Nazi War Crimes Records in Russia (RSHA)

[David Thompson]

Here is a finding guide to Nazi war crimes records (RSHA) in Russia from the US Holocaust Memorial Museum website at:

http://www.ushmm.org/uia-cgi/uia_doc/ar ... RG11001M01

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archival Finding Aid

Reichssicherheitshauptampt (RSHA) - SD, Berlin (Osobyi fond #500) (Main State Security Office of Germany - SD, Berlin) [manuscript RG-11.001M.01]


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Amt I. Administration, Organization and Legal Affairs:

3 SD-Hauptamt I/111, Befehl Nr. 76/36, Nachrichtenerfassung, 15 December 1936. 17pp.

Detailed explanation of the SS Security Service (SD) responsibility for reporting on all important political happenings post facto, but in addition collecting all indications which point to future political developments. Report details the need for a vast network of organizations and staff covering all of Germany. Last item is a form to be signed by all members of the organization swearing them to secrecy.

4 Directives and decrees on the administration of the Gestapo and the SD. Very miscellaneous. On p. 67: 21 December 1939, "Räumung i. d. Ostprovinzen" (regarding Eichmann), but mostly regarding espionage: personnel lists and addresses, and Polish POWs suspected of espionage. 1936 - 1943. 205 pp.

A great variety of directives, orders, etc. pertaining to internal police and security matters, as well as incidental documents in the wake of war against Poland. Discussed are such issues as protective custody, German border security, withdrawal of Hitler's Elite SS Division from guard duty at official buildings, Polish POW officiers interrogation, reporting by police and SD on anti-espionage matters, arrests based on special search list for Poland and Polish POWs, rules on correspondence by Special Staff of Security Police assigned to German missions abroad, the right of members of Security Police and SD to be in streets and squares during air-raid alarm, and an order by Himmler (1938) forbidding SS members to dance the new dance, Swing, in uniform.

8a Gestapo directive on procedures for preventive arrest. 1937 - 1939. 10 pp. (Reel 183, middle)

Gestapo directive, signed by Heydrich, to all Stapo officrs and Gestapo Headquarters concerning protective custody; directive and guidelines from Army supreme command concerning the setting up of defense industry enterprises (May 1939).

9 Directives on the administration and management of the security police. 1937 - 1944. 27 pp. (Reel 183)
SS and SD directives, many of them internal administrative matters, others addressing diverse subjects involving Gestapo and police, such as how to deal with agents, or with marriage plans of all SS personnel.

18 RSHA Amt III, Einsatzkommandos--Ausrüstungsplan. 3 August 1939. 5 pp.

Deals with requirements about uniforms and arms, as well as office supplies, for members of Einsatzkommando in case of mobilization. Addressed from Security Service (SD) of Reichsführung SS, SD Central Office to all SD leaders of SS Higher Command, with exception of Rhine and Central Germany. Classified secret.

20 Idem, EK for Poland. 5 July 1939. 4 pp.

Heidrich reports that mobilization against Poland will commence 2 July 1939. Concerning Southern Army Group, it will advance from Slovakia in direction of Pinsk-Pokitno Swamps. Duration of mobilization is 10 days. Also mentions increasing bomb tonnage to be dropped each day by thirty bombers accompanied by 600 fighter planes. Setting up of Standing Einsatzkommando in SD. Talks

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about ranks, selection of leaders, uniform to be worn in case of mobilization requiring submitting for each member suit and headgear size.

23 Telephone list for RSHA IV E; Geschaeftsverteilungplan (Gplan) RSHA. 1 February 1940. Miscellaneous forms for IV E. Gplan RSHA. 1 March 1941. 113 pp.

Telephone, organizational, name lists of Reichsicherheitshauptamt and its various Referate [Departments]. Includes list of samples of documents used by Reichsicherheitshauptamt for file searches, searches in treason cases, personnel information forms, character references, etc.

25 Activities of Einsatzgruppen (EGs), Einsatzkommandos, and Sipo/SD in the Occupied Eastern Territories. Includes orders, activity reports (tätigkeits- und Lagebericht), and events reports (Ereignismeldung). Includes Jaeger Reports. Guidelines for SuSD Kommandos in POW Stalags u Dulags for "cleansing the camps", pp 184-5, Soviet POW uprising. 465 pp. (Reel 183)

Memo for chiefs of Ensatzgruppen and Ensatzkommandos of SIPO and SD concerning "Operation Barbarossa," with tasks at and behind the front, and relationship to Army; Army Supreme Command memo on "Operation of SS and Police Units" behind the front.

From Reichsführer SS, Special Führer Order, concerning political administration involving leading SS and police chiefs in areas behind the front (21 May 1941).

From Chief, SIPO and SD, to police commanders cooperating with the Army in "Barbarossa;" includes directive that all cooperation with local anti-communist and anti-Jewish elements is to be carried out "without leaving any traces" [spurenlos].

Radio message to Ensatzgruppen A, B, C, D, concerning anti-Bolshevik propaganda material.

Directives from Chief, SIPO and SD, about units to be assigned to Stalags and Dulags [transition camps]; essentially, the "cleansing" of prison camps containing Soviets; explains that "the carrying out of executions" requires police coordination with the local military.

Detailed directives for the separation of civilians and suspect POWs from the Eastern Front campaign in the occupied territories, in operational areas, in the General Gouvernement, and in camps on Reich territory; justification for radical measures: previously the treatment of POWs was based exclusively on military considerations, now, political aims have to be achieved so as to protect the German people from Bolshevist hatemongers and to take a firm hold on the occupied territories. The directive mentions that all Jews belong to the suspect group and specifies how and where executions are to be carried out.

Primer, from the Reich Minister for Occupied Eastern Territories, on the people and nationalities of the Soviet Union.

Activities and Situation Report No. 5 of SIPO and SD Ensatzgruppen in the USSR (15-19 Sept. 1941): Each of the regions covered contains a section on the treatment of Jews (in Estonia, just in a few regions, the report cites 160,000 executions and mentions whole areas being "free of Jews"); reports on Minsk list 2,278 executions of Jews as "saboteurs" and "activists;" in one area of the Ukraine, the report says that as of 6 Sept. 1941, 11,328 Jews were "liquidated."

Activities of Situation Report No. 6 of SIPO and SD in the USSR (1-31 Oct. 1941): in Estonia, with the exception of doctors and Jewish Council members, all males above 16 years were executed; under Ukraine, report says that in Kiev, on 29-30 Sept. , 33,771 Jews were executed.

List from SIPO SD Commander, Einsatzkommando 3, of executions carried out as of 10 Sept. 1941, with detailed breakdown of killings of Jews starting 7 June 1941, and listing Jewish men and women killed separately, adding up to 76,335.

List of Einsatzkommando3 of executions carried out until 1 Dec. 1941,: breakdown cites Jews, Communist functionnaries, Lithuanians, Poles, a total of 137,346; contains backchannel complaints by Einsatzkommando chief that Lithuania cannot be cleared of all jews because the German civil administration and Army have forbidden him to kill about 35,000 surviving Jews who are workers, with their families; recommends how this can be achieved despite the opposition encountered.

Various directives concerning the treatment of Soviet POWs, and list of locations and commands of Einsatzgruppen.

Activities and Situation Report No. 7 of SIPO and SD Einsatzgruppen (1-30 Nov. 1941): current location of Einsatzgruppe A is Krasnogwardeisk, B in Smolensk, C in Kiev, and D in Simferopal; in Estonia, the Jewish question has been resolved, with surviving Jews located in ghettos.

Activities and Situation Report No. 8 (1-31 Dec. 1941): 40,000 Jews live in the Crimea.

Activities and Situation Report No. 9 (1-31 Jan 1942): in Estonia, every effort is being made to get rid of all the Jews, "Executions being carried out everywhere in a manner hardly noticed by the public; the population and the remaining Jews assume that the Jews are just being resettled;" "cleansing" of Jews in White Ruthenia continues; currently there are 139,000 Jews in areas handed over to the civilian administration; up to now, 33,210 Jews were executed by the SIPO and SD Einsatzgruppe.

Activities and Situation Report No. 10 (1-28 Feb. 1942): general section on Jews cites the almost complete solution of the Jewish problem in Estonia and the progress made in solving this problem in the other occupied territories.

Reports from Einsatzgruppe A and D about the situation and mood in Lithuania, and regional searches including the arrest of Jews.

Report of Events in the USSR No. 191, from Chief, SIPO and SD, 16 Oct. 1941 -31 Jan. 1942: detailed listing of location, commanders, etc., of Einsatzgruppen, with individual reports by each Einsaztgruppe detailing regional executions, including Jews; section on Jewry in Ukraine.

Memo on cooperation between SIPO and SD units and the Army; counterespionage units, with basic rules for their cooperation, based on an agreement between Heydrich and Admiral Canaris.

Activities and Situation Report No. 11 (1-31 Mar 1942): section on Jews notes that there were differences at the various front sectors in the "cleaning up of the Jewish question," and gives statistics for executions.

Telegram from SIPO and SD commander in Lithuania, with a Heydrich directive to stop the "special treatment" in Minsk of those Jews who are essential labor resources with special skills.

List of collected action orders and other directives on the Eastern Front (Mar. 1942: Order No. 2, July 1941, deals with "Cleansing Actions among Bolsheviks and Jews;" directive of Aug. 1941 to all four Einsatzgruppen pertains to "Spectators at Executions," "The Chief, SIPO and SD, asks you to prevent assemblies of spectators at mass executions based on experiences so far."

Chief, SIPO and SD, sends directives to Einsatzgruppen and Kommandos pertaining to Barbarossa, 2 July 1941, containing details on who is to be executed.

Directives to Einsatzgruppen, 29 June 1941, about cooperation with local anti-Communist, anti Jewish activities.

Report on experiences with the operational methods of partisans and how to deal with them.

RSHA memo to chief of all four Einsatzgruppen about the use of local resources for setting up special protective units to work with SIPO in the occupied territories.

29 List of directives from the Chief of the Sipo and SD. 1942 - 1943. 98 pp.

Official publication of orders by the Chief, Sicherheitspolizei and SD. Deals with many diverse matters related to police and security: administrative, travel regulations, awards and honors, use of special car license plates, handling of abortion and sexual offender cases among Poles, training of women criminal police members, casualty lists of Waffen SS members killed in combat, SS involvement in economic matters, SS courts, and SS promotion lists, etc.

Amt II Personnel:

38a Organization of Gestapo - RSHA, personnel lists, phone directories, etc. 1933 - 1945.

Innumerable lists of offices, officers, addresses, etc. of central and regional offices of the Reichssicherheitshauptamt, Sicherheitspolizei, Sicherheitsdienst, and Geheime Staatspolizei, ranging from 1937 - 1942. Need for safeguarding investigative files. Memo on how to conduct investigations and counterintelligence. Memo on need for special counterintelligence measures against foreign visitors to annual KdF [Strength through Joy] convention (1938). Report on deployment and recruiting of Vertrauensmänner (VM) [confidential informers] to be deployed against communist infiltration. List of Reichssicherheitshauptamt officers entitled to visit Berlin casino. Scattered throughout: reports, post-war, by East Germany about investigations of anti-communist Nazi activists.

48 List of telephone numbers of RSHA. 1 January 1938. 36 pp.


Telephone list of Sicherheitshauptamt with instructions on how to use telephones, most frequently called numbers, names of staff personnel.

52 Telephone book of RSHA. 1943. 69 pp.

Undated list of names, grades, sections, room and telephone number of employees assumed to be part of the Reichssicherheitshauptamt. Telephone list for "Waldburg-Fuchsbau" with warning "Greatest discretion required. The enemy is on the line!" Various official telephone lists, including the offices of all top leaders from Führer down. Also listing of all Party (NSDAP) leaders (June 1943).

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Amt III, SD--Inland:

72 List of permissions to work in medical facilities in the Berlin area. June 1937. 36 pp. (Reel 183, middle)

List of authorized doctors, medical technicians, laboratories, opticians, and health spas for Berlin and environs; Reich Medical Chief notes that Nürnberg laws have made possible a clear identification of who is a Jew; what Jewish doctors can and cannot do.

78 Statistical data about changing from one religion to another and leaving the church during 1936 and 1937. Includes Jews. 18 July 1938 - 8 March 1939. 5 pp.

Statistical data: Evangelical [Protestant] Churches and sect communities. Conversion list (in 1936, two Jews converted). Withdrawal from churches. Detailed regional listing of conversions and withdrawals.

Amt IV, Gestapo:

88 (The Decree on elimination of the Reichstag dated 6 June 1932.) Police order about foreigners dated 22 August 1938. Reports and speeches about removal of Polish Jews from Germany. 11 June 1932 - 2 April 1940. 205 pp.

Material ranges from 31 March 1938 "Law about Disenfranchisement of Citizenship" for Poles living abroad. This led to expressions of German concern about a Polish Jewish inundation of Germany and to danger for the 12,000 to 15,000 Polish Jews living in Germany protected so far by a Polish-German bilateral agreement of 1934. June 1938: Polish government informs German Foreign Office that the Polish government is of the opinion that international law does not recognize the principle according to which a state is obligated to accept individuals who recently were its citizens and who are being deprived of their citizenship. By July 1938, Sicherheitsdienst and Gestapo began efforts to deport Polish Jews in Germany to Poland, and this is followed by moves throughout Germany to deport the Polish Jewish population. Action frequently results in arrests and since Poland will not accept the deportees, Germans push them across border at night. Material also includes news reports from abroad about the forced deportation of Polish Jews. By November 1938, Reichsführer SS reports that during the October action, 17,000 Polish Jews were forcibly deported to Poland. By February 1939, there are still 12,000 Polish Jews in Germany. On 2 April 1940, Reichssicherheitshauptamt reporting on release of Polish Civilian internees, notes that "for the time being the deportation of Poles and former Polish Jews cannot be carried out because of the existing difficult food and housing situation in the Generalgouvernment (former Poland). Therefore, those Jews affected by the deportation decrees of 5 February 1940, are to continue to remain in the concentration camps. At the appropriate time orders will be issued for the deportation."

100 SD-Haupthamt II 112, records of various Jewish organizations and SD reports, 1932 - 1939: Jewish religious community in Vienna; reports about its activity during November - December 1938; statistical data about the number of Jews in cities of Germany; Jewish religious community in Vienna about the Second World Conference of Polish Jews Abroad; other documents on the "Jewish problem." 21 October 1932 - 29 June 1939. 99 pp.

Various reports by British Jewry on what is happening in Germany and in Poland. German reports on relocation of German Jews from local communities into larger cities and advantages of such a move for the Nazis. Report by Vienna Jewish Community on budget and impact on it by increasing impoverishment of Jews as well as by emigration (November 1938). SD report on "Aid Society for Russian Jews in Vienna". Report on "Organizational Alliances of Jews," including comment that political attitude of German Jews is determined by Zionism and by (assimilated) German Jewry.

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121 Correspondence regarding Jews in Austria. Correspondence of Bund Jüdischer Frontsoldaten with Baron Louis Rothschild concerning the establishment the Defense Committee of Austrian Jewish Interests. Correspondence with "The Ring of Austrian Soldiers" about reorganization, etc. 19 August 1932 - 29 September 1938. 242 pp.

Innumerable memorandums, communications, table of organization, etc. of Federation of Jewish Front Combatants of Austria. Initially organizations show great fervor for acknowledging devotion to Austrian state and leadership. Gradually, efforts are being made to alert members to Austrian anti-semitism and status of Jews in Germany and at home, eventually cumulating in setting up of Defense Section whose task it is to defend against attacks "on the reputation, honor, economic existence, Jewish, no matter from which direction they come and who makes them."

131 Status of Jewish committee of higher education "Judea" in Vienna. Report of the Union of Jewish Medical Students to the police of Vienna about activity of Jewish organizations in Vienna. 12 November 1933 - 31 October 1938. 63 pp.

Various reports, memos, and organizational materials of Austrian Jewish student, medical students, and lawyer organizations. Various Austrian B'nai B'rith and Keren Kajemet pieces of correspondence. Pamphlet against race hatred and humanity by a Publication for Justice, dealing with acts against Jews in Germany.

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133 Regulations of State Jewish Party of Austria. Regulations of the Jewish Peoples Party, the election of deputies for the Congress of Zionists, and other materials of State Jewish Party in Austria. 23 September 1933 - 9 August 1936. 273 pp. (Reel 4, near end, after 303), Reel 183)

A number of items about the Jewish State Party in Vienna, with statutes and explanation of purpose, and list of members. Items on election of delegates to the Nineteenth Zionist Congress. "Palestine: economy and administration," published by the American Economic Committee for Palestine. 1934 report on activities of Zionist-Revisionist organizations (Vienna). Lists of Jewish Middle School organizations (Vienna). Jewish student organizations and clubs. Jewish Youth Alliance.

Publication, "What Does the Jewish State Party Want?" and related material. Election material of the Austrian Jewish State Party (Reel 183)

135 SS report about anti-German movement. Boycott against International Union of Zionists-Revisionists. Correspondence of a Jewish woman, E. Monshezinos, with the Anti-Nazi Council of Britain in London about working as an agent for the Council. English articles: "Do We Need a War?" and "The Menace of National Socialism." 30 October 1933 - 31 August 1937. 136 pp.

A series of German reports about Jewish subversive activities against Germany conducted abroad. Various reports on British and other organizations abroad and their efforts to conduct an economic boycott against Germany. German efforts to combat the boycott movement. German report on Jewish anti-German harassment abroad.


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137 Reports of police of the cities of Halle, Frankfurt-am-Oder, the administrative district of Potsdam, and others about the establishment and activity of "training" (requalification) camps for Jews. 6 October 1933 - 2 July 1937. 181 pp.

Innumerable Gestapo reports on the regional establishments of Jewish job retraining centers and schools. List of participants, teachers, and courses. Various applications to German officials for establishing such camps (see also Folder 173).

137a SD-Hauptamt II 112: SD and Auswärtiges Amt reports: Newspaper clippings regarding Jews' struggle against German laws affecting them. 20 May 1933 - 9 June 1939. 148 pp.

Reports by Sicherheitspolizei on Jewish currency and jewelry profiteering, including reports on contacts with profiteers, investigations, and trials. Also reports about individuals who help Jews transfer their money abroad. Report on "Cairo Jewish trials" (February 1935), including German press reports welcoming judgement against Jews, who had intended the trial to play an important role in "the Jewish struggle against National Socialism." Extensive reports on Swiss trial about the infamous "Protocols of the Elders of Zion." First trial found on behalf of Jews who had sued for defamation. Appeals court overturned findings something the German press hailed as the Jewish Defeat in Bern Trial, and which it concluded made it "no longer difficult to conduct antisemitic propaganda in Switzerland.

138 SD reports about the conference of the Jewish Peoples Union. Activity of Jews in Germany. Foreign press notes about activities against Jews in Germany. Other materials dealing with the "Jewish problem." 20 May 1933 - 25 January 1936. 131 pp.

Various reports on Jewish businesses, Gestapo surveillance of what is happening in those businesses. Report about "Jewish Movement" throughout Germany (July 1935): how new directives and orders are reducing Jewish optimism about the future. Various regional reports show, however, that Jews in businesses and elsewhere "still act up." Reports on Jewish organizations in Stuttgart, Berlin, the Jewish Volksbund (formerly Jewish People's Party). Gestapo directive forbidding the flying of the Reichsflag in businesses with a majority of Jews. List of members of the Jewish Agency Council in Germany. Foreign press reports about moves against Jews in Germany (1935). Various items on German race theory.

145 Police reports from Bavaria, Wiesbaden, Saxony and elsewhere about methods used to hide escaping Jews. 27 November 1933 - 22 April 1937. 125 pp.

Series of reports, in Germany, and from German embassy and Consulate, about German Jewish children being taken to United States, there to be put in Jewish homes, with a choice at age 16 whether or not to return. Report on "Camouflaged Jewish Businesses," by turning businesses over to non-Jews while actually most of them are only being leased by Jewish owners. Law about the "Elimination of Abuses in the Information Business" with Bormann letter to Minister of Economics about the law. Various Gestapo and economic offices' reports (1934) on non-Aryan lawyers, legal advisors, non-Jewish lawyers referred to as "German lawyer" to distinguish them from Jewish colleagues. Interior Ministry report about trips abroad by German Jews (1934), indicating there should be no restrictions: "In our efforts to cleanse German soil as extensively as possible of Jews, and particularly in order to keep bathing resorts free of Jews in the interest of German families, trips abroad by Jews should be viewed as the lesser evil." Report by welfare and Youth Care office of Berlin Jewish Community (August 1934) about children's transport to Denmark.

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146 Police reports and statistical tables from Breslau (Wroclaw, Poland), Mannheim, Oppeln, (Opole, Poland), and elsewhere about the results of camps "for changing the qualifications for Jewish people." 1933 - 1937. 154 pp.

A whole series of reports, many with lists of participants and instructions about Jewish job retraining camps being set up throughout Germany (August 1938). Also, Gestapo reports, local and regional, about organization and purpose of these training camps. Included are reports about agricultural training camps for "Christian Non-Aryans", most organized by churches (see also Folders 173 and 137 in this reel).

147 Report of the Jewish Telegraph Agency. Newspaper clippings and other materials about the Bern trial concerning the Jewish organization "The Elders of Zion." Activities of "The Independent Jewish Organization B'nai B'rith." 1933 - 1937. 202 pp.

Various reports and stories about trials about the veracity of the "Protocols of the Elders of Zion." One of them took place in Johannesburg, South Africa (1933). Another one took place in Bern, Switzerland, 1934. (Material about the latter also in folder 137A of this reel.) A 1934 Gestapo report notes that the Reichs Propaganda Ministry wants information that would substantiate Nazi contention that Protocols were real. Follow-up reports indicated that such evidence was lacking, and so-called "expert" witnesses seemed to be non-existent. Various domestic and foreign press reports about Bern trial.

155 Program of the Jewish State Party, the charter of the Youth Group, and other materials of this party. 1933 - 1938. 236 pp.

156 Inquiries of the Gestapo about the Jewish Telegraph Agency. International Telegraph Agency information about the International Jewish Congress in 1936. Excerpt from SD report about the Jewish press. 1933 - 1939. 144 pp.

Mostly items on Jewish Telegraph Agency (JTA) (its German offices but also its operation in Prague). Include reports of efforts to close the Berlin office, finally done in November 1937. Number of items from JTA reports, primarily about the increasing Nazi threat to Jews. Various foreign press reports about Nazi moves against Jews (1936). Reports on German local and regional Jewish press publications. Circular of Reich Ministry for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda (April 1938) about individuals and enterprises constituting part of the Jewish press. List of Jewish newspapers in Austria, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia.

160 SD-Hauptamt II 112: Vierteljahresbericht of II 112, 1 January to 31 March 1939. German Laws on Jews. Letter from the Minister of Justice to Vice-Chancellor on German Laws concerning Jews. Notes on Legislation concerning Jews. 1933 - 1938. 38 pp.

Sicherheitsdienst Central Office: history and synopsis of all laws concerning Jews from 1933 through 1938. Begins with a history of anti-Jewish legislation rooted in specific points of the Nazi Party Program and then synopsize, for each year since 1933 the decrees and laws designed to remove Jews from public, professional, educational, and economic life in Germany. Communication from Justice Minister to all leading Nazi functionaries (12 December 1938) on the need to coordinate all anti-Jewish legislation. Göring letter (28 December 1938) to all Staatspolizei and Sicherheitsdienst offices: "as a result of my report, the Führer has made the following decisions concerning the Jewish question,"

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followed by such diverse subjects as housing for Jews, mixed marriages, etc. A 1939 overview talks
about further inroads on Jewish business and professional life, Jewish reaction to 1939 "November Action" [i.e. Kristallnacht], and fact that Jews are finding it increasingly difficult to emigrate because of small quotas in countries to which they could go.

161a Directives from Ministry of Interior on preventive arrest. 1933 - 1938. 39 pp.

Various SS matters with particular focus on police work: sample of ID for people in Führer entourage, contacts with USSR consulates in police matters, SS rank insignia, and purpose of protective custody. Letter from Bormann, Führer Deputy about "Freedom of Conscience in the Armed Forces." List of particularly important laws: protection against communists, high treason, against the founding of new parties, law for the protection of German blood and German honor, setting up of Special Courts (Sondergerichte) and their competencies, law about the Volksgerichtshof, law permitting non-Aryans to do military service, etc.

163 Lists of Jewish organizations and their leaders, 1932 - 1933. Lists of Jewish societies. 1933. 49 pp.

List of Jewish synagogue communities and their leaders throughout Germany as of 1932 - 1933, broken down by Regierungsbezirke (administrative districts). List of regional Jewish organizations and number of members. List of Jewish population by districts in Berlin, August 1935: total of 160,564, or three percent of the population.

172 SD correspondence about the dissolution of Jewish organizations in Germany. 1933 - 1938. 57 pp.

Mostly SS and SD reports about "State-Zionist Organization," moves for its disbandment because of "anti-regime activities." This includes field reports on regional and local branches of the organization. Organization list of State-Zionist Organization in Germany (May 1938), with names of leaders.

173 Gestapo correspondence with regional police departments of Saxony and the cities of Magdeburg, Lubeck, Aachen, etc., about "training" Jews for new jobs. 1933 - 1937. 231 pp.

Series of requests by Jewish organizations for permission to set up occupational training of Jews, mostly in agriculture and horticulture, and with aim to prepare young Jews for emigration to Palestine. Number of regional Gestapo reports about Jewish occupational retraining camps. Gestapo report (March 1934) about activities of "Main Office for Jewish Economic Assistance." Retraining of medical students because of limited opportunities abroad for practicing medicine. (see also entries for Folder 137 in reel 2).

176 Order of the Chief, Sipo (Security Police) and SD, about search for the person who prepared an (assassination) attempt on Hitler in July 1942. The letter of the Chief of the department of press and propaganda of the organization "Food and Pleasure" of the German Labor Front to Hitler concerning the Czech writer, Yanic Iogan, who is ready to serve Hitler. 1934 - 1942. 11 pp.

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178 Instructions of the Reichsvertretung der Juden in Deutschland about professional education of Jews. Educational plans for professional schools. Draft agreement between farmers and Reichsvertretung about training Jews in agriculture in preparation for their emigration. Statistical tables of emigration of Jews from Germany to Palestine. 1934 - 1938. 247 pp.

Draft of agreement between Reichsnährstand [Reichfarmers] and Reich Representation of German Jews "Concerning Agricultural and Horticultural Training of Jews in Preparation for Future Emigration." List from Statistical Department, Jewish Agency for Palestine, on Jewish emigration from Germany, January 1933 to June 1936. More material on Jewish job retraining camps, with publication of Reich Representation of German Jews "Guidelines for Job Training of Jews in Germany."

187 Gestapo and SD reports regarding surveillance of Jews. 67 pp.

Series of local and regional reports, as well as press reports, about large moves by Jews from small towns and villages to urban centers. Includes various regional reports (1937) about reason for these moves to larger cities, namely decreasing possibilities to continue a business or to work in smaller communities. Stuttgart Stapo draft paper on "Surveillance of Jews," spelling out measures to be taken against Jews moving to urban areas, including an extensive questionnaire for these new arrivals. SS report on the Jewish Karaite sect among Russian emigres, whose adherents acknowledge the Old Testament but reject the Talmud. Includes a 1910 Russian MVD Report by the Department of Church Affairs, on the Karaites, signed by Prime Minister Stolypin. Series of press reports (1937) about Jewish affairs throughout Germany, rebutting some foreign voices speaking about "Jewish ghettos" by pointing to the above-noted movement of large numbers of German Jews to the cities.

193 Monthly reports on the Evangelical Church. 1934 - 1938. 347 pp.

A series of reports on the Protestant [Evangelische] Church in the new state. List of Protestant organizations. A whole series of reports on problems developing within the Protestant church and on the increasingly more vituperative intra-church debates. Included is a decree by the Reichsministry of the Interior forbidding Protestants to publicize their church disputes, and also local Gestapo reports bearing on this issue. From these and from Party local reports the divisiveness of the issue becomes apparent on Protestant representatives are being condemned for "using the Church for their dark intentions." They also express concern about Church views that National Socialism "promotes godlessness and is much closer to communism than to Christianity." The Church complains about the Nazis "fanatical struggle against out Christian belief" and calls on the community" to fight against this anti-Christian agitation."

193a Reviews of newspapers on the Jewish question. 1934 - 1936. 349 pp. (Reel 119, Reel 183)

RSHA report on confiscated Jewish publications, with synopses of contents; press review reports dealing with international activities pertaining to Jews; Gestapo reviews of Jewish domestic and foreign press (reel 183)

194 Reviews of activities of the Catholic Church and its organizations and also other religious organizations (sects). 1934 - 1937. 100 pp.

Long and detailed report about "The Political Churches," mostly on church activities which are viewed by the authorities as efforts to counteract, among church members, and particularly among young members, the act of obedience to the state and to the Party. Focus is to a large extent on Catholic Church activities.

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195 SD-Hauptamt II 112: Report about the International Jewish Congress in Geneva. SD reports about the behavior of Jews after the prohibition of Jewish meetings in Germany. 1934 - 1937. 43 pp.

SD Munich regarding International Goodwill Congress, Budapest (1936), citing press reports that this is a Jewish affair with links to Jewish World Congress. Regional reports on lifting prohibition of Jewish political organization meetings in January 1937. Some note that in some areas meetings have declined in frequency because "they are lying low so as not to attract official attention." Dutch press reports (1937) about conditions of Jews in Germany. Gestapo and Customs Police reports (July 1937) about alleged Jewish clandestine travel to "Secret Jewish Congress" in Zurich. DNP report (February 1938) about propaganda activities of Jesuit priest based on interview by this "friend of Jews and man of God" with a Jewish newspaper. SD reports (starts with Part II "Jewry") about First Jewish World Congress in Geneva.

198 Charter of the Jewish Union in Vienna. Inquiry about this Union, list of the members, and activity reports. Correspondence of the roentgenologist Volshan with the Baron Louis Rothschild about consolidation of the struggle against anti-Semitism. Correspondence of the Union Secretary Ravin [rabbi?] Calinica with the Chairman of the Jewish Committee in London, Montefiore, about help for the Irene Harrand movement. 1934 - 1937. 191 pp.

A number of reports, correspondence, other material on appeals, by and to Jewish Alliance in Vienna for funds to carry out Alliance's aid to Jews in need resident in Austria or Jews who came to Austria from other countries, particularly Germany. Proposal by a Czech professor for a "Plan about Preliminary Work for the Planned Race Survey" designed to expose fallacy of German race theory. President Masaryk reportedly supports this effort. Includes appeals by author to Jewish organization (1936) to support his work, including one to Baron von Rothschild. Letter from Bucharest (December 1935) about the tragic fate of Jews in Romania as result of pogroms and elimination of Jews from professional life. Correspondence from Jewish organization in Paris (December 1935) and Vienna Jewish Alliance about a recently published work by Coudenhove-Kalergy, the "Paneuropa" leader, entitled "The Nature of Antisemitism."

215 SD report about German émigré in Austra, Count Maximillian Livensuten-Sharfensk, who propagandized against the Nazi Government. 1934. 11 pp. (Reel 183, middle)


216 German Labor Front Department of Information report about rumors which were spread among Jews about the leaders of the Nazi party. Note about the mood of the Jewish population during the crisis of September - October 1938. Text of a Jewish song about the struggle. 1934 - 1939. 11 pp.

Various regional Gestapo reports about the attitude and activities of Jews, including references to Jewish exodus from small population centers to large cities. SD report on mood of the Jewish population as result of 1938 Munich Agreement, with examples of alleged Jewish defamation of Führer and of the German cause. Gestapo copy of a "Jewish Fighting Song" confiscated at German border.

217 Press clippings, Gestapo and Reichsvertretung reports, and other materials about the emigration of Jewish people to Africa, Birobidzhan, Chile, Ecuador, India, Canada, and Argentina. 1934 - 1937. 136 pp.

Jewish press items, Gestapo reports about Jewish settlements in East Africa, Brazil, South Africa, and

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Ecuador (1934, 1936). Press and Gestapo reports about Soviet invitation to persecuted Jews to settle in autonomous region of Birobidzhan. Jewish Telegraph Agency reports on small number who followed invitation, and Gestapo reports questioning sincerity of Soviet move, with press reports by pro-German papers abroad that this new Jewish state in Russia is not really a serious humanitarian effort. Reports and material about aid-measures for German Jews abroad (1933). Gestapo report (1935) castigating Nazi press for writing about poor chances for Jewish emigration "because this runs counter to the aims of national socialist policy. In the remaining press these reports represent a danger because they tend to support the efforts by so-called `German Jews' to remain in Germany." Whole series of reports on Jewish emigration, including a Berlin Gestapo report (April 1936) that despite 27,300 Jewish emigrants, there are still 172,000 Jews in the city. Statistics on German Jewish emigration to Palestine, 1933 - 1936.

219 Reports of the Reichsvertretung der Juden in Deutschland to Gestapo about their meetings; inquiry about this organization; admission tickets for meetings; and notes condemning activity in referats of the Jewish organization. 1934 - 1938. 28 pp.

Report by Reich Representation of German Jews on organization's meetings (1937). Gestapo report (March 1938) on Jewish press and periodicals, Jewish editors and reporters, and cultural organizations. This report included complaint that Gestapo members deployed for surveillance of Jewish events were completely unsuited for task because they knew nothing about Jewish political affairs. SD (Sicherheitsdienst) report (June 1938) about a Führer order for the destruction of a Munich synagogue because it crowded the Künstlerhaus (Art museum). He decreed that on the "Day of German Art" a "parking place must be ready on the former synagogue location." Munich paid the Jewish community 100,000 Marks for the destroyed synagogue although it was valued at two million Marks.

223 Statistics and other information about Jewish emigration. 1934 - 1937. 167 pp.

Jewish press reports about dimensions of Jewish emigration (1934). Gestapo request to Aid Society of German Jews and the Palestine office of the Jewish Agency, Berlin, for statistics on Jewish emigration for 1933, 1934, and 1935 to Palestine. Jewish Agency responds with the report to the organization's 19th Zionist Congress said to contain figures for some of the requested years, including photos of Palestine settlements of Jewish emigres. Aid Society submits report on overall Jewish emigration for 1934 and 1935, with countries of destination and numbers by sex and age. This is followed by a similar report for 1933. Reports on 1936 and 1937 emigration figures with statistical breakdown.

224 Statistics and notes about the emigration of Jews all over the globe, and the number of Jewish doctors, etc. 1934 - 1937. 329 pp.

Number of Jewish doctors in Germany (1936). Statistics on Jews in Prussia (1934). Frankfurter Zeitung (December 1935) prints statistics on Jews in Germany, including occupation categories (for 1933). Statistics on Jews in Germany: total 499,682, with various statistical breakdowns (included so-called full, half-, and quarter-Jews). 1933 figures on Jews in German economy and banking compared to non-Jews. Also, statistics on companions of Jews to non-Jews with regard to certain crime categories.

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Numerous documents on Jewish activities. Statistical and other information on Jewish emigration. Account about Jewish Winter Relief Fund for indigenous Jews. Statistics on Jewish involvement in business, banking, professions, and cultural life. Various domestic and foreign press reports about decline of number of Jews in Germany. Map of Germany (January 1938) with Gestapo arrests in December 1937, difficult to distinguish symbols, but categories represented: Communists, Social Democrats, Catholics, Protestants, Mormons, Jews, Party, homosexuals, etc. Statistics on Jewish participation in World War I and letter from President of Reich Archives (January 1934) to Ministry of Interior on same subject. Detailed statistics on Jewish emigration from Germany, January 1933 to March 1937, includes figures on money taken out by emigrants and on assets left behind.

225 Inquiry about the Jewish weekly "Wahrheit," articles from the weekly "Bundeskanzler" about "Jewish question": "Anti-Semitism," "New Situation - New Ways," and other materials from this weekly. 1934 - 1938. 109 pp.

Numerous items from the Jewish Weekly "The Truth" (Vienna) on situation of Jews in Austria and on Nazi anti-Jewish developments in Germany. The material dates back to 1933 but is being reprinted in an unidentified publication in Berlin in June 1938, apparently in connection with considerations whether this Austrian Jewish publication is to be continued after the incorporation of Austria. Other related material consists of correspondence to and from "Wahrheit" (The Truth) during 1935 and 1936.

226 Certificates regarding cause of death of Fridel Worh in a concentration camp (wife of state councelor in Thuringia). Letters of former German citizen Max Mihels [sic] to his relatives criticizing the Nazi regime. 1934 - 1935. 14 pp. (Reel 183, middle)

Reports about Prague press items on 'atrocity propaganda" concerning conditions in German concentration camps (Feb. 1935).

232 Letters from Jews to their friends, newspaper clippings, and reports of SD agents about the life and the mood of Jewish people in the USA, Harbin, Paris, Prague, and Germany. Statement of Jews to Hitler, which delcared their fidelity to Jewish religion in spite of the prosecution of them in Germany. 1934 - 1939. 40 pp.

