ABSTRACT
The killings investigated do not only comprise political murders in the strict sense-that is, extra-legal, summary, and arbitrary executions-but also judicial executions for political reasons, deaths in prisons or camps, and suicides due to severe political pressure. In the days preceding Austria's Anschluss to Nazi Germany in March 1938, he was Vice-Chancellor of Austria. Moreover, the three Afghan cases, now grouped in the category of Communist regimes in the cluster, could also have been placed. In total, there were 19 cases of archivists killed for political reasons. In view of that basic shortcoming, any patterns signaled should be seen as mere documented conjecture. When the people take the Communist regimes together, they have a tally of seven casualties. Several archivists were well-known national figures, among them Riazanov, Siemienski, Ringelblum, and Kalmanovitch.
