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Provides access to the Custodial Detention Index (CDI), or Custodial Detention List that was formed in 1939-1941 by the FBI to track individuals that it deemed a threat to national security. Documents in this collection range in date from 1940 to 1978.

Covers 1900s to 2010s when the world saw the formation of several civil rights movements, including minorities, women and gay rights. It also encompasses the rise and fall of peripheral groups deemed ‘extreme’ or ‘radical’ by contemporaries, such as anti-Catholic, anti-Semitic, anti-war, communist or socialist, creationist, environmentalist, hate, holocaust denial, new left, survivalist, white supremacist, and white nationalist.

Drawn from The National Archives (UK) and United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, contains information regarding the British government's efforts to investigate and prosecute Nazi crimes during the period 1944-1949. Resources shed light on almost every aspect of the Holocaust, from the concentration camp system to the mass murder of the “incurably sick” in psychiatric hospitals. It gives a voice to the victims of these atrocities, many of whom testified about their experiences immediately after the war.

Addresses the history of refugees on a global scale. Records cover the entire “war theatre,” from evacuations in Burma and mass migrations within central and Eastern Europe to the displacement of North African populations and resettlement of refugees in Latin America.