inscribed and presented to Singer in September 1946 by the German interpreters/translators working for British Military Government in Berlin-Tiergarten, as a mark of appreciation of his services; photographs of Singer and colleagues in the Pioneer Corps (UK) and in Berlin; German official press photographs taken in Berlin in 1946 with particular reference to the municipal elections of that year.

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