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GERMANY .—Unfortunately lists of See also:

German See also:State archives (Geheimes Archiv) are not published. Repositories are very numerous: for their localities, see the See also:Hand- and Addressbuch der deutschen See also:Archive of C. A. H. Burkhardt (2nd ed., 1887). In 'See also:Prussia, besides the central repository at See also:Berlin, there are sixteen provincial ones of importance. The other kingdoms and states forming See also:part of the German See also:empire have each their repository, not always at the See also:capital. Some See also:account of their contents will be found in See also:Langlois and See also:Stein (op. cit.) and in Fr. von Loher's Archivlehre. Grundziige der Geschichte, Aufgaben and Einrichtung unserer Archive : for the publication of State Records see See also:Dahlmann-Waltz, Quellenkunde zur deutschen Geschichte; and for Prussian archives in particular R. Koser's Uber den gegenwartigen Stand der archivalischen Forschung 'in Preussen (1900). For the numerous and valuable records of German towns reference may be made to the See also:works already mentioned. Many of the towns, e.g.

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Cologne, publish volumes See also:drawn from their archives, and even include in them documents from other See also:sources. Of See also:special See also:interest to See also:English students is Konstantin Hohlbaum's See also:work upon the Hanse towns. The See also:Record See also:Office has a See also:volume of transcripts from German archives.

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