Albert Bofman papers, 1940-1948, 1968-1977.

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Bofman, Albert, 1913-1977. Albert Bofman papers, 1940-1948, 1968-1977.

Albert Bofman papers, 1940-1948, 1968-1977.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/709915489

Correspondence, some publications, report on prison conditions, and other items of Albert Bofman, a Chicago-area pacifist who was imprisoned as a conscientious objector and war resister during World War II. Includes correspondence with family members, friends, and fellow pacifists and conscientious objectors, primarily 1943-1948, and a typed/mimeographed report by Bofman in 1948: "Maladministration and Human Relations in a Federal Prison (A Report based on the Federal Prison, Sandstone, Minnesota, 1943-1945)." Topics of the correspondence focus on imprisonment, militarism, and the threat of nuclear war. Later materials include Bofman's work for the U.S. Committee Against Militarization and its publication, Peacedom Digest; and an open-reel audio tape of Bofman's description of American atrocities in the Vietnam War in a recording compiled by Shingo Shibata.

1 sound recording.

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