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The ESE Archives Guide: A Web Guide to East and Southeast European Archives is published by the the Graduate School for East and Southeast European Studies – a joint programme by Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) Munich and the Universität Regensburg – and is conceived as open access content. Our website address is: http://www.ese-archives.geschichte.uni-muenchen.de. For digitized content made available by the mentioned institutions, the respective institution’s terms of use apply.

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