Number of items reporting on manifestations of anti-German sentiment and "atrocity propaganda" overseas, mainly with samples from America (1934, 1935). Samples of anonymous material typical of items prepared by "enemies of the State" in Jewish and Marxist circles (1935). Jews and communists in Prague (1939). Report on "Jewish elements in Harbin" (1937).

233 Letters from a Jew to Hitler protesting anti-Semitism. 1934. 50 pp.

Series of letters and appeals from Jehovah Witnesses, mostly addressed to Führer: "Your nasty attitude toward Jehovah Witnesses makes all good people angry and defiles God's name. Stop the further persecution of Jehovah Witnesses, otherwise God will destroy you and your national party."

236 Newspaper clippings about the situation of the Jews in Germany. 1934. 10 pp.

Various anti-German publications at home and abroad report on Jewish involvement in German domestic affairs, with some reports pointing to Julius Streicher's "Der Stürmer" as the perpetrator and purveyor of the worst propaganda accusations against Jews. (In folder 261 there is a memorandum dated 1937 making anti-Jewish material with bearing on criminal cases available to the "Stürmer".) One of above publications, Prager Tagblatt (May 1934), reports the arrest of a Jewish employee of a



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Berlin bank for publicly defaming Goebbels. According to a German radio report, "He has been sent to the Oranienburg concentration camp where he will have ample time to think about how a guest of the German people in Germany ought to behave".

237 Articles from Jewish newspapers; protocols of Gestapo interrogations of Jews; and preparations for Jewish emigration. 1934 - 1937. 22 pp.

Jewish Telegraph Agency report about job retraining of German Jews in Holland (1934). Various other reports on assistance to Jewish emigrants, including at retraining facilities in Holland and France. Gestapo interrogations of Jews who signed up for job retraining, and particularly in agriculture. Purpose, who runs schools, etc.

240 Article of Dr. Schultz, "The Jew and Criminology." NSDAP report about Danzig trial of six (6) Jews who were accused of speaking publicly against slogans writen on walls urging the boycott of Jewish shops. List of Jews accused of anti-governmental activity. 1934 - 1937. 38 pp.

Request from Central Party Archives for archival material giving "unequivocal proof of Jewish traitorous plans and activities." To be used to defend city and Party officials in Danzing against charges by local Jews about false defamation of character. Some responses indicate that no such material could be found in local files. Prussian Gestapo to Party Central Archives: transmittal of requested material. List of "Jews who Committed High Treason and Treason" (1934), with sentences. Material on "Jewry and Criminality" (1935).

260 Rudolf Hess' directive prohibiting relations with Jews for the members of the Nazi party. Gestapo report about Jewish activity in Germany. 1935 - 1936. 50 pp.

Whole series of reports on Jews in various businesses and enterprises, together with Jews in various organizations. Jewish cooperation with Catholics and other Churches. Association of non-Jews, including Party members, with Jews. Decree by Deputy Führer Hess (July 1935) about "Relations with Jews." Law about employment of Aryan servants in Jewish homes (November 1935). More on agricultural training of Jews. Jewish children abroad. Meetings of Reich Organization of Jewish Front Combatants (World War I).

261 Rudolf Hess' letter about attitudes toward Jews. Notes concerning the boycott of Jewish shops and the struggle with Jews. 1935 - 1938. 65 pp.

Number of items on "dealing with the Jewish question": the marking of Jewish businesses (1938), reports about regional activities directed against Jews, reports from abroad about excesses against synagogues and Jews in Germany. SD guidelines, to SD Munich, on "Dealing with Jewish Question" (1938), suggests support of legal emigration, but within existing laws, noting that excesses could have taken place. Report from SS Untersturmführer Eichmann, District Austria 30 May 1938 that during next few weeks 5,000 Austrian Jews, primarily with previous criminal records or "asocial" elements, are to be sent to concentration camp Dachau. Report from SD Leipzig to SD Hauptamt (June 1938) that 30 Weimar Jews who had more than one month of a prison sentence left at Nazi takeover were sent to Buchenwald. Rudolf Hess reminder to all Gauleiter (January 1936) that local signs and posters announcing that Jews are not welcome were occasionally "somewhat less than tasteful." Care should be taken so as not to leave the impression among foreign visitors [in this Olympic year] that anti-Nazi propaganda abroad is true. "I ask you in particular to avoid messages which more or less openly

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suggest possible acts of punishment against Jews, as for example 'Jews enter here at their own risk'." Gestapo makes anti-Jewish material, such as used in criminal cases, available to the "Stürmer" (1937). Directive on "Looking After People in Protective Custody and their Families" from Reichsführer SS and Chief of German Police (16 July 1938). Among recipients are the "leaders of SS Death Head organizations and concentration camps."

263 Certificate of the German Genealogical Bureau about Karims[?] and reprints of articles from Jewish literature about the history of Jewish people. 1937 - 1939. 23 pp.

"Information about the Jewish Question," published by the Institute for the Study of the Jewish Question (6 November 1937). Nazi press items about Jews (November 1937). Various foreign media reports on and coverage of Jewish issues (Example from anti-Jewish, anti-Freemason French publication: answer to the Question "s the Jew a Human Being like all others"..."in his folkways, intellectually, socially the Jew is a very peculiar being, a parasite who is never satisfied with what he has; he drains those nations which are either too blind or too weak to rebuff him, and he has nothing in common with other human beings except for the digestive tract and the lower parts. And the latter are not quite right either." Republication of a reprint from a French publication of a collection of an eighteenth century Jewish letters on various topics, including passage on ritual murder.

279 Gestapo reports on the creation of schools for preparing Jews for new professions, emigration, and educational plans for these schools. 1935 - 1939. 144 pp.

Various items on things forbidden for Jews in Germany, such as the use of Hebrew in public meetings, order restraining various prominent Jewish individuals from public appearances; the establishment of Jewish pubs in Munich. Goebbels order (June 1937) prohibiting Jewish media in Germany to reprint in full or in excerpt any material from German newspapers, magazines, and books. Photos of meetings and other events connected with the destruction of the Nüremberg synagogue (September 1938). Directive to all Stapo (Staatspolizei) offices from Gestapo Berlin on "Meeting Activites by Jews" (May 1935). Designation of special bathing resorts for Jews (1937). Excerpts from daily SD information reports (1938) including another version of an earlier reference to Führer order for destruction of Munich synagogue. Regional arrests of "asocials, criminals, and Jews who were sent to Buchenwald" and foreign press reports about those arrests. More material from Gestapo on the "Establishment of a `Jewish Emigration School'" with school plans, organization, and Gestapo reports on background of some of the teachers. Ludicrous examples of antisemitism: an ad put in a muncipal publication by the local mayor: "In accord with the local farmers leadership it is ordered as of now that cows and cattle being purchased directly or indirectly by Jews are excluded from access to the municipal bull." A number of items dealing with the formalities in connection with trips by foreign Jews to and through Germany. Emigration of non-Aryan teachers.

290 Gestapo and SD reports on the anti-Jewish struggle. Arrest lists, closing of organizations, prohibitions, and Rederverbote. 1935 - 1939. 294 pp.

303 German Labor Front, Gestapo, and NSDAP reports about the work of Jews in high posts in Germany. 1935 - 1938. 158 pp.

Various reports about Jewish employees in important industrial facilities and in public life (1935), such as Jews in the police, in Lufthansa, etc. These include samples of complaints by SS and other Germans to newspapers and the authorities about the continued presence of Jews in public life. In one case, that

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of a prominent official at Lufthansa, there are numerous accusations that the individual is Jewish and hence ought to be removed. This exchange went on and on in the form of private official and unofficial correspondence and in the Nazi press, until eventually Goering and Air Force Chief Milch assure Lufthansa that the individual is highly regarded by the Führer and by them. A series of items about the authority for the marriage between a Jewish woman employed by the Army and a Catholic. Despite the furor, her German army employer vouched for her and her work.

304 Travel of Jews across the border. Anti-Semitic propaganda in Germany. SD reports and correspondence. 1935 - 1937. 94 pp.

Various charges and countercharges about attempts to absolve the Jews from charges that they are unwilling to admit their responsibility for World War I (1935). Appearance in Hamburg (March 1936) of a poster with the message "We Nazis will not Agitate Against Jews in this Olympic Year" (with facsimile of poster). Indication that Jews are opposing activities and measures aimed at them. Various reports on activities by Jews in public deemed to "improper and offensive," like ostentatious display of religious zeal during High Holidays. SD submits a Jewish greeting card (February 1934) depicting a "Kapores" hen: Card #1 is a Jewish New Year card with a Jewish girl as the symbolic New Year. The old year is depicted as an ocean in which the Führer is drowning. Card #2 shows a Jewish family with the head of the house holding a sacrificial hen, the head of which consists of the Führer's face. Card #3 shows a Jew who explains the purpose of "Kapores" to his son. Various reports on an alleged band of smugglers of human beings, including an item from the BZ am Mittag (November 1937) "Warsaw Jews Smuggle Human Beings" using false passports and visas.

305 SD and German Labor Front Department of Information reports about organizing schools in Germany for training Jews for new jobs. 1935 - 1939. 170 pp.

More items on Jewish job retraining activities, primarily in agriculture. Items from Czech press about "Jews Abroad," about a Jew who allegedly worked for the Gestapo.



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311 Czech newspaper reports about the collaboration of Zionist Jews with the Gestapo. 1935. 66 pp.

324 Full list of the members of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Organization [sic]. Information about the anti-fascists John Reingold from USA, Edmund Tailor from London, and Alfred Veriver [sic] from New York. Newspaper "Deutscher Vercruff [?]" and some English newspaper clippings. 1935 - 1938. 21 pp.

Gestapo material on alleged anti-German activities abroad. List with names of officers of the Jewish Organizatin of Anti-Nazis in New York. Various foreign press reports, including one on Nazis plotting a big purge of priests. Items from Philadelphia and New York pro-Nazi German papers, including reports on activities of various local German-American organizations and other items carried in these papers.

343 Article written by Dr. Reigner [sic] about the main problems of the Nuremberg Laws. Review table about the obstacles to marriage because of mixture of Jewish blood. Other materials on the Jewish question. 1935 - 1939. 272 pp.



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List of non-Aryan German authors and writers who are to be ousted from the Reich Writers Board. Long report by the Gau Race Adviser for Saxony about the genesis of the Jewish Laws (Nüremberg Laws) of 15 September 1935 pointing out that they were hurriedly implemented after the 1935 Party Congress because the Führer was getting tired of the squabbles among his advisors, some of whom wanted restraint because of the detrimental effect the Laws could have on trade and the economy (led by Reich Bank President Schacht), and others who wanted stringent anti-Jewish measures (led by Streicher). Report mentioned that in 1935, there were 550,000 "full and 3/4 Jews," 200,000 half Jews, and 100,000 quarter Jews according to the precepts of the Nüremberg Law in Germany. Gestapo Berlin, December 1935: Report on "Laws Concerning Reich Citizens Rights and for the Protection of German Blood and Honor", accompanied by a study containing basic concepts about the purpose and significance of the Nüremberg Laws. Sicherheitsdienst (SD) report January 1936 about effect of Nüremberg Laws among Jews and Jewish organizations. Report includes list of Jewish organizations and their meetings and a list of Jewish businesses, taken over by Aryans. Report of Reich and Prussian Interior Ministry (January 1936) noting that "all Jewish officials and other Jewish occupants of higher [government] positions have been removed." Staatspolizei (Stapo) report from Wiesbaden/Frankfurt (February 1935) concerning "Excesses in Frankfurt against Jewish businesses and warehouse from December 1934 to present", including complaints about isolated SS efforts to prevent the local police from carrying out its function of law and order, as well as cases of attacks on civilians who tried to protect Jews from beatings. Various items having to do with Nüremberg Laws and their impact on Jews in various public and private areas. Various German and foreign press items noting the impact of the Nüremberg Laws on Jews, as well as the new role of the Jews in German public life. Copy of notes on conference in the Reich Interior Ministry of 7 April 1938 concerning the introduction of the Nüremberg Laws in annexed Austria. Report from the SD Vienna to Chief of Security Police Heydrich in Berlin about having found and secured the personnel register of the Vienna Jewish Community going back hundreds of years. Gestapo report (November 1938) on Berlin police proposal to set up a ghetto in the city. Idea rejected because a "purely Jewish ghetto would no longer be under the absolute control of the security police."

346 Articles from foreign newspapers and magazines about the persecution of Jews in Germany. 1935 - 1938. 188 pp.

Mostly Jewish press reports (1935) from abroad about persecution of Jews in Germany, including large item "J'Accuse", published by World Alliance for Combating anti-Semitism in London. Has photos and stories on anti-Jewish activities in Germany. Section on "The Nazi Pogrom against German Jewry" contains list of Jews killed by Nazis. German officials report on anti-German propaganda abroad. Also official correspondence on specific anti-German measures abroad. Czech media accuses Alfred Rosenberg of racial impurity, with SD and Gestapo taking note of this "atrocious" propaganda.

347 Idem. 1935. 310 pp.

Report from Hamburg-Bremen "Abatement of Atrocity Propaganda and Development of Boycott Movement Against Germany," with various reports from abroad. Whole series of reports, with emphasis on boycott movement and anti-German propaganda in United States (1934). Also reports on subject from Holland, Soviet Union, England, and South America.

350 Information of SD Nord about the emigration of Jews to Norway. 1935. 2 pp. Report on Emigration of Jews to Norway (December 1935).

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354 Newspaper clippings devoted to the Jewish question. 1935 - 1937. 111 pp.

German press items about pro-Jewish activities in Austria (July 1937). Jews in Austria. Austrian press on anti-Semitism, activities by Austrian Jews aimed at Germany. German press on Jewish machinations and violations of laws in Austria. German press on growing influence by and number of Jews in Austria ("Austria - A Second Palestine?")

355 Information about the history of Jews in Romania and Czechoslovakia. 1935 - 1939. 23 pp.

Jewry in Romania (January 1935) with statistical material. SD report on Jews in Czechoslovakia (March 1939).

370 Gestapo correspondence about analysis of Jewish literature. SD Süd - West division report about the possibilities of emigration of Jews to Holland, England, and France. Article from American newspaper about performance given by group of Jewish actors from Vienna. Other materials devoted to the Jewish question. 1935 - 1940. 44 pp.

SS - SD: Extension of Law about Reestablishment of Career Officials, with directives to all administrative regions to identify all Jewish employees and institute proceedings against them. Takeover of Jewish and Hebrew collection in city library of Frankfurt and setting up of Research Institute on Jewish Writings. Stuttgart SD to Sicherheitshauptamt Berlin (February 1939): "Jewish Emigration." Report on number of Jews in Switzerland. Unsourced leaflet about German men in Lemberg charging that they were killed by Jews and their bodies doused with petroleum and burned. Gestapo to Reichssicherheitshauptamt about items and artifacts found in burned-down ruins of Wilhelshaven synagogue (May 1940). Handwritten list of Czech Jewish communities with names of rabbis, their salaries, qualification, etc. (no identifying date or source).

378 Correspondence between German Labor Front and SD about Jews who were members of the Nazi party. 1935 - 1937. 21 pp.

Reports on Nazis still living with Jews, or Jews becoming Party members under false pretenses, or joining German Labor Union (DAF).

379 Draft of the law on the situation of Jews in Germany. Edict dated 11 March 1812 [sic]. Attitude towards the Jewish people. Gestapo report about discussion in the German Ministry of the Economy about the limitation of rights of Jews in Germany. Other materials on the Jewish question. 1936. 127 pp.

1933 "Introduction to Jewish Laws": draft for anti-Jewish legislation and supporting material, such as "Development of Legal Standing of Jews in Prussia since 1816." Prussian State Laws pertaining to Jewry promulagated from 1806-1883. Various Gestapo and SD reports on the Jewish Question. Measures against Jews and Jewish business owners. Report (multiple copies) about 20 August 1935 Conference in Reich Economic Ministry about the practical solution of the Jewish question. Reichbank President Schacht emphasizes adverse impact of anti-Jewish measures on economy and trade, and Heydrich contention that more severe measures must be taken to inhibit Jewish freedoms in the economy and in their private lives. Various reports on demonstrations and occasional lootings at Jewish businesses in Berlin. Order by Berlin Police president forbidding individual actions by some Nazi

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members against Jewish businesses. Gestapo message to all Ministers and Führer Deputy about "Proposals for the Solution of the Jewish Question."

380 Law for the protection of Nazi organizations' names. Minutes of the meeting of the Union of Jewish Women about the change of the name of the organization, which is parallel to the names of Nazi organizations. German Labor Front letter to the Committee on Peoples Health about regulations for accepting new members in the G.L.F. 1936 - 1938. 28 pp.

Message to Gestapo Berlin about "Actions by the Illegal Communist Party in Connection with Actions Against Jews" (July 1938). SD report on anti-Jewish demonstrations against prominent Jewish enterprise in Stuttgart misused by illegal communists for their own agitational purposes. Directive addressed to authorized Jewish organizations not to use organizational terminology used by Party.

382 Anonymous circular "What will 1936 Bring?", sent to the Regierungspräsident of Aachen. Reviews of book, "Melusine," [sic] by the Jewish writer Wassermann. Review of book by Frieda Meller, "Fairytale about Friday." Copy of article by Doctor Erick Bishof, "Cabbala." Other materials about Jewish literature. 3 March 1936 - 28 December 1938. 164 pp.

Various anonymous writings purporting to be foreign views on the Jewish question. One is "What is to be done with the Jews," characterized as "one of the worst samples of defamatory literature by Germany's opponents abroad." Official exchanges on type of literary material Jews emigrating from Germany can take with them. Various examples of prohibition of books by Jewish writers. Listing of Jewish lithurgical music located in the Jerusalem National Library. Anti-German brochure with wide circulation, "The Foundation of the Jewish People - a Necessary Accounting" (December 1938).

386 Review of activity of International Zionist Organization. September - October 1936. 15 pp.

"The Zionist World Organization," Part II: section deals with Zionist Organization for Germany (ZVfD), with tasks as seen by German security authorities. (for Part I, see folder 398 below).

387 Review of activity of agricultural and horticultural establishments for retraining Jews to emigrate. Urgent letter of SS to its district in Kiel, Breelable, Malle, Kassel, and other cities about requalification camps and similar matters. 8 August 1936 - 13 June 1939. 96 pp.

More material on training of Jews in Aryan businesses, on farms, etc. Most cover agricultural training and gardening training.

396 Reports of agents about the preparation of bacteriologic war in Germany by Jewish organizations and about anti-Hitler speeches of Jews. 27 April 1936 - 5 December 1939. 5 pp.

Copy of SD report on Antroposophical Association and on Jewish economic measures against Germany.

397 Report "International Jewish Union Ayudas Israel," volumes 1 and 2. Appendix: List of members of the union. 24 July 1936 - 20 March 1937.

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430 Review of Jewish political organizations in Germany (with tables). 15 February - 15 April 1936. 39 pp.

Political organizations of Jews in Germany, with tables of organization.

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431 Statistical materials about the emigration of Jews all over the world. 21 January 1936 - 12 July 1940. 201 pp.

Various Gestapo and other official reports on contemporary Jewish movement in Berlin, on "Freemasons, Jews, Emigrants, Expatriates," with statistics from Jewish press, also on numbers of Jews around the world. Development of Jewish population in Germany, February 1933 - January 1937 (number of Jews still in Germany in 1937: 392,000). Gestapo information on where Jews who had left Germany had moved to, including lists of Jews returning to Germany, and from where, in 1938. Various incidental statistics about Jewish emigration, on internal Jewish emigration from small cities to large ones. List of Jews of foreign nationality in Germany (July 1938: 40,000; stateless: 17,000). Various articles from the Information Service of the Party. Race Policy Office Headquarters. Report from Commander, Security, Police, and SD Posen (Poznan), November 1939: "Jewish Question in Occupied Territory." More statistics on Jews in Germany, 1940. May 1940 report: current Jewish population internationally (lists 1,269,000 for Generalgouvernment Poland).

433 Newspaper articles about Jewish emigration to Sweden. 10 January 1936 - 4 November 1938. 4 pp.

Article on Jewish immigration in Sweden.

433a Newspaper and journal articles concerning the trial of the Jew, Frankfurter, who killed NSDAP member Wilhelm Gustav [or Gustav Wilhelm]. 6 September 1936 - 12 January 1937. 381 pp.

Various reports from German and foreign Jewish papers, as well as non-Jewish German press. Whole series of reports, before and during, on Frankfurter trial in Chur, Switzerland (he was accused of killing a Nazi official, Gustloff). November - December 1936. Report on sentence: eighteen years in prison. Innumerable domestic and foreign press comments after the verdict. Various press reports on Jewish issues, Jewish education, youth movements and universities, sports, etc. (primarily from Swiss Jewish press). Various reports from German Jewish press (1936). Private exchange of letters between Count Pilate von Tassel and Count Coundenhove-Kalergi (July 1938). Jews in Finland (February 1939). Reports on Jewish emigration from Danzig (Gdansk) and Czechoslovakia (March 1939 - April 1939). Correspondence dealing with handling of inheritance of Colonel Jodl, General Staff and Section Chief in Reich War Ministry (April 1937). Copy of crudely prepared leaflets, undated: "The Hitler Regieme's Policy Leads to War. Therefore, Vote No".

434 SD district reports about investigations into the race of Robert Mendelson, Leo Levenstein, Borovitch, and others. 11 February 1936 - 8 January 1938. 20 pp.

Report from Racial Purity Research Department concerning racial purity of various employees in War Ministry. Report to Heydrich by Navy officer about an allegedly Jewish Navy officer, including correspondence in the case. Other case reports inquiring about and reporting on Jewish background of various individuals.

435 SD districts reports about Jewish emigration to Brazil. 30 June 1936 - 22 December 1938. 4 pp.

More material on Jewish emigration.

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436 SD unit reports and newspaper articles about financial support to Jews from organizations abroad to help emigration from Germany. 5 January 1936 - 24 February 1938. 7 pp.

Reports on various efforts by German Jews and their leadership to get other countries (particularly United Kingdom) to accept large numbers of emigrants. Financial reports (requested by Gestapo) by Jewish officials in Germany, specifically money collected by Keren Hayessod and Keren Kayemet (February 1938).

449 Translation of Jewish newspaper "Vorwärts" article about the emigration of Jews from Germany. Inquiry list for Jews who left Germany, and other materials about Jews' emigration. 18 May 1836 - 15 August 1939. 108 pp.

Number of items dealing with Jewish emigration, among them: correspondence between German Jewish organizations and their counterparts abroad, series of emigration questions at Vienna's Central Emigration Office headed by Eichmann (November 1938), Jewish emigration from Eastern Europe (December 1938), German emigration statistics, 1936 - 1938, report on discussion at Berlin Gestapo headquarters with Eichmann on financing Jewish emigration from Austria, and Gestapo reports about individual Jewish emigrants (August 1939).

459a SD unit telegrams, correspondence with Zionist groups about emigration of foreign Jews, and stateless Jews. 14 February 1936 - 28 June 1938. 154pp.

Material from SD (Sicherheitsdienst) Main Office: removal of foreign Jews and stateless persons from boards of Jewish political organizations in European countries other than Germany, report inquiring what actions were taken regionally and locally to remove these Jews from their position, and individual reports on non-German Jews who have left their positions. This is interspersed with rules and by-laws of various German Jewish organizaitons.

469 German Press Agency letter to the Ministry of Propaganda about persons working in Palestine for the Agency. SS report about Communist members of the "Union of Bird Lovers." 30 April 1936 - 4 February 1938. 8 pp.

Report to Reich Ministry for National Enlightenment and Propaganda about the German news bureau in Palestine and about its staff.

470 Paul Berngardt letter to Alfonse Lovener about his impressions of Palestine. Notes concerning Jewish emigration to Palestine. 3 January 1936 - 3 August 1939. 36 pp.

Copies of letters from German Jewish emigrants from Palestine. Incidences of circumvention of Race Laws pertaining to female house help (January 1936). Report on Jews with farm work training. Report on mass Jewish emigration from Württemberg area. Report about illegal Jewish transport to Palestine from Danzig (August 1939). Report: "700 Jews - Their Customs and Habits," about a trip on a Greek freighter from Romania to Palestine.

472 Confiscated letters of German emigrants about activities against Jews in Germany. Copy of "November Battles in Germany." 28 November 1936 - 26 July 1939. 75 pp.

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Report on "offensive and propagandistic" junkmail distributed through postal system, allegedly prepared by Jews. "Hate literature" from Norway, confiscated by Gestapo, consisting of letters expressing outrage over treatment of German Jews (November 1938). Similar material from Denmark. Report on anti-German demonstrations in New York (November 1938). Samples of foreign anti-Nazi propaganda. Series of unidentifiable photo negatives.

485 SD and Gestapo correspondence about Jewish emigration from Austria and prohibition of Jewish organizations. Article: "Terror in Danzig. Poison of Hitlerism is Being Spread." 13 June 1936 - 7 September 1939. 23 pp.

Copies of British press reports about Nazi terrorism in Gdansk (June 1936). Reports on various Jewish organizations. Reports on Jewish emigration from Austria (June 1938). Report on defacing of Jewish businesses in Magdeburg (June 1938). Report on Jews located in West German military fortified areas (August 1938). Expressed intentions to dissolve a number of Jewish groups (August 1938).

489 Correspondence with SS regarding Jewish prayer book and translation of its first pages. Prayer book and Torah appended [sic]. 25 September - 18 October 1936. 13 pp.

Translations of various Jewish traditional inscriptions from the Torah and from other implements, with reprints of pages from Hebrew prayer books (September 1936).

490 Correspondence with SS and SD about financial support of Jews by Jewish communities and about remittance of money abroad. 8 August 1936 - 25 April 1939. 11 pp.

Reports on amounts of collection for Jewish Winter Aid and Assistance. Various German press reports changing Jews with currency trading and race defilement. Treatise on Care of Indigent Jews. Report on money collections within Jewish community.

494 Correspondence with SD and German Labor Front about removal of Jewish signs [symbols?] from stamps [rubber stamps?] and about an opportunity to use the Jewish representative of the aviation firm Junkers. 28 March 1936 - 19 June 1937. 13 pp.

Series of reports with facsimile reproduction of Jewish symbols on various official stamps. Jewish representative of Junkers Airplane Company.

495 Correspondence with SD, SS, and others about accounts and searching for Jews. 96 pp.

More on peculiarities of regional official seals and stamps (see folder 494). From Chief, SD, concerning "Surveillance of Jewry," with report that after Hitler's accession a large number of German Jews were baptized as Protestants or Catholics in order not to arouse suspicion of neighbors. Gestapo report (July 1937) about setting up a card index of German Jews and how such a file is to be structured. Gestapo request to regional offices to report statistically on resident Jews, including questionnaire to be used. More reports on surveillance of German Jews.

498 Correspondence with Gestapo headquarters by SD sections on the transfer and destruction of lists and books on secret investigations (1936 - 1938) [Above title may be a mistranslation by the Russians. Actually: miscellaneous correspondence (seized?) regarding case of David Frankfurter. 1936]. 25 pp.

500-1-

Correspondence with Austrian Jewish organizations concerning publication of material.

499a Mission of SD II 112 as a result of the decree of 1 July 1937 (Funktionsbefehl) with attachments regarding laws affecting Jews and lists of the important Gestapo directives on the Jewish question. Related correspondence with SD sections. Comments on removal of foreign Jews. 115 pp.

Whole series of reports from SD (Sicherheitsdienst) on removal of foreign and stateless Jews from Jewish cultural organizations. Includes excerpts from high-level Gestapo discussions concerning this action. Inspection of training facilities for manual and occupational jobs of Jews. List of various laws pertaining to Jews (Judengesetze). List of important Gestapo edicts from 1936-1937 pertaining to the regulation of Jewish private and public activities (example: "Race Violation in Jewish Hotels, Sanatoriums, and Pensions"). Report to Gestapo by Jewish Cultural Federation Berlin (July 1937) on leadership, board members, and artistic and technical personnel. Those of foreign origin are underlined.

501 Special department circulars for persons and establishments related to the Jewish press about searching for Jewish intelligentsia, attitudes toward the Jewish press, and publishing and dissemination of Jewish literature, etc. 15 June 1937 - 18 February 1938. 73 pp.

Questionnaire for accreditation of Jewish press activities. Round-robin letter from Special Section of Reich Ministry for National Enlightenment (Volksaufklärung) and Propaganda, July 1937, to individuals belonging to Jewish press organizations and enterprises. Subject: "Basic Directives for Dealing with Matters Pertaining to the Jewish Press." Also, directives on how to deal with certain newspapers and magazines. Regulation of individual cases concerning retail and commerce of Jewish book trade. Directive to publishers of Jewish papers informing all involved that as of immediately (January 1936) the Jewish press is forbidden to report on how Romanian authorities deal with their Jewish problem. Other directives and reports taking Jewish press to task for "tendentious" reporting, forbidding press to reprint items from non-Jewish papers or any kind of criticism of official measure by Polish authorities concerning the Jewish question (June 1937). Report from Special Section in Propaganda Ministry on "Surveillance of Intellectually and Culturally Active Jews and non-Aryans Within the Reich" (July 1937).



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506 SD-Hauptamt II 112, working folder on the Judenfrage (Eichmans's?), 1937 - 1938. Lecture notes by Eichmann, "Judenfrage als Problem" with collection of reference materials e.g., fragment of SD(?) report on political organization of Jews in Germany. Reviews of political and judicial postion of Jews and their organizations. Articles about the SD struggle against Jews. 135 pp.

Report on political situation among Jews in Germany. Heydrich request (September 1938) for priority report on "The Financing of Austrian Opponents Prior to Nazi Takeover" (results of research among Austrian Jewish organizations). Report: Jewish Question as a Problem with sections on "Judaism as the Internal Opponent," "Judaism as International Opponent," "Struggle Against Judaism." Population Trend among German Jews, February 1933 to January 1937. Lists where emigrants want to go. Report on "Assimilation - The Historical Development." Issues and Questions for SD concerning struggle against Judaism. Mentions that special task is to combat assimilation: "One of the most essential tasks of the SD concerning the Jewish question...is the suppression of all efforts at assimilation and the promotion of all efforts aimed as emigration." Secret report on Judaism (1938): one section (November - December 1938) deals with events as result of Grynszpan shooting of von Rath. After pointing out that activities were undertaken to destroy synagogues and Jewish businesses (Kristallnacht), the report notes: "occasionally this destruction took on completely senseless proportions. For example, as the result of rash acts or ignorance on part of the participants, a number of valuable archival items from synagogue property or from Jewish archives were burned or destroyed in some other way. In some places valuable paintings were slashed."

509 Review of activity of the International Jewish Union and "Agudas Israel", page 1, 20 March 1937. 47 pp.

SD report on World Organization of Agudas Yisrael (July 1936). With maps of locations of organization offices and members in Germany. Includes directives for SD surveillance of regional and central organizations.

509a Reviews of history of the Jewish people. 4 June - 23 July 1937. 46 pp.

Report: "History and Intellectual Development of Judaism (frequently duplicates report cited in Folder 506). Source index to topic "Freedom of National Socialist Press."

513 Report "The Political Situation inside Zionism in Germany." Jewish newspaper "Central Ferenzeitung" [sic]. 6 May 1937. 21 pp.

Report: The Political Situation within German Zionism. Facsimile of CV (Centralverein) Zeitung (Central paper of German Jews) - 100 year anniversary issue. (Interesting aspect: pages of advertising for sales and services, showing extensive and varied Jewish business activities throughout Germany - at least up to 1937).

514 Minutes of the meeting for advancing the qualification of Jewish teachers in Breslau. Namelist of requalification camp personnel. Report of SD unit about a Jewish school quarrel in Breslau. 16 March 1937 - 27 March 1939. 84 pp.

More reports on Jewish job retraining centers, including regional SD reports (1937). Report on Jewish training vessel "Theodor Herzl." Reports on Jewish teachers assiciation meetings. List of participants in various occupational retaining centers.

515 SS reports, newspaper clippings, and other materials concerning the emigration of Jews to the United States. 15 March 1937 - 17 February 1939. 15 pp.

Various reports for period on Jewish emigration: where to, how many, etc. 1937 report on Jewish emigration to North America (since July 1933).

517 An abstract from the report of SS Obersturmführer Spengler about the possibility of using the State Secret Archives,Potsdam, in Department IV activities dealing with Communists and other leftists. 20 November 1937. 4 pp. (Reel 183, end)

521 SD report about the "International Congress against Anti-Semitism and Racism." 7 December 1937. 19 pp.

Report on "Enemy Organizations" (December 1937): Congress of Rassemblement Mondial Against Racism and Antisemitism.

524 Heizen Emigration Bureau [sic] reports and correspondence with the Reich Emigration Bureau regarding Jewish emigration. 7 January 1927 - 8 June 1938. 83 pp.

Advertising and Promotion of Jewish emigration by Hanseatic Travel Agency. Report of Reich Organization for Emigration about lack of facts concerning planned Jewish colonization in Brazil, hence no official support can be given. Hanseatic Travel Agency report about Ecuador Settlement Project. Travel agency reports that British troop transport to Jamaica refuses to take Jewish emigrants abroad. Numerous exchanges by Jewish and travel organizations as well as Ecuadorian embassy about emigration possibilities to Ecuador. Eventual conditional approval by competent German organizations of emigration plans for Ecuador.

527 SD reports about ritual murders and the organization of a secret union of Jews in Leipzig. 2 April 1937 - 26 February 1939. 13 pp.

Würzburg Stapo (Staatspolizei) report about arrest of 7 Jews for alleged ritual murder of a five-year old boy in March 1929 (report with this information is dated May 1937). SD Munich report on "Terrorist Group to Combat National Socialism" involving "Jewish WWI Veterans" (pertains to an organization in Austria), December 1937. Report from Leipzig about secret Jewish organizations (February 1939).

530 A report of regional department of German Labour Front in Köln-Aachen about anti-government remarks of German woman, Rose Rosen. 21 - 27 January 1937. 6 pp.

Report from Cologne about spreading of "horror" stories. One woman employed in a store told her colleagues the Führer has the feeling that he is constrained by chains, and he has frequent attacks of raving madness; the Party is going to be dissolved, nobody says "Heil Hitler" anymore in Berlin; in a few months we will be surprised to see what is going to happen; and Göring is supposed to become Kaiser (January 1937).

532 SD reports about boycott against Jewish stores in Frankfurt-am-Main, and spreading of anti-government leaflets by Jews. 6 December 1937 - 3 July 1945. 21 pp.

SD report about boycott of Jewish businesses in Frankfurt (March 1938). Discovery of anti-Nazi literature. SD asks for samples of anti-Nazi pamphlets reportedly prepared by Jews. Samples of anti-Nazi literature originating in Frankfurt, official exchanges concerning these pamphlets. Text of "Zollschau Plan," a movement against race hatred and antisemitism (December 1936). Search for Zollschau in Karlovy Variy, and report that he has fled the country.

534 Agency "Havas" reports about the attempt to kill Hitler. "Basel News" report about Helmut Hirsch [?] being suspected in attempt to kill Julius Streicher. "Le patriote" report about Jewish counterfeiters. 26 April 1937 - 11 March 1939. 8 pp.

Report based on Bucharest paper item about a plot against Hitler, entitled "Chief of the Plot is a Jew, an American citizen [Helmut Hirsch]" (April 1937). Item from Basler Nachrichten (June 1937) about the execution of 20-year old Helmut Hirsch. Press report about Jew charged with major swindle, and his escape from Belgium (November 1937). Other foreign press reports, reprinted in Nazi papers, about a rabbi dealing in heroin, Jewish counterfeiters, etc.

537 Breslau SS report about confiscation of the property of a lodge of the Jewish independent order of B'nai B'rith. Includes inventory of property. 15 September 1937 - 12 December 1938. 31 pp.

Report about confiscation of money belonging to Jewish organizations (September 1937). Gestapo directive to state governor in Breslau about "Dissolution of `Independent Order of the Bris'" (women's organization). Listing of confiscated funds of anti-state organizations and individuals (mostly Jewish women's organizations). Index of items confiscated during closing of facilities of Independent Order of the Bris (itemized room by room). SD memo on "Expatriation of Enemies of the State" and action taken in Düsseldorf to expatriate Jewish Freemasons, etc. (December 1938).

549 SD II file of reports on the resolution of the Judenfrage in Germany: includes reports from the Auswaertiges Amt, 1937 - 1939. 74 pp.

