Papers re Dr Otto Ernst Schueddekopf of the Hielscher Group

R:\Document collections\MF54\Working images\35 frames 266-290 The 'Hielscher Group' was named after Friedrich Hielscher, an anti-Nazi, who encouraged those sympathetic to his cause to oppose the Nazis from within the party. He was arrested after the 20 July plot to assassinate Hitler. Otto-Ernst Schüddekopf, the depositor, in a covering letter at the beginning of the collection, describes himself as a former member of the Hielscher group, who, in the last 3 years of the war, was active in the foreign affairs section of the <i>SS</i> press office. This, he claims, gave him the opportunity to help Jewish members of the group to escape persecution by the Nazis. <p><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>Readers need to reserve a reading room terminal to access a digital version of this archive.</strong></span></p><p>This microfilm collection consists of affidavits and other statements by former members of the 'Hielscher Group', an anti-Nazi resistance group, in support of another member, Otto-Ernst Schüddekopf, with regard to post-war court proceedings. The statements provide useful information on the workings of the Hielscher group, supplemented by a deposition from Friedrich Hielscher, himself</p> Open