FINANCIAN ARCHIVO MUNICIPAL DE TORRE PACHECO CON MAS DE 1,1 MILLONES

Comunidad financia con 1,1 millones nuevo Archivo Municipal de Torre Pacheco

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SITE: http://www.abc.es

FECHA: 23/06/2010

Murcia, 23 jun (EFE).- La Comunidad destina más 1,1 millones de euros a las obras de restauración y acondicionamiento de la Casa Fontes de Torre Pacheco, que albergará el museo de la Ciudad y el Archivo municipal.
Fuentes de la Administración autonómica han informado hoy de que el director general del Libro, Archivos y Bibliotecas, Francisco Giménez, acompañado por el alcalde de la localidad, Daniel García, ha visitado hoy las obras de este centro, que tienen una inversión total de 2,5 millones de euros, de los que 682.530 los aportará la consejería de Obras Públicas, 450.000 la de Cultura y el resto el Ayuntamiento.
La reconstrucción del edificio corresponde a una antigua residencia de los Marqueses de Torre Pacheco, construida a finales del siglo XIX, que quedará convertida en un espacio socio-cultural que recuperará la imagen del antiguo inmueble integrándola en el entorno urbano de la población.
El nuevo espacio contará con una superficie total de 3.245 metros cuadrados, de los que 2.120 corresponderán al edificio y 1.125 a zonas exteriores.
El inmueble, distribuido en tres plantas, albergará en su planta baja la zona de recepción, que dará acceso a tres zonas expositivas del museo, dos interiores y una amplia zona al aire libre.
El Archivo Histórico, ubicado en esta planta contará con una amplia zona para el depósito de documentos, además de salas de trabajo y consulta.
El centro contará también con una sala de conferencias multiuso, cafetería y una zona ajardinada para actividades al aire libre.
Durante las obras, han aparecido restos arqueológicos de varias fases, restos materiales y constructivos desde el siglo II antes de Cristo hasta el siglo XIX con la construcción de la casa solariega de Los Fontes.
Entre los restos, destaca una balsa de almacenamiento de agua con unas medidas interiores de 2,5 metros de ancho, 4,5 metros de largo y 2,12 metros de profundidad que se encuentra rellena con lienzos de pintura mural romana que serán extraídos y restaurados en breve para su futura musealización en el propio edificio.
Asimismo, se han encontrado restos de la época islámica, como un campo de silos de almacenamiento de finales del siglo X y principios del XI, además de un posible ajuar, una espada, dos azuelas, un posible bocado de caballo y un complejo artefacto de madera, rejillas y anillas. EFE

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NEW DOCUMENTS SURFACE ON HITLER'S JAIL TIME

New documents surface on Hitler's jail time

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SITE: http://www.google.com

FECHA: 23/06/2010

AUTOR: DAVID RISING (AP)

BERLIN — Adolf Hitler enjoyed special treatment while jailed in 1924, being allowed hundreds of visitors — sometimes unsupervised — including some 30 to 40 to celebrate his 35th birthday, according to a treasure trove of documents that have surfaced from the prison near Munich where was held.
The 500 documents from the Landsberg prison were recently found by a Nuremberg man among the possessions of his late father, who had purchased them at a flea market in the 1970s, according to Werner Behringer, whose auction house in the Bavarian city of Fuerth will offer them for sale next month.
Behringer said they were packed among a bundle of books on World War I that the man had bought, and his 55-year-old son, who has requested anonymity, never knew of their existence.
"His father probably didn't know what he had there," Behringer told The Associated Press in a telephone interview.
Robert Bierschneider, an archivist with the Bavarian State Archives in Munich, said he had examined images of the documents that Behringer sent to him, and that they had stamps and notations that matched with others from the same prison at the time.
"The documents appear to be genuine, but to do a real examination we need to have the originals in our hands," he told the AP.
The documents are to be auctioned on July 2, with a starting price of euro25,000 ($30,677).
Though only one document is signed by Hitler himself, and much of the information about his time in prison is otherwise available, they do provide an intriguing window into his early days as Nazi leader.
Hitler was imprisoned in Landsberg after the Nazi's abortive bid to seize power in 1923 in the notorious "beer hall putsch" coup attempt in Munich. It wasn't until a decade later, in 1933, that the Nazis would eventually come to power through parliamentary elections.
Despite being sentenced to five years in prison, Hitler was granted early release and ended up only serving about nine months of his sentence.
His right-wing politics and German nationalism won him some high-placed friends among the German establishment, including World War I hero Gen. Erich Ludendorff. Ludendorff came to visit Hitler several times during his imprisonment, and the Prussian general was allowed to see the former Austrian corporal unsupervised for as long as he wanted, the documents show.
The documents include some 300 to 400 original cards listing Hitler's other visitors, including the 30 to 40 who were allowed in to celebrate his birthday with him on April 20, 1924 — only 19 days after he was put behind bars.
"His time in prison was more like a holiday," Behringer said.
Prison director Otto Leybold gushed about Hitler in a memo about the inmates on Sept. 18, 1924, saying he was always "sensible, modest, humble and polite to everyone — especially to the officers of the facility."
Hitler spent much of his time in prison writing his infamous manifesto "Mein Kampf," or "My Struggle," detailing his ideology and ambitions, but the documents also show he had time for more prosaic thoughts.
In a typed copy that prison authorities made of a letter Hitler wrote to a Munich car dealer, the future dictator says he is having a hard time making up his mind about whether to purchase a newer model Benz 11/40 or the older 16/50 because he had concerns that the higher RPM's of the motor in the former might mean that it would have more mechanical problems.
"I can't get a new car every two or three years," he wrote.
He also noted that he had many court costs to pay once he was released and asked the dealer if he might arrange a discount for him, indicating that he had his eye on a particular 11/40 on the salesman's lot.
"In any case, please reserve the gray car that you have in Munich until I have clarity about my fate (probation?)," Hitler wrote.

