Other items include documents held for years in the archives of the NKVD -- the forerunner of the KGB, newspapers featuring articles by Trotsky and caricatures of him dating from the 1930s.

Topics addressed include mental aspects of Austrian Wehrmacht service, military resistance to the Nazis in Vienna, Soviet prisoner of war camps during and after the war, memories and narratives of Austrian Jewish refugees, the Nazi euthanasia program in Austria, post-war restitution and compensation of property in Austria, and the internal troops of the NKVD in the system of post-war Soviet repression.

Blunt left Cambridge in 1936 and subsequently worked for the MI5 domestic intelligence service, passing hundreds of secret documents to his handlers in the NKVD, the forerunner of the KGB.