Nazi press (October 1937). Item: "The Elimination [Auscheidung] of the Jews," dealing essentially with Nazi emphasis on having them leave as soon as possible. From Chief, SD, to Reich leader SS and Chief of German Police: "Policy Concerning Jews" (March 1938), primarily about German inability to facilitate Jewish emigration to Palestine. Statistics: 400,000 Jews in Germany, 250,000 in Austria. Proposal: encourage the following to emigrate: the unpropertied, anti-social Jewish proletariat; the remaining infirm and indigent Jews. Those not encouraged to emigrate: all wealthy Jews, all well-known Jews, and those suitable as hostages. SD report about Gauleiter Streicher contention (July 1938) that as a result of Anschluss the Jewish problem has reached a stage at which basic decisions can no longer be avoided. The issue can no longer be dealt with propagandistic means. SD report that Reichs Economic Minister Funk is opposed to the marking of Jewish stores because that could lead to their ruin and he wants to eventually aryanize these businesses intact. Report "About Proposals, Respectively Practical Measures Concerning Jewish Question." Notes that too many organizations and offices are dealing with the issue and time has come to centralize effort. Response by SD to a memo by a Viennese "Concerning Proposal for Planned Solution of Jewish Question in the Reich." SD notes: "...in the meantime the State has taken thorough measures for the final clearing up [Bereinigung] of the Jewish question in Germany." Exchange of letter between Viennese plan proponent (Dits) and various Gestapo and other organizations. Includes a draft reply to Dits (who had sent plan originally to Hitler) "that your attempt at finding a solution to the Jewish question, while commendable, cannot however be practically implemented." Central to that plan is a fully self-sufficient Ghetto structure in one of the German colonies. Memo: "Concerning the Scientific Treatment of the Jewish Question." Memo: "The Jewish Question as a Foreign Policy Factor in 1938." Deals essentially with aim to remove Jews from economic life, an effort accelerated in the aftermath of the von Rath killing. Extensive discussion about what foreign countries are willing and what they can do for the Jews. Foreign office sends copies of to all Reich ministries of a Roosevelt letter to Mussolini (7 December 1939) concerning solution of German question through a settlement in Abyssnia, and Duce's reply. Foreign office points out that Italian Foreign Ministry's views on creating a Jewish state, no matter what size and under what conditions, represent "a threat to German interests." Memo on German attitude toward creation of a Jewish state in Palestine (June 1937).

550 Correspondence with SD and referats' notes about Jewish emigration to Palestine and Alabama, and Jewish participation in "Winterhilfe" in Germany. 31 January 1937 - 17 July 1939. 58 pp.
Unsourced memo on Jewish emigration, February 1933 - 31 January 1937.

Unsourced memo on Jewish emigration, February 1933 - 31 January 1937. SD report on Jewish schooling and retraining for emigration. Report on Jewish Winter Aid Program (reports on regional collection and amounts). Report on "Intended settling of 30,000 underpriviledged Jews in Alabama in the U.S." (June 1938). Various reports on intentions for creating a Jewish state in Palestine. Various reports and memos on funds belonging to German Jewish organizations, and social support for Jewish representation in the Reich. SD and other memos on measures for emigration, including the promotion of emigration of underpriviledged Jews (February 1939). Report from Vienna's "Palestine Office" about current major projects for Jewish emigration (July 1939).

554 Regulations of the Zionist Youth Union in Berlin "Lehavei," the newspaper of the Zionist union "B.Z.V." and other materials of the Zionist union in Berlin. 29 May - 27 July 1937. 40 pp.

Report on Zionist Youth Organization Hechaver (with correspondence dating back to 1922 and the founding of the organization). Related reports from Berlin Zionist press.

556 Bulletin of the Social Democratic Party of Germany about the movement against Jews. Leaflets about pograms in Germany, November 1933. In German, French, and English. 26 February 1937 - 26 May 1940. 83 pp.

Gestapo Hamburg: "Jewish Ads Affixed to German Reich Postal Mailboxes." Gestapo report on anti-German propaganda in Switzerland. Various report about the impact of German Kristallnacht pogroms in different German cities (in English). Reports (from foreign sources)with note not to make available to German Jews in order to protect them against punishment. There is one report in a series on "Pogroms in Germany," this one on concentration camps, including comments of an inmate, "On the day of von Rath's funeral with eyewitness report about Nazi excesses and brutality." Reports on "The Persecution of Jews" (some seem to be from Deutschland Berichte der Synode") (August 1939). Details of events in various occupied areas, including Austria.

557 SS Darmstadt telegram to the Minister of Interior about actions against Jews in Heisenstamm [sic]. 7 May 1937. 2 pp.

Excesses against Jews in Darmstadt area (15 headstones overturned in Jewish cemetary) and others damaged.

576 Notes and newspaper clipping about Jewish emigration to Costa-Rica. 18 August - 5 November 1937. 3 pp.

Reprint from "Palestine-Post (August 1937): "Colony for German Jewish Refugees."

580 Quotes from English prime minister B. Disraeli's book about the role of Jews in social life of Europe. SD reports about Jewish behavior in Danzig. 1 January 1937 - 20 January 1938. 4 pp.

Incidental items about Disraeli, and ways in which Jews compensate for their isolation.

583 Newspaper clippings concerning Palestine problem. Twentieth Zionist Congress. Newspaper articles and other materials on the Jewish problem. 8 August 1937 - 11 November 1939. 88 pp.

Mostly Swiss press report about Zurich Zionist Congress (August 1937). SD reports (28 press items): "Press views in southeast sector (Bavaria, et. al.) about Palestine Problem" (August 1937). SD report about 20th Zionist Congress in Zurich (3-16 August 1937), press reports about Congress. Report on Reich Organization of Jews in Germany. Annual situation report by SD and SS (November 1938). Points out organizational shortcomings and includes description of purposes of Report. Contains details at central and regional levels about "Laws, Directives, and Measures by the State and their Effort" pertaining to Jews. In detailed section on further developments there is an item "Final Solution of Jewish Question is Expected." Another section of Report in entitled : "Jewry - General Development and Oppositional Work and Defense Against It." Detailed report on "Struggle of National Socialism Against Jewry" (December 1938). Statistics: Jews in the old Reich as of 1 January 1938 (former Austria as of March 1938) 370,000 (Austria 191,000). Emigration: 32,248. Expulsion of Polish Jews 14,000. Chart of the 48,000 Jews who emigrated from Austria between 15 March and 1 August 1938. Report of what happened during the night after von Rath was shot (9 November 1938). Detailed follow-up action and various proceedings against Jews in economic and public life.

584 Newspaper clippings concerning the Palestine problem and the Zionist Congress in Zurich. 4 September 1937. 5 pp.

More press reports on Zurich Zionist Congress and Palestine development (see also folder 583).

585 Newspaper clippings, articles, notes, and other materials concerning the Jewish position in Danzig. 25 October 1937 - 5 May 1939. 202 pp.

Foreign press reports on anti-Semitic disturbances in Danzig (October 1937). Dutch press reports (September 1937) on persecution of Jews in Germany. German consulat report about excesses against Jewish businesses in Danzig. Other reports on events involving Jews in Danzig. Gestapo report (December 1937) on "Jewish Question" in Danzig. SD report on retraining of Danzig and Polish Jews in Germany. Various foreign press reports about Jewish life in Danzig. Press reports: "Expulsion of Jews from Danzig: Jews still on Danzig soil after 1 April 1939 to be sent to concentration camp" (camp was to be set up in Praust). Report on emigration of Jews from Danzig.

597a Correspondence of the Zionist union and Jewish communities in Germany, rabbis and others with SS about the elimination of foreign Jews from the councils of Jewish political organizations. Namelist of Jews eliminated and those who got permission to work on the councils. 13 September 1937 - 9 September 1938. 302 pp.

File, SD of RFSS-SD Main Office: "List of Special Hardship Cases (Foreign Citizens) - names of various individuals, positions held (prepared for Gestapo by chairman of Berlin Jewish Community, 1 March 1938. List of "Indispensable Rabbis and Cantors." List of Special Hardship Cases (stateless persons). Lists of civil servants and staff considered indispensable, list of teachers in particular Hebrew teachers, list of employees in hospitals, old age homes, etc., and their kitchen staff. Series of supplemental names in various above categories. List of authorized foreign citizens and stateless persons. Response of German Zionist Organization (September 1937) to order that all foreign national and stateless employees are to be dismissed from major German Jewish organizations within two months. Series of Zionist Organizations communications to Gestapo about above order. Series of responses of other German Jewish organizations to this order. List of foreigners and stateless persons separated form Jewish organizations in December 1937. Individual letters to Gestapo from Jews affected by this order.

597b Correspondence with the Central Bureau of Jewish Emigration, members of SD, SS of Koblenz, newspaper clippings, statistical tables and other materials about Jewish emigration from Germany. 1 January 1937 - 16 April 1940. 225 pp.

Jewish Emigration from Germany, Ostmark (Austria) and Bohemian and Moravian Protectorates in First Quarter of 1940. Assorted official and private correspondences about emigration, possibilities, places, etc. Various foreign press reports about international attitudes toward Jewish emigrants. Gestapo, SD reports about "Report from the League of Nations" (August - September 1938) about International Handling of Jewish Question. Correspondence received by official SS organization (Schwarze Korps) about Jewish emigration and money Germany could acquire by taxing emigrants (July 1938). SD telegram about enforced speed-up of Jewish emigration from the Palatinate. Various Gestapo authorizations of money transfers abroad by Jews. Report by Berlin correspondence of Daily Telegraph: "In one Month Alone the German Central Bank had a Two Million Pound Profit as the Result of Jewish Emigration." Gestapo announcement (February 1938) that the Agency for the Study and Promotion of Jewish Settlements Abroad has been dissolved. Item on Jewish emigration from Germany (1937), including various regional reports. Report: "The Extent of Jewish Emigration Since 1933" (through March 1937) where to, how many, and from where. List of foreign currency acquired by emigrants (in Reichsmark - RM) for the above period (total of around 117 million RM).

598 Correspondence with SS and SD members about the Jewish press. Jewish newspaper, "Deutsche Israelitishe Zeitung." 18 March 1937 - 5 November 1938. 20 pp.

Various SD reports on the German Jewish press, with copies of a Hamburg Jewish paper. Gestapo report about employment - want ads by Aryans in Jewish paper.

600 Correspondence with "Department of Investigation" and SD about Jewish property. 15 February 1937 - 2 November 1938. 9 pp.

Report (1937) that there are still around 42,000 Jews in the SS Main Sector - West. Various reports (1938) about recent increasing withdrawals by Jews of deposits in banks and savings institutions. Gestapo report (October 1938): "Improvement of Money Transfer Opportunities for the Jewish Emigration."

601a Photographs of participants of Jewish Congresses in Geneva, Marienbad, Lucern. Information about the size of Jewish population in the cities of Germany. 8 January 1937. 151 pp.

Various photo negatives (barely identifiable) of what seems to be Jewish groups and individuals, some identifying Frankfurt-am-Main as locale. Statistical lists of Jews (male and female) in Germany (undated 1931?) by states, provinces, and cities. (Note: this is the most detailed breakdown for all of Germany seen on these reels so far.)

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Various photo negatives (of members of Geneva Jewish World Congress: Ben Gurion; Berlin rabbis; Dr. Joachim Prinz; Ben-Locker with Einstein; Mrs. Adda Fischmann, Director of Jewish Women's Emigration to Palestine; Rabbi Fischmann; Rabbi Gold; R. Gavistia, deputy from Latvia; Herschel Jehuda Yagoda (Chairman, GPU, formerly Cheka); Emil Ludwig; "The Jewess Margherita Sarjatti; Private Secretary to Signor Mussolini; "Henrietta Szold; Chaim Waitzmann; plus photos of Congress meeting place, during meetings, etc.

602 Decrees, laws, directives, and notes on the exclusion of Jews from the social life of Germany (1938 - 1939). 91 pp.

forbidding Jews to make bets at and participate in lotteries). Police directive forbidding Jews access to certain areas in Berlin and times set aside for access (press item: "Banning of Jews in Berlin; Restrictions for Streets, Places, Parks, and Baths"). Various directives and laws excluding Jews from business life. Jews not allowed to drive cars. Numerous directives removing Jews from their homes and apartments, where and how they can live, whom they can employ, etc. Kristallnacht aftermath.

603 Idem. 1939. 59 pp.

Results of Goebbels order to prepare report about "Dealing with Jews in Every Aspect of Life in the Reich Capital" [reason: he had noticed that there are too many Jews on the Kurfürstendamm]. Overall view on the Jewish Question in the Reich. From Berlin police president: "Exhaustive Guidelines for the Treatment of Jews and Jewish Affairs" (July 1938). Mainz local reports about resident Jews (August 1938).

605 Project of emigration non-Aryans from Germany and letter of the chief of Central Emigration Bureau to the Ministry of Colonies of Italy about assistance in emigration. August 1938 - 11 March 1939. 13 pp.

Report about Italy's willingness to allow "non-Aryans" to emigrate to certain areas in its East African empire (October 1938).

609 Summary report of Ministry of Foreign Affairs about the importance of "Jewish question" for foreign policy of Germany in 1938. Report of Jewish association "Kerentelhai" [sic] about its activity from January 1934 to December 1937, and other materials on the "Jewish question". 1 September 1938 - 6 May 1939. 64 pp.

Report about Society of Friends (Quakers) and Emigration of non-Aryan Christians. Report about Keren Tel-Hai World Conference in Prague, January-February 1938. Various reports about activities of German Jewish organizations (February 1939). [This was reported on in this collection earlier]: "The Jewish Question as a Foreign Policy Factor in 1938." Travel report from England with focus on Jewish activities and their impact on trade. Regional report about Jewish-Catholic relations. Brochure dedicated to the Führer on his 50th birthday: "Outline of a Solution of the Multifaceted Jewish Question."

610 A report and correspondence of SD units and SS Landsregierungen about Zionist organizations. 23 July - 5 November 1938. 113 pp.

SD report on dissolution of "State Zionist Organizations" and their subdivisions in the entire area of the old Reich (August 1938). This includes lists of books and other items confiscated during closing operations, membership lists of various regional subdivisions. Also enumerated are details on how the whole operation is to be mounted. Organizational charts of "State Zionist Organizations."

612 A report about the activity of emigrants in Evian. 21 July - 22 October 1938. 46 pp.

Report about Evian Refugee Conference (July 1938). An SD report addressed to Himmler comes to the conclusion that "so far no practical results which would make the solution of the question of the wandering Jews easier have been reached" at the Evian Conference. "German Foreign Office round-robin statement (August 1938) concerning the refugee conference: it "assembled on the initiative of President Roosevelt" because he was being pressured by Jewish Wall Street financiers to start an action for helping their Jewish brethren. The report contends that Roosevelt acted "at least to show his `good will' without having to make any practical great sacrifices."

613 A report and newspaper clipping about Jewish emigration to Mexico. 1 February 1938. 4 pp.

Report from Mexico (October 1937) on "Exploitation of Natives by `German Jews'."

617 Final reports of a group processing Austrian documents concerning the activity of Jewish organizations in Austria. 18 May - 31 October 1939. Numerous final reports on Jewish organizations and publications. 1938 - 1939. 47 pp. 9 November 1938 - 19 January 1939. 47 pp.

Final report by "Ö-A.K. II 112 [special SD unit set up to analyze material confiscated from Austrian Jewish organizations] (October 1938). Ö-A.K. report on "Union of Austrian Jews" (October 1938). Final report (Ö-A.K.) "About the Alliance of Jewish Frontline Soldiers of Austria." Material from Vienna Jewish Community considered to be primarily historical "and not suitable for intelligence reports." Additional reports about Austrian Jewish newspapers, "The Israelite Theological School," etc.

619 A note about the work of II-112 department. 2 May 1938 - 28 February 1939. 4 pp.

Discussion of tasks for SD Department II A.

621 A note of II-112 referat about Jews to Italy. 15 January 1932. 1 page.

Concerning Jewish Emigration to Italy.

622 A note of II-112 referat about Jewish emigration to Paraguay. 22 October 1938 - 7 November 1938. 2 pp.

Jewish Emigration to Paraguay (November 1938).

622a Notes from newspapers about the trial of the Jew Grunszpan, who attempted to kill the secretary of the German Embassy in Paris. 8 November 1938 - 20 December 1938. 98 pp.

SD radio intercept of comments about "dastardliness" of Grynszpan action. French report that Grynszpan's uncle and aunt have been taken into custody. Berliner Tageblatt: "Background of the Murderous Attack" (8 November 1938). More French press reports about assassination. Foreign Service reports about foreign condemnation of Germany for Kristallnacht excesses. Goebbels piece in Völkischer Beobachter, 12 November 1938: "The Grünspan [sic] Case." Radio intercepts and foreign press reports about outrages against Jews. Report from Munich that Grynszpan came in handy to allow Nazis to unleash an attack on Jews that was not to take place until start of the war, and that this was personally directed by Hitler. Numerous foreign press reports analyzing Grynszpan act. Reports about Grynszpan and his stable of lawyers before the investigating magistrate. Reports translated from Soviet press on a number of issues, with little attention reportedly paid to the German government's "anti-Jewish measures."

623 Note of II-112 referat about confiscation of documents of the Independent Jewish Order B'nai-B'rith. Letter of a member of the Jewish lodge B'nai-B'rith to the president with a biography of Doctor Arthur Geiger. Diploma of lodge Montefer of B'nai B'rith. 4 November 1938 - 4 November 1939. 5 pp.

Analysis of the Grand Freemason Lodge VOBB (Berlin). Confiscated archive and records material stored in the basement of the SD Main Office.

625 References about arrangement and activity of the Central Jewish Emigration Bureau, (forms) for emigrants, and other materials concerning the Bureau's activities. 26 August 1938 - 16 June 1939. 139 pp.

Material from "Central Office for Jewish Emigration in Vienna" (30 August 1938). Material on initial organization and purpose of the office. Questionnaire for Jewish emigrants. Eichmann involved at this stage as chief of the Central Office. Report on "Directives for Dealing with the Jewish Question." SD directive for Heydrich to report to Berlin immediately for an extensive discussion about "actions against Jews" [eventually the word Aktion becomes at euphemism for describing murder of Jews and others] and "the general approach to be taken in future." Various descriptive reports about this Central Office to be set up in Vienna. Directive no. 4: "Guide for Getting Passport and other Travel Documents." Questionnaire for passport applicants (issued in Vienna), as well as forms to fill out concerning property and bank accounts by those applying for emigration and for permission to transport their belongings. SD documents from Central Emigration Office in Vienna. Refer among other things to an SD order pointing out that the office will deal only with Vienna and the lower Danube region. "Any further regulation of competences is not needed after the executive head of the Central Office, SS Obersturmführer Eichmann, will together with Gauleiter Bürckel carry out on order of the Reichsführer [Führerbefehl: Hitler order which must be carried out] for the final clean-up of Jews [Reinigung: this became a synonym for the elimination of Jewish life in an entire region] of the Ostmark (Austrian) provinces by 12 December 1938." Message from Reich Commissar for the Reunification of Austria with the German Reich, August 1938, citing as reason for setting up the Central Office "the bothersome interference and slow-down" in Jewish emigration from Austria. Squabbles over use of a Vienna building designated as Central Office headquarters between Eichmann and the military, which wants to use building as a casino. This in response to a plea by Austrian Jewish organizations to all concentration camp inmates who have the opportunity to emigrate: "SS Hauptsturmführer Eichmann proposes issuance of an order by Gestapo headquarters and Gestapo Vienna to stop the release of Jews from the Ostmark in the Dachau and Buchenwald concentration camps for as long as it takes for the emigration to reach its normal quota...." Report about Jewish emigration from former Austria (May 1939) including detailed chart about such emigration between March 15 and 1 August 1938 (figure of 40,000 is cited). Various reports about monetary and other assistance for Jewish emigrants in Vienna and generally.

626 References about Central Jewish Emigration Bureau. Announcements of the Bureau about the order of emigration. Weekly reports of the Jewish community in Vienna. 5 December 1938 - 6 July 1939. 26 pp.

Various items about amounts of money to be paid by emigrants before they can leave. Clipping from 16 June 1939, Manchester Guardian: "The Jews of Austria." Report by Vienna Jewish Community

Association about Jewish emigration handled by the Association between June 26 and 1 July 1939, with numbers and destinations.

627a Report on the position of the Protestant ("Political Protestantism") church in Germany. January 1938. 34 pp. (Reel 183, end)

628 Report on the Catholic Association of Academicians and its members. February 1938. 44 pp. (Reel 183, end)

630 Reports received from SD units about various actions against Jews by Nazi organizations. September - December 1938. 53 pp.

Various local Gestapo reports about anti-Jewish vandalism (September 1939), frequently blaming such actions on "Jewish provocation at the end of September" [period of heightened nervousness in Germany because of takeover of Czechoslovakia]. SD report about regained self-assurance by Frankfurt Jews, with examples of alleged arrogant behavior and suggestions about what could be done to curtail such behavior. Many of the reports about anti-Jewish vandalism argue that such acts were designed to urge Jews to emigrate or leave the locality. Copy of a report from Munich Central Jewish Association and its discussion with local police officials about these excesses. Police assured Association that these were not officially sanctioned acts, nor are they being tolerated and that those responsible will be punished. SD telegram referring to order from Reich and Prussian Interior Minister to move decisively against perpetrators of violent anti-Jewish acts (October 1938). SD report summarizing excess of September-October 1938, pointing out that incorporation of the Sudentenland caused tense situation in Germany, and that the Jews were guilty of repeated "provocations." Attached were photo negatives of a vandalized synagogue.

631 Reports from SD units about the spread of foreign and other propaganda within Germany regarding Kristallnacht, etc. November 1938 - February 1939. 188 pp.

Distribution of "hate literature" from abroad through German postal system (February 1939). Messages were pro-Jewish. Leaflet samples with anti-German message; one was in a shampoo ad sent from England. Pamphlets taking note of anti-Jewish excesses of 1938 in the wake of the von Rath killing.

632 Report about changes in work responsibilities arising from recent mobilization orders. November 1938 - January 1939. (Reel 184)

633 Correspondence about the Second International Jewish Congress in Amsterdam. Newspaper articles about the emigration of Jews to Holland. June - November 1938. 10 pp.

Jewish-Portuguese community in Hamburg.

634 Report about Jewish organizations. Correspondence with the Reichsführer-SS about the dissolution of same. January - October 1938. 124 pp.

Gestapo memo on dissolution of Jewish associations (October 1938). Copies of card file entries on individuals from Central Organization for Citizens of the Jewish Faith, Berlin (Centralverein). Extensive discussions about disbanding of CV. Memos of contacts between CV and Reich Economic Ministry.

635 Reports from SD units, newspaper clippings, and foreign radio broadcasts about the trial of a Jew [Grynszpan] who attempted to assassinate a German embassy official in Paris. April - November 1938. 232 pp.

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Additional material concerning Grynszpan shooting of von Rath. SD requests for all available information and memos that could establish Jewish conspiracy. Text of Order of the Day, Propaganda Ministry, 8 November 1938: "Concerning Jewish Assassination in Paris." German and foreign press reports about Grynszpan affair, including Goebbels interpretation of events. Lengthy SD effort to put Grynszpan case into proper Nazi perspective. Various items about preparations for Grynszpan trial. Effort to blame Jews for post-assassination pogrom, and to counter contentions from abroad that these excesses were organized by the Nazis when in reality they were "spontaneous" consequences of German popular outrage.

636 Code of a Jewish group in Germany and a report on its activities, with an accompanying list of members. September - October 1938. 107 pp.

Berlin Gestapo: monthly reports by Jewish Organizations: Reich Representation of Jews in Germany; Jewish Central Organization (Centralverein); Reich Association of Jewish World War I Veterans; Organization 1937; German Zionist Organization.

637 Case about the confiscation of the assets of Jewish welfare organizations by Nazi units. December 1938 - March 1939. 10 pp.

Memo about take-over of Jewish children's welfare homes by Volkswohlfahrt [Nazi party affiliate dealing with welfare organizations]. Memo on how to deal with Jewish welfare organizations during aryanization of institutions.

638 Report on the preliminary work of the Evian Committee concerning the deportation of Jews from Germany. December 1938 - March 1939. 84 pp.

Report about rumors that Reich Bank's President von Schacht is about to resign (December 1938). SD Vienna report about International Jewish Congress in New York (December 1938). Various reports about Berlin talks between Intergovernmental Committee (Evian meeting) and Reich government concerning promotion of Jewish emigration (February 1939). Foreign press clippings about emigration and how to finance it; also, von Schacht involvement in discussions on this subject. Göring report to various Reich ministers on outlook for emigration as a result of above Berlin talks. Among other things, he says: "The British and American governments have gotten a firm hold of the emigration issue." Press clippings about the Berlin talks and their aim.

641 Correspondence with the Reichsführer-SS about marriages between Jews and Aryans. Articles from a German law magazine about the legality of these restrictions and on violations of the Nuremberg Laws. September 1938 - June 1939. 63 pp.

Report to Himmler about marriages and extra-marital relations between "halfbreeds" [Mischlinge] first-grade and Germans. Various legal arguments about validity of such marriages, which are forbidden according to the Race Laws. Examples of circumvention of these laws; "Circumvention of Laws for the Protection of the Blood by Halfbreeds."

642 Written recordings of foreign radio programs about the discrimination against Jews in Germany. Reports about the relationship between the SD and a spy in Holland. December 1938 - April 1939. 8 pp.

643 Correspondence with the SD Northwest unit about training Jews in agricultural work in Flensburg. July - October 1938. 22 pp.
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Training of Jewish boarding school students on an agricultural estate outside Flensburg.

645 SD reports and information about the discrimination against Jews. June - July 1938. 91 pp.



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Various press items about legal measures to eliminate Jewish influence in the economy. SD report (5 June [sic] 1938): "Action Against Jews in Berlin between 17 and 21 June 1938." Point is made that this was a joint action between the regional leadership, the SA and the police. Reasons for the action are listed in detail. Also, mentions that popular reactions was mixed, that it violated Interior and Economic ministry decrees on how the marking of Jewish businesses is to be handled, and how this action goes counter to the efforts being made to attract foreign tourists. Various foreign press reports about this "furor antisemiticus" in Germany.

647 Telegram from Gestapo Leipzig and Berlin and remarks about the formation of a Jewish Central Department dealing with economic affairs, and the sale of Jewish property. February - May 1938. 9 pp.

Report about Jewish Central Organization (Centralverein), Berlin, September 1938.

649 Protocol of the meeting of the Jewish Deportation Committee. Reports about the Evian refugee conference. June - August 1938. 155 pp.

Agenda for the meeting of Reich Representatives of Jews in Germany (June 1938), with emphasis on Emigration Conference in Evian. Various reports, by Jewish organizations and by SD, about Evian Conference. Report to Bormann about origins and topics of Evian Conference.

650 Letters of the Jewish Assistance Union in Germany to the Gestapo and remarks by the SD about Jews with Soviet citizenship living in Germany. February 1938. 11 pp.

List of Soviet citizens to be expelled from Germany, setting date for departure (January 1938).

651 Letter written by the SIPO and SD head Heydrich to the leader of the Foreign Office asking the Japanese for an additional military attache for Shanghai. June - July 1938. (Reel 184)

655 Articles from a Jewish magazine. October 1938. 46 pp.

SD report about "Neue Zeit," central organ of Austrian Revisionist Zionists (October 1938). Letter from leader of Jewish People's Party of Austria to leader of Fatherland Front [Vaterländische Front] (March 1934). Letter to Austrian chancellor Schuschnigg from a member of the Jewish People's Party asking that his name be removed from list as Jewish member on the Cultural Council (January 1934). Letter to Ben Gurion, c/o Central Office of Zionist Organization, London, from editor of "Neue Zeit." Various items of correspondence between Jewish organizations abroad and the editor of "Neue Zeit" (1936).



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658 List of Jewish newspapers published in German. May 1938 - April 1939. 130 pp.

Regional official inquiries about distribution of German Jewish newspapers and magazines through non-Jewish outlets. Report that as result of Propaganda Ministry directive, Jewish newspapers publishers can no longer deliver copies to Aryan book stores (1938). Various regional SD reports about Jewish newspapers available locally.

659 Lists of influential Jews in Germany and their correspondence with the SD. December 1938 - November 1939. 135 pp.

Regional report: "Inventory of Influential Jews with German or Foreign Citizenship in the Reich." Cologne list also mentions their monetary worth and their holdings, such as stocks, property, land, etc. SD report (December 1938): Religious services in synagogues. Jewish communities continue to have services in synagogues not destroyed in November 1938 (Kristallnacht), mentioning that there is no law against it. The following proposal was submitted to Heydrich: "During the discussion conducted by General Field Marshall Göring it was agreed that all synagogues are to be destroyed. To conform with this measure we propose to empower all Stapo headquarters by internal directives to prohibit the use of any synagogue which was not destroyed with an appropriate directive to the respective German community." Report on heavy concentration of Jews in Vienna, and other regional reports about the migration of Jews from the countryside to the cities. Reich Minister for Church Affairs: what to do with ruins of Jewish synagogues. Pamphlet about transfer of qualified Austrian Jewish concentration camp inmates to Munich Vocational Rehabilitation School for Cooks and Bakers preparatory to emigration to Palestine (April 1939). SD Hauptamt II: "Insignia for Jews" (November 1938), by order of Heydrich, with samples of five proposed insignias. List of who would have to wear them. From SD, an insignia for Jews. Report by Göring to a meeting of Gauleiter: "...Furthermore, the Führer decided on Sunday that the visual identification of Jews as a matter of policy is not to be implemented. If such an action takes place he anticipates continuing excesses which could become increasingly widespread in some of the Gaue (Provinces)...." (8 February 1939). Follow-up SD messages retreat from insignia plan. From Reich Ministry of Interior: Jews are no longer to be awarded medals for World War I, but those who already have them can keep them (June 1939).

660 Article written by a farmer alleging crimes by Jews. February - October 1938. 35 pp.

Material about ritual slaughtering and Jewish attempts to avoid prohibition against it. (One way of circumvention is the importing of Kosher meat.) Correspondence to the Schwarze Korps (SS weekly) deploring the ritual slaughtering practices. Proposal to close the Reich office for Ritual Slaughtering.

667 Forms of the Central Jewish Emigration Bureau for emigrating Jews. 1938. 117 pp. (Reel 184)

668 Registration cards of Austrians sent for processing to P-1. March 1938. (Reel 184)

669 SD-Hauptamt II 112: newspaper clippings and other materials concerning the Jewish question. January 1938 - May 1939. 333 pp.

Various items related to the election of participants to the 14th Zionist Congress. Article on antisemitism in Tsarist Russia. Numerous items on emigration and potential target areas (mostly press clippings). Hanseatic Travel Buro report about different possibilities for Jewish emigration (October 1938). SD report that United States will reportedly promulgate a law to make Jewish emigration more difficult. It will be aimed in particular at the unauthorized entry of Jews (October 1938). Many other


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reports about measures in various foreign countries to expels their Jews, or avoid taking any Jews in, including reports of Jews being driven out of certain areas. Also a report of the indigenous Jewish population in various countries.

670 Idem, on emigration of Jews from Poland. January 1938. 4 pp.

Report on Polish government negotiation to facilitate the emigration of the country's Jewish population.

671 Idem, to Canada. February 1938. 1 page.

Press clippings on immigration in Canada.

672 Idem, to Madagascar. 1938. 2 pp.

More material, mostly press clippings, on Jewish emigration to various areas of the world, including Madagascar.

673 Idem, to Rhodesia. January - September 1938. 2 pp.

More press items about Jewish emigration possibilities.

674 Idem, to Australia. February - September 1938. 2 pp.

More on Jewish emigration.

675 SD reports on refusal of foreign states to receive German Jews. June 1938 - May 1939. 81 pp.

Secret SD report: "Emigration Organization in Vienna" (June 1938). Report about Austrian Jewish emigration to Finland. Various press reports about how various countries deal with growing Jewish immigration. SD Berlin inquires from Vienna about an "Illegal Transport of Jews to Palestine" (August 1938). More reports - SD and press - about Jewish efforts to emigrate and problems this creates in Switzerland, Belgium, Luxembourg, etc. SD report about illegal Jewish border crossings into Switzerland. Foreign press reports about persecution of Jews in Germany. SD contention that illegal emigration must be stopped, and that all emigration matters should be handled by Central Jewish Emigration Organization in Vienna. Various measures proposed and implemented by SD to stop illegal emigration efforts. Reports about various organizations promoting illegal emigration.

676 Gestapo and SX correspondence about the deportation of Jews and the emigration of Jews from Shanghai. November 1938 - June 1939. 9 pp.

More material - press and official - on emigration and destinations (mostly reports on emigration to Shanghai).

678 Correspondence with SD departments about the dissolution of Jewish libraries. April - November 1938. 22 pp.

Series of SD messages about the contents of the libraries of the VOBB [major German Jewish Masonic Lodge]. Gestapo decrees concerning the closing of all VOBB libraries.



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679 Correspondence with the SD in Austria and the Gestapo on Jewish emigration and the formation of Jewish cultural organizations. May 1938 - March 1939. 27 pp.

Propaganda Minister permits addressee to set up a Jewish theater in Vienna (May 1938) solely for Jewish audiences and prohibited from conducting any public activities. Later in folder there is a SD report (January 1939) that there is to be no Jewish theater in Vienna after all. SD plans for the establishment of a "Jewish Cultural Organization" in the former Austria (July 1938). Report from Central Jewish Emigration Organization: "Performances and Lectures by Jewish Organizations (in Vienna). Reich Propaganda Ministry Decree, 3 October 1938." SD conference on "Realignment of Jewish Cultural Life" (December 1938), touching on cultural organizations, film, schools, bookstores, and the financing of such endeavors.

680 Correspondence about demands to liberate a Jew. December 1938. 11 pp.

SD request for the release of a Jewish doctor from the Sachsenhausen concentration camp and reasons for the request. SD report that the doctor was actually in Buchenwald and was released in December 1938.

681 Correspondence with the SD and the Nazi Party on the Jewish question and the November pogrom. November 1938 - July 1939. 192 pp.

Chief, Sipo, to all Stapo offices: measures to Promote the Emigration of Underprivileged Jews. SD to Party Reich Welfare Organization: takeover of Jewish Welfare Organizations (June 1939). Letter from a German to Hitler (November 1938) deploring the excesses in the wake of the Grynszpan action, with accusations against Goebbels, et. al. for promoting this pogrom which the writer views as a blow against Hitler and what he pretends to stand for by his internal enemies. SD to Gestapo concerning Jewish Student Association (February 1939), and directive to disband these associations (November 1938). Various field reports on the existence of these organizations. SD transmittal of a pamphlet "The November Pogrom in Germany." SD Munich submits a pamphlet concerning "the action against the Jews" (February 1939), and another one entitled "Unmasked National Socialism." SD report about shortcomings in the handling of payments related to Jewish emigration. Also material on the transfer of Jewish money for emigration. Report to SD Berlin about SA and SS men arrested in Rosenberg because they totally demolished the local Jewish cemetery "which up to now had offended no one." (July 1939). Various reports about regional vandalism against Jewish businesses (December 1938).

682 Correspondence with the Central Jewish Emigration Bureau and the SD in Austria about the emigration of Jews to Africa. October 1938 - May 1939. 10 pp.

Reports about a so-called Gildemeester action concerning the emigration of Jews to Abessynia (February 1939). Report from Gildemeester Emigration Assistance Organization in Vienna to Vienna Central Jewish Emigration Organization and its head, Eichmann.

684 Law about agreements with Jews for renting flats, transportation restrictions on Jews, and other limits. February - June 1939. 56 pp.

Reich Transport Ministry directive forbidding Jewish use of railroad sleeping and dining cars. Berlin Organization for the Renewal of the Reich Capital, concerning new occupation of Jewish rental apartments. Law about rental contracts for Jews.



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685 Code of the Jewish organization in Austria and correspondence on the need to centralize Jewish organizations there. March 1939. 16 pp.

SD draft for centralization of Jewish organizations in former Austria (16 March 1939).

686 Order issued by the head of the Northeast SD unit about the necessity of providing well-organized deportations of Jews from Danzig and other materials on the emigration of Jews. February - March 1939. 23 pp.

Report on Nazi party Overseas Organization: Mukden. Report on Jewish emigration to Dominican Republic. From Vienna Central Jewish Emigration Organization: Statutes on Jewish Emigration from the Ostmark (former Austria), 15 December 1938 - 15 March 1939 (total of 22,799). Another item breaks this down by destination. Jewish emigration to Sweden and Iceland.

686a Directives sent to the heads of SD units about preliminary measures undertaken to deport Jews from Germany. February 1939. 18 pp.

SD Berlin to all SD regional leaders: Jewish emigration. Contains a reference to setting up of Reich Center for Jewish Emigration (January 1939). Related Sipo (Sicherheitspolizei) report about establishing a Reich Organization of Jews to help with the preparation for emigration.

687 Explanatory note of the manager of the evacuation of German populations to all regional representatives in Soviet-occupied Poland. December 1939 - January 1940. (Reel 184)

688 SD telegrams and correspondence from Jewish organizations about the deportations of Polish Jews from Germany. February - August 1939. 64 pp.