Copyright © 2010 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. 

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NEW DOCUMENTS SURFACE ON HITLER'S JAIL TIME

New documents surface on Hitler's jail time

EN: GOOGLE.COM

SITE: http://www.google.com

FECHA: 23/06/2010

AUTOR: DAVID RISING (AP)

BERLIN — Adolf Hitler enjoyed special treatment while jailed in 1924, being allowed hundreds of visitors — sometimes unsupervised — including some 30 to 40 to celebrate his 35th birthday, according to a treasure trove of documents that have surfaced from the prison near Munich where was held.
The 500 documents from the Landsberg prison were recently found by a Nuremberg man among the possessions of his late father, who had purchased them at a flea market in the 1970s, according to Werner Behringer, whose auction house in the Bavarian city of Fuerth will offer them for sale next month.
Behringer said they were packed among a bundle of books on World War I that the man had bought, and his 55-year-old son, who has requested anonymity, never knew of their existence.
"His father probably didn't know what he had there," Behringer told The Associated Press in a telephone interview.
Robert Bierschneider, an archivist with the Bavarian State Archives in Munich, said he had examined images of the documents that Behringer sent to him, and that they had stamps and notations that matched with others from the same prison at the time.
"The documents appear to be genuine, but to do a real examination we need to have the originals in our hands," he told the AP.
The documents are to be auctioned on July 2, with a starting price of euro25,000 ($30,677).
Though only one document is signed by Hitler himself, and much of the information about his time in prison is otherwise available, they do provide an intriguing window into his early days as Nazi leader.
Hitler was imprisoned in Landsberg after the Nazi's abortive bid to seize power in 1923 in the notorious "beer hall putsch" coup attempt in Munich. It wasn't until a decade later, in 1933, that the Nazis would eventually come to power through parliamentary elections.
Despite being sentenced to five years in prison, Hitler was granted early release and ended up only serving about nine months of his sentence.
His right-wing politics and German nationalism won him some high-placed friends among the German establishment, including World War I hero Gen. Erich Ludendorff. Ludendorff came to visit Hitler several times during his imprisonment, and the Prussian general was allowed to see the former Austrian corporal unsupervised for as long as he wanted, the documents show.
The documents include some 300 to 400 original cards listing Hitler's other visitors, including the 30 to 40 who were allowed in to celebrate his birthday with him on April 20, 1924 — only 19 days after he was put behind bars.
"His time in prison was more like a holiday," Behringer said.
Prison director Otto Leybold gushed about Hitler in a memo about the inmates on Sept. 18, 1924, saying he was always "sensible, modest, humble and polite to everyone — especially to the officers of the facility."
Hitler spent much of his time in prison writing his infamous manifesto "Mein Kampf," or "My Struggle," detailing his ideology and ambitions, but the documents also show he had time for more prosaic thoughts.
In a typed copy that prison authorities made of a letter Hitler wrote to a Munich car dealer, the future dictator says he is having a hard time making up his mind about whether to purchase a newer model Benz 11/40 or the older 16/50 because he had concerns that the higher RPM's of the motor in the former might mean that it would have more mechanical problems.
"I can't get a new car every two or three years," he wrote.
He also noted that he had many court costs to pay once he was released and asked the dealer if he might arrange a discount for him, indicating that he had his eye on a particular 11/40 on the salesman's lot.
"In any case, please reserve the gray car that you have in Munich until I have clarity about my fate (probation?)," Hitler wrote.

Copyright © 2010 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. 

