There is no limit to the number of copies you make, but every copy request has to be approved by an archivist. You must use the Bundesarchiv-approved copy services offered by Selke GmbH if you want to copy documents except when copying files on microfiche or microfilm: you can print microfiche/microfilm documents directly from the microfiche/microfilm reader. One such copy will cost €0.15. If you want to have paper documents copied, you must fill out a couple of forms, including the „Kopierauftrag,” a blue form that has the name of the company which does copies at the Bundesarchiv on it (Selke GmbH), and, one form for each file from which you want to order copies of individual documents (see attached order form). In the latter form you must describe every single document you want to copy as accurately as possible (i.e. „Telegram from Hermann, Ministry of War, to Strauss, Chancellery, Berlin, dated 23 September 1939”). Make sure you have a pen on you (and do take it to the reading room). Pencilled signatures on order forms are not accepted. The staff member I was talking to was surprised to hear that the use of pens is usually not allowed in reading rooms; if you filled out a form in pencil, they will insist that you transcribe the whole thing with a pen, and then sign with a pen.
Mark Laszlo-Herbert on the Bundesarchiv Berlin, Nov. 2005 at
http://www.archivesmadeeasy.org/ame_germany.htm
Mark Laszlo-Herbert on the Bundesarchiv Berlin, Nov. 2005 at
http://www.archivesmadeeasy.org/ame_germany.htm
KlausGraf - am Donnerstag, 3. Januar 2008, 18:46 - Rubrik: English Corner