Expulsion of Polish Jews living in Germany. Report says move has been completed, and now they have permission to return to liquidate their assets and take care of other business matters. Related report, in detail, by Reich Representation of Jews in Germany (February 1939). Efforts by representatives of Polish Jews to prevent Poles from expelling Germans so that Germany does not expel Polish Jews. Extensive official and other materials on this issue. SD expresses concern that Polish tightening of border controls makes illegal deportation by Germans difficult.

692 Weekly reports of the Reichsvertretung, SD reports, and other materials about the deportations of Jews. February - August 1939. 66 pp.

SD Berlin to SD, Eichmann, in Vienna concerning illegal Austrian Jewish emigration to Palestine (February 1939). 27th weekly report on Emigration from Vienna's Jewish Community Organization. Report form Vienna Central Jewish Emigration Organization that the Germans are prepared to turn over the remains of Theodor Herzl, buried in Vienna "if the `Palestine Office' provides 10,000 supplementary emigration slots together with the funds required for such a large-scale emigration."

694 Reports written to the Gestapo by individuals about the illegal distribution of religious chain letters, Jewish involvement. January - March 1939. 37 pp.

Chain letter allegedly mailed by Jews, with regional SD reports on these subject. Examples are provided.



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716 Correspondence between the Gestapo and the SD about Jewish emigration. February - October 1939. 183 pp.

A series of reports and communications from and to the Gestapo and from private emigration and travel bureaus dealing with various aspects of Jewish emigration. Examples: SD memo to Sonderkommando Prague (April 1939) advising Stapo (Staats-Polizei) main offices that as of immediately the departure of Jews via former Czech territory is to be prevented; letter from Hanseatic Travel Bureau to Japanese Embassy, Berlin, on recent talks about emigration to Chinese areas under Japanese administration; Leipzig SD headquarters to Berlin about "Sabotage of Jewish Emigration" by Jews, intended to leave behind in Germany the "least desirable Jewish elements;" Gestapo Berlin (March 1939) concerning "Illicit Jewish Money Transfers Abroad;" various reports about Shanghai emigration; report concerning Jewish emigration, tracing developments since 1933; various domestic and foreign press reports about Jewish refugees, how they fare in various destinations; SD request to Vienna for report about Ostmark Jewish emigration in January 1939 and response (to Göring) that figure was 13,075 emigrants; discussion of requests for the release of Jews in Dachau and Buchenwald who have no relatives in the Reich (June 1939); SD report concerning items and money Jewish emigrants can take out, and where Jews can get advice on emigration.

717 Correspondence from the SD about the formation and activity of the Jewish Emigration Bureau in Stuttgart. April - June 1939. 44 pp.

SD reports about an Emigration Office of the Council of Würtemberg Jews, and related material about its organization and forms to be used for record purposes. 1935.

718 Correspondence between several Jews about their attitude towards the Nazis and their policies. July 1939. 27 pp.

Series of letters (from the 1920s) by various correspondents, mostly Jews, including an exchange between Siegfried Wagner in Bayreuth and a German rabbi. SD notes that this material came from Jewish archives. 1939.

719 Correspondence between the auction representative and Himmler about former Jewish property. January - March 1939. 6 pp.

Himmler letter to owner of antiquariat thanking him for the books and other items he had sent. Note at bottom of letter to Heydrich, "...I cannot believe that the police would burn such books. I have tasked [the writer] with buying up valuable items from Jews." (February 1939) Letter the antiquarian owner had sent to Himmler in which he makes reference to police book burning (January 1939). The author is also a SS Untersturmführer.

720 Correspondence of a Jewish writer with others about publishing articles on several matters. January - April 1939. 67 pp.

Various pieces of correspondence, from Paris, Prague, Budapest, etc. with Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and the university's responses.

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730 Report about the assimilation of Jews. Articles about the Congress of World Jewish Organizations in 1937. January 1940. 32 pp.

SD transmittal (January 1940) of newspaper reports about the World Organization Congress of Jews in Marienbad, August 1937.

734 Photographs of demonstrations in Latvia in connection with the Soviet occupation. 1940. (Reel 184)

743 List of pacifist and immigrant organizations in France. June 1940. 15 pp.

List of pacifist organizations in France. SD report on emigration to France as a supplementary item (June 1940).

749 Oberkommando der Wehrmacht directive about how to treat POWs from the eastern front, SD reports about freeing Russian POWs from the camps, and other documents. October 1941 - September 1942. [Contrasts between SS and military over partisans. p. 412, Jewish woman shot as member of underground. EG reports on partisans identifying many as Jews. Mostly press and radio summaries. Spotty regarding Jews and partisans.] 603 pp. (Reel 184, middle)

756 Reports of the security police about the activity of Soviet partisan and reconnaissance units on the territory of Latvia and the Ukraine, and lists of members. June 1941 - August 1943. 223 pp.

pp 1-7 1 July 1941 - Situation report from Einsatzkommando 1b about the situation in Kaunus and Lithuania more generally. Included is a description about which units are in charge of the Jewish liquidations at Fort VII in Kaunus!!
pp 8-90 Extracts from "Ereignismeldungen" and "Meldungen aus den besetzten Ostgebieten", relating to partisan activities in various areas of the occupied Eastern territories.
pp 91-225 Collection of search lists naming partisans.

Series of reports and situational reports from various Sipo-SD Einsatzkommandos in occupied Soviet Union, with headquarters in Kovno, Kiev, Simferopoz. Deals mostly with combating and identifying partisan groups and their activities. One report, from Einsatzgruppe D, deals with "Partisan Organization in West Crimean Region-Development, Build-up and Task of Partisan Movement." These reports also list casualities on both sides, arrests of suspected individuals, including Jews, and covers a period from summer 1941 to summer 1943.

757 Reports of the SIPO and SD about the arrests of Soviet paratroopers on the territory of occupied Germany. Saboteurs. Typed copy. Same memo mentions shooting of individuals as partisans or saboteurs. June 1941 - June 1943. 73 pp. (Reel 184, middle)

758 Reports of the German field police and the Einsatzkommando about their fight on the occupied territories, and reports on the situation in the territories not yet occupied, most being NKVD documents captured in Kovno. Reports on "cleansing actions"--numbers of Jews shot, etc. July 1941 - July 1943. 58 pp.

pp 2-5 1 July 1941 - Memorandum from the Gestapo post Tilsit about Jewish liquidations in the area of the former Soviet-Lithuanian border (i.e. Garsden, Krottingen, Polangen).
pp 6-8 2 July 1941 - Situational report by Einsatzkommando 1b in Kaunus.
pp 9-58 Collection of excerpts from "Ereignismeldungen", "Lageberichten", and "Meldungen aus den besetzten Ostgebieten".
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Gestapo report (July 1942) to RSHA Berlin "Clean-Up Activities Beyond the Former Soviet-Lithuanian Border...During three major actions primarily Jews were liquidated...." Various SD reports on events in the USSR from occupied territories. One report (12 June 1942) notes, "The Soviets selected in particular executions carried out by the SD. The graves were opened up and those who had been shot, primarily women and children, were photographed. Prints were displayed in cities in the form of posters and were used in the so-called photo gazettes by Moscow propaganda." SD report about mood of Finnish population (December 1942). March 1943 report on sabotage in occupied eastern territories. In a report from unoccupied Soviet territories mention was made that German publicity about the killing of Polish offices in Katyn Forest "was inopportune for the Soviets."

765 Propaganda Abteilung information in France about the special edition of a book on Jews. February 1941. 3 pp.

Report from Military Commander, France, Propaganda Section (February 1941) complaining about book published by a French author who worked for a newspaper, was a Freemason, and had published "vile defamations" of the Führer and the Reich.

766 Chapters from the book on pan-Germanism based on the work of Jewish academics. July 1941.

Report about Jewish World Congress; also chapter 7 of a publication "The Third Reich and the Paradox of Mexican Oil;" chapter 8, "How the Third Reich Served Canada;" chapter 9, "The Totalitarian States and Panarabism."

768a List of members of the Yugoslavian of B'nai Br'ith. May 1941. 15 pp.

Extensive report about Yugoslav Freemason lodges, with membership lists.

769 Orders of the security police commander, reports of the SS groups operating in Byelorussia and the Ukraine, and Ukrainian nationalist leaflets. June 1942 - February 1945. The orders are specific directives regarding Jews and Gypsies. The reports make specific reference to Jews (numbers) army partisan units destroyed. 594 pp.

Collections of orders, daily orders [Tagesbefehle], operational orders [Einsatzbefehle], daily situational reports, and other documents relating to activities in the occupied Eastern territories (mostly Byelorussia), including liquidations of Jews and anti-partisan operations. Materials relating to the Kampfgruppe von Gottberg and Sonderkommando Dirlewanger are voluminous. Among materials relevant to specific operations, the file contains documents relating to "Cottbus", "Günther", "Hermann", "Fritz", and "Heinrich". 576 pp. (examples follow)

pp 6-9 5 February 1943 - Order [Kommandobefehl] from the KdS for White Ruthenia, giving details on Operation "Hornung", the liquidation of the Jewish ghetto in Sluzk, including personnel and units (type-written signature by Strauch).
pp 14-17 5 June 1942 - Order [Einsatzbefehl] from the KdS for White Ruthenia, giving details on anti-partisan Aktion in the area Uzda-Kopyl-Stolpce (type-written signature by Strauch).
p 98 21 January 1943 - Battalion Order [Battalions-Einsatzbefehl Nr. 2], regarding an anti-partisan operation near Kolodino; mentions participation of 12th Lithuanian Schuma-Btl.



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Command directive, Sipo and SD, Byelorussia, Minsk (5 February 1943): "...On February 8 and 9 the local command will mount a resettlement action [Unsiedlung - denotes the transporting of Jews to camps for execution] of all Jews in Sluzk. Those members of the command listed below as well as around 110 members of Latvian Volunteers will participate....The anticipated duration of the endeavor: 10-12 days." Various reports stressing the seriousness of partisan activities and German concerns, with headquarters calling for all-out combat against partisans. Attack order No.1, action "Nürnberg," by 1st SS Infantry Brigade, 20 November 1942: "The First Infantry Brigade will attack the enemy and destroy him." "Every bandit, Jew, Gypsy, and suspected band member is the enemy." Detailed reporting on "Nürnberg" operation, conditions in areas, enemy disposition, etc. From Reich Representatives of RFSS for Fighting Partisan Bands (February 1943): "Outlines of Measures to Fight Bandits." From Byelorussia, various operational directives, with frequent mention of "Führerbefehl" to provide laborers. One secret directive states; "Those suspected of banditry and prisoners of war are not to receive special treatment but are to be put to work."

770 Reports about the activities of the Einsatzgruppen and the security police, and diagram of the structure of Einsatzgruppe B. February - March 1942. Numbers of Jews shot and references to resistance. 58 pp.

Sipo and SD, 1 March 1942: Activities and Situation Report of Einsatzgruppe B, 16-28 February 1942. Under section on "Special Treatment," more than 3,500 Jews are listed. Comments on Sonderbehandlung [stands for execution for political or other reasons solely on the order of the police] notes that more than 2,000 Jews were "sonderbehandelt" for allegedly spreading false propaganda and other offenses. Activities and Situation Report 10 of all SD and Sipo Einsatzgruppen in the USSR, February 1942. Section on Jews: "After the Jewish question in Ostland [Baltic States and parts of White Russia] has almost completely been solved and cleaned up, the solution of this problem in the remaining occupied territories continues. Ghettoization has generally been carried out. Jews who do not comply with official orders are being seized repeatedly and shot. To prevent the further spread of contagious diseases it became necessary here and there to shoot Jews." Activities and Situation Report 9, January 1942: "Estonia is free of Jews; in Latvia the number of Jews remaining in Riga was reduced from 29,500 to 2,500....There are still 35,000 Jews in Lithuania who are needed as laborers....In Byelorussia, the clean-up of Jews continues. The number of Jews located in areas turned over to the civilian administration is 139,000. In the meantime, 33,210 Jews were shot by the Sipo and SD Einsatzgruppe." 1942.

772 Plans of movement of German civilians from Galicia and Volhynia districts, and orders from Heydrich about the use of chemicals to mark those arrested. May 1942.

May 1942: memo from chief, Sipo and SD, discusses a chemical which can be used to mark criminals arrested by the Sipo who are suspected of intentions to escape. 1942.

773 SIPO and SD report about the situation within the Soviet Union. Ereignis Meldungen UdSSR Nr. 175 of 2 March 1942 to Nr. 195 of 24 April 1942. 2 March - 24 April 1942. 376 pp.

Reports from Einsatzgruppen and Kommandos (March 1942): Einsatzgruppen A, B, C, and D. With detailed situation reports and attitudes of population in all occupied Soviet territories - Lithuania, Byelorussia, and Ukraine in particular. Also a special report on conditions in Leningrad.




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774 Meldungen aus d. besezten Ostgebiet: SIPO and SD report and protocols of POW interrogations about the activities of partisans in occupied Byelorussia. August 1942 - March 1944. 174 pp.

Russian translation of German anti-partisan operational documents, interspersed with handwritten notes. One page German cipher and code messages. Series of reports on popular attitudes and reports on military anti-partisan actions in occupied Soviet territory. Various SD and SS reports on partisan activities and strength, including field reports about enemy positions and interrogation of captured partisans. List of captured Russian documents and maps; list of Polish activists in Nowogrodek (July 1943). Reports from "Aktion Hermann" against partisans, including final report (August 1943). Directive from Commander, Sipo, and SD in White Russia (Byelorussia) containing "Instructions for the Interrogation of Prisoners and Deserters." Translation of leaflet by Ukrainian Nationalists, "Death to the German Occupiers." Actually a threatening appeal to those who belong to national partisan groups to join the USSR partisans. Another appeal to all nationalities arguing that it makes no sense for individual Soviet republics like the Ukraine to attempt to liberate their republic from the Germans unless it is done jointly with the Soviet (Red) Army. Directive to Poles in Kowel to protect themselves from numerous elements by banding together and acquiring arms for protection (February 1944). Also from a publication "Our News" in February 1944 a report stressing that the greatest aim of the Poles is to achieve independence in the family of nations, and warnings about what the Germans are doing to the Poles during their retreat from Russia.

775 Idem: SIPO and SD reports from the occupied eastern territories, 1 May - 28 August 1942. Numbers 1-18. 497 pp.

Report from Einsatzgruppe A about reconnaissance activities (May 1942), mostly from Latvia and Byelorussia, but there are also another Einsatzgruppen reports. From chief, Sipo, and SD Command Staff: "Report from Occupied Eastern Territories No. 1" (May 1942), with detailed situation reports and command staff set-up, including also subordinated Sonderkommandos. There is a section on Jews: "Only a small number of Jews, who were in hiding, was `umgesiedelt' [i.e. moved and eliminated]." Report No. 2 (May 1942), No. 3; No. 4 (containing reports from the Crimea and Ukraine) concerning Jewish life in the Crimea with historic background. Mentions that 44,000 Jews were concentrated in the five largest cities, and of the 6,000 Krimchaks, whom the Germans counted among the Jews, more than half lived in urban areas. "Their eradication [Ausmerzung], together with the real Jews and Gypsies in the Crimea was essentially carried out by early December 1941. The inclusion of Krimchaks and Gypsies in the fate of the Jews hardly caused a ripple among the population." Report No. 6 (June 1942) had a section on Jews in Estonia: "With the entry of the German troops the majority of Jews left Estonia. Only about 2,000 Jews remained, of whom half lived in Reval. The Sipo and SD gradually seized these Jews, avoiding any unnecessary disturbances of Estonian economic life. Today, there are no more Jews in Estonia." Report No. 7 has a section on Jews in Latvia. There were 93,479 Jews in the 1935 census. "After entry of the German troops there were about 70,000 Jews in Latvia; the remainder had fled with the Bolshevik Army. Acts of sabotage and arson soon after entry of the German troops were to a large extent instigated or carried out directly by Jews. Currently there are only a few Jews in the ghettos, who are being utilized as skilled craftsmen. Apart from these Jews (about 3,750) Latvia has in the meantime become free of Jews [Judenfrei]." Report No. 8; "The Jews in Lithuania" (1923 statistics 153,743 Jews; the NKVD eventually transported 40,000 to Siberia). "Even though Lithuanian hatred of Jews resulted in various pogroms, here too the Jewish problem had to be dealt with by the Sipo and the SD. Those Jews, who did not leave Lithuania with the retreating Bolshevik army were put into ghettos....Currently there are ghettos in three cities only, which hold around 34,000 Jews. These Jews are currently being used as specialized workers primarily in defense-related industries....With the exception of those Jews, Lithuania is already free of Jews." Report No. 9:

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"The Jews in Byelorussia" (500,000 Jews in 1931 census, particularly in Minsk, with 100-200,000 Jews). The measures taken by the Sipo and the SD have resulted there also in a basic change of the situation. To bring the Jews under effective control independent of measures to be taken later, Jewish councils of elders were established which were responsible to Sipo and SD for the behavior of their fellow Jews. Additionally, registration of all Jews and their collection into ghettos were started. Lastly, the Jews were also identified by a yellow insignia to be worn front and back similar to the yellow Star of David introduced on Reich territory....These measures created in the Byelorussian region as well the basis for the solution of the European Jewish question contemplated for later on." Report no. 10 (July 1942): evacuation of Jews from the Reich. Between 17 November 1941 - 6 February 1942, 25 transports evacuated 25,103 Jews from every city in the Reich to Riga, and there they were put into camps and ghettos respectively. Those involved are currently being included in the general measures planned for the Jews in the Eastern territories....In Byelorussia, altogether 1,894 Byelorussian Jews were shot [all had been accused of various violations and economic crimes]. Also, reports Nos. 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 (August 1942), 16, 17, and 18. 1942.

776 Idem. September - November 1942. Numbers 19-28. 453 pp.

Reports from Occupied Eastern Territories [mostly Ukraine]: No. 28, November 1942; No. 27, October 1942; Nos. 26, 25, 24, 23, 22, September 1942; Nos. 21, 20, 19. 1942.

777 Idem. November 1942 - January 1943. 419 pp. (Reel 12)

790 Informational reports by the security police commander about the Freemason question. May 1943 - May 1944. 134 pp.

From Chief, Sipo, and SD. Informational Report about Freemasons question (May 1943). Includes a report claiming that President Roosevelt not only holds high rank in the Freemasons but that he is also a member of Odd Fellows, "which resembles a Freemason lodge." Various reports about Freemasonry in France, England, United States, Hungary, and Switzerland. 1943 - 1944.

791 Reports of the SIPO and SD from the occupied and unoccupied eastern territories. February - August 1943. Meldungen numbers 40-55 (last report) mimeo. 322 pp.

Notices that as of 6 August 1943, "Reports from Occupied Eastern Territories" will no longer be published. Last report, No. 55 (also reports Nos. 54 and 40). 1943.

797 Informational note about the "Secret Army" (Resistance) of France. January 1943 - September 1944.

798 Reports of SS groups supporting the retreating German units, and report of the commander of the SS headquarters on the Black Sea to the main SD office concerning the number of available laborers. July - August 1944. (Reel 184, middle)

799 SIPO and SD reports about the actions of the Einsatzkommando and the situation in the area of Gatschino near Leningrad. February 1944. 41 pp.

Special report, excerpted, from Eastern territories, dealing mostly with unoccupied territories and with the Soviet military: includes maps and sketches of Soviet military installations. 1944.

800 Informational reports of the SIPO and SD about the Freemasons and Jewish questions, and various magazine articles concerning the Jewish question. February - November 1944. 196 pp.
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Chief, Sipo, and SD: "Information Reports on Jewish Question" (February 1944). Contains topics such as "America and the Palestine Problem" (March 1944); "Stephen S. Wise" (May 1944); "Marshall, Roosevelt, Oil and Palestine;" "UNRRA and War Refugee Board;" "Anti-Jewish Attitudes in America." Series of publications, SS-Information Service, 1944; includes whole series of "exposés" and attacks on international Jewry and Jewish activities abroad. Also, copies of Welt-Dienst publication, issued twice a month, in twenty languages, and dealing with all aspects of the Jewish Question. 1944.



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777 Series of Reports from Occupied Eastern Territories, published by Chief, Security Police and Security Service (Sipo and SD), Command Staff, Berlin; nos. 38, 22 January 1943; 37 15 January 1943; 36, 8 January 1943; 35 23 December 1942; 34 18 December 1942; 33, 11 December 1942; 32 4 December 1942; 31 27 November 1942; 30, 20 November 1942; 9 13 November 1942. Interspersed, and issued by same office, were Information Bulletin nos. 13, 27 November 1942 and 12, 6 November 1942. The Reports and the Information Bulletins dealt in detail with the work of Einsatzgruppen and Einsatzkommandos. They reported on partisan activities, local political and economic conditions, public opinion, etc. The areas covered included the Crimea, Byelorussia, Lithuania, Ukraine, Latvia, and the North Causasus. Report no. 36 included detailed organizational and staffing lists of Einsatzgruppen and Sonderkommandos. Report no. 31 had a list of SD and special units bases and communication network.

1013 Reports of an SS officer about his activities in Prague. March - June 1939.

Report from Special Command, Prague (31 March 1939) concerning a German student who was to collaborate with the police in Prague. Copy of a report on the "Czech State Police - Counterintelligence." Activities Report of an SS official with the SD Special Command in Prague (2 May 1939).

1026 Personal service records of SS officer Arndt, commander of the special purpose group "Zeppelin". December 1939 - March 1943. 44 pp.

SD questionnaire and innumerable communications, travel documents, duty plans, and other pertinent material concerning SS man Richard Arndt. He was apparently being detailed to do espionage and counterintelligence work in the East. He spoke Russian and Polish.

1036 Correspondence of the security department with the office in the city of Wiesbaden about the recruitment of French intelligence personnel. March -June 1939. (Reel 184, middle)

1037 Correspondence with the special SD group, Prague, prohibiting access to and sealing the Russian historical archive. April - May 1939.

Message form RFSS, SD to Special Command, Prague, concerning Russian Historical Archives.

1077 SD agent reports about the situation in Greece. January 1941 - August 1942. (Reel 184, middle)

1084 SD agent reports and reports from operational groups about the relations between Italy and Yugoslavia and the situation in Horvatia. May 1941 -September 1942. (Reel 184, middle)

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1089 Report from the SIPO commander and from SD agents in the Leibach area of Yugoslavia regarding development of resistance and partisans. Jews in Leibach. January 1941 - February 1942. 606 pp.

A whole series of reports by SD and Sipo on conditions in occupied territories of Carinthia, with particular focus on province (and city) of Laibach [Ljubljana]. Another series of reports deals with the situation in Slovenia and regions occupied by Italy. There is mention of German-Italian tensions in Slovenia, with Italians reportedly telling Slovenes they are lucky not to be occupied by Germany. Other reports mention demonstrations by Slovenes in Italian-occupied areas. Included is a leaflet in which Slovenes call for sabotage and economic boycott against the occupiers. Concerning Laibach, there are reports about anti-Italian demonstrations and also about an anti-German sentiment. The SD disseminates information about anti-German atrocity propaganda and about alleged misdeeds and murders by communists.

1092 Operational group commander of the SIPO and SD, and their reports about the situation in Greece and Albania. January 1941 - September 1942.

Report on war situation in Albania, 7 January 1941. Report on military campaign against Greece and on Italian defeat in Albania. Other reports deal with Albanians in Romania, Greeks and Albanians, and the situation and mood in Albania. Other reports deal with Italian activities in Hungary (July 1942) and Italian intelligence activities in France.

1106 File about a German intelligence agent who worked for the Romanians. June 1942 - October 1944. (Reel 184, middle)

1139a Correspondence of the special purpose group "Zeppelin" concerning all administrative matters. 1944. (Reel 184, end)

1140 Correspondence of the special purpose group "Zeppelin" in Lvov concerning claimants to German citizenship. December 1942 - February 1943. (Reel 184)

1140a SD Intelligence materials on the purchase of shares in a Romanian oil company. December 1942 - March 1943. (Reel 184)

1164 Draft of a report delivered at a meeting in Salzburg on the work of SD agents, with a list of participants. May 1944. (Reel 184, end)

1177 Information about the German consul in Switzerland. June - November 1944. (Reel 184, end)

1242 Album of an artist Pann Abel, "A Pot of Tears" (Der Tränenkrug) about the life of Jews. 1928. 24pp.

Reproduction of book of drawings by Abel Pann, "The Pitcher of Tears," published in Palestine. The drawings commemorate the pogrom victims in Tsarist Russia.

1251 Regulations, and declarations of the organization of Zionists-Revisionists of Austria. 10 October 1930 - 26 March 1937. 30 pp.

RFSS, SD Report on "Union of Zionist-Revisionists of Austria," October 1930. Also, various pieces of correspondence by the Union with individuals and organizations, primarily abroad.


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1301 Monthly report of Amt Presse u. Schriftum of SD-HA. Includes section on Theosophy and Jewry. December 1935. 143 pp.

Monthly report from the Office of Press and Literature, Main Office Literature, December 1935. Contains sections on Reich ideology as reflected in nationalist literature at home and abroad; report on Theosophy literature; Catholic youth literature. It also includes a supplemental list of prohibited printed material after the Nazi accession to power.

1302 RSHA: correspondence regarding evacuation of RSHA archives to Schloss Fuerstensteiin and then to Schloss Wölfendorf, Oberschlesien. 1944 - 1945. SS-Befehlsblatt. 1 September 1944. 128 pp.

A series of documents, freight lists, communications and related personnel matter concerning the transfer of archival and records material to specified locations. In the wake of the September 1944 disbanding of the Reich Organization of Jews there is an inquiry when Jewish religious items will be sent for storage and a list of these items. Another shipment that is mentioned contains a list of books dealing with Freemasons. Other items mentioned to go into central storage come from Serbian government offices: Interior; Police Presidium Belgrade; Press Buro material; material from Police Presidium Sarajevo, etc. Publication of SS directives list, 1 September 1944, dealing with SS personnel and administrative matters, SS court decisions, etc. From Reichsführer SS (Himmler): directive how families and next of kin are to be informed in case of suicide by SS and police members (30 October 1944); Himmler will decide in each case when this is to be done, and how.

1303 Correspondence with the archives concerning various matters. January 1945. 6 pp.

Incidental, unrelated items without specific pertinence. Example: results of examination of horses stabled at one of the locations where archives are stored, showing that the horses are free of disease.

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19a Unbound steno notes on character of police and SD in occupied France. Informers' reports. Reports on activities of individual units of SS. 1944 - 1945. 46 pp. (Reel 185)

Amt IV, Gestapo:

79 Schemata of network of Jewish political organizations in Germany after 1933. 2 pp.

Organization chart of "Political Stratification of Jewish Organizations for the Establishment of Palestine."

80 Handwritten lists of Jewish organizations in Germany after 1933. 29 pp.

Pages of a practically undecipherable handwritten list, including references to foreign countries.

81 Jewish alphabet.

81a SD regarding cases of anti-Semitic propaganda. Surveillance over Jewish trading companies. 1936 - 1937. 82 pp.


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A series of situation reports prepared regularly by SD and reporting on domestic popular opinion and various issues. The ones excerpted here come from various SD administrative regions and deal with anti-Jewish themes, how they are seen by the population, and with the struggle against Judaism at home. One such report from the Southwest region, mentions race violations by a Jew and the resulting prohibition for Jews to use spas in Baden-Baden, or to live in local hotels, pensions, or use local restaurants.



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82 Reviews of activities of Jewish organizations in Germany. 15 April 1937. 48 pp. (Reel 13, end)

83 Liquidation of Central Association of German Citizens of Jewish Faith. 1928 - 1932. 82 pp.

Report on Central Organization of German Citizens of the Jewish Faith (September 1930), including statutes. Disbandment of the Organization, 26 October 1938; material interspersed with barely decipherable handwritten notes and comments. Secret circular of Organization to all its trustees, pointing to the need for action in view of anti-Jewish measures, and noting that the von Papen government "means well and understands Jews" (19 October 1932). Various items from Gestapo about the Central Organization's efforts to retrain Jews and further emigration. 1928 - 1938.

84 Photo: participants of international conference of Agudas Israel in Marienbad, Czechoslovakia. April 1937. 73 pp.

Series of photo negatives of individuals, groups, and events from Marienbad international conference of Agudas Israel.

85 Correspondence SD Abtl. on preparation of liquidation of Zionist Organizations. 3 April 1938. 4 pp.

From SD to all SD leaders: report on State Zionists (March 1938). Report on liquidation of all Zionist organizations in Germany (April 1938).

86 Correspondence of Austrian League of Friends of League of Nations with B'nai Brith regarding contributions by Jewish members of their membership. 52 pp.

Items from Jewish Information Bulletin, November 1938, about emigration possibilities. Various items of correspondence between individuals and the Austrian branch of the League of Nations, mostly requesting financial support. Letter from Vienna's chief Rabbi to Konstantin Dumba, president of Austrian branch of League of Nations, thanking him for his public stand against the persecution of Jews. Excerpts from the "Resolutions of the League of Nations" opposing attacks on "national and religious minorities." 1938.

87 Multiple copies of Orders Chef d. Sipo and SD, 1939, regarding police measures to prepare for massive deportations of Jews from Germany. (Bildung einer Reichsvereinigung der Juden) 24 pp.



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From Chief, SD: concerning emigration of Jews and creation of a Reich Organization of Jews (February 1939) with regard to preparations for massive deportation procedures. (Folder contains a number of repeats of the same item.) 1939.

88 Article by [on?] Jewish University in Pressburg, Czechoslovakia. March 1939. 2 pp.

Translation of a paper "La difesa della Razza," 5 March 1939, no. 9.

89 1939 letter from woman in Nürnberg to Fritz Wolff in Brussels regarding personal matters. 2 pp.

NSDAP (Party) memo to RFSS, Chief SHA, transmitting a postcard addressed to person in Brussels and sent to German embassy in that city for delivery because of insufficient postage. 1939.

90 Review of reaction of foreign press to massive liquidations of Jewish organizations in Germany. May 1939. 3 pp.

Subject: Tactics and Methods Used by Democracies in their Propaganda against "Authoritarian" States, an analysis of voluminous foreign press coverage and comment in wake the of Kristallnacht. 1939.

91 SD-Hauptamt II/112 file regarding proposal to dump Jews in Abyssinia: correspondence from Hansiatischen Reisebüro, Heinrich Schlie, and newspaper clippings. 1939. 7 pp.

Letter from Vienna Hanseatic Travel Bureau to Gestapo Berlin. Renewal of proposal for emigration of Jews to the Sahara now that visas from other countries are drying up (May 1939). Subsequent correspondence mentions Abyssinia as potential emigration goal, and also promises to provide an analysis of the chances for emigration through Yugoslavia. 1939.

92 Report on the "trimming" of a Jew and his admission into the Catholic Church. June 1939, 8 pp.

SD Prague to Chief, SHA Berlin; subject: Jewish Records for the SD Museum (include 1842 documents on circumcisions, report cards, religious affiliation certificates, etc.). 1939 - 1942(?)

94 Chart of document on filing system about Jewish activities in Germany. no date. 1 page.

Various charts about Assimilants, including Jewish assimilants, with subsections on "Neutrals," and on Zionists. Charts have parallel columns on Basics, Organization, and Effect. no date.

Amt VII, Archives and Library:

265 Miscellaneous, some antisemitic propaganda in library.

Publication "Foundations and Forms of Political Propaganda," essentially a how-to book on how to combat nascent Nazi propaganda. Includes drawings, showing how to deface Nazi posters and symbols through use of three diagonal arrows, the insignia of German and Austrian socialists. 1932.

272 List of materials of Masonic lodges, Austrian Fatherland Fund, and Jewish organizations confiscated by Gestapo. 1939 - 1943. 4 pp.

SD Stettin to RSHA Berlin: list of Jewish archival material from the Stettin synagogue community. Detailed list of archival material packed in crates ready for shipment to central storage point (from

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unidentified Jewish libraries, files and private collections. One crate contains material from Austrian holdings.), 30 July 1943. 1939 - 1943.

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1 List of directives and orders of the RSHA. 1935 - 1940. 144 pp. (Reel 185)

Organization and staff list of the Reich Main Security Office (RSHA). Internal organization, departments. The same also for SD Main Sections (SD Oberabschnitt [OA]). Effective as of 15 January 1936. 1936.

2 Instructions and regulations concerning the storage of documents in the RSHA archives. (Reel 185)

3 Regulation concerning the filing of documents in the RSHA. 1938. (Reel 185)

4 List of documents and files opened at the RSHA headquarters concerning the analysis of the situation in various countries. (Reel 185)

5 Heydrich order about the new SD structure to be effective January 1936. 19 pp. Most precise breakdown of subsections responsible for Jews, etc.

16 Telephone directory of the RSHA and Gestapo. 1937. 82 pp.

Corrections of SD telephone directory (September 1937). Telephone list of Main Office, Sipo, and Gestapo (August 1937). (The list of frequently used numbers is headed by Inspection of Concentration Camps.) 1937.

18 Directives of the RSHA about the appeals of private individuals and veterans for mercy, the restoration of their rights, and the seizure of their pensions. March 1938 - October 1941.

21 Directives from the RSHA about the distribution of functions between the departments and the formation of new departments. June 1939 - April 1942. 201 pp.

Listing of competences for RSHA (September 1937). Directives about tasks of RSHA components. List of competence changes in various RSHA offices (February 1942). Section on secrecy requirements. Heydrich puts Eichmann in charge of "cleaning out eastern provinces" (December 1939). Memo forbidding the issuing of information about the Munich assassination attempt (Bürgerbräu Keller). Heydrich takes personal command of investigation. Führer Order on strengthening the German people (October 1939). Concerns Police Courts Martial. September 1939 advisory that further orders of toilet paper for RSHA offices are not to be expected. Suggests use of newspapers instead, but of the "gentle kind" so as not to clog the toilets. An announcement from Goebbels as head of propaganda ministry of August 1939 about the upcoming start of rationing of certain items, this is not to be publicized. Address list of Staatspolizei (Stapo) and Gestapo departments as of 1 September 1939. Various exhortations in the wake of the start of war, including a call to reduce gasoline consumption. Discussion on how police and SD members are to behave in the occupied territories. 1939 - 1942.

33 Diensstellenverzeichnis, Sipo and SD. Personnel structure of RSHA Amt V, Kripo. List of commanders of KL. Miscellaneous personnel lists and charts. 1940 - 1944. 192 pp.



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Office roster of Sipo and SD, April 1943, with organizational telephone lists. List of twelve concentration camps and their commanders. List of RSHA tasks, February 1940, and March 1941 (in the latter Section IV B 4 is headed by Eichmann; its task: Jewish Affairs and Removals). List of all RSHA offices in the occupied territories (east and west) and in the Reich. 1940 - 1944.

37 See file no. 33.

47 Directives and orders from the RSHA about the organizations of intelligence and counter-intelligence services. SD correspondence with the Berlin Gestapo and other districts about providing weapons for the Sudeten Germans and other subversive activities. 1938 - 1945. 241 pp. (Reel 185)

48 Correspondence with the Berlin Gestapo about prohibiting the writings of a certain writer. February - June 1940. (Reel 185)

51 Correspondence with the heads of the SIPO and SD in Germany and the occupied territories in Poland about personnel matters. List of SD and Kripo officers. Biographic information and assignments in Ost, EG, etc. August 1938 - April 1945. 212 pp.

Copies of file cards with names and date of birth of a number of employees of the Criminal Police; also reports on personnel matters and on assignments. Discussion on how to use suspended Sipo and SD personnel; some are detailed to PW camps in Poland (June 1942). Series of efficiency and proficiency reports of SS personnel. Various decommissioning and retirement orders.

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93 Translation of article from book The Truth about Pan-Germanism, a Jewish publication. August 1939. 42 pp.

Chapter X of a study "Truth about Pan Germanism" (from the Jewish World Congress Meeting in Paris, August 1939).

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55 Copy of the personnel structure of the RSHA. March 1941. 16 pp.


RSHA tasks distribution, 1 March 1941 (same as folder no. 33).

57 Materials of Section IV of the RSHA, including a scheme of the telecommunications structure and the addresses of officers and offices. February 1945. (Reel 185, middle)

66 Service records for the officers of the Kripo compiled during consideration of their promotion. 1940 - 1942. Indicates specific specialties, activities, etc. A few worked on "Jews". 94 pp.

Performance ratings, other personnel matters; mostly Criminal Police. RSHA budget, 1941. 1940 - 1942.

82 Political stratification of Jews in Germany, 15 February 1936.



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67 Gestapo department telephone directory. October 1944. 41 pp.

Telephone list of SS employees and staff. Telephone list of Gestapo(?) officers at RSHA. 1944.

82 Telephone directories of the RSHA and Gestapo. August 1937. 40 pp.

Telephone list of Sipo Main Office and Gestapo Office (heading list of frequently called numbers: Inspection of Concentration Camps).

327 Document and intelligence card file filing codes SDHA (date ranges not defined). Telephone book of SDHA January 1939. 1939. 77 pp.