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ARCHIVEROS SIN FRONTERAS ORGANIZARAN DOCUMENTOS DE GUERRA SUCIA

Autoriza Gobernación a firma extranjera organizar documentos de la guerra sucia

EN: UNAM.MX

SITE: http://www.jornada.unam.mx

FECHA: 20/06/2010

AUTOR: Gustavo Castillo García

Significará deshacer los legajos originales bajo los cuales fueron abiertos a consulta en el AGN: experta

Mediante un convenio, la Secretaría de Gobernación autorizó a la organización internacional Archiveros sin Fronteras la reorganización de los documentos relacionados con la historia política y social de México que contienen los informes de las direcciones Federal de Seguridad (DFS) y General de Investigaciones Políticas y Sociales (DGIPS) que se encuentran en el Archivo General de la Nación (AGN), las cuales operaban durante la guerra sucia de los años 70 en el país.

Eso significará deshacer los legajos originales bajo los cuales fueron abiertos a la consulta pública, advirtió la historiadora Ángeles Magdaleno Cárdenas.
Según la investigadora, los representantes de dicha organización, Ramón Aguilera Murguía y Jorge Nacif Mina, dirigen varias empresas disfrazadas de asociaciones civiles, y entre otras cosas han participado en la disposición final de documentos que se encontraban en el archivo de concentración del Instituto Federal Electoral (IFE), como las boletas de los comicios presidenciales de 2006.
Asimismo, en el IFE se mencionó que dicho organismo cuenta con amplia experiencia en valoración documental y organización de archivos; entre su currículo destaca el haber ordenado los documentos de instancias como Pemex, el Instituto para la Protección del Ahorro Bancario (IPAB) y la Comisión Federal de Electricidad (CFE).
De acuerdo con información difundida por la Secretaría de Gobernación, el AGN y Archiveros sin Fronteras firmaron un convenio de colaboración mediante el cual se reorganizará la documentación relacionada con la Dirección General de Investigaciones Políticas y Sociales del fondo Gobernación y se promoverá la investigación integral para profundizar en el conocimiento de los temas relativos a la vigilancia y represión de los movimientos sociales y políticos del pasado.
Durante la firma del acuerdo, la directora general de AGN dijo que el convenio es de gran importancia porque revitalizará el repositorio, permitiendo que esta documentación sea más accesible tanto a los investigadores como a la sociedad. Vamos a trabajar juntos para la organización, descripción y digitalización del acervo que se encuentra en la galería dos, señala el comunicado divulgado en la página electrónica del AGN.
Reorganizar no es igual a custodiar, ordenar, describir y conservar, que son las funciones sustantivas del AGN, sostuvo Magdaleno Cárdenas.
“La situación es preocupante por varias razones, entre ellas, porque Aguilera Murguía y Nacif Mina, además de haber sido empleados del AGN, tienen varias empresas disfrazadas de asociaciones civiles, como la Escuela Mexicana de Archivos, en la cual son profesores Stella González Cicero, ex directora del AGN, y su esposo, Jorge Garibay, especialista en archivística eclesiástica.
“Otra de las supuestas asociaciones civiles –de Aguilera y Nacif– que funcionan como empresas es el Instituto de Estudios Históricos Carlos Sigüenza y Góngora, el cual, según su pagina web, se dedica a prestar ‘servicios privados de investigación científica’”.
En ese contexto, el 6 de abril de 2006, en reunión extraordinaria del IFE se acordó que ellos realizaran la valoración del destino final de la documentación del instituto electoral. El acta del organismo autónomo menciona que cobraron 500 mil pesos por dicha tarea
Según lo declarado por Ramón Aguilera el día de la firma del convenio con el AGN, uno de los argumentos para realizar este trabajo de reorganización es que “desde 1997, cuando se instituyó la Comisión Especial del Caso del 68, en la sesión plenaria de la LVII Legislatura de la Cámara de Diputados se hicieron las primeras incursiones en este acervo. EI programa de fotocopiado y digitalización realizado por la comisión causó la primera desorganización de las series documentales.
Con el tiempo se siguieron haciendo incursiones para subsiguientes investigaciones que abonaron la desorganización de los documentos. Percibimos que todas estas acciones han desordenado la sección. Por eso, el trabajo nos llevará a revisar la historia de la dirección para reconstruir, hasta donde sea posible, las 50 series documentales reportadas por su cuadro de clasificación original.
Al respecto, Ángeles Magdaleno Cárdenas consideró que “la documentación fundamental de esos fondos podría estar en riesgo y no volver a ser consultada. Además –advirtió–, deshacer los legajos contraviene el principio básico de todo archivo: el de procedencia.
En su discurso, Aguilera afirmó que la Dirección General de Investigaciones Políticas y Sociales tiene 50 series documentales reportadas en su cuadro de clasificación original. “Nunca se supo de ese cuadro, ni mucho menos se puso a disposición de los investigadores. Si ‘reorganizan’ la clasificación actual no servirá de nada y no se podrá encontrar el material”, advierte Magdaleno Cárdenas.

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