Reconsidering the Personal Archives of a Victim: The Case of Vollrath von Maltzan, a ‘Mischling’ in German Diplomacy

This book chapter is a theoretical approach of the microhistory of the Holocaust through the description of a life story the one of the German diplomat Vollrath von Maltzan, who was considered as 'half-Jewish' by the Nuremberg law and was a consequence purged from his position in the German Foreign Office. The chapter argued that the current movement of a microhistory of the Holocaust should consider how the availability of specific, personal documents, such as diaries of letters, shapes the very writing of this history.