SD Hauptamt: draft by Organization Commission of a plan for subject matter files in Department II-III-4, on Freemasonry Abroad; general list of activities and their breakdown. SD telephone list of SHA, 1939 edition. Signatory abbreviations of SD HA personnel (Eichmann is Ech); also those of assistants in other main departments (directive provides that these name abbreviations have to be used in upper lefthand corner of typed copies or dictation copies).

780 Reports of German police officers about their impressions of the interrogation of Russian POWs and Jews. 1941. 17 pp. Three handwritten essays by students at a school for members of the Criminal Police about the Jewish question and Soviet POWs. November - December 1941.

Handwritten study "The Mentality of Soviet Russian POWs and Deductions about its Consequences for the Russian People" (November 1941). Handwritten study "The Jewish Question as a World Historical Problem" (December 1941). Handwritten document, SHA Department IV A (1A), Berlin, as addendum to first item above. 1941.

799 Abstracts from informational bulletins of Department VI on its personnel. Lists of addresses of concentration camps including those in the USSR. 1941 - 1944. 214 pp.

Lengthy series of excerpts from RSHA Information Bulletins for internal use only. Deals with personnel matters, assignments, etc. Samples: March 1943 Bulletin has announcement that Himmler promoted and awarded medals to SS officers "for services rendered while involved in a special action abroad by Group IV C." The October 1942 Bulletin carries a list of addresses of concentration camps, including special camps for Caucasians, Turkmen, and Russians. It also lists the addresses of Einsatzgruppen A, B, C, and D. 1941 - 1944.

800 Informational bulletin from the Main SD department on the conviction of police officers by field courts, and other regulations and directives. 1942 - 1943. 47 pp.

pp 1-10 1 December 1942 - Secret bulletin issued by the RSHA in Berlin, summarizing the most significant trials and verdicts of the SS and Police Court, all related to members of the Sipo/SD.
pp 11-23 Copies of three SS bulletins [SS Befehlsblätter], published in Berlin 1942 - 1943, listing names of SS personnel under various categories (i.e., loss of SS-pass, transfers, discharges).


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pp 24-47 Collection of secret bulletins published by the RSHA, Department VI in Berlin [Mitteilungsblatt des RSHA, Amt VI], mostly from 1943. Bulletins cover orders and directives, as well as personnel matters.

Printed information bulletin from RSHA (December 1942) citing legal and police action against Sipo and SD members. These deal with a multitude of charges from moral turpitude to theft, and the punishment handed out. Among the charges is one of helping concentration camp prisoners to "buy" their way out. SS orders for October 1942 and March 1943; list of contents of 1942 SS orders. Additional RSHA Information Bulletins from January to July 1943.

806 Report of the central bureau of the SIPO and SD about the work of industry in the occupied eastern territories. Allied plans for the occupation of Berlin. Intelligence on Allied war-time planning. 1945. (Reel 185, middle)

811 SD report on the police and intelligence services, and ideological enemy circles in Belgium. no date. [ca. 1939]. 50 pp.

RSHA survey of administration, police, intelligence services, and opposition groups in Belgium, for the information of Sipo and SD offices to be deployed in that country. Contains lists of confidential informants, political parties, trade unions, and one on Jewry. The latter discusses history, organization, Jewish influence in press and economy, leading Jewish personalities. It mentions that there are about 30,000 Jews in Antwerp, with other large concentrations in Brussels, Liège, Ghent, as well as smaller groups throughout the country.

816 Review of the activity of Jewish immigrants and Czechoslovak intelligence agents. 1940. 17 pp.

A June 1940 report about "Treasonable Activity of Jewish Emigrees on behalf of Military Intelligence of former Czech Republic." 1940.

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13 RSHA table of organization. Sachaktenplan, Amt VII. Includes file categories for confiscated Jewish libraries.

List of (Police) offices apparently dealing mostly with books, libraries, and related activities. List of general activities of what apparently are SD departments and areas of competences.

21 From Reichsführer, SS and Chief of Police in Interior Ministry (July 1936): areas of competences at Sipo HA, with Heydrich as chief. Department II B is Internal Political Police and includes section on Jewish immigrants. Department II D includes the areas of protective custody and concentration camps. Heydrich heads the Criminal Police. Organization of German Sipo and its competences, with Heydrich as its chief, too. Daluege becomes chief of Ordnungspolizei (Orpo). (The Sipo has two major components: Criminal Police (Kripo) and Gestapo. The Orpo deals with regular police, gendarmes, and local police, as well as with administrative police.) List of competences and tasks of Gestapo as of February 1936 ("The Gestapo administers the State Concentration Camps.") List of Kripo competences and tasks. Structural chart of the German Sipo; detailed listing of all competences of entire police system, with office symbols, file numbers for its material, and description of this material.

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Competencies of RSHA for 1938; with description of duties, legal justification, and functions of various police organs. Organization chart of Interior Ministry for Sipo and Orpo, down to local organizations. Orpo tasks plan. 1935 - 1940.

25 SD-Hauptamt: abbreviation code for staff members and Referats of Zentralabteilungen. 1937. 13 pp.

Staff directives for SD Hauptamt. 1937.

30 Clarification of order of the Chief of the Central Department of State Security and of the Sipo about the division of power between Gestapo and SD. Points of view of SD staff members on this matter. 1937. 9 pp.

Memo on division of tasks between SD and Gestapo as result of question on competencies raised in one of the administrative districts. Directive that Marxism is exclusively a Gestapo matter, and touching also on the question about the division of tasks between Gestapo and SD.

36 Order of Chef Sipo and SD about promotion of staff members of SD. Correspondence regarding Aktion Barbarossa - EG. Notes on V-Männer and SD-Nuremberg. Miscellaneous lists and correspondence. 1936 - 1941. 150 pp.

Concern circulars and service directives of the SD. Includes items submitted by SD informants. SD of RFSS, SD-HA organization directives and supplements. SD-HA: concerning `Barbarossa' [attack on USSR]: command staff and appointment of a combat report leader of the RSHA (3 July 1941) whose task is equivalent to that of an Army intelligence officer and who is to provide regular reports for officials at SD, RSHA headquarters; how this material is to be handled at RSHA. Directive from Chief, Sipo, and SD, "Combating the Communist Movement" in connection with foreign policy developments (18 June 1941). Organization of field offices and Sipo border police commissariats in the General Gouvernment of occupied Poland (January 1940). Office list of RSHA as of October 1941.

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45 Notes of Amt II regarding circular about measures of security in connection with Hitler's trip to Italy. Notes of Amt II-112 about the words of NSDAP member Dr. Ley regarding the Jews. Draft order of Gestapo in Hamburg regarding arrest of German citizens for three (3) days for using Soviet ships. Gestapo information regarding forthcoming release of state traitors. 1937 - 1938. 1945 66 pp.

Robert Ley speech on Jewry, June 1936. Report that wives of leading Nazis (Göring, Goebbels) shop in Jewish stores (June 1936). In preparation for Führer visit to Italy, SD is being used to investigate all Jews who immigrated from Germany (January 1938). Report about Jewish emigrants conference in Tientsin (August 1938). 1937 - 1945.

48 63 pp. (Reel 185, middle)

65 23 pp. (Reel 185, middle)


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70 Creation of Hauptamt für Volkstumfragen under the NSDAP. Reichsleitung with regional offices in SD departments. 1941 - 1943. 114 pp.

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Organization chart of "Main Office for Settlement Planning and Implementation for the Strengthening of the German Race." Party reports from the Office for Volkstum Questions. [Volkstum: the totality of all aspects of the life of a people which characterizes its national peculiarity, its national characters.] Directive about enlarging NSDAP work concerning Volkstum; competencies of SS main offices and cooperation with Party representatives for all Volkstum issues. Various other party directives having to do with setting up at party headquarters and in regional offices a special office for Volkstum operations.

71 Gauämter für Volkstumfragen activity reports and correspondence. 1943- 1944. 124 pp.

Additional Volkstum issues (December 1943), this time at the regional levels, including meetings and other reports. Also, the integration of SD agents into the Volkstum organization network. 1943 - 1944.

73 Volkstumfragen Schulung und Ausrichtung. Creation of Reichsschule für Volkstumfragen discussions. Involvement of Propaganda Ministry, Hitler-Youth, NS-Frauenschaft, and Wehrmacht. Various Gauamt activities. 1942 - 1944. 171 pp.

More material on Volkstum organization and required training of personnel. Material on affiliation of propaganda ministry with Volkstum affairs and on the subsequent regional organizational set-ups and meetings of those involved in this propaganda work. Volkstum and the Nazi women's organizations. Military high command involvement in Volkstum issues. Additional regional reports about Volkstum work. 1942 - 1944.

91 Stahlecker Report no. II, 16 October 1941 - 31 January 1942. EG A Gesamtbericht. 147 pp. This files contains Stahlecker Report No. II (33rd of 50 copies), covering the time period from 16 October 1941 to 31 January 1942, with 147 pp. and twenty appendices, including the following:

p 1a Strength of Einsatzgruppe A
1b Location of individual chiefs attached to EG A
2 Strength of individual Kommandos
3 German offices in the RK Ostland
4 Lithuanian propaganda leaflet
5 Relationship of ethnic groups in Latvian cities
6 Ethnic groups in Byelorussia
7 Executions done by EG A
8 Religious groups in Latvia and Estonia
9 Religious life in Estonia
10 The church in Byelorussia
11 Relationship between minimum and maximum wage scales
12 Relationship between wages and existential minimum
13 Social security in RK Ostland
14 Age structure of population in Latvia
15 Cattle in Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia
16 Cultural diversity in Latvia and Estonia
17 Transport of goods in Latvia
18 Statistics relating to persons involved in trade and industry in Latvia
19 Enemy propaganda leaflets

Summary report of Einsatzgruppe A from 16 October 1941 to January 1942 [also known as Stahlecker report]. This Einsatzgruppe was active in the Baltic region; the report is rather negative, influenced by the military pressure exerted by the Russians, complains about poor propaganda work, cites dire

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economic conditions in the Baltic, etc. In a section on Jews it says: "The systematic cleaning-up work in Ostland [occupied Baltic area] involved, in accordance with basic orders, the best feasible complete removal of Jewry. This aim has essentially been achieved, with the exception of Ruthenia, with the execution so far of 229,052 Jews." (Details for each Baltic state follow.) There is also a section on Jews being continuously sent East from Germany, of whom only a fraction are said to be useful for labor. "The mortality rate is steadily climbing, in part also because of the extremely harsh winter." The overall report also discusses local church affairs, economic conditions, industry, and the resistance movements. List of Einsatzgruppe A's organization, leadership, with pie charts of staffing breakdown (the group consisted of 909 members as of February 1942). There are maps where the leaders are located, and more pie charts of the subordinated Einsatzkommandos. Also, a map of official German installations in the Reichskommissariat Ostland. Also attached are samples of anti-German leaflets and a Polish leaflet which notes that the German government has put the Poles on the same level as the Jews. 1941 - 1942.

93 Stahlecker Report I from (?) to 15 October 1941.

Einsatzgruppe A Summary Report up to 15 October 1941. States at the outset that the unit commenced its march on 23 June 1941, on the second day of the eastern campaign to repositioned camp sites. Mention is made of the use of local "volunteers": "...During the first hours after the invasion...local anti-Bolshevist forces were urged to carry out anti-Jewish pogroms."..."According to existing orders, the Sipo was determined to resolve the Jewish question with all means, and decisively." But it welcomed the opportunity not to appear on the scene of the anti-Jewish excesses, at least not right away," during the unusually harsh measures used [by the "volunteer"], which had an upsetting effect even among Germans." The "Struggle Against Jewry" section says in the first paragraph: "It was anticipated from the outset that pogroms alone will not resolve the Jewish question in Ostland. On the other hand, the Sipo clean-up work, according to basic orders, had as its aim the largest possible removal of the Jews. Consequently, Sonderkommandos to which were added selected forces - partisan groups in Lithuania, troops of auxiliary police in Latvia - carried out extensive executions in the cities and in the rural areas. The operations by the execution commandos went without a hitch. When assigning Lithuanian or Latvian forces to the execution commandos, the men primarily selected came whom families whose members and relatives were murdered or abducted by the Russians." Discussion of organizational measures taken by the group in the Baltic region. Report also includes a section on "Struggle Against Jewry," with detailed descriptions of action in the Baltic countries. Here is another mention that the "basic orders" required the most all-encompassing "removal of the Jews."

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105 (File of SS-Hauptsturmführer Kriminalrat Dr. Fischer, Referenten III A). Problems with Fahndungslisten. Counter-espionage measures. Personnel matters. Use of A.V.- Männer. 1936 - 1939. 30 pp.

Discussion of various SD personnel matters. Map of special commissariats in Alsace-Lorraine (1937?). Additional personnel matters, internal feuds, etc. 1936 - 1939.

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164 (Amt IVB 4b file) Includes: "Neue Tendenzen im jüdischen Schrifttum" MS (reactions to treatment of Jews in Germany and elsewhere). Walter Pötsch, "Die Grundlagen des jüdischen Volkes. Eine notwendige Abrechnung" (22 pp anti-Nazi brochure printed in London. Notes on "Besorgnisse der italienischen Juden über die Auswirkung der deutsch-italienischen Freundschaft" (2 pp. 1939). Table of contents for report on situation of German and international Jewry. Table of contents to report on Freemasonry. "Judentum und Freimaurerei" (report. no date. 10 pp.). Report on treatment of Jews in various parts of Germany. "Der Mord an Botschaftsrat vom Rath (typescript report) and reports on world reactions to treatment of Jews in Germany in connection with Kristallnacht. 1938 - 1939. 70 pp.

Report on "New Tendencies in Jewish Literature," with facsimile reprint of "The Foundation of the Jewish People: A Necessary Accounting," by Walter Pötsch. From Gestapo to Himmler: proposals concerning the Jewish Question. Analysis of foreign "hate" propaganda in the wake of the von Rath shooting, or "setting the record straight." 1939.

165 German female servants in Netherlands especially in Jewish households. 16 December 1938. 6 pp. Anti-German propaganda in Netherlands. 16 December 1938. 12 pp. Cover letter to Göring by author of the report regarding treatment of Jews and solution to the "Jewish question." 1938. 20 pp.

Report on "The German Servant Girl Issue in the Netherlands." Letter by unidentified writer to Göring on the Jewish question (December 1938). Anti-German "hate" propaganda in the Netherlands.

166 Report on Red Army (in French). 6 pp. Report on Judeo-Masonic tactics in daily news media (in French). 8 pp. Both reports issued by "Un ami du `Service Mondial'". no date. 16 pp.

Report in French on the Red Army, author unidentifiable. no date.

251 Anti-Freemason and anti-Jewish exhibition in the Petit Palais, Paris. Reports and correspondence. 1942. 6 pp.

Memorandum on anti-Freemason, anti-Jewish exhibit in occupied France (October 1942).

252 Idem. Preparations and interagency cooperation. Disposition of material used. 1941 - 1944. 12 pp.

More material concerning the anti-Jewish exhibit in France, also discussed in folder 251. 1941.

254 "Antifreimaurerische und Antijüdische Vorträge des Albert Maitrot de la Motte-Capron im "Radio Paris". Various MS versions with handwritten corrections. 1943. 117 pp.

Memo on "Anti-Jewish lectures over Radio Paris," with various script texts. 1943.

257 Eighteenth century letters and essays about Jews in France (typescripts in French). 87 pp.

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French-language material, including pieces of correspondence between individuals not further identified. no date.

264 8 pp. (Reel 185, middle)

277 Sicherheitsdienst des RFSS. SD-Hauptamt. Geheime Kommandosache! Seven files (Sachakten III 2-130/1, 3, 5, 11, 12, 13, 15) containing SD regulations regarding file organization and maintenance (e.g., for Freemasons, Jews, political opponents, etc.). 1936 - 1937. 635 pp.

Directive for SD about "Subject File and Subject Folders - How to Set Up," with a number of copies of the same material.

278 Reorganization of Gestapo A-Kartei (enemies of the state to be arrested in case of general mobilization). 1938. 7 pp.

Memorandum about so-called "A File," containing lists of enemies of the state, people to be arrested with the start of mobilization, list of those who need not be arrested immediately but should be carefully watched. 1938.

279 Karteiführung für die Abteilung II A 4, 29 July 1937. Arbeitsverteilungsplan II A 4. 1 January 1938. Reorganization plans for II A. Memos regarding Fahndungsbücher for Einsatzgruppen in Poland 1939 and Sonderfahndungsliste "West" 1939 (esp. regarding Jewish-communist emigrés) (lists themselves not included). Draft regulations for treatment of emigrés in France. 10 August 1940. Treatment of communists 1935 - 1939. Organization and reorganization of filing systems in Abt. II A as such and II A 4 in particular. Collection of seven photos of German communists and marxists who fled Germany. 1935 - 1941. 306 pp. [II A 4: Auswertung und Beobachtung der bolschew. Bewegung; II B 4: Juden, Freimaurer, Pazifisten.]

More information on file categories, with breakdown of files on foreign territories from Prague to America and Asia. List of people responsible for various files. Establishment of a central file on communists and Marxists who had fled the country. (These files deal mostly with political enemies, such as communists, Russian emigrees, Soviet Russian institutions in Germany.) Memorandum about Einsatzgruppen in Poland (October 1939), with Special Search list for Poland, including a name list of Marxists to be arrested in the occupied territory. Another Special Search list for western countries (France,

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Luxembourg, Switzerland, Belgium, Holland). One category on list deals with "communists and Jewish communists," with numbers for each country (October 1939). Memorandum on German communists and those who have returned and are allegedly involved in anti-Nazi organizations and activities (January 1935). Additional material concerning central files, categories, mostly with emphasis on communists. Material on German and Czech communists in Czechoslovakia (September 1938).

279a 17 pp. (Reel 185, middle)

302 Aktenplan IV B 4. Report on activities of and plans for IV/III B. 9 January 1940 (incomplete). 1940. 37 pp.

File categories for Department IV B 4, dealing with Germans abroad and Volkstum issue.

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370 Various SD intelligence [sic] reports from Austria (Oka-Berichte) regarding a variety of faits divers and anti-Nazi activities. [Several frames unclear.] 1936 - 1937. 711 pp.

Reports on situation and conditions in Austria, from SD Main District (OA) South, on every aspect of life in Austria, political situation, media, etc. Focus is primarily on Vienna. (Number of duplicates of much of the same material in this folder.)



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372 Oka-Berichte. Polish-German cultural groups (lists of members). General intelligence reports. 1935 - 1944. 34 pp.

More reports on situation in Austria (see also folder 370 on Reel 15).

382 47 pp. (Reel 185)

391 World exhibition in Paris. Congresses and meetings of anti-Nazi and Jewish organizations (list). 1937. 35 pp.

Report on congresses held during Paris International Exposition (May 1937). Also, lists of exhibits and listing of all congresses.

391a List of important emigrés on the Sonderfahndung list. Dated Paris, 8 August 1940. 2 pp.

List of important emigrés for Special Search list, dated Paris, August 1940.

398 Reisebericht eines SD-Angehörigen [Herbert Mehlhorn] aus Amerika, Mexiko und Kanada in the form of letters to his friend Wilhelm Albert. Two-page introductory note in German, dated 13 January 1950, signed Quitzowa, possibly a GDR archivist or Stasi official. Letters are handwritten, typed versions probably done by Quitzowa. 1937 - 1938. 226 pp.

Series or reports, in form of letters, by an SD member during travels to the United States, Mexico, and Canada (typed and handwritten).

400 Introductory note in German dated Berlin, 3 May 1946. Sitrep on USSR from SS-Hauptkommando Nord des U.Z. [Unternehmung Zeppelin, a group reporting on USSR], dated 22 June 1943. 25 pp.

Material from files of SS Main Command North ("Aktion Zeppelin"), 22 June 1943. Mostly on mood in the Soviet Union.

415 Situation reports and press reports on reactions in Europe to German actions in Germany and abroad. Catholic church campaign against Rosenberg. Lutheran church reations to anti-Jewish campaign. Sitreps from Munich regarding anti-Jewish activities, etc. British anti-Nazi fliers, etc. 1934 - 1939. 310 pp.


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Clippings from social democratic press abroad. Samples of anti-German "hate"propaganda from Holland; also from London Daily Herald about the alleged mass arrest of SS men. More foreign press reports with anti-Nazi material, such as press rumor about a Himmler-Schacht conflict (February 1936). Series of foreign press items on conditions in Germany.

461 Situation reports on political, economic, and cultural conditions, public opinion and press in Poland and Greece. Polish emigration in France and Belgium. 1936 - 1940. 21 pp.

SD Aussendienst [External Service] report on Poland.

462 Idem, in Estonia, Lithuania, and Latvia. 1938 - 1940. 297 pp.

Series of External Service reports: Estonia, Lithuania, Baltic States (1940). Economic report on France, Latvia, Yugoslavia, Portugal, Romania (1940). Report on reaction in Baltic States to Russo-German Non-Aggression Pact (August 1939). Report on Northern Borderstates (September 1939).

463 Idem, in Hungary. 1938 - 1940. 287 pp.

More reports on national mood from the External Service: Hungary; Southeast Region (Hungarian-Russian border); Yugoslavia; Romania; Hungary - The Jewish Question (November 1939); Italy; France; and Lithuania.

464 Idem, in Soviet Union, including activities of anti-Nazi emigrés. 1936 - 1939. 173 pp.

National mood reports, Soviet Union (March 1936) and also for 1939.

476 Idem in Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, Slovakia, and Czechoslovakia, including activities of anti-Nazi emigrés. 1938 - 1940. 132 pp.

More on national moods: Protectorate Bohemia-Moravia (February 1940); Czechoslovakia (December 1938).

477 Idem, in Romania. 1939 - 1940. 65 pp.

National mood reports: Romania (August 1939).

478 Idem, in Yugoslavia. 1936 - 1940. 205 pp.

Reports: Yugoslavia (May 1937, Decmber 1939, February 1940); Denmark (June 1936); Czechoslovakia (May 1936); Soviet Union (June 1936).

484 Idem, in Mexico. 1939 - 1940. 24 pp.

Report on Mexico (May 1939).

488 Idem, in Argentina, Bulgaria, Denmark, Palestine, Uruguay, and Spain. 1939 - 1940. 24 pp.

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Amt VII, Archives and Library:

684 Essays on Jewry (with appendix "Zur Frage der vormilitärischen Ausbildung der jüdisch-nationalen Jugend in der Tschechoslowakai"). Political Catholicism and Protestantism by SS-Sturmbannführer Zapp. no date. 53 pp.

Report on Political Protestantism, Catholicism, and Jewry.

693 Filing system organization plans for archival records. 1942. 98 pp.

Supplement to previously mentioned file categories. Instructions where to file specific events and personalities.

695 Research materials on Jehovah's Witnesses for Irmgard Patzwald's work directed by Ritter of the Kriminalbiologische Institut. Correspondence regarding Arthur Ehrhardt's brochure "Kleinkrieg". Several personnel matters. 1944. 17 pp.

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1 Chef Sipo and SD, instructions and regulations: assuming Frontaufklaerung responsibility in RSHA, 1945. Dienstanweisung Fuehrerschul Sipo and SD, 8 February 1941 and Lehrplan. Regarding organization of Sipo work, territorial divisions of SD districts, the formation of SIPO and SD sections for the colonies, and the classifications of concentration camps. 1939 - 1945. ca. 116 pp.

Memo on takeover of Front Line Reconnaissance by RSHA (21 February 1945). Chief, Sipo, and SD: "Organization of Sipo and SD;" subject: simplifying the conduct of business (August 1943). SD order: cutting back on routine business during periods of tension or in the case of mobilization (September 1939). Deals with simplifying office procedures, technical tasks, reporting, organization, etc. Chief Sipo, Chief SHA to Sipo headquarters, Gestapo, and SD main office: "Routine Political Reportage" (September 1939). Other memos pertaining to Sipo and SD dealing with organization, departmental responsibilities, duties of Sipo and SD inspectors recruiting for staff among high school and college graduates, etc. Circular memo from RSHA: "Assassination attempt in Munich" [attempt on Hitler's life in Bürgerbräukeller] (15 November 1939). Asks that urgent efforts are made, to help solve the case including appeals to population. Chief, Sipo, and SD: "Classification by Grade of Concentration Camps" (for protective custody cases, depending on severity of case. No mention of Jews). Chief, Sipo, and SD: "Setting up Groups of Hlinka Guards on Reich Territory" [Slovak pro-Hitler groups]. Addendum to one of many SD organization reports, "Duties of the Reichs SD": pertains to guarding the Führer and other Nazi leaders, their offices, residences, etc. Chief, Sipo, and SD: memo to all Einsatzgruppen of Sipo and SD (A, B, C, and D) ordering that all operational directives and other individual directives for Einsatzgruppen and Einsatzkommandos must be secured in such a manner that they cannot reach unqualified individuals and above all not the enemy (August 1941). 1939 - 1945.

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the occupied territories, religious matters in the occupied eastern territories, and the interrogation procedures for captured partisans. 1939 - 1943. Evolution of the EG mission June - July 1941. Guidelines for Einsatz SuSD in Norway. October 1940 guidelines for internment. ca. 23 pp.

Chief, Sipo, and SD: "Directive for Use of Sipo and SD in Norway" (April 1940). Chief, Sipo, and SD: "How to Deal with POWs" (August 1940). Various memos on how to deal with ethnic Germans coming to the Reich from occupied eastern territories, and how to deal with emigres from Germany (in occupied West Europe). Section on Jews with German or former Austrian, Czech, or Polish citizenship: "Dealing with above-mentioned Jews should not get ahead of plans for the settling of the Jewish question in a Europe under German hegemony." For now they are to be sent to internment camps so that they will be readily available in case of a "total evacuation" out of Europe. Heydrich directive to four Einsatzgruppen leaders (Nebe, Ohlendorf, Rasch, and Stahlbecker), 29 June 1941: "Efforts at self-cleansing by anti-Communist, anti-Jewish circles in areas to be newly occupied are not to be interfered with. On the contrary, they are to be intensified when necessary without, however, leaving any traces, and are to be directed into the proper channels, but in such a way that local 'self-protection circles' cannot later claim that they had received orders or political assurances." This will require that Einsatzgruppen and Kommandos move on as expeditiously as possible in areas newly occupied by the military so as to be able to set into motion "whatever is necessary." Another Heydrich directive to Einsatzgruppen leaders (1 July 1941), which points out that "It is self-evident that the cleaning-up action is primarily concerned with Bolsheviks and Jews." 1940 - 1943.

8 Information from the chief of the SIPO about the formation of a Council of Ministers for the defence of the state, including a list of various positions and orders about the use of the railways by SD members. 1933 - 1945. List of EG commanders in Poland, 1939 and reference to EG in Czechoslovakia. 34 pp.

List of Einsatzgruppen and Einsatzkommandos in Occupied Territories (i.e. Poland), 12 September 1939. Also a list of commanders of regular police (Orpo) in occupied territories. List of concentration camp addresses (September 1942). 1933 - 1945.

26 Annual report of Department V, Kripo. 1939 - 1940. 94 pp.

Yearbook of Department V (Reichs Kripo) of the RSHA, 1939-1940.

26a Protocol of meetings of inspectors of the RSHA about the organizational structure, equipment, and tasks of the ORPO. 1940. 15 pp.

Memo concerning Orpo inspectors (January 1940).

27 Materials on the supervision of religious organizations within Germany, including Jews and Jehovah's Witnesses. 1934 - 1940. 40 pp.

Various foreign press items on fascism. Report (December 1939) about gathering of supporters of former German emperor to celebrate his birthday. List of "Political Stratification of Jewish Organizations for Building up Palestine" (August 1936). Reports on Atheist meetings abroad. 1939 - 1940.

50 List of Jews and stateless people with temporary passports. 1939 - 1941. 76 pp.

Page from an unidentified listing of Jewish individuals in Germany, with address, birthplace and date, passport number, and citizenship. no date.

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52 Confidential brochure containing a list of abbreviations. 1941 [IVA1. Used for Marxists and KPD]

RSHA: list of current abbreviations for communist and Marxist movements and organizations. May 1941.

56 Telephone directories of the various Kripo department sections and districts. 1943. 61 pp.

Telephone directory of Kripo Berlin headquarters and of other police departments and offices in the Berlin region. 1943.

58 List of telephones of various police institutions -- KSt. Berlin. 12 pp.

More Kripo Berlin telephone numbers. no date.

61 Appendix to a dossier on the Austrian security service and plans for its absorption in event of Anschluss. 36 pp.

Draft report: "Austrian Security System and its Integration into the Reich Sipo after the Incorporation of Austria" (compiled in the 1930s). 1942.


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64 Diagram of the political divisions of Jews in Germany. 1 page.

Russian-language copy of German schematic charts on Jewish assimilants, Zionists, etc. no date.

66 Work of the offices of Department IV on the racial policies of the Nazis and communists, and on occupied Czechoslovakia. 1942. 37 pp.

Handwritten reports (by SD personnel) on: Nationalsocialist Race Policy; Marxism and Communism; The New Order in Europe; Race and Inheritance; Historic Development of Bohemian-Moravian Protectorate. 1942.

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34 "Political Jewish Organizations in Germany as of February 15, 1936." 22 pp.

Political stratification of Jews in Germany.

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16a German and foreign press items on anti-Nazi boycott movement and activities abroad (1934). Heydrich report about a Jew with the covername `Stern' who has been working as a Nazi informer. He is now to be sent to London to investigate the boycott movement there. Also a report from `Stern' about anti-Jewish activities he has participated in on behalf of the SD. 1934 - 1935.

17 Bavarian Political Police report on Jewish youth organization, with local police contributions on Jewish and Zionist organizations. 1934.

18 Report on Jews in Germany. 1934 - 1935.

19 Report on Zionist Congress in Lucern (August 1935), part I. 1935.

20 More reportage material on Lucern congress. 1935.

21 Part II of Lucern Zionist Congress report. 1935.

22 More material on Lucern Zionist Congress. 1935.

23 German Zionist Organization report on Meeting of Delegates (November 1935). 1935 - 1936.

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Reichssicherheitshauptampt (RSHA) - SD, Berlin (Osobyi fond #500) (Main State Security Office of Germany - SD, Berlin) [manuscript RG-11.001M.01]


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3 SD-Hauptamt I/111, Befehl Nr. 76/36, Nachrichtenerfassung, 15 December 1936. 17pp.

Detailed explanation of the SS Security Service (SD) responsibility for reporting on all important political happenings post facto, but in addition collecting all indications which point to future political developments. Report details the need for a vast network of organizations and staff covering all of Germany. Last item is a form to be signed by all members of the organization swearing them to secrecy.

4 Directives and decrees on the administration of the Gestapo and the SD. Very miscellaneous. On p. 67: 21 December 1939, "Räumung i. d. Ostprovinzen" (regarding Eichmann), but mostly regarding espionage: personnel lists and addresses, and Polish POWs suspected of espionage. 1936 - 1943. 205 pp.

A great variety of directives, orders, etc. pertaining to internal police and security matters, as well as incidental documents in the wake of war against Poland. Discussed are such issues as protective custody, German border security, withdrawal of Hitler's Elite SS Division from guard duty at official buildings, Polish POW officers interrogation, reporting by police and SD on anti-espionage matters, arrests based on special search list for Poland and Polish POWs, rules on correspondence by Special Staff of Security Police assigned to German missions abroad, the right of members of Security Police and SD to be in streets and squares during air-raid alarm, and an order by Himmler (1938) forbidding SS members to dance the new dance, Swing, in uniform.

8a Gestapo directive on procedures for preventive arrest. 1937 - 1939. 10 pp. (Reel 183, middle)

Gestapo directive, signed by Heydrich, to all Stapo officrs and Gestapo Headquarters concerning protective custody; directive and guidelines from Army supreme command concerning the setting up of defense industry enterprises (May 1939).

9 Directives on the administration and management of the security police. 1937 - 1944. 27 pp. (Reel 183)
SS and SD directives, many of them internal administrative matters, others addressing diverse subjects involving Gestapo and police, such as how to deal with agents, or with marriage plans of all SS personnel.

18 RSHA Amt III, Einsatzkommandos--Ausrüstungsplan. 3 August 1939. 5 pp.

Deals with requirements about uniforms and arms, as well as office supplies, for members of Einsatzkommando in case of mobilization. Addressed from Security Service (SD) of Reichsführung SS, SD Central Office to all SD leaders of SS Higher Command, with exception of Rhine and Central Germany. Classified secret.

20 Idem, EK for Poland. 5 July 1939. 4 pp.

Heidrich reports that mobilization against Poland will commence 2 July 1939. Concerning Southern Army Group, it will advance from Slovakia in direction of Pinsk-Pokitno Swamps. Duration of mobilization is 10 days. Also mentions increasing bomb tonnage to be dropped each day by thirty bombers accompanied by 600 fighter planes. Setting up of Standing Einsatzkommando in SD. Talks

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about ranks, selection of leaders, uniform to be worn in case of mobilization requiring submitting for each member suit and headgear size.

23 Telephone list for RSHA IV E; Geschaeftsverteilungplan (Gplan) RSHA. 1 February 1940. Miscellaneous forms for IV E. Gplan RSHA. 1 March 1941. 113 pp.

Telephone, organizational, name lists of Reichsicherheitshauptamt and its various Referate [Departments]. Includes list of samples of documents used by Reichsicherheitshauptamt for file searches, searches in treason cases, personnel information forms, character references, etc.

25 Activities of Einsatzgruppen (EGs), Einsatzkommandos, and Sipo/SD in the Occupied Eastern Territories. Includes orders, activity reports (tätigkeits- und Lagebericht), and events reports (Ereignismeldung). Includes Jaeger Reports. Guidelines for SuSD Kommandos in POW Stalags u Dulags for "cleansing the camps", pp 184-5, Soviet POW uprising. 465 pp. (Reel 183)

Memo for chiefs of Ensatzgruppen and Ensatzkommandos of SIPO and SD concerning "Operation Barbarossa," with tasks at and behind the front, and relationship to Army; Army Supreme Command memo on "Operation of SS and Police Units" behind the front.

From Reichsführer SS, Special Führer Order, concerning political administration involving leading SS and police chiefs in areas behind the front (21 May 1941).

From Chief, SIPO and SD, to police commanders cooperating with the Army in "Barbarossa;" includes directive that all cooperation with local anti-communist and anti-Jewish elements is to be carried out "without leaving any traces" [spurenlos].

Radio message to Ensatzgruppen A, B, C, D, concerning anti-Bolshevik propaganda material.

Directives from Chief, SIPO and SD, about units to be assigned to Stalags and Dulags [transition camps]; essentially, the "cleansing" of prison camps containing Soviets; explains that "the carrying out of executions" requires police coordination with the local military.

Detailed directives for the separation of civilians and suspect POWs from the Eastern Front campaign in the occupied territories, in operational areas, in the General Gouvernement, and in camps on Reich territory; justification for radical measures: previously the treatment of POWs was based exclusively on military considerations, now, political aims have to be achieved so as to protect the German people from Bolshevist hatemongers and to take a firm hold on the occupied territories. The directive mentions that all Jews belong to the suspect group and specifies how and where executions are to be carried out.

Primer, from the Reich Minister for Occupied Eastern Territories, on the people and nationalities of the Soviet Union.

Activities and Situation Report No. 5 of SIPO and SD Ensatzgruppen in the USSR (15-19 Sept. 1941): Each of the regions covered contains a section on the treatment of Jews (in Estonia, just in a few regions, the report cites 160,000 executions and mentions whole areas being "free of Jews"); reports on Minsk list 2,278 executions of Jews as "saboteurs" and "activists;" in one area of the Ukraine, the report says that as of 6 Sept. 1941, 11,328 Jews were "liquidated."

Activities of Situation Report No. 6 of SIPO and SD in the USSR (1-31 Oct. 1941): in Estonia, with the exception of doctors and Jewish Council members, all males above 16 years were executed; under Ukraine, report says that in Kiev, on 29-30 Sept. , 33,771 Jews were executed.

List from SIPO SD Commander, Einsatzkommando 3, of executions carried out as of 10 Sept. 1941, with detailed breakdown of killings of Jews starting 7 June 1941, and listing Jewish men and women killed separately, adding up to 76,335.

List of Einsatzkommando3 of executions carried out until 1 Dec. 1941,: breakdown cites Jews, Communist functionnaries, Lithuanians, Poles, a total of 137,346; contains backchannel complaints by Einsatzkommando chief that Lithuania cannot be cleared of all jews because the German civil administration and Army have forbidden him to kill about 35,000 surviving Jews who are workers, with their families; recommends how this can be achieved despite the opposition encountered.

Various directives concerning the treatment of Soviet POWs, and list of locations and commands of Einsatzgruppen.

Activities and Situation Report No. 7 of SIPO and SD Einsatzgruppen (1-30 Nov. 1941): current location of Einsatzgruppe A is Krasnogwardeisk, B in Smolensk, C in Kiev, and D in Simferopal; in Estonia, the Jewish question has been resolved, with surviving Jews located in ghettos.

Activities and Situation Report No. 8 (1-31 Dec. 1941): 40,000 Jews live in the Crimea.

Activities and Situation Report No. 9 (1-31 Jan 1942): in Estonia, every effort is being made to get rid of all the Jews, "Executions being carried out everywhere in a manner hardly noticed by the public; the population and the remaining Jews assume that the Jews are just being resettled;" "cleansing" of Jews in White Ruthenia continues; currently there are 139,000 Jews in areas handed over to the civilian administration; up to now, 33,210 Jews were executed by the SIPO and SD Einsatzgruppe.

Activities and Situation Report No. 10 (1-28 Feb. 1942): general section on Jews cites the almost complete solution of the Jewish problem in Estonia and the progress made in solving this problem in the other occupied territories.

Reports from Einsatzgruppe A and D about the situation and mood in Lithuania, and regional searches including the arrest of Jews.

Report of Events in the USSR No. 191, from Chief, SIPO and SD, 16 Oct. 1941 -31 Jan. 1942: detailed listing of location, commanders, etc., of Einsatzgruppen, with individual reports by each Einsaztgruppe detailing regional executions, including Jews; section on Jewry in Ukraine.

Memo on cooperation between SIPO and SD units and the Army; counterespionage units, with basic rules for their cooperation, based on an agreement between Heydrich and Admiral Canaris.

Activities and Situation Report No. 11 (1-31 Mar 1942): section on Jews notes that there were differences at the various front sectors in the "cleaning up of the Jewish question," and gives statistics for executions.

Telegram from SIPO and SD commander in Lithuania, with a Heydrich directive to stop the "special treatment" in Minsk of those Jews who are essential labor resources with special skills.

List of collected action orders and other directives on the Eastern Front (Mar. 1942: Order No. 2, July 1941, deals with "Cleansing Actions among Bolsheviks and Jews;" directive of Aug. 1941 to all four Einsatzgruppen pertains to "Spectators at Executions," "The Chief, SIPO and SD, asks you to prevent assemblies of spectators at mass executions based on experiences so far."

Chief, SIPO and SD, sends directives to Einsatzgruppen and Kommandos pertaining to Barbarossa, 2 July 1941, containing details on who is to be executed.

Directives to Einsatzgruppen, 29 June 1941, about cooperation with local anti-Communist, anti Jewish activities.

Report on experiences with the operational methods of partisans and how to deal with them.

RSHA memo to chief of all four Einsatzgruppen about the use of local resources for setting up special protective units to work with SIPO in the occupied territories.

29 List of directives from the Chief of the Sipo and SD. 1942 - 1943. 98 pp.

Official publication of orders by the Chief, Sicherheitspolizei and SD. Deals with many diverse matters related to police and security: administrative, travel regulations, awards and honors, use of special car license plates, handling of abortion and sexual offender cases among Poles, training of women criminal police members, casualty lists of Waffen SS members killed in combat, SS involvement in economic matters, SS courts, and SS promotion lists, etc.

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38a Organization of Gestapo - RSHA, personnel lists, phone directories, etc. 1933 - 1945.

Innumerable lists of offices, officers, addresses, etc. of central and regional offices of the Reichssicherheitshauptamt, Sicherheitspolizei, Sicherheitsdienst, and Geheime Staatspolizei, ranging from 1937 - 1942. Need for safeguarding investigative files. Memo on how to conduct investigations and counterintelligence. Memo on need for special counterintelligence measures against foreign visitors to annual KdF [Strength through Joy] convention (1938). Report on deployment and recruiting of Vertrauensmänner (VM) [confidential informers] to be deployed against communist infiltration. List of Reichssicherheitshauptamt officers entitled to visit Berlin casino. Scattered throughout: reports, post-war, by East Germany about investigations of anti-communist Nazi activists.

48 List of telephone numbers of RSHA. 1 January 1938. 36 pp.


Telephone list of Sicherheitshauptamt with instructions on how to use telephones, most frequently called numbers, names of staff personnel.

52 Telephone book of RSHA. 1943. 69 pp.

Undated list of names, grades, sections, room and telephone number of employees assumed to be part of the Reichssicherheitshauptamt. Telephone list for "Waldburg-Fuchsbau" with warning "Greatest discretion required. The enemy is on the line!" Various official telephone lists, including the offices of all top leaders from Führer down. Also listing of all Party (NSDAP) leaders (June 1943).

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72 List of permissions to work in medical facilities in the Berlin area. June 1937. 36 pp. (Reel 183, middle)

List of authorized doctors, medical technicians, laboratories, opticians, and health spas for Berlin and environs; Reich Medical Chief notes that Nürnberg laws have made possible a clear identification of who is a Jew; what Jewish doctors can and cannot do.

78 Statistical data about changing from one religion to another and leaving the church during 1936 and 1937. Includes Jews. 18 July 1938 - 8 March 1939. 5 pp.

Statistical data: Evangelical [Protestant] Churches and sect communities. Conversion list (in 1936, two Jews converted). Withdrawal from churches. Detailed regional listing of conversions and withdrawals.

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88 (The Decree on elimination of the Reichstag dated 6 June 1932.) Police order about foreigners dated 22 August 1938. Reports and speeches about removal of Polish Jews from Germany. 11 June 1932 - 2 April 1940. 205 pp.

Material ranges from 31 March 1938 "Law about Disenfranchisement of Citizenship" for Poles living abroad. This led to expressions of German concern about a Polish Jewish inundation of Germany and to danger for the 12,000 to 15,000 Polish Jews living in Germany protected so far by a Polish-German bilateral agreement of 1934. June 1938: Polish government informs German Foreign Office that the Polish government is of the opinion that international law does not recognize the principle according to which a state is obligated to accept individuals who recently were its citizens and who are being deprived of their citizenship. By July 1938, Sicherheitsdienst and Gestapo began efforts to deport Polish Jews in Germany to Poland, and this is followed by moves throughout Germany to deport the Polish Jewish population. Action frequently results in arrests and since Poland will not accept the deportees, Germans push them across border at night. Material also includes news reports from abroad about the forced deportation of Polish Jews. By November 1938, Reichsführer SS reports that during the October action, 17,000 Polish Jews were forcibly deported to Poland. By February 1939, there are still 12,000 Polish Jews in Germany. On 2 April 1940, Reichssicherheitshauptamt reporting on release of Polish Civilian internees, notes that "for the time being the deportation of Poles and former Polish Jews cannot be carried out because of the existing difficult food and housing situation in the Generalgouvernment (former Poland). Therefore, those Jews affected by the deportation decrees of 5 February 1940, are to continue to remain in the concentration camps. At the appropriate time orders will be issued for the deportation."

100 SD-Haupthamt II 112, records of various Jewish organizations and SD reports, 1932 - 1939: Jewish religious community in Vienna; reports about its activity during November - December 1938; statistical data about the number of Jews in cities of Germany; Jewish religious community in Vienna about the Second World Conference of Polish Jews Abroad; other documents on the "Jewish problem." 21 October 1932 - 29 June 1939. 99 pp.

Various reports by British Jewry on what is happening in Germany and in Poland. German reports on relocation of German Jews from local communities into larger cities and advantages of such a move for the Nazis. Report by Vienna Jewish Community on budget and impact on it by increasing impoverishment of Jews as well as by emigration (November 1938). SD report on "Aid Society for Russian Jews in Vienna". Report on "Organizational Alliances of Jews," including comment that political attitude of German Jews is determined by Zionism and by (assimilated) German Jewry.

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121 Correspondence regarding Jews in Austria. Correspondence of Bund Jüdischer Frontsoldaten with Baron Louis Rothschild concerning the establishment the Defense Committee of Austrian Jewish Interests. Correspondence with "The Ring of Austrian Soldiers" about reorganization, etc. 19 August 1932 - 29 September 1938. 242 pp.

Innumerable memorandums, communications, table of organization, etc. of Federation of Jewish Front Combatants of Austria. Initially organizations show great fervor for acknowledging devotion to Austrian state and leadership. Gradually, efforts are being made to alert members to Austrian anti-semitism and status of Jews in Germany and at home, eventually cumulating in setting up of Defense Section whose task it is to defend against attacks "on the reputation, honor, economic existence, Jewish, no matter from which direction they come and who makes them."

131 Status of Jewish committee of higher education "Judea" in Vienna. Report of the Union of Jewish Medical Students to the police of Vienna about activity of Jewish organizations in Vienna. 12 November 1933 - 31 October 1938. 63 pp.

Various reports, memos, and organizational materials of Austrian Jewish student, medical students, and lawyer organizations. Various Austrian B'nai B'rith and Keren Kajemet pieces of correspondence. Pamphlet against race hatred and humanity by a Publication for Justice, dealing with acts against Jews in Germany.

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133 Regulations of State Jewish Party of Austria. Regulations of the Jewish Peoples Party, the election of deputies for the Congress of Zionists, and other materials of State Jewish Party in Austria. 23 September 1933 - 9 August 1936. 273 pp. (Reel 4, near end, after 303), Reel 183)

A number of items about the Jewish State Party in Vienna, with statutes and explanation of purpose, and list of members. Items on election of delegates to the Nineteenth Zionist Congress. "Palestine: economy and administration," published by the American Economic Committee for Palestine. 1934 report on activities of Zionist-Revisionist organizations (Vienna). Lists of Jewish Middle School organizations (Vienna). Jewish student organizations and clubs. Jewish Youth Alliance.

Publication, "What Does the Jewish State Party Want?" and related material. Election material of the Austrian Jewish State Party (Reel 183)

135 SS report about anti-German movement. Boycott against International Union of Zionists-Revisionists. Correspondence of a Jewish woman, E. Monshezinos, with the Anti-Nazi Council of Britain in London about working as an agent for the Council. English articles: "Do We Need a War?" and "The Menace of National Socialism." 30 October 1933 - 31 August 1937. 136 pp.

A series of German reports about Jewish subversive activities against Germany conducted abroad. Various reports on British and other organizations abroad and their efforts to conduct an economic boycott against Germany. German efforts to combat the boycott movement. German report on Jewish anti-German harassment abroad.


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137 Reports of police of the cities of Halle, Frankfurt-am-Oder, the administrative district of Potsdam, and others about the establishment and activity of "training" (requalification) camps for Jews. 6 October 1933 - 2 July 1937. 181 pp.

Innumerable Gestapo reports on the regional establishments of Jewish job retraining centers and schools. List of participants, teachers, and courses. Various applications to German officials for establishing such camps (see also Folder 173).

137a SD-Hauptamt II 112: SD and Auswärtiges Amt reports: Newspaper clippings regarding Jews' struggle against German laws affecting them. 20 May 1933 - 9 June 1939. 148 pp.

Reports by Sicherheitspolizei on Jewish currency and jewelry profiteering, including reports on contacts with profiteers, investigations, and trials. Also reports about individuals who help Jews transfer their money abroad. Report on "Cairo Jewish trials" (February 1935), including German press reports welcoming judgement against Jews, who had intended the trial to play an important role in "the Jewish struggle against National Socialism." Extensive reports on Swiss trial about the infamous "Protocols of the Elders of Zion." First trial found on behalf of Jews who had sued for defamation. Appeals court overturned findings something the German press hailed as the Jewish Defeat in Bern Trial, and which it concluded made it "no longer difficult to conduct antisemitic propaganda in Switzerland.

138 SD reports about the conference of the Jewish Peoples Union. Activity of Jews in Germany. Foreign press notes about activities against Jews in Germany. Other materials dealing with the "Jewish problem." 20 May 1933 - 25 January 1936. 131 pp.

Various reports on Jewish businesses, Gestapo surveillance of what is happening in those businesses. Report about "Jewish Movement" throughout Germany (July 1935): how new directives and orders are reducing Jewish optimism about the future. Various regional reports show, however, that Jews in businesses and elsewhere "still act up." Reports on Jewish organizations in Stuttgart, Berlin, the Jewish Volksbund (formerly Jewish People's Party). Gestapo directive forbidding the flying of the Reichsflag in businesses with a majority of Jews. List of members of the Jewish Agency Council in Germany. Foreign press reports about moves against Jews in Germany (1935). Various items on German race theory.

145 Police reports from Bavaria, Wiesbaden, Saxony and elsewhere about methods used to hide escaping Jews. 27 November 1933 - 22 April 1937. 125 pp.

Series of reports, in Germany, and from German embassy and Consulate, about German Jewish children being taken to United States, there to be put in Jewish homes, with a choice at age 16 whether or not to return. Report on "Camouflaged Jewish Businesses," by turning businesses over to non-Jews while actually most of them are only being leased by Jewish owners. Law about the "Elimination of Abuses in the Information Business" with Bormann letter to Minister of Economics about the law. Various Gestapo and economic offices' reports (1934) on non-Aryan lawyers, legal advisors, non-Jewish lawyers referred to as "German lawyer" to distinguish them from Jewish colleagues. Interior Ministry report about trips abroad by German Jews (1934), indicating there should be no restrictions: "In our efforts to cleanse German soil as extensively as possible of Jews, and particularly in order to keep bathing resorts free of Jews in the interest of German families, trips abroad by Jews should be viewed as the lesser evil." Report by welfare and Youth Care office of Berlin Jewish Community (August 1934) about children's transport to Denmark.

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146 Police reports and statistical tables from Breslau (Wroclaw, Poland), Mannheim, Oppeln, (Opole, Poland), and elsewhere about the results of camps "for changing the qualifications for Jewish people." 1933 - 1937. 154 pp.

A whole series of reports, many with lists of participants and instructions about Jewish job retraining camps being set up throughout Germany (August 1938). Also, Gestapo reports, local and regional, about organization and purpose of these training camps. Included are reports about agricultural training camps for "Christian Non-Aryans", most organized by churches (see also Folders 173 and 137 in this reel).

147 Report of the Jewish Telegraph Agency. Newspaper clippings and other materials about the Bern trial concerning the Jewish organization "The Elders of Zion." Activities of "The Independent Jewish Organization B'nai B'rith." 1933 - 1937. 202 pp.

Various reports and stories about trials about the veracity of the "Protocols of the Elders of Zion." One of them took place in Johannesburg, South Africa (1933). Another one took place in Bern, Switzerland, 1934. (Material about the latter also in folder 137A of this reel.) A 1934 Gestapo report notes that the Reichs Propaganda Ministry wants information that would substantiate Nazi contention that Protocols were real. Follow-up reports indicated that such evidence was lacking, and so-called "expert" witnesses seemed to be non-existent. Various domestic and foreign press reports about Bern trial.

155 Program of the Jewish State Party, the charter of the Youth Group, and other materials of this party. 1933 - 1938. 236 pp.

156 Inquiries of the Gestapo about the Jewish Telegraph Agency. International Telegraph Agency information about the International Jewish Congress in 1936. Excerpt from SD report about the Jewish press. 1933 - 1939. 144 pp.

Mostly items on Jewish Telegraph Agency (JTA) (its German offices but also its operation in Prague). Include reports of efforts to close the Berlin office, finally done in November 1937. Number of items from JTA reports, primarily about the increasing Nazi threat to Jews. Various foreign press reports about Nazi moves against Jews (1936). Reports on German local and regional Jewish press publications. Circular of Reich Ministry for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda (April 1938) about individuals and enterprises constituting part of the Jewish press. List of Jewish newspapers in Austria, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia.

160 SD-Hauptamt II 112: Vierteljahresbericht of II 112, 1 January to 31 March 1939. German Laws on Jews. Letter from the Minister of Justice to Vice-Chancellor on German Laws concerning Jews. Notes on Legislation concerning Jews. 1933 - 1938. 38 pp.

Sicherheitsdienst Central Office: history and synopsis of all laws concerning Jews from 1933 through 1938. Begins with a history of anti-Jewish legislation rooted in specific points of the Nazi Party Program and then synopsize, for each year since 1933 the decrees and laws designed to remove Jews from public, professional, educational, and economic life in Germany. Communication from Justice Minister to all leading Nazi functionaries (12 December 1938) on the need to coordinate all anti-Jewish legislation. Göring letter (28 December 1938) to all Staatspolizei and Sicherheitsdienst offices: "as a result of my report, the Führer has made the following decisions concerning the Jewish question,"

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followed by such diverse subjects as housing for Jews, mixed marriages, etc. A 1939 overview talks
about further inroads on Jewish business and professional life, Jewish reaction to 1939 "November Action" [i.e. Kristallnacht], and fact that Jews are finding it increasingly difficult to emigrate because of small quotas in countries to which they could go.

161a Directives from Ministry of Interior on preventive arrest. 1933 - 1938. 39 pp.

Various SS matters with particular focus on police work: sample of ID for people in Führer entourage, contacts with USSR consulates in police matters, SS rank insignia, and purpose of protective custody. Letter from Bormann, Führer Deputy about "Freedom of Conscience in the Armed Forces." List of particularly important laws: protection against communists, high treason, against the founding of new parties, law for the protection of German blood and German honor, setting up of Special Courts (Sondergerichte) and their competencies, law about the Volksgerichtshof, law permitting non-Aryans to do military service, etc.

163 Lists of Jewish organizations and their leaders, 1932 - 1933. Lists of Jewish societies. 1933. 49 pp.

List of Jewish synagogue communities and their leaders throughout Germany as of 1932 - 1933, broken down by Regierungsbezirke (administrative districts). List of regional Jewish organizations and number of members. List of Jewish population by districts in Berlin, August 1935: total of 160,564, or three percent of the population.

172 SD correspondence about the dissolution of Jewish organizations in Germany. 1933 - 1938. 57 pp.

Mostly SS and SD reports about "State-Zionist Organization," moves for its disbandment because of "anti-regime activities." This includes field reports on regional and local branches of the organization. Organization list of State-Zionist Organization in Germany (May 1938), with names of leaders.

173 Gestapo correspondence with regional police departments of Saxony and the cities of Magdeburg, Lubeck, Aachen, etc., about "training" Jews for new jobs. 1933 - 1937. 231 pp.

Series of requests by Jewish organizations for permission to set up occupational training of Jews, mostly in agriculture and horticulture, and with aim to prepare young Jews for emigration to Palestine. Number of regional Gestapo reports about Jewish occupational retraining camps. Gestapo report (March 1934) about activities of "Main Office for Jewish Economic Assistance." Retraining of medical students because of limited opportunities abroad for practicing medicine. (see also entries for Folder 137 in reel 2).

176 Order of the Chief, Sipo (Security Police) and SD, about search for the person who prepared an (assassination) attempt on Hitler in July 1942. The letter of the Chief of the department of press and propaganda of the organization "Food and Pleasure" of the German Labor Front to Hitler concerning the Czech writer, Yanic Iogan, who is ready to serve Hitler. 1934 - 1942. 11 pp.

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178 Instructions of the Reichsvertretung der Juden in Deutschland about professional education of Jews. Educational plans for professional schools. Draft agreement between farmers and Reichsvertretung about training Jews in agriculture in preparation for their emigration. Statistical tables of emigration of Jews from Germany to Palestine. 1934 - 1938. 247 pp.

Draft of agreement between Reichsnährstand [Reichfarmers] and Reich Representation of German Jews "Concerning Agricultural and Horticultural Training of Jews in Preparation for Future Emigration." List from Statistical Department, Jewish Agency for Palestine, on Jewish emigration from Germany, January 1933 to June 1936. More material on Jewish job retraining camps, with publication of Reich Representation of German Jews "Guidelines for Job Training of Jews in Germany."

187 Gestapo and SD reports regarding surveillance of Jews. 67 pp.

Series of local and regional reports, as well as press reports, about large moves by Jews from small towns and villages to urban centers. Includes various regional reports (1937) about reason for these moves to larger cities, namely decreasing possibilities to continue a business or to work in smaller communities. Stuttgart Stapo draft paper on "Surveillance of Jews," spelling out measures to be taken against Jews moving to urban areas, including an extensive questionnaire for these new arrivals. SS report on the Jewish Karaite sect among Russian emigres, whose adherents acknowledge the Old Testament but reject the Talmud. Includes a 1910 Russian MVD Report by the Department of Church Affairs, on the Karaites, signed by Prime Minister Stolypin. Series of press reports (1937) about Jewish affairs throughout Germany, rebutting some foreign voices speaking about "Jewish ghettos" by pointing to the above-noted movement of large numbers of German Jews to the cities.

193 Monthly reports on the Evangelical Church. 1934 - 1938. 347 pp.

A series of reports on the Protestant [Evangelische] Church in the new state. List of Protestant organizations. A whole series of reports on problems developing within the Protestant church and on the increasingly more vituperative intra-church debates. Included is a decree by the Reichsministry of the Interior forbidding Protestants to publicize their church disputes, and also local Gestapo reports bearing on this issue. From these and from Party local reports the divisiveness of the issue becomes apparent on Protestant representatives are being condemned for "using the Church for their dark intentions." They also express concern about Church views that National Socialism "promotes godlessness and is much closer to communism than to Christianity." The Church complains about the Nazis "fanatical struggle against out Christian belief" and calls on the community" to fight against this anti-Christian agitation."

193a Reviews of newspapers on the Jewish question. 1934 - 1936. 349 pp. (Reel 119, Reel 183)

RSHA report on confiscated Jewish publications, with synopses of contents; press review reports dealing with international activities pertaining to Jews; Gestapo reviews of Jewish domestic and foreign press (reel 183)

194 Reviews of activities of the Catholic Church and its organizations and also other religious organizations (sects). 1934 - 1937. 100 pp.

Long and detailed report about "The Political Churches," mostly on church activities which are viewed by the authorities as efforts to counteract, among church members, and particularly among young members, the act of obedience to the state and to the Party. Focus is to a large extent on Catholic Church activities.

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195 SD-Hauptamt II 112: Report about the International Jewish Congress in Geneva. SD reports about the behavior of Jews after the prohibition of Jewish meetings in Germany. 1934 - 1937. 43 pp.

SD Munich regarding International Goodwill Congress, Budapest (1936), citing press reports that this is a Jewish affair with links to Jewish World Congress. Regional reports on lifting prohibition of Jewish political organization meetings in January 1937. Some note that in some areas meetings have declined in frequency because "they are lying low so as not to attract official attention." Dutch press reports (1937) about conditions of Jews in Germany. Gestapo and Customs Police reports (July 1937) about alleged Jewish clandestine travel to "Secret Jewish Congress" in Zurich. DNP report (February 1938) about propaganda activities of Jesuit priest based on interview by this "friend of Jews and man of God" with a Jewish newspaper. SD reports (starts with Part II "Jewry") about First Jewish World Congress in Geneva.

198 Charter of the Jewish Union in Vienna. Inquiry about this Union, list of the members, and activity reports. Correspondence of the roentgenologist Volshan with the Baron Louis Rothschild about consolidation of the struggle against anti-Semitism. Correspondence of the Union Secretary Ravin [rabbi?] Calinica with the Chairman of the Jewish Committee in London, Montefiore, about help for the Irene Harrand movement. 1934 - 1937. 191 pp.

A number of reports, correspondence, other material on appeals, by and to Jewish Alliance in Vienna for funds to carry out Alliance's aid to Jews in need resident in Austria or Jews who came to Austria from other countries, particularly Germany. Proposal by a Czech professor for a "Plan about Preliminary Work for the Planned Race Survey" designed to expose fallacy of German race theory. President Masaryk reportedly supports this effort. Includes appeals by author to Jewish organization (1936) to support his work, including one to Baron von Rothschild. Letter from Bucharest (December 1935) about the tragic fate of Jews in Romania as result of pogroms and elimination of Jews from professional life. Correspondence from Jewish organization in Paris (December 1935) and Vienna Jewish Alliance about a recently published work by Coudenhove-Kalergy, the "Paneuropa" leader, entitled "The Nature of Antisemitism."

215 SD report about German émigré in Austra, Count Maximillian Livensuten-Sharfensk, who propagandized against the Nazi Government. 1934. 11 pp. (Reel 183, middle)


216 German Labor Front Department of Information report about rumors which were spread among Jews about the leaders of the Nazi party. Note about the mood of the Jewish population during the crisis of September - October 1938. Text of a Jewish song about the struggle. 1934 - 1939. 11 pp.

Various regional Gestapo reports about the attitude and activities of Jews, including references to Jewish exodus from small population centers to large cities. SD report on mood of the Jewish population as result of 1938 Munich Agreement, with examples of alleged Jewish defamation of Führer and of the German cause. Gestapo copy of a "Jewish Fighting Song" confiscated at German border.

217 Press clippings, Gestapo and Reichsvertretung reports, and other materials about the emigration of Jewish people to Africa, Birobidzhan, Chile, Ecuador, India, Canada, and Argentina. 1934 - 1937. 136 pp.

Jewish press items, Gestapo reports about Jewish settlements in East Africa, Brazil, South Africa, and

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Ecuador (1934, 1936). Press and Gestapo reports about Soviet invitation to persecuted Jews to settle in autonomous region of Birobidzhan. Jewish Telegraph Agency reports on small number who followed invitation, and Gestapo reports questioning sincerity of Soviet move, with press reports by pro-German papers abroad that this new Jewish state in Russia is not really a serious humanitarian effort. Reports and material about aid-measures for German Jews abroad (1933). Gestapo report (1935) castigating Nazi press for writing about poor chances for Jewish emigration "because this runs counter to the aims of national socialist policy. In the remaining press these reports represent a danger because they tend to support the efforts by so-called `German Jews' to remain in Germany." Whole series of reports on Jewish emigration, including a Berlin Gestapo report (April 1936) that despite 27,300 Jewish emigrants, there are still 172,000 Jews in the city. Statistics on German Jewish emigration to Palestine, 1933 - 1936.

219 Reports of the Reichsvertretung der Juden in Deutschland to Gestapo about their meetings; inquiry about this organization; admission tickets for meetings; and notes condemning activity in referats of the Jewish organization. 1934 - 1938. 28 pp.

Report by Reich Representation of German Jews on organization's meetings (1937). Gestapo report (March 1938) on Jewish press and periodicals, Jewish editors and reporters, and cultural organizations. This report included complaint that Gestapo members deployed for surveillance of Jewish events were completely unsuited for task because they knew nothing about Jewish political affairs. SD (Sicherheitsdienst) report (June 1938) about a Führer order for the destruction of a Munich synagogue because it crowded the Künstlerhaus (Art museum). He decreed that on the "Day of German Art" a "parking place must be ready on the former synagogue location." Munich paid the Jewish community 100,000 Marks for the destroyed synagogue although it was valued at two million Marks.

223 Statistics and other information about Jewish emigration. 1934 - 1937. 167 pp.

Jewish press reports about dimensions of Jewish emigration (1934). Gestapo request to Aid Society of German Jews and the Palestine office of the Jewish Agency, Berlin, for statistics on Jewish emigration for 1933, 1934, and 1935 to Palestine. Jewish Agency responds with the report to the organization's 19th Zionist Congress said to contain figures for some of the requested years, including photos of Palestine settlements of Jewish emigres. Aid Society submits report on overall Jewish emigration for 1934 and 1935, with countries of destination and numbers by sex and age. This is followed by a similar report for 1933. Reports on 1936 and 1937 emigration figures with statistical breakdown.

224 Statistics and notes about the emigration of Jews all over the globe, and the number of Jewish doctors, etc. 1934 - 1937. 329 pp.

Number of Jewish doctors in Germany (1936). Statistics on Jews in Prussia (1934). Frankfurter Zeitung (December 1935) prints statistics on Jews in Germany, including occupation categories (for 1933). Statistics on Jews in Germany: total 499,682, with various statistical breakdowns (included so-called full, half-, and quarter-Jews). 1933 figures on Jews in German economy and banking compared to non-Jews. Also, statistics on companions of Jews to non-Jews with regard to certain crime categories.

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Numerous documents on Jewish activities. Statistical and other information on Jewish emigration. Account about Jewish Winter Relief Fund for indigenous Jews. Statistics on Jewish involvement in business, banking, professions, and cultural life. Various domestic and foreign press reports about decline of number of Jews in Germany. Map of Germany (January 1938) with Gestapo arrests in December 1937, difficult to distinguish symbols, but categories represented: Communists, Social Democrats, Catholics, Protestants, Mormons, Jews, Party, homosexuals, etc. Statistics on Jewish participation in World War I and letter from President of Reich Archives (January 1934) to Ministry of Interior on same subject. Detailed statistics on Jewish emigration from Germany, January 1933 to March 1937, includes figures on money taken out by emigrants and on assets left behind.

225 Inquiry about the Jewish weekly "Wahrheit," articles from the weekly "Bundeskanzler" about "Jewish question": "Anti-Semitism," "New Situation - New Ways," and other materials from this weekly. 1934 - 1938. 109 pp.

Numerous items from the Jewish Weekly "The Truth" (Vienna) on situation of Jews in Austria and on Nazi anti-Jewish developments in Germany. The material dates back to 1933 but is being reprinted in an unidentified publication in Berlin in June 1938, apparently in connection with considerations whether this Austrian Jewish publication is to be continued after the incorporation of Austria. Other related material consists of correspondence to and from "Wahrheit" (The Truth) during 1935 and 1936.

226 Certificates regarding cause of death of Fridel Worh in a concentration camp (wife of state councelor in Thuringia). Letters of former German citizen Max Mihels [sic] to his relatives criticizing the Nazi regime. 1934 - 1935. 14 pp. (Reel 183, middle)

Reports about Prague press items on 'atrocity propaganda" concerning conditions in German concentration camps (Feb. 1935).

232 Letters from Jews to their friends, newspaper clippings, and reports of SD agents about the life and the mood of Jewish people in the USA, Harbin, Paris, Prague, and Germany. Statement of Jews to Hitler, which delcared their fidelity to Jewish religion in spite of the prosecution of them in Germany. 1934 - 1939. 40 pp.

Number of items reporting on manifestations of anti-German sentiment and "atrocity propaganda" overseas, mainly with samples from America (1934, 1935). Samples of anonymous material typical of items prepared by "enemies of the State" in Jewish and Marxist circles (1935). Jews and communists in Prague (1939). Report on "Jewish elements in Harbin" (1937).

233 Letters from a Jew to Hitler protesting anti-Semitism. 1934. 50 pp.

Series of letters and appeals from Jehovah Witnesses, mostly addressed to Führer: "Your nasty attitude toward Jehovah Witnesses makes all good people angry and defiles God's name. Stop the further persecution of Jehovah Witnesses, otherwise God will destroy you and your national party."

236 Newspaper clippings about the situation of the Jews in Germany. 1934. 10 pp.

Various anti-German publications at home and abroad report on Jewish involvement in German domestic affairs, with some reports pointing to Julius Streicher's "Der Stürmer" as the perpetrator and purveyor of the worst propaganda accusations against Jews. (In folder 261 there is a memorandum dated 1937 making anti-Jewish material with bearing on criminal cases available to the "Stürmer".) One of above publications, Prager Tagblatt (May 1934), reports the arrest of a Jewish employee of a



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Berlin bank for publicly defaming Goebbels. According to a German radio report, "He has been sent to the Oranienburg concentration camp where he will have ample time to think about how a guest of the German people in Germany ought to behave".

237 Articles from Jewish newspapers; protocols of Gestapo interrogations of Jews; and preparations for Jewish emigration. 1934 - 1937. 22 pp.

Jewish Telegraph Agency report about job retraining of German Jews in Holland (1934). Various other reports on assistance to Jewish emigrants, including at retraining facilities in Holland and France. Gestapo interrogations of Jews who signed up for job retraining, and particularly in agriculture. Purpose, who runs schools, etc.

240 Article of Dr. Schultz, "The Jew and Criminology." NSDAP report about Danzig trial of six (6) Jews who were accused of speaking publicly against slogans writen on walls urging the boycott of Jewish shops. List of Jews accused of anti-governmental activity. 1934 - 1937. 38 pp.

Request from Central Party Archives for archival material giving "unequivocal proof of Jewish traitorous plans and activities." To be used to defend city and Party officials in Danzing against charges by local Jews about false defamation of character. Some responses indicate that no such material could be found in local files. Prussian Gestapo to Party Central Archives: transmittal of requested material. List of "Jews who Committed High Treason and Treason" (1934), with sentences. Material on "Jewry and Criminality" (1935).

260 Rudolf Hess' directive prohibiting relations with Jews for the members of the Nazi party. Gestapo report about Jewish activity in Germany. 1935 - 1936. 50 pp.

Whole series of reports on Jews in various businesses and enterprises, together with Jews in various organizations. Jewish cooperation with Catholics and other Churches. Association of non-Jews, including Party members, with Jews. Decree by Deputy Führer Hess (July 1935) about "Relations with Jews." Law about employment of Aryan servants in Jewish homes (November 1935). More on agricultural training of Jews. Jewish children abroad. Meetings of Reich Organization of Jewish Front Combatants (World War I).

261 Rudolf Hess' letter about attitudes toward Jews. Notes concerning the boycott of Jewish shops and the struggle with Jews. 1935 - 1938. 65 pp.

Number of items on "dealing with the Jewish question": the marking of Jewish businesses (1938), reports about regional activities directed against Jews, reports from abroad about excesses against synagogues and Jews in Germany. SD guidelines, to SD Munich, on "Dealing with Jewish Question" (1938), suggests support of legal emigration, but within existing laws, noting that excesses could have taken place. Report from SS Untersturmführer Eichmann, District Austria 30 May 1938 that during next few weeks 5,000 Austrian Jews, primarily with previous criminal records or "asocial" elements, are to be sent to concentration camp Dachau. Report from SD Leipzig to SD Hauptamt (June 1938) that 30 Weimar Jews who had more than one month of a prison sentence left at Nazi takeover were sent to Buchenwald. Rudolf Hess reminder to all Gauleiter (January 1936) that local signs and posters announcing that Jews are not welcome were occasionally "somewhat less than tasteful." Care should be taken so as not to leave the impression among foreign visitors [in this Olympic year] that anti-Nazi propaganda abroad is true. "I ask you in particular to avoid messages which more or less openly

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suggest possible acts of punishment against Jews, as for example 'Jews enter here at their own risk'." Gestapo makes anti-Jewish material, such as used in criminal cases, available to the "Stürmer" (1937). Directive on "Looking After People in Protective Custody and their Families" from Reichsführer SS and Chief of German Police (16 July 1938). Among recipients are the "leaders of SS Death Head organizations and concentration camps."

263 Certificate of the German Genealogical Bureau about Karims[?] and reprints of articles from Jewish literature about the history of Jewish people. 1937 - 1939. 23 pp.

"Information about the Jewish Question," published by the Institute for the Study of the Jewish Question (6 November 1937). Nazi press items about Jews (November 1937). Various foreign media reports on and coverage of Jewish issues (Example from anti-Jewish, anti-Freemason French publication: answer to the Question "s the Jew a Human Being like all others"..."in his folkways, intellectually, socially the Jew is a very peculiar being, a parasite who is never satisfied with what he has; he drains those nations which are either too blind or too weak to rebuff him, and he has nothing in common with other human beings except for the digestive tract and the lower parts. And the latter are not quite right either." Republication of a reprint from a French publication of a collection of an eighteenth century Jewish letters on various topics, including passage on ritual murder.

279 Gestapo reports on the creation of schools for preparing Jews for new professions, emigration, and educational plans for these schools. 1935 - 1939. 144 pp.

Various items on things forbidden for Jews in Germany, such as the use of Hebrew in public meetings, order restraining various prominent Jewish individuals from public appearances; the establishment of Jewish pubs in Munich. Goebbels order (June 1937) prohibiting Jewish media in Germany to reprint in full or in excerpt any material from German newspapers, magazines, and books. Photos of meetings and other events connected with the destruction of the Nüremberg synagogue (September 1938). Directive to all Stapo (Staatspolizei) offices from Gestapo Berlin on "Meeting Activites by Jews" (May 1935). Designation of special bathing resorts for Jews (1937). Excerpts from daily SD information reports (1938) including another version of an earlier reference to Führer order for destruction of Munich synagogue. Regional arrests of "asocials, criminals, and Jews who were sent to Buchenwald" and foreign press reports about those arrests. More material from Gestapo on the "Establishment of a `Jewish Emigration School'" with school plans, organization, and Gestapo reports on background of some of the teachers. Ludicrous examples of antisemitism: an ad put in a muncipal publication by the local mayor: "In accord with the local farmers leadership it is ordered as of now that cows and cattle being purchased directly or indirectly by Jews are excluded from access to the municipal bull." A number of items dealing with the formalities in connection with trips by foreign Jews to and through Germany. Emigration of non-Aryan teachers.

290 Gestapo and SD reports on the anti-Jewish struggle. Arrest lists, closing of organizations, prohibitions, and Rederverbote. 1935 - 1939. 294 pp.

303 German Labor Front, Gestapo, and NSDAP reports about the work of Jews in high posts in Germany. 1935 - 1938. 158 pp.

Various reports about Jewish employees in important industrial facilities and in public life (1935), such as Jews in the police, in Lufthansa, etc. These include samples of complaints by SS and other Germans to newspapers and the authorities about the continued presence of Jews in public life. In one case, that

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of a prominent official at Lufthansa, there are numerous accusations that the individual is Jewish and hence ought to be removed. This exchange went on and on in the form of private official and unofficial correspondence and in the Nazi press, until eventually Goering and Air Force Chief Milch assure Lufthansa that the individual is highly regarded by the Führer and by them. A series of items about the authority for the marriage between a Jewish woman employed by the Army and a Catholic. Despite the furor, her German army employer vouched for her and her work.

304 Travel of Jews across the border. Anti-Semitic propaganda in Germany. SD reports and correspondence. 1935 - 1937. 94 pp.

Various charges and countercharges about attempts to absolve the Jews from charges that they are unwilling to admit their responsibility for World War I (1935). Appearance in Hamburg (March 1936) of a poster with the message "We Nazis will not Agitate Against Jews in this Olympic Year" (with facsimile of poster). Indication that Jews are opposing activities and measures aimed at them. Various reports on activities by Jews in public deemed to "improper and offensive," like ostentatious display of religious zeal during High Holidays. SD submits a Jewish greeting card (February 1934) depicting a "Kapores" hen: Card #1 is a Jewish New Year card with a Jewish girl as the symbolic New Year. The old year is depicted as an ocean in which the Führer is drowning. Card #2 shows a Jewish family with the head of the house holding a sacrificial hen, the head of which consists of the Führer's face. Card #3 shows a Jew who explains the purpose of "Kapores" to his son. Various reports on an alleged band of smugglers of human beings, including an item from the BZ am Mittag (November 1937) "Warsaw Jews Smuggle Human Beings" using false passports and visas.

305 SD and German Labor Front Department of Information reports about organizing schools in Germany for training Jews for new jobs. 1935 - 1939. 170 pp.

More items on Jewish job retraining activities, primarily in agriculture. Items from Czech press about "Jews Abroad," about a Jew who allegedly worked for the Gestapo.



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311 Czech newspaper reports about the collaboration of Zionist Jews with the Gestapo. 1935. 66 pp.

324 Full list of the members of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Organization [sic]. Information about the anti-fascists John Reingold from USA, Edmund Tailor from London, and Alfred Veriver [sic] from New York. Newspaper "Deutscher Vercruff [?]" and some English newspaper clippings. 1935 - 1938. 21 pp.

Gestapo material on alleged anti-German activities abroad. List with names of officers of the Jewish Organizatin of Anti-Nazis in New York. Various foreign press reports, including one on Nazis plotting a big purge of priests. Items from Philadelphia and New York pro-Nazi German papers, including reports on activities of various local German-American organizations and other items carried in these papers.

343 Article written by Dr. Reigner [sic] about the main problems of the Nuremberg Laws. Review table about the obstacles to marriage because of mixture of Jewish blood. Other materials on the Jewish question. 1935 - 1939. 272 pp.



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List of non-Aryan German authors and writers who are to be ousted from the Reich Writers Board. Long report by the Gau Race Adviser for Saxony about the genesis of the Jewish Laws (Nüremberg Laws) of 15 September 1935 pointing out that they were hurriedly implemented after the 1935 Party Congress because the Führer was getting tired of the squabbles among his advisors, some of whom wanted restraint because of the detrimental effect the Laws could have on trade and the economy (led by Reich Bank President Schacht), and others who wanted stringent anti-Jewish measures (led by Streicher). Report mentioned that in 1935, there were 550,000 "full and 3/4 Jews," 200,000 half Jews, and 100,000 quarter Jews according to the precepts of the Nüremberg Law in Germany. Gestapo Berlin, December 1935: Report on "Laws Concerning Reich Citizens Rights and for the Protection of German Blood and Honor", accompanied by a study containing basic concepts about the purpose and significance of the Nüremberg Laws. Sicherheitsdienst (SD) report January 1936 about effect of Nüremberg Laws among Jews and Jewish organizations. Report includes list of Jewish organizations and their meetings and a list of Jewish businesses, taken over by Aryans. Report of Reich and Prussian Interior Ministry (January 1936) noting that "all Jewish officials and other Jewish occupants of higher [government] positions have been removed." Staatspolizei (Stapo) report from Wiesbaden/Frankfurt (February 1935) concerning "Excesses in Frankfurt against Jewish businesses and warehouse from December 1934 to present", including complaints about isolated SS efforts to prevent the local police from carrying out its function of law and order, as well as cases of attacks on civilians who tried to protect Jews from beatings. Various items having to do with Nüremberg Laws and their impact on Jews in various public and private areas. Various German and foreign press items noting the impact of the Nüremberg Laws on Jews, as well as the new role of the Jews in German public life. Copy of notes on conference in the Reich Interior Ministry of 7 April 1938 concerning the introduction of the Nüremberg Laws in annexed Austria. Report from the SD Vienna to Chief of Security Police Heydrich in Berlin about having found and secured the personnel register of the Vienna Jewish Community going back hundreds of years. Gestapo report (November 1938) on Berlin police proposal to set up a ghetto in the city. Idea rejected because a "purely Jewish ghetto would no longer be under the absolute control of the security police."

346 Articles from foreign newspapers and magazines about the persecution of Jews in Germany. 1935 - 1938. 188 pp.

Mostly Jewish press reports (1935) from abroad about persecution of Jews in Germany, including large item "J'Accuse", published by World Alliance for Combating anti-Semitism in London. Has photos and stories on anti-Jewish activities in Germany. Section on "The Nazi Pogrom against German Jewry" contains list of Jews killed by Nazis. German officials report on anti-German propaganda abroad. Also official correspondence on specific anti-German measures abroad. Czech media accuses Alfred Rosenberg of racial impurity, with SD and Gestapo taking note of this "atrocious" propaganda.

347 Idem. 1935. 310 pp.

Report from Hamburg-Bremen "Abatement of Atrocity Propaganda and Development of Boycott Movement Against Germany," with various reports from abroad. Whole series of reports, with emphasis on boycott movement and anti-German propaganda in United States (1934). Also reports on subject from Holland, Soviet Union, England, and South America.

350 Information of SD Nord about the emigration of Jews to Norway. 1935. 2 pp. Report on Emigration of Jews to Norway (December 1935).

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354 Newspaper clippings devoted to the Jewish question. 1935 - 1937. 111 pp.

German press items about pro-Jewish activities in Austria (July 1937). Jews in Austria. Austrian press on anti-Semitism, activities by Austrian Jews aimed at Germany. German press on Jewish machinations and violations of laws in Austria. German press on growing influence by and number of Jews in Austria ("Austria - A Second Palestine?")

355 Information about the history of Jews in Romania and Czechoslovakia. 1935 - 1939. 23 pp.

Jewry in Romania (January 1935) with statistical material. SD report on Jews in Czechoslovakia (March 1939).

370 Gestapo correspondence about analysis of Jewish literature. SD Süd - West division report about the possibilities of emigration of Jews to Holland, England, and France. Article from American newspaper about performance given by group of Jewish actors from Vienna. Other materials devoted to the Jewish question. 1935 - 1940. 44 pp.

SS - SD: Extension of Law about Reestablishment of Career Officials, with directives to all administrative regions to identify all Jewish employees and institute proceedings against them. Takeover of Jewish and Hebrew collection in city library of Frankfurt and setting up of Research Institute on Jewish Writings. Stuttgart SD to Sicherheitshauptamt Berlin (February 1939): "Jewish Emigration." Report on number of Jews in Switzerland. Unsourced leaflet about German men in Lemberg charging that they were killed by Jews and their bodies doused with petroleum and burned. Gestapo to Reichssicherheitshauptamt about items and artifacts found in burned-down ruins of Wilhelshaven synagogue (May 1940). Handwritten list of Czech Jewish communities with names of rabbis, their salaries, qualification, etc. (no identifying date or source).

378 Correspondence between German Labor Front and SD about Jews who were members of the Nazi party. 1935 - 1937. 21 pp.

Reports on Nazis still living with Jews, or Jews becoming Party members under false pretenses, or joining German Labor Union (DAF).

379 Draft of the law on the situation of Jews in Germany. Edict dated 11 March 1812 [sic]. Attitude towards the Jewish people. Gestapo report about discussion in the German Ministry of the Economy about the limitation of rights of Jews in Germany. Other materials on the Jewish question. 1936. 127 pp.

1933 "Introduction to Jewish Laws": draft for anti-Jewish legislation and supporting material, such as "Development of Legal Standing of Jews in Prussia since 1816." Prussian State Laws pertaining to Jewry promulagated from 1806-1883. Various Gestapo and SD reports on the Jewish Question. Measures against Jews and Jewish business owners. Report (multiple copies) about 20 August 1935 Conference in Reich Economic Ministry about the practical solution of the Jewish question. Reichbank President Schacht emphasizes adverse impact of anti-Jewish measures on economy and trade, and Heydrich contention that more severe measures must be taken to inhibit Jewish freedoms in the economy and in their private lives. Various reports on demonstrations and occasional lootings at Jewish businesses in Berlin. Order by Berlin Police president forbidding individual actions by some Nazi

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members against Jewish businesses. Gestapo message to all Ministers and Führer Deputy about "Proposals for the Solution of the Jewish Question."

380 Law for the protection of Nazi organizations' names. Minutes of the meeting of the Union of Jewish Women about the change of the name of the organization, which is parallel to the names of Nazi organizations. German Labor Front letter to the Committee on Peoples Health about regulations for accepting new members in the G.L.F. 1936 - 1938. 28 pp.

Message to Gestapo Berlin about "Actions by the Illegal Communist Party in Connection with Actions Against Jews" (July 1938). SD report on anti-Jewish demonstrations against prominent Jewish enterprise in Stuttgart misused by illegal communists for their own agitational purposes. Directive addressed to authorized Jewish organizations not to use organizational terminology used by Party.

382 Anonymous circular "What will 1936 Bring?", sent to the Regierungspräsident of Aachen. Reviews of book, "Melusine," [sic] by the Jewish writer Wassermann. Review of book by Frieda Meller, "Fairytale about Friday." Copy of article by Doctor Erick Bishof, "Cabbala." Other materials about Jewish literature. 3 March 1936 - 28 December 1938. 164 pp.

Various anonymous writings purporting to be foreign views on the Jewish question. One is "What is to be done with the Jews," characterized as "one of the worst samples of defamatory literature by Germany's opponents abroad." Official exchanges on type of literary material Jews emigrating from Germany can take with them. Various examples of prohibition of books by Jewish writers. Listing of Jewish lithurgical music located in the Jerusalem National Library. Anti-German brochure with wide circulation, "The Foundation of the Jewish People - a Necessary Accounting" (December 1938).

386 Review of activity of International Zionist Organization. September - October 1936. 15 pp.

"The Zionist World Organization," Part II: section deals with Zionist Organization for Germany (ZVfD), with tasks as seen by German security authorities. (for Part I, see folder 398 below).

387 Review of activity of agricultural and horticultural establishments for retraining Jews to emigrate. Urgent letter of SS to its district in Kiel, Breelable, Malle, Kassel, and other cities about requalification camps and similar matters. 8 August 1936 - 13 June 1939. 96 pp.

More material on training of Jews in Aryan businesses, on farms, etc. Most cover agricultural training and gardening training.

396 Reports of agents about the preparation of bacteriologic war in Germany by Jewish organizations and about anti-Hitler speeches of Jews. 27 April 1936 - 5 December 1939. 5 pp.

Copy of SD report on Antroposophical Association and on Jewish economic measures against Germany.

397 Report "International Jewish Union Ayudas Israel," volumes 1 and 2. Appendix: List of members of the union. 24 July 1936 - 20 March 1937.

From office of Reichsführer SS and Chief, Sicherheitshauptamt: to all SD regional administrative and subordinated offices. Report on "Agudas Yisrael World Organization", including general purpose and tasks, and organizations and functional set-up in Germany.

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398 Report "International Zionist Organization" volumes 1 and 2, re

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398 Report "International Zionist Organization" volumes 1 and 2, revised organization plan. 20 October 1936. 41 pp.

Report on "The Zionist World Organizaiton," Part I (see folder 386 above for Part II).

399 Report about and meeting minutes of the "Jewish Book Union." "Jewish Calendar," and other material about the Jewish press. 1 April 1936 - 18 April 1940. 212 pp.

Samples of foreign "inflammatory" literature against German Jewish laws, with names of authors, titles, and place and date of publication. Bylaws of Jewish Book Association, with report on 1939 meeting and history of founding of Association that year. More items to be put on list of "unwholesome and undesirable literature." Report on Jewish calendar with emphasis on Jewish traditional holidays and related ritual. Jewish lithugical music (texts). 1927 Hagadah. Synopsis of 1935 publication "The Foundation of the Jewish People" - A Necessary Accounting with Jewry. The summary notes that "the book, which repeatedly confirms measures [against Jews] taken by the Third Reich, or which refers to then quite freely, certainly deserves a positive evaluation." Reports on confiscation and on evaluation of Jewish and Hebrew literature (1939).

413 Reports of SD districts about Jews changing their names and anti-state activities in Germany. 1 August 1936 - 20 March 1939. 10 pp.

Various reports on adoption of Jews and their subsequent camouflaged existance (1933). Other examples of violation of anti-Jewish laws by Jews (1939).

414 Reports of SD districts, newspapers, and the NSDAP information department about "various means of masking of Jews to hide from rescue" [sic]. 8 June 1936 - 30 June 1939. 62 pp.

More on Basel process about Protocols of Elders of Zion. Various items requesting permission by Jews to lecture. Baptizing of Jewish girl in a Protestant Church. Examples of Jewish subterfuge and camouflage in German economic life.

429 Reports of Foreign Service SD and SD districts about speeches (or activities) of Jews abroad against Nazi Germany. 7 December 1936 - 2 August 1937. 24 pp. More items on anti-German propaganda by Jews abroad.



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430 Review of Jewish political organizations in Germany (with tables). 15 February - 15 April 1936. 39 pp.

Political organizations of Jews in Germany, with tables of organization.

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431 Statistical materials about the emigration of Jews all over the world. 21 January 1936 - 12 July 1940. 201 pp.

Various Gestapo and other official reports on contemporary Jewish movement in Berlin, on "Freemasons, Jews, Emigrants, Expatriates," with statistics from Jewish press, also on numbers of Jews around the world. Development of Jewish population in Germany, February 1933 - January 1937 (number of Jews still in Germany in 1937: 392,000). Gestapo information on where Jews who had left Germany had moved to, including lists of Jews returning to Germany, and from where, in 1938. Various incidental statistics about Jewish emigration, on internal Jewish emigration from small cities to large ones. List of Jews of foreign nationality in Germany (July 1938: 40,000; stateless: 17,000). Various articles from the Information Service of the Party. Race Policy Office Headquarters. Report from Commander, Security, Police, and SD Posen (Poznan), November 1939: "Jewish Question in Occupied Territory." More statistics on Jews in Germany, 1940. May 1940 report: current Jewish population internationally (lists 1,269,000 for Generalgouvernment Poland).

433 Newspaper articles about Jewish emigration to Sweden. 10 January 1936 - 4 November 1938. 4 pp.

Article on Jewish immigration in Sweden.

433a Newspaper and journal articles concerning the trial of the Jew, Frankfurter, who killed NSDAP member Wilhelm Gustav [or Gustav Wilhelm]. 6 September 1936 - 12 January 1937. 381 pp.

Various reports from German and foreign Jewish papers, as well as non-Jewish German press. Whole series of reports, before and during, on Frankfurter trial in Chur, Switzerland (he was accused of killing a Nazi official, Gustloff). November - December 1936. Report on sentence: eighteen years in prison. Innumerable domestic and foreign press comments after the verdict. Various press reports on Jewish issues, Jewish education, youth movements and universities, sports, etc. (primarily from Swiss Jewish press). Various reports from German Jewish press (1936). Private exchange of letters between Count Pilate von Tassel and Count Coundenhove-Kalergi (July 1938). Jews in Finland (February 1939). Reports on Jewish emigration from Danzig (Gdansk) and Czechoslovakia (March 1939 - April 1939). Correspondence dealing with handling of inheritance of Colonel Jodl, General Staff and Section Chief in Reich War Ministry (April 1937). Copy of crudely prepared leaflets, undated: "The Hitler Regieme's Policy Leads to War. Therefore, Vote No".

434 SD district reports about investigations into the race of Robert Mendelson, Leo Levenstein, Borovitch, and others. 11 February 1936 - 8 January 1938. 20 pp.

Report from Racial Purity Research Department concerning racial purity of various employees in War Ministry. Report to Heydrich by Navy officer about an allegedly Jewish Navy officer, including correspondence in the case. Other case reports inquiring about and reporting on Jewish background of various individuals.

435 SD districts reports about Jewish emigration to Brazil. 30 June 1936 - 22 December 1938. 4 pp.

More material on Jewish emigration.

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436 SD unit reports and newspaper articles about financial support to Jews from organizations abroad to help emigration from Germany. 5 January 1936 - 24 February 1938. 7 pp.

Reports on various efforts by German Jews and their leadership to get other countries (particularly United Kingdom) to accept large numbers of emigrants. Financial reports (requested by Gestapo) by Jewish officials in Germany, specifically money collected by Keren Hayessod and Keren Kayemet (February 1938).

449 Translation of Jewish newspaper "Vorwärts" article about the emigration of Jews from Germany. Inquiry list for Jews who left Germany, and other materials about Jews' emigration. 18 May 1836 - 15 August 1939. 108 pp.

Number of items dealing with Jewish emigration, among them: correspondence between German Jewish organizations and their counterparts abroad, series of emigration questions at Vienna's Central Emigration Office headed by Eichmann (November 1938), Jewish emigration from Eastern Europe (December 1938), German emigration statistics, 1936 - 1938, report on discussion at Berlin Gestapo headquarters with Eichmann on financing Jewish emigration from Austria, and Gestapo reports about individual Jewish emigrants (August 1939).

459a SD unit telegrams, correspondence with Zionist groups about emigration of foreign Jews, and stateless Jews. 14 February 1936 - 28 June 1938. 154pp.

Material from SD (Sicherheitsdienst) Main Office: removal of foreign Jews and stateless persons from boards of Jewish political organizations in European countries other than Germany, report inquiring what actions were taken regionally and locally to remove these Jews from their position, and individual reports on non-German Jews who have left their positions. This is interspersed with rules and by-laws of various German Jewish organizaitons.

469 German Press Agency letter to the Ministry of Propaganda about persons working in Palestine for the Agency. SS report about Communist members of the "Union of Bird Lovers." 30 April 1936 - 4 February 1938. 8 pp.

Report to Reich Ministry for National Enlightenment and Propaganda about the German news bureau in Palestine and about its staff.

470 Paul Berngardt letter to Alfonse Lovener about his impressions of Palestine. Notes concerning Jewish emigration to Palestine. 3 January 1936 - 3 August 1939. 36 pp.

Copies of letters from German Jewish emigrants from Palestine. Incidences of circumvention of Race Laws pertaining to female house help (January 1936). Report on Jews with farm work training. Report on mass Jewish emigration from Württemberg area. Report about illegal Jewish transport to Palestine from Danzig (August 1939). Report: "700 Jews - Their Customs and Habits," about a trip on a Greek freighter from Romania to Palestine.

472 Confiscated letters of German emigrants about activities against Jews in Germany. Copy of "November Battles in Germany." 28 November 1936 - 26 July 1939. 75 pp.

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Report on "offensive and propagandistic" junkmail distributed through postal system, allegedly prepared by Jews. "Hate literature" from Norway, confiscated by Gestapo, consisting of letters expressing outrage over treatment of German Jews (November 1938). Similar material from Denmark. Report on anti-German demonstrations in New York (November 1938). Samples of foreign anti-Nazi propaganda. Series of unidentifiable photo negatives.

485 SD and Gestapo correspondence about Jewish emigration from Austria and prohibition of Jewish organizations. Article: "Terror in Danzig. Poison of Hitlerism is Being Spread." 13 June 1936 - 7 September 1939. 23 pp.

Copies of British press reports about Nazi terrorism in Gdansk (June 1936). Reports on various Jewish organizations. Reports on Jewish emigration from Austria (June 1938). Report on defacing of Jewish businesses in Magdeburg (June 1938). Report on Jews located in West German military fortified areas (August 1938). Expressed intentions to dissolve a number of Jewish groups (August 1938).

489 Correspondence with SS regarding Jewish prayer book and translation of its first pages. Prayer book and Torah appended [sic]. 25 September - 18 October 1936. 13 pp.

Translations of various Jewish traditional inscriptions from the Torah and from other implements, with reprints of pages from Hebrew prayer books (September 1936).

490 Correspondence with SS and SD about financial support of Jews by Jewish communities and about remittance of money abroad. 8 August 1936 - 25 April 1939. 11 pp.

Reports on amounts of collection for Jewish Winter Aid and Assistance. Various German press reports changing Jews with currency trading and race defilement. Treatise on Care of Indigent Jews. Report on money collections within Jewish community.

494 Correspondence with SD and German Labor Front about removal of Jewish signs [symbols?] from stamps [rubber stamps?] and about an opportunity to use the Jewish representative of the aviation firm Junkers. 28 March 1936 - 19 June 1937. 13 pp.

Series of reports with facsimile reproduction of Jewish symbols on various official stamps. Jewish representative of Junkers Airplane Company.

495 Correspondence with SD, SS, and others about accounts and searching for Jews. 96 pp.

More on peculiarities of regional official seals and stamps (see folder 494). From Chief, SD, concerning "Surveillance of Jewry," with report that after Hitler's accession a large number of German Jews were baptized as Protestants or Catholics in order not to arouse suspicion of neighbors. Gestapo report (July 1937) about setting up a card index of German Jews and how such a file is to be structured. Gestapo request to regional offices to report statistically on resident Jews, including questionnaire to be used. More reports on surveillance of German Jews.

498 Correspondence with Gestapo headquarters by SD sections on the transfer and destruction of lists and books on secret investigations (1936 - 1938) [Above title may be a mistranslation by the Russians. Actually: miscellaneous correspondence (seized?) regarding case of David Frankfurter. 1936]. 25 pp.

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Correspondence with Austrian Jewish organizations concerning publication of material.

499a Mission of SD II 112 as a result of the decree of 1 July 1937 (Funktionsbefehl) with attachments regarding laws affecting Jews and lists of the important Gestapo directives on the Jewish question. Related correspondence with SD sections. Comments on removal of foreign Jews. 115 pp.

Whole series of reports from SD (Sicherheitsdienst) on removal of foreign and stateless Jews from Jewish cultural organizations. Includes excerpts from high-level Gestapo discussions concerning this action. Inspection of training facilities for manual and occupational jobs of Jews. List of various laws pertaining to Jews (Judengesetze). List of important Gestapo edicts from 1936-1937 pertaining to the regulation of Jewish private and public activities (example: "Race Violation in Jewish Hotels, Sanatoriums, and Pensions"). Report to Gestapo by Jewish Cultural Federation Berlin (July 1937) on leadership, board members, and artistic and technical personnel. Those of foreign origin are underlined.

501 Special department circulars for persons and establishments related to the Jewish press about searching for Jewish intelligentsia, attitudes toward the Jewish press, and publishing and dissemination of Jewish literature, etc. 15 June 1937 - 18 February 1938. 73 pp.

Questionnaire for accreditation of Jewish press activities. Round-robin letter from Special Section of Reich Ministry for National Enlightenment (Volksaufklärung) and Propaganda, July 1937, to individuals belonging to Jewish press organizations and enterprises. Subject: "Basic Directives for Dealing with Matters Pertaining to the Jewish Press." Also, directives on how to deal with certain newspapers and magazines. Regulation of individual cases concerning retail and commerce of Jewish book trade. Directive to publishers of Jewish papers informing all involved that as of immediately (January 1936) the Jewish press is forbidden to report on how Romanian authorities deal with their Jewish problem. Other directives and reports taking Jewish press to task for "tendentious" reporting, forbidding press to reprint items from non-Jewish papers or any kind of criticism of official measure by Polish authorities concerning the Jewish question (June 1937). Report from Special Section in Propaganda Ministry on "Surveillance of Intellectually and Culturally Active Jews and non-Aryans Within the Reich" (July 1937).



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506 SD-Hauptamt II 112, working folder on the Judenfrage (Eichmans's?), 1937 - 1938. Lecture notes by Eichmann, "Judenfrage als Problem" with collection of reference materials e.g., fragment of SD(?) report on political organization of Jews in Germany. Reviews of political and judicial postion of Jews and their organizations. Articles about the SD struggle against Jews. 135 pp.

Report on political situation among Jews in Germany. Heydrich request (September 1938) for priority report on "The Financing of Austrian Opponents Prior to Nazi Takeover" (results of research among Austrian Jewish organizations). Report: Jewish Question as a Problem with sections on "Judaism as the Internal Opponent," "Judaism as International Opponent," "Struggle Against Judaism." Population Trend among German Jews, February 1933 to January 1937. Lists where emigrants want to go. Report on "Assimilation - The Historical Development." Issues and Questions for SD concerning struggle against Judaism. Mentions that special task is to combat assimilation: "One of the most essential tasks of the SD concerning the Jewish question...is the suppression of all efforts at assimilation and the promotion of all efforts aimed as emigration." Secret report on Judaism (1938): one section (November - December 1938) deals with events as result of Grynszpan shooting of von Rath. After pointing out that activities were undertaken to destroy synagogues and Jewish businesses (Kristallnacht), the report notes: "occasionally this destruction took on completely senseless proportions. For example, as the result of rash acts or ignorance on part of the participants, a number of valuable archival items from synagogue property or from Jewish archives were burned or destroyed in some other way. In some places valuable paintings were slashed."

509 Review of activity of the International Jewish Union and "Agudas Israel", page 1, 20 March 1937. 47 pp.

SD report on World Organization of Agudas Yisrael (July 1936). With maps of locations of organization offices and members in Germany. Includes directives for SD surveillance of regional and central organizations.

509a Reviews of history of the Jewish people. 4 June - 23 July 1937. 46 pp.

Report: "History and Intellectual Development of Judaism (frequently duplicates report cited in Folder 506). Source index to topic "Freedom of National Socialist Press."

513 Report "The Political Situation inside Zionism in Germany." Jewish newspaper "Central Ferenzeitung" [sic]. 6 May 1937. 21 pp.

Report: The Political Situation within German Zionism. Facsimile of CV (Centralverein) Zeitung (Central paper of German Jews) - 100 year anniversary issue. (Interesting aspect: pages of advertising for sales and services, showing extensive and varied Jewish business activities throughout Germany - at least up to 1937).

514 Minutes of the meeting for advancing the qualification of Jewish teachers in Breslau. Namelist of requalification camp personnel. Report of SD unit about a Jewish school quarrel in Breslau. 16 March 1937 - 27 March 1939. 84 pp.

More reports on Jewish job retraining centers, including regional SD reports (1937). Report on Jewish training vessel "Theodor Herzl." Reports on Jewish teachers assiciation meetings. List of participants in various occupational retaining centers.

515 SS reports, newspaper clippings, and other materials concerning the emigration of Jews to the United States. 15 March 1937 - 17 February 1939. 15 pp.

Various reports for period on Jewish emigration: where to, how many, etc. 1937 report on Jewish emigration to North America (since July 1933).

517 An abstract from the report of SS Obersturmführer Spengler about the possibility of using the State Secret Archives,Potsdam, in Department IV activities dealing with Communists and other leftists. 20 November 1937. 4 pp. (Reel 183, end)

521 SD report about the "International Congress against Anti-Semitism and Racism." 7 December 1937. 19 pp.

Report on "Enemy Organizations" (December 1937): Congress of Rassemblement Mondial Against Racism and Antisemitism.

524 Heizen Emigration Bureau [sic] reports and correspondence with the Reich Emigration Bureau regarding Jewish emigration. 7 January 1927 - 8 June 1938. 83 pp.

Advertising and Promotion of Jewish emigration by Hanseatic Travel Agency. Report of Reich Organization for Emigration about lack of facts concerning planned Jewish colonization in Brazil, hence no official support can be given. Hanseatic Travel Agency report about Ecuador Settlement Project. Travel agency reports that British troop transport to Jamaica refuses to take Jewish emigrants abroad. Numerous exchanges by Jewish and travel organizations as well as Ecuadorian embassy about emigration possibilities to Ecuador. Eventual conditional approval by competent German organizations of emigration plans for Ecuador.

527 SD reports about ritual murders and the organization of a secret union of Jews in Leipzig. 2 April 1937 - 26 February 1939. 13 pp.

Würzburg Stapo (Staatspolizei) report about arrest of 7 Jews for alleged ritual murder of a five-year old boy in March 1929 (report with this information is dated May 1937). SD Munich report on "Terrorist Group to Combat National Socialism" involving "Jewish WWI Veterans" (pertains to an organization in Austria), December 1937. Report from Leipzig about secret Jewish organizations (February 1939).

530 A report of regional department of German Labour Front in Köln-Aachen about anti-government remarks of German woman, Rose Rosen. 21 - 27 January 1937. 6 pp.

Report from Cologne about spreading of "horror" stories. One woman employed in a store told her colleagues the Führer has the feeling that he is constrained by chains, and he has frequent attacks of raving madness; the Party is going to be dissolved, nobody says "Heil Hitler" anymore in Berlin; in a few months we will be surprised to see what is going to happen; and Göring is supposed to become Kaiser (January 1937).

532 SD reports about boycott against Jewish stores in Frankfurt-am-Main, and spreading of anti-government leaflets by Jews. 6 December 1937 - 3 July 1945. 21 pp.

SD report about boycott of Jewish businesses in Frankfurt (March 1938). Discovery of anti-Nazi literature. SD asks for samples of anti-Nazi pamphlets reportedly prepared by Jews. Samples of anti-Nazi literature originating in Frankfurt, official exchanges concerning these pamphlets. Text of "Zollschau Plan," a movement against race hatred and antisemitism (December 1936). Search for Zollschau in Karlovy Variy, and report that he has fled the country.

534 Agency "Havas" reports about the attempt to kill Hitler. "Basel News" report about Helmut Hirsch [?] being suspected in attempt to kill Julius Streicher. "Le patriote" report about Jewish counterfeiters. 26 April 1937 - 11 March 1939. 8 pp.

Report based on Bucharest paper item about a plot against Hitler, entitled "Chief of the Plot is a Jew, an American citizen [Helmut Hirsch]" (April 1937). Item from Basler Nachrichten (June 1937) about the execution of 20-year old Helmut Hirsch. Press report about Jew charged with major swindle, and his escape from Belgium (November 1937). Other foreign press reports, reprinted in Nazi papers, about a rabbi dealing in heroin, Jewish counterfeiters, etc.

537 Breslau SS report about confiscation of the property of a lodge of the Jewish independent order of B'nai B'rith. Includes inventory of property. 15 September 1937 - 12 December 1938. 31 pp.

Report about confiscation of money belonging to Jewish organizations (September 1937). Gestapo directive to state governor in Breslau about "Dissolution of `Independent Order of the Bris'" (women's organization). Listing of confiscated funds of anti-state organizations and individuals (mostly Jewish women's organizations). Index of items confiscated during closing of facilities of Independent Order of the Bris (itemized room by room). SD memo on "Expatriation of Enemies of the State" and action taken in Düsseldorf to expatriate Jewish Freemasons, etc. (December 1938).

549 SD II file of reports on the resolution of the Judenfrage in Germany: includes reports from the Auswaertiges Amt, 1937 - 1939. 74 pp.

Nazi press (October 1937). Item: "The Elimination [Auscheidung] of the Jews," dealing essentially with Nazi emphasis on having them leave as soon as possible. From Chief, SD, to Reich leader SS and Chief of German Police: "Policy Concerning Jews" (March 1938), primarily about German inability to facilitate Jewish emigration to Palestine. Statistics: 400,000 Jews in Germany, 250,000 in Austria. Proposal: encourage the following to emigrate: the unpropertied, anti-social Jewish proletariat; the remaining infirm and indigent Jews. Those not encouraged to emigrate: all wealthy Jews, all well-known Jews, and those suitable as hostages. SD report about Gauleiter Streicher contention (July 1938) that as a result of Anschluss the Jewish problem has reached a stage at which basic decisions can no longer be avoided. The issue can no longer be dealt with propagandistic means. SD report that Reichs Economic Minister Funk is opposed to the marking of Jewish stores because that could lead to their ruin and he wants to eventually aryanize these businesses intact. Report "About Proposals, Respectively Practical Measures Concerning Jewish Question." Notes that too many organizations and offices are dealing with the issue and time has come to centralize effort. Response by SD to a memo by a Viennese "Concerning Proposal for Planned Solution of Jewish Question in the Reich." SD notes: "...in the meantime the State has taken thorough measures for the final clearing up [Bereinigung] of the Jewish question in Germany." Exchange of letter between Viennese plan proponent (Dits) and various Gestapo and other organizations. Includes a draft reply to Dits (who had sent plan originally to Hitler) "that your attempt at finding a solution to the Jewish question, while commendable, cannot however be practically implemented." Central to that plan is a fully self-sufficient Ghetto structure in one of the German colonies. Memo: "Concerning the Scientific Treatment of the Jewish Question." Memo: "The Jewish Question as a Foreign Policy Factor in 1938." Deals essentially with aim to remove Jews from economic life, an effort accelerated in the aftermath of the von Rath killing. Extensive discussion about what foreign countries are willing and what they can do for the Jews. Foreign office sends copies of to all Reich ministries of a Roosevelt letter to Mussolini (7 December 1939) concerning solution of German question through a settlement in Abyssnia, and Duce's reply. Foreign office points out that Italian Foreign Ministry's views on creating a Jewish state, no matter what size and under what conditions, represent "a threat to German interests." Memo on German attitude toward creation of a Jewish state in Palestine (June 1937).

550 Correspondence with SD and referats' notes about Jewish emigration to Palestine and Alabama, and Jewish participation in "Winterhilfe" in Germany. 31 January 1937 - 17 July 1939. 58 pp.
Unsourced memo on Jewish emigration, February 1933 - 31 January 1937.

Unsourced memo on Jewish emigration, February 1933 - 31 January 1937. SD report on Jewish schooling and retraining for emigration. Report on Jewish Winter Aid Program (reports on regional collection and amounts). Report on "Intended settling of 30,000 underpriviledged Jews in Alabama in the U.S." (June 1938). Various reports on intentions for creating a Jewish state in Palestine. Various reports and memos on funds belonging to German Jewish organizations, and social support for Jewish representation in the Reich. SD and other memos on measures for emigration, including the promotion of emigration of underpriviledged Jews (February 1939). Report from Vienna's "Palestine Office" about current major projects for Jewish emigration (July 1939).

554 Regulations of the Zionist Youth Union in Berlin "Lehavei," the newspaper of the Zionist union "B.Z.V." and other materials of the Zionist union in Berlin. 29 May - 27 July 1937. 40 pp.

Report on Zionist Youth Organization Hechaver (with correspondence dating back to 1922 and the founding of the organization). Related reports from Berlin Zionist press.

556 Bulletin of the Social Democratic Party of Germany about the movement against Jews. Leaflets about pograms in Germany, November 1933. In German, French, and English. 26 February 1937 - 26 May 1940. 83 pp.

Gestapo Hamburg: "Jewish Ads Affixed to German Reich Postal Mailboxes." Gestapo report on anti-German propaganda in Switzerland. Various report about the impact of German Kristallnacht pogroms in different German cities (in English). Reports (from foreign sources)with note not to make available to German Jews in order to protect them against punishment. There is one report in a series on "Pogroms in Germany," this one on concentration camps, including comments of an inmate, "On the day of von Rath's funeral with eyewitness report about Nazi excesses and brutality." Reports on "The Persecution of Jews" (some seem to be from Deutschland Berichte der Synode") (August 1939). Details of events in various occupied areas, including Austria.

557 SS Darmstadt telegram to the Minister of Interior about actions against Jews in Heisenstamm [sic]. 7 May 1937. 2 pp.

Excesses against Jews in Darmstadt area (15 headstones overturned in Jewish cemetary) and others damaged.

576 Notes and newspaper clipping about Jewish emigration to Costa-Rica. 18 August - 5 November 1937. 3 pp.

Reprint from "Palestine-Post (August 1937): "Colony for German Jewish Refugees."

580 Quotes from English prime minister B. Disraeli's book about the role of Jews in social life of Europe. SD reports about Jewish behavior in Danzig. 1 January 1937 - 20 January 1938. 4 pp.

Incidental items about Disraeli, and ways in which Jews compensate for their isolation.

583 Newspaper clippings concerning Palestine problem. Twentieth Zionist Congress. Newspaper articles and other materials on the Jewish problem. 8 August 1937 - 11 November 1939. 88 pp.

Mostly Swiss press report about Zurich Zionist Congress (August 1937). SD reports (28 press items): "Press views in southeast sector (Bavaria, et. al.) about Palestine Problem" (August 1937). SD report about 20th Zionist Congress in Zurich (3-16 August 1937), press reports about Congress. Report on Reich Organization of Jews in Germany. Annual situation report by SD and SS (November 1938). Points out organizational shortcomings and includes description of purposes of Report. Contains details at central and regional levels about "Laws, Directives, and Measures by the State and their Effort" pertaining to Jews. In detailed section on further developments there is an item "Final Solution of Jewish Question is Expected." Another section of Report in entitled : "Jewry - General Development and Oppositional Work and Defense Against It." Detailed report on "Struggle of National Socialism Against Jewry" (December 1938). Statistics: Jews in the old Reich as of 1 January 1938 (former Austria as of March 1938) 370,000 (Austria 191,000). Emigration: 32,248. Expulsion of Polish Jews 14,000. Chart of the 48,000 Jews who emigrated from Austria between 15 March and 1 August 1938. Report of what happened during the night after von Rath was shot (9 November 1938). Detailed follow-up action and various proceedings against Jews in economic and public life.

584 Newspaper clippings concerning the Palestine problem and the Zionist Congress in Zurich. 4 September 1937. 5 pp.

More press reports on Zurich Zionist Congress and Palestine development (see also folder 583).

585 Newspaper clippings, articles, notes, and other materials concerning the Jewish position in Danzig. 25 October 1937 - 5 May 1939. 202 pp.

Foreign press reports on anti-Semitic disturbances in Danzig (October 1937). Dutch press reports (September 1937) on persecution of Jews in Germany. German consulat report about excesses against Jewish businesses in Danzig. Other reports on events involving Jews in Danzig. Gestapo report (December 1937) on "Jewish Question" in Danzig. SD report on retraining of Danzig and Polish Jews in Germany. Various foreign press reports about Jewish life in Danzig. Press reports: "Expulsion of Jews from Danzig: Jews still on Danzig soil after 1 April 1939 to be sent to concentration camp" (camp was to be set up in Praust). Report on emigration of Jews from Danzig.

597a Correspondence of the Zionist union and Jewish communities in Germany, rabbis and others with SS about the elimination of foreign Jews from the councils of Jewish political organizations. Namelist of Jews eliminated and those who got permission to work on the councils. 13 September 1937 - 9 September 1938. 302 pp.

File, SD of RFSS-SD Main Office: "List of Special Hardship Cases (Foreign Citizens) - names of various individuals, positions held (prepared for Gestapo by chairman of Berlin Jewish Community, 1 March 1938. List of "Indispensable Rabbis and Cantors." List of Special Hardship Cases (stateless persons). Lists of civil servants and staff considered indispensable, list of teachers in particular Hebrew teachers, list of employees in hospitals, old age homes, etc., and their kitchen staff. Series of supplemental names in various above categories. List of authorized foreign citizens and stateless persons. Response of German Zionist Organization (September 1937) to order that all foreign national and stateless employees are to be dismissed from major German Jewish organizations within two months. Series of Zionist Organizations communications to Gestapo about above order. Series of responses of other German Jewish organizations to this order. List of foreigners and stateless persons separated form Jewish organizations in December 1937. Individual letters to Gestapo from Jews affected by this order.

597b Correspondence with the Central Bureau of Jewish Emigration, members of SD, SS of Koblenz, newspaper clippings, statistical tables and other materials about Jewish emigration from Germany. 1 January 1937 - 16 April 1940. 225 pp.

Jewish Emigration from Germany, Ostmark (Austria) and Bohemian and Moravian Protectorates in First Quarter of 1940. Assorted official and private correspondences about emigration, possibilities, places, etc. Various foreign press reports about international attitudes toward Jewish emigrants. Gestapo, SD reports about "Report from the League of Nations" (August - September 1938) about International Handling of Jewish Question. Correspondence received by official SS organization (Schwarze Korps) about Jewish emigration and money Germany could acquire by taxing emigrants (July 1938). SD telegram about enforced speed-up of Jewish emigration from the Palatinate. Various Gestapo authorizations of money transfers abroad by Jews. Report by Berlin correspondence of Daily Telegraph: "In one Month Alone the German Central Bank had a Two Million Pound Profit as the Result of Jewish Emigration." Gestapo announcement (February 1938) that the Agency for the Study and Promotion of Jewish Settlements Abroad has been dissolved. Item on Jewish emigration from Germany (1937), including various regional reports. Report: "The Extent of Jewish Emigration Since 1933" (through March 1937) where to, how many, and from where. List of foreign currency acquired by emigrants (in Reichsmark - RM) for the above period (total of around 117 million RM).

598 Correspondence with SS and SD members about the Jewish press. Jewish newspaper, "Deutsche Israelitishe Zeitung." 18 March 1937 - 5 November 1938. 20 pp.

Various SD reports on the German Jewish press, with copies of a Hamburg Jewish paper. Gestapo report about employment - want ads by Aryans in Jewish paper.

600 Correspondence with "Department of Investigation" and SD about Jewish property. 15 February 1937 - 2 November 1938. 9 pp.

Report (1937) that there are still around 42,000 Jews in the SS Main Sector - West. Various reports (1938) about recent increasing withdrawals by Jews of deposits in banks and savings institutions. Gestapo report (October 1938): "Improvement of Money Transfer Opportunities for the Jewish Emigration."

601a Photographs of participants of Jewish Congresses in Geneva, Marienbad, Lucern. Information about the size of Jewish population in the cities of Germany. 8 January 1937. 151 pp.

Various photo negatives (barely identifiable) of what seems to be Jewish groups and individuals, some identifying Frankfurt-am-Main as locale. Statistical lists of Jews (male and female) in Germany (undated 1931?) by states, provinces, and cities. (Note: this is the most detailed breakdown for all of Germany seen on these reels so far.)

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Various photo negatives (of members of Geneva Jewish World Congress: Ben Gurion; Berlin rabbis; Dr. Joachim Prinz; Ben-Locker with Einstein; Mrs. Adda Fischmann, Director of Jewish Women's Emigration to Palestine; Rabbi Fischmann; Rabbi Gold; R. Gavistia, deputy from Latvia; Herschel Jehuda Yagoda (Chairman, GPU, formerly Cheka); Emil Ludwig; "The Jewess Margherita Sarjatti; Private Secretary to Signor Mussolini; "Henrietta Szold; Chaim Waitzmann; plus photos of Congress meeting place, during meetings, etc.

602 Decrees, laws, directives, and notes on the exclusion of Jews from the social life of Germany (1938 - 1939). 91 pp.

forbidding Jews to make bets at and participate in lotteries). Police directive forbidding Jews access to certain areas in Berlin and times set aside for access (press item: "Banning of Jews in Berlin; Restrictions for Streets, Places, Parks, and Baths"). Various directives and laws excluding Jews from business life. Jews not allowed to drive cars. Numerous directives removing Jews from their homes and apartments, where and how they can live, whom they can employ, etc. Kristallnacht aftermath.

603 Idem. 1939. 59 pp.

Results of Goebbels order to prepare report about "Dealing with Jews in Every Aspect of Life in the Reich Capital" [reason: he had noticed that there are too many Jews on the Kurfürstendamm]. Overall view on the Jewish Question in the Reich. From Berlin police president: "Exhaustive Guidelines for the Treatment of Jews and Jewish Affairs" (July 1938). Mainz local reports about resident Jews (August 1938).

605 Project of emigration non-Aryans from Germany and letter of the chief of Central Emigration Bureau to the Ministry of Colonies of Italy about assistance in emigration. August 1938 - 11 March 1939. 13 pp.

Report about Italy's willingness to allow "non-Aryans" to emigrate to certain areas in its East African empire (October 1938).

609 Summary report of Ministry of Foreign Affairs about the importance of "Jewish question" for foreign policy of Germany in 1938. Report of Jewish association "Kerentelhai" [sic] about its activity from January 1934 to December 1937, and other materials on the "Jewish question". 1 September 1938 - 6 May 1939. 64 pp.

Report about Society of Friends (Quakers) and Emigration of non-Aryan Christians. Report about Keren Tel-Hai World Conference in Prague, January-February 1938. Various reports about activities of German Jewish organizations (February 1939). [This was reported on in this collection earlier]: "The Jewish Question as a Foreign Policy Factor in 1938." Travel report from England with focus on Jewish activities and their impact on trade. Regional report about Jewish-Catholic relations. Brochure dedicated to the Führer on his 50th birthday: "Outline of a Solution of the Multifaceted Jewish Question."

610 A report and correspondence of SD units and SS Landsregierungen about Zionist organizations. 23 July - 5 November 1938. 113 pp.

SD report on dissolution of "State Zionist Organizations" and their subdivisions in the entire area of the old Reich (August 1938). This includes lists of books and other items confiscated during closing operations, membership lists of various regional subdivisions. Also enumerated are details on how the whole operation is to be mounted. Organizational charts of "State Zionist Organizations."

612 A report about the activity of emigrants in Evian. 21 July - 22 October 1938. 46 pp.

Report about Evian Refugee Conference (July 1938). An SD report addressed to Himmler comes to the conclusion that "so far no practical results which would make the solution of the question of the wandering Jews easier have been reached" at the Evian Conference. "German Foreign Office round-robin statement (August 1938) concerning the refugee conference: it "assembled on the initiative of President Roosevelt" because he was being pressured by Jewish Wall Street financiers to start an action for helping their Jewish brethren. The report contends that Roosevelt acted "at least to show his `good will' without having to make any practical great sacrifices."

613 A report and newspaper clipping about Jewish emigration to Mexico. 1 February 1938. 4 pp.

Report from Mexico (October 1937) on "Exploitation of Natives by `German Jews'."

617 Final reports of a group processing Austrian documents concerning the activity of Jewish organizations in Austria. 18 May - 31 October 1939. Numerous final reports on Jewish organizations and publications. 1938 - 1939. 47 pp. 9 November 1938 - 19 January 1939. 47 pp.

Final report by "Ö-A.K. II 112 [special SD unit set up to analyze material confiscated from Austrian Jewish organizations] (October 1938). Ö-A.K. report on "Union of Austrian Jews" (October 1938). Final report (Ö-A.K.) "About the Alliance of Jewish Frontline Soldiers of Austria." Material from Vienna Jewish Community considered to be primarily historical "and not suitable for intelligence reports." Additional reports about Austrian Jewish newspapers, "The Israelite Theological School," etc.

619 A note about the work of II-112 department. 2 May 1938 - 28 February 1939. 4 pp.

Discussion of tasks for SD Department II A.

621 A note of II-112 referat about Jews to Italy. 15 January 1932. 1 page.

Concerning Jewish Emigration to Italy.

622 A note of II-112 referat about Jewish emigration to Paraguay. 22 October 1938 - 7 November 1938. 2 pp.

Jewish Emigration to Paraguay (November 1938).

622a Notes from newspapers about the trial of the Jew Grunszpan, who attempted to kill the secretary of the German Embassy in Paris. 8 November 1938 - 20 December 1938. 98 pp.

SD radio intercept of comments about "dastardliness" of Grynszpan action. French report that Grynszpan's uncle and aunt have been taken into custody. Berliner Tageblatt: "Background of the Murderous Attack" (8 November 1938). More French press reports about assassination. Foreign Service reports about foreign condemnation of Germany for Kristallnacht excesses. Goebbels piece in Völkischer Beobachter, 12 November 1938: "The Grünspan [sic] Case." Radio intercepts and foreign press reports about outrages against Jews. Report from Munich that Grynszpan came in handy to allow Nazis to unleash an attack on Jews that was not to take place until start of the war, and that this was personally directed by Hitler. Numerous foreign press reports analyzing Grynszpan act. Reports about Grynszpan and his stable of lawyers before the investigating magistrate. Reports translated from Soviet press on a number of issues, with little attention reportedly paid to the German government's "anti-Jewish measures."

623 Note of II-112 referat about confiscation of documents of the Independent Jewish Order B'nai-B'rith. Letter of a member of the Jewish lodge B'nai-B'rith to the president with a biography of Doctor Arthur Geiger. Diploma of lodge Montefer of B'nai B'rith. 4 November 1938 - 4 November 1939. 5 pp.

Analysis of the Grand Freemason Lodge VOBB (Berlin). Confiscated archive and records material stored in the basement of the SD Main Office.

625 References about arrangement and activity of the Central Jewish Emigration Bureau, (forms) for emigrants, and other materials concerning the Bureau's activities. 26 August 1938 - 16 June 1939. 139 pp.

Material from "Central Office for Jewish Emigration in Vienna" (30 August 1938). Material on initial organization and purpose of the office. Questionnaire for Jewish emigrants. Eichmann involved at this stage as chief of the Central Office. Report on "Directives for Dealing with the Jewish Question." SD directive for Heydrich to report to Berlin immediately for an extensive discussion about "actions against Jews" [eventually the word Aktion becomes at euphemism for describing murder of Jews and others] and "the general approach to be taken in future." Various descriptive reports about this Central Office to be set up in Vienna. Directive no. 4: "Guide for Getting Passport and other Travel Documents." Questionnaire for passport applicants (issued in Vienna), as well as forms to fill out concerning property and bank accounts by those applying for emigration and for permission to transport their belongings. SD documents from Central Emigration Office in Vienna. Refer among other things to an SD order pointing out that the office will deal only with Vienna and the lower Danube region. "Any further regulation of competences is not needed after the executive head of the Central Office, SS Obersturmführer Eichmann, will together with Gauleiter Bürckel carry out on order of the Reichsführer [Führerbefehl: Hitler order which must be carried out] for the final clean-up of Jews [Reinigung: this became a synonym for the elimination of Jewish life in an entire region] of the Ostmark (Austrian) provinces by 12 December 1938." Message from Reich Commissar for the Reunification of Austria with the German Reich, August 1938, citing as reason for setting up the Central Office "the bothersome interference and slow-down" in Jewish emigration from Austria. Squabbles over use of a Vienna building designated as Central Office headquarters between Eichmann and the military, which wants to use building as a casino. This in response to a plea by Austrian Jewish organizations to all concentration camp inmates who have the opportunity to emigrate: "SS Hauptsturmführer Eichmann proposes issuance of an order by Gestapo headquarters and Gestapo Vienna to stop the release of Jews from the Ostmark in the Dachau and Buchenwald concentration camps for as long as it takes for the emigration to reach its normal quota...." Report about Jewish emigration from former Austria (May 1939) including detailed chart about such emigration between March 15 and 1 August 1938 (figure of 40,000 is cited). Various reports about monetary and other assistance for Jewish emigrants in Vienna and generally.

626 References about Central Jewish Emigration Bureau. Announcements of the Bureau about the order of emigration. Weekly reports of the Jewish community in Vienna. 5 December 1938 - 6 July 1939. 26 pp.

Various items about amounts of money to be paid by emigrants before they can leave. Clipping from 16 June 1939, Manchester Guardian: "The Jews of Austria." Report by Vienna Jewish Community

Association about Jewish emigration handled by the Association between June 26 and 1 July 1939, with numbers and destinations.

627a Report on the position of the Protestant ("Political Protestantism") church in Germany. January 1938. 34 pp. (Reel 183, end)

628 Report on the Catholic Association of Academicians and its members. February 1938. 44 pp. (Reel 183, end)

630 Reports received from SD units about various actions against Jews by Nazi organizations. September - December 1938. 53 pp.

Various local Gestapo reports about anti-Jewish vandalism (September 1939), frequently blaming such actions on "Jewish provocation at the end of September" [period of heightened nervousness in Germany because of takeover of Czechoslovakia]. SD report about regained self-assurance by Frankfurt Jews, with examples of alleged arrogant behavior and suggestions about what could be done to curtail such behavior. Many of the reports about anti-Jewish vandalism argue that such acts were designed to urge Jews to emigrate or leave the locality. Copy of a report from Munich Central Jewish Association and its discussion with local police officials about these excesses. Police assured Association that these were not officially sanctioned acts, nor are they being tolerated and that those responsible will be punished. SD telegram referring to order from Reich and Prussian Interior Minister to move decisively against perpetrators of violent anti-Jewish acts (October 1938). SD report summarizing excess of September-October 1938, pointing out that incorporation of the Sudentenland caused tense situation in Germany, and that the Jews were guilty of repeated "provocations." Attached were photo negatives of a vandalized synagogue.

631 Reports from SD units about the spread of foreign and other propaganda within Germany regarding Kristallnacht, etc. November 1938 - February 1939. 188 pp.

Distribution of "hate literature" from abroad through German postal system (February 1939). Messages were pro-Jewish. Leaflet samples with anti-German message; one was in a shampoo ad sent from England. Pamphlets taking note of anti-Jewish excesses of 1938 in the wake of the von Rath killing.

632 Report about changes in work responsibilities arising from recent mobilization orders. November 1938 - January 1939. (Reel 184)

633 Correspondence about the Second International Jewish Congress in Amsterdam. Newspaper articles about the emigration of Jews to Holland. June - November 1938. 10 pp.

Jewish-Portuguese community in Hamburg.

634 Report about Jewish organizations. Correspondence with the Reichsführer-SS about the dissolution of same. January - October 1938. 124 pp.

Gestapo memo on dissolution of Jewish associations (October 1938). Copies of card file entries on individuals from Central Organization for Citizens of the Jewish Faith, Berlin (Centralverein). Extensive discussions about disbanding of CV. Memos of contacts between CV and Reich Economic Ministry.

635 Reports from SD units, newspaper clippings, and foreign radio broadcasts about the trial of a Jew [Grynszpan] who attempted to assassinate a German embassy official in Paris. April - November 1938. 232 pp.

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Additional material concerning Grynszpan shooting of von Rath. SD requests for all available information and memos that could establish Jewish conspiracy. Text of Order of the Day, Propaganda Ministry, 8 November 1938: "Concerning Jewish Assassination in Paris." German and foreign press reports about Grynszpan affair, including Goebbels interpretation of events. Lengthy SD effort to put Grynszpan case into proper Nazi perspective. Various items about preparations for Grynszpan trial. Effort to blame Jews for post-assassination pogrom, and to counter contentions from abroad that these excesses were organized by the Nazis when in reality they were "spontaneous" consequences of German popular outrage.

636 Code of a Jewish group in Germany and a report on its activities, with an accompanying list of members. September - October 1938. 107 pp.

Berlin Gestapo: monthly reports by Jewish Organizations: Reich Representation of Jews in Germany; Jewish Central Organization (Centralverein); Reich Association of Jewish World War I Veterans; Organization 1937; German Zionist Organization.

637 Case about the confiscation of the assets of Jewish welfare organizations by Nazi units. December 1938 - March 1939. 10 pp.

Memo about take-over of Jewish children's welfare homes by Volkswohlfahrt [Nazi party affiliate dealing with welfare organizations]. Memo on how to deal with Jewish welfare organizations during aryanization of institutions.

638 Report on the preliminary work of the Evian Committee concerning the deportation of Jews from Germany. December 1938 - March 1939. 84 pp.

Report about rumors that Reich Bank's President von Schacht is about to resign (December 1938). SD Vienna report about International Jewish Congress in New York (December 1938). Various reports about Berlin talks between Intergovernmental Committee (Evian meeting) and Reich government concerning promotion of Jewish emigration (February 1939). Foreign press clippings about emigration and how to finance it; also, von Schacht involvement in discussions on this subject. Göring report to various Reich ministers on outlook for emigration as a result of above Berlin talks. Among other things, he says: "The British and American governments have gotten a firm hold of the emigration issue." Press clippings about the Berlin talks and their aim.

641 Correspondence with the Reichsführer-SS about marriages between Jews and Aryans. Articles from a German law magazine about the legality of these restrictions and on violations of the Nuremberg Laws. September 1938 - June 1939. 63 pp.

Report to Himmler about marriages and extra-marital relations between "halfbreeds" [Mischlinge] first-grade and Germans. Various legal arguments about validity of such marriages, which are forbidden according to the Race Laws. Examples of circumvention of these laws; "Circumvention of Laws for the Protection of the Blood by Halfbreeds."

642 Written recordings of foreign radio programs about the discrimination against Jews in Germany. Reports about the relationship between the SD and a spy in Holland. December 1938 - April 1939. 8 pp.

643 Correspondence with the SD Northwest unit about training Jews in agricultural work in Flensburg. July - October 1938. 22 pp.
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Training of Jewish boarding school students on an agricultural estate outside Flensburg.

645 SD reports and information about the discrimination against Jews. June - July 1938. 91 pp.



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Various press items about legal measures to eliminate Jewish influence in the economy. SD report (5 June [sic] 1938): "Action Against Jews in Berlin between 17 and 21 June 1938." Point is made that this was a joint action between the regional leadership, the SA and the police. Reasons for the action are listed in detail. Also, mentions that popular reactions was mixed, that it violated Interior and Economic ministry decrees on how the marking of Jewish businesses is to be handled, and how this action goes counter to the efforts being made to attract foreign tourists. Various foreign press reports about this "furor antisemiticus" in Germany.

647 Telegram from Gestapo Leipzig and Berlin and remarks about the formation of a Jewish Central Department dealing with economic affairs, and the sale of Jewish property. February - May 1938. 9 pp.

Report about Jewish Central Organization (Centralverein), Berlin, September 1938.

649 Protocol of the meeting of the Jewish Deportation Committee. Reports about the Evian refugee conference. June - August 1938. 155 pp.

Agenda for the meeting of Reich Representatives of Jews in Germany (June 1938), with emphasis on Emigration Conference in Evian. Various reports, by Jewish organizations and by SD, about Evian Conference. Report to Bormann about origins and topics of Evian Conference.

650 Letters of the Jewish Assistance Union in Germany to the Gestapo and remarks by the SD about Jews with Soviet citizenship living in Germany. February 1938. 11 pp.

List of Soviet citizens to be expelled from Germany, setting date for departure (January 1938).

651 Letter written by the SIPO and SD head Heydrich to the leader of the Foreign Office asking the Japanese for an additional military attache for Shanghai. June - July 1938. (Reel 184)

655 Articles from a Jewish magazine. October 1938. 46 pp.

SD report about "Neue Zeit," central organ of Austrian Revisionist Zionists (October 1938). Letter from leader of Jewish People's Party of Austria to leader of Fatherland Front [Vaterländische Front] (March 1934). Letter to Austrian chancellor Schuschnigg from a member of the Jewish People's Party asking that his name be removed from list as Jewish member on the Cultural Council (January 1934). Letter to Ben Gurion, c/o Central Office of Zionist Organization, London, from editor of "Neue Zeit." Various items of correspondence between Jewish organizations abroad and the editor of "Neue Zeit" (1936).



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658 List of Jewish newspapers published in German. May 1938 - April 1939. 130 pp.

Regional official inquiries about distribution of German Jewish newspapers and magazines through non-Jewish outlets. Report that as result of Propaganda Ministry directive, Jewish newspapers publishers can no longer deliver copies to Aryan book stores (1938). Various regional SD reports about Jewish newspapers available locally.

659 Lists of influential Jews in Germany and their correspondence with the SD. December 1938 - November 1939. 135 pp.

Regional report: "Inventory of Influential Jews with German or Foreign Citizenship in the Reich." Cologne list also mentions their monetary worth and their holdings, such as stocks, property, land, etc. SD report (December 1938): Religious services in synagogues. Jewish communities continue to have services in synagogues not destroyed in November 1938 (Kristallnacht), mentioning that there is no law against it. The following proposal was submitted to Heydrich: "During the discussion conducted by General Field Marshall Göring it was agreed that all synagogues are to be destroyed. To conform with this measure we propose to empower all Stapo headquarters by internal directives to prohibit the use of any synagogue which was not destroyed with an appropriate directive to the respective German community." Report on heavy concentration of Jews in Vienna, and other regional reports about the migration of Jews from the countryside to the cities. Reich Minister for Church Affairs: what to do with ruins of Jewish synagogues. Pamphlet about transfer of qualified Austrian Jewish concentration camp inmates to Munich Vocational Rehabilitation School for Cooks and Bakers preparatory to emigration to Palestine (April 1939). SD Hauptamt II: "Insignia for Jews" (November 1938), by order of Heydrich, with samples of five proposed insignias. List of who would have to wear them. From SD, an insignia for Jews. Report by Göring to a meeting of Gauleiter: "...Furthermore, the Führer decided on Sunday that the visual identification of Jews as a matter of policy is not to be implemented. If such an action takes place he anticipates continuing excesses which could become increasingly widespread in some of the Gaue (Provinces)...." (8 February 1939). Follow-up SD messages retreat from insignia plan. From Reich Ministry of Interior: Jews are no longer to be awarded medals for World War I, but those who already have them can keep them (June 1939).

660 Article written by a farmer alleging crimes by Jews. February - October 1938. 35 pp.

Material about ritual slaughtering and Jewish attempts to avoid prohibition against it. (One way of circumvention is the importing of Kosher meat.) Correspondence to the Schwarze Korps (SS weekly) deploring the ritual slaughtering practices. Proposal to close the Reich office for Ritual Slaughtering.

667 Forms of the Central Jewish Emigration Bureau for emigrating Jews. 1938. 117 pp. (Reel 184)

668 Registration cards of Austrians sent for processing to P-1. March 1938. (Reel 184)

669 SD-Hauptamt II 112: newspaper clippings and other materials concerning the Jewish question. January 1938 - May 1939. 333 pp.

Various items related to the election of participants to the 14th Zionist Congress. Article on antisemitism in Tsarist Russia. Numerous items on emigration and potential target areas (mostly press clippings). Hanseatic Travel Buro report about different possibilities for Jewish emigration (October 1938). SD report that United States will reportedly promulgate a law to make Jewish emigration more difficult. It will be aimed in particular at the unauthorized entry of Jews (October 1938). Many other


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reports about measures in various foreign countries to expels their Jews, or avoid taking any Jews in, including reports of Jews being driven out of certain areas. Also a report of the indigenous Jewish population in various countries.

670 Idem, on emigration of Jews from Poland. January 1938. 4 pp.

Report on Polish government negotiation to facilitate the emigration of the country's Jewish population.

671 Idem, to Canada. February 1938. 1 page.

Press clippings on immigration in Canada.

672 Idem, to Madagascar. 1938. 2 pp.

More material, mostly press clippings, on Jewish emigration to various areas of the world, including Madagascar.

673 Idem, to Rhodesia. January - September 1938. 2 pp.

More press items about Jewish emigration possibilities.

674 Idem, to Australia. February - September 1938. 2 pp.

More on Jewish emigration.

675 SD reports on refusal of foreign states to receive German Jews. June 1938 - May 1939. 81 pp.

Secret SD report: "Emigration Organization in Vienna" (June 1938). Report about Austrian Jewish emigration to Finland. Various press reports about how various countries deal with growing Jewish immigration. SD Berlin inquires from Vienna about an "Illegal Transport of Jews to Palestine" (August 1938). More reports - SD and press - about Jewish efforts to emigrate and problems this creates in Switzerland, Belgium, Luxembourg, etc. SD report about illegal Jewish border crossings into Switzerland. Foreign press reports about persecution of Jews in Germany. SD contention that illegal emigration must be stopped, and that all emigration matters should be handled by Central Jewish Emigration Organization in Vienna. Various measures proposed and implemented by SD to stop illegal emigration efforts. Reports about various organizations promoting illegal emigration.

676 Gestapo and SX correspondence about the deportation of Jews and the emigration of Jews from Shanghai. November 1938 - June 1939. 9 pp.

More material - press and official - on emigration and destinations (mostly reports on emigration to Shanghai).

678 Correspondence with SD departments about the dissolution of Jewish libraries. April - November 1938. 22 pp.

Series of SD messages about the contents of the libraries of the VOBB [major German Jewish Masonic Lodge]. Gestapo decrees concerning the closing of all VOBB libraries.



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679 Correspondence with the SD in Austria and the Gestapo on Jewish emigration and the formation of Jewish cultural organizations. May 1938 - March 1939. 27 pp.

Propaganda Minister permits addressee to set up a Jewish theater in Vienna (May 1938) solely for Jewish audiences and prohibited from conducting any public activities. Later in folder there is a SD report (January 1939) that there is to be no Jewish theater in Vienna after all. SD plans for the establishment of a "Jewish Cultural Organization" in the former Austria (July 1938). Report from Central Jewish Emigration Organization: "Performances and Lectures by Jewish Organizations (in Vienna). Reich Propaganda Ministry Decree, 3 October 1938." SD conference on "Realignment of Jewish Cultural Life" (December 1938), touching on cultural organizations, film, schools, bookstores, and the financing of such endeavors.

680 Correspondence about demands to liberate a Jew. December 1938. 11 pp.

SD request for the release of a Jewish doctor from the Sachsenhausen concentration camp and reasons for the request. SD report that the doctor was actually in Buchenwald and was released in December 1938.

681 Correspondence with the SD and the Nazi Party on the Jewish question and the November pogrom. November 1938 - July 1939. 192 pp.

Chief, Sipo, to all Stapo offices: measures to Promote the Emigration of Underprivileged Jews. SD to Party Reich Welfare Organization: takeover of Jewish Welfare Organizations (June 1939). Letter from a German to Hitler (November 1938) deploring the excesses in the wake of the Grynszpan action, with accusations against Goebbels, et. al. for promoting this pogrom which the writer views as a blow against Hitler and what he pretends to stand for by his internal enemies. SD to Gestapo concerning Jewish Student Association (February 1939), and directive to disband these associations (November 1938). Various field reports on the existence of these organizations. SD transmittal of a pamphlet "The November Pogrom in Germany." SD Munich submits a pamphlet concerning "the action against the Jews" (February 1939), and another one entitled "Unmasked National Socialism." SD report about shortcomings in the handling of payments related to Jewish emigration. Also material on the transfer of Jewish money for emigration. Report to SD Berlin about SA and SS men arrested in Rosenberg because they totally demolished the local Jewish cemetery "which up to now had offended no one." (July 1939). Various reports about regional vandalism against Jewish businesses (December 1938).

682 Correspondence with the Central Jewish Emigration Bureau and the SD in Austria about the emigration of Jews to Africa. October 1938 - May 1939. 10 pp.

Reports about a so-called Gildemeester action concerning the emigration of Jews to Abessynia (February 1939). Report from Gildemeester Emigration Assistance Organization in Vienna to Vienna Central Jewish Emigration Organization and its head, Eichmann.

684 Law about agreements with Jews for renting flats, transportation restrictions on Jews, and other limits. February - June 1939. 56 pp.

Reich Transport Ministry directive forbidding Jewish use of railroad sleeping and dining cars. Berlin Organization for the Renewal of the Reich Capital, concerning new occupation of Jewish rental apartments. Law about rental contracts for Jews.



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685 Code of the Jewish organization in Austria and correspondence on the need to centralize Jewish organizations there. March 1939. 16 pp.

SD draft for centralization of Jewish organizations in former Austria (16 March 1939).

686 Order issued by the head of the Northeast SD unit about the necessity of providing well-organized deportations of Jews from Danzig and other materials on the emigration of Jews. February - March 1939. 23 pp.

Report on Nazi party Overseas Organization: Mukden. Report on Jewish emigration to Dominican Republic. From Vienna Central Jewish Emigration Organization: Statutes on Jewish Emigration from the Ostmark (former Austria), 15 December 1938 - 15 March 1939 (total of 22,799). Another item breaks this down by destination. Jewish emigration to Sweden and Iceland.

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686a Directives sent to the heads of SD units about preliminary measures undertaken to deport Jews from Germany. February 1939. 18 pp.

SD Berlin to all SD regional leaders: Jewish emigration. Contains a reference to setting up of Reich Center for Jewish Emigration (January 1939). Related Sipo (Sicherheitspolizei) report about establishing a Reich Organization of Jews to help with the preparation for emigration.

687 Explanatory note of the manager of the evacuation of German populations to all regional representatives in Soviet-occupied Poland. December 1939 - January 1940. (Reel 184)

688 SD telegrams and correspondence from Jewish organizations about the deportations of Polish Jews from Germany. February - August 1939. 64 pp.

Expulsion of Polish Jews living in Germany. Report says move has been completed, and now they have permission to return to liquidate their assets and take care of other business matters. Related report, in detail, by Reich Representation of Jews in Germany (February 1939). Efforts by representatives of Polish Jews to prevent Poles from expelling Germans so that Germany does not expel Polish Jews. Extensive official and other materials on this issue. SD expresses concern that Polish tightening of border controls makes illegal deportation by Germans difficult.

692 Weekly reports of the Reichsvertretung, SD reports, and other materials about the deportations of Jews. February - August 1939. 66 pp.

SD Berlin to SD, Eichmann, in Vienna concerning illegal Austrian Jewish emigration to Palestine (February 1939). 27th weekly report on Emigration from Vienna's Jewish Community Organization. Report form Vienna Central Jewish Emigration Organization that the Germans are prepared to turn over the remains of Theodor Herzl, buried in Vienna "if the `Palestine Office' provides 10,000 supplementary emigration slots together with the funds required for such a large-scale emigration."

694 Reports written to the Gestapo by individuals about the illegal distribution of religious chain letters, Jewish involvement. January - March 1939. 37 pp.

Chain letter allegedly mailed by Jews, with regional SD reports on these subject. Examples are provided.



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694a Interrogation protocols of Jewish woman. February - March 1939. 4 pp.

SD interview with writer of an explanatory letter about a woman who defends herself against accusations made by the actor-couple Theo Lingen, and wife.

699 Report of the French desk in the Foreign Office about the documents found in French police files. October 1939 - March 1941. (Reel 184)

701 Daily reports about the measures taken in regards to Jewish deportations. May - June 1939. 3 pp.

Various SD daily reports about different Jewish emigration destination and local attitudes about this emigration.

704 Reports from SD units about Jewish groups inside Germany and their registration. September - December 1939. 32 pp.

SD report about illegal Jewish emigration "from the West." Questionnaire for non-Aryans, with a whole series of filled-out questionnaires [for emigration purposes?].

705 Report from SD West about the attack made on a Jewish shop. July 1939. 1 page.

708 List of real estate owned by Viennese Jewish community, reports on the liquidation of the community, and the use of the funds. June 1939. 33 pp.

SD report concerning accommodations of Jewish Community of Vienna and of those Jewish communities "currently being dissolved." Detailed report on this topic by Vienna Jewish Community.

710 Report about remarks made by a US professor on the November 1938 events in Germany (Kristallnacht), and other materials. March 1939.

Foreign office provides letters and reports from relatives in the Unites States which address the solution of the Jewish problem generally, and specifically the events of 9-10 November 1938.

714 Correspondence with the Central Jewish Immigration Bureau and the SD about the emigration of Jews to Palestine. March - May 1939. 14 pp.

Central Jewish Emigration Organization in Vienna, on move to Palestine. SD report about Jewish emigration from Ostmark now mainly via Hamburg, because Italy and Yugoslavia have severely curtailed transit visas.

715 Correspondence with the Central Jewish Immigration Bureau and other departments about cargoes sent to Ecuador and the Jewish community there. May 1937 - April 1938. 63 pp.

Discussions between Eichmann and colleagues with Hanseatic Travel Buro concerning a planned large-scale Jewish emigration form Germany to Ecuador (November 1937). Additional correspondence ion this subject.




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716 Correspondence between the Gestapo and the SD about Jewish emigration. February - October 1939. 183 pp.

A series of reports and communications from and to the Gestapo and from private emigration and travel bureaus dealing with various aspects of Jewish emigration. Examples: SD memo to Sonderkommando Prague (April 1939) advising Stapo (Staats-Polizei) main offices that as of immediately the departure of Jews via former Czech territory is to be prevented; letter from Hanseatic Travel Bureau to Japanese Embassy, Berlin, on recent talks about emigration to Chinese areas under Japanese administration; Leipzig SD headquarters to Berlin about "Sabotage of Jewish Emigration" by Jews, intended to leave behind in Germany the "least desirable Jewish elements;" Gestapo Berlin (March 1939) concerning "Illicit Jewish Money Transfers Abroad;" various reports about Shanghai emigration; report concerning Jewish emigration, tracing developments since 1933; various domestic and foreign press reports about Jewish refugees, how they fare in various destinations; SD request to Vienna for report about Ostmark Jewish emigration in January 1939 and response (to Göring) that figure was 13,075 emigrants; discussion of requests for the release of Jews in Dachau and Buchenwald who have no relatives in the Reich (June 1939); SD report concerning items and money Jewish emigrants can take out, and where Jews can get advice on emigration.

717 Correspondence from the SD about the formation and activity of the Jewish Emigration Bureau in Stuttgart. April - June 1939. 44 pp.

SD reports about an Emigration Office of the Council of Würtemberg Jews, and related material about its organization and forms to be used for record purposes. 1935.

718 Correspondence between several Jews about their attitude towards the Nazis and their policies. July 1939. 27 pp.

Series of letters (from the 1920s) by various correspondents, mostly Jews, including an exchange between Siegfried Wagner in Bayreuth and a German rabbi. SD notes that this material came from Jewish archives. 1939.

719 Correspondence between the auction representative and Himmler about former Jewish property. January - March 1939. 6 pp.

Himmler letter to owner of antiquariat thanking him for the books and other items he had sent. Note at bottom of letter to Heydrich, "...I cannot believe that the police would burn such books. I have tasked [the writer] with buying up valuable items from Jews." (February 1939) Letter the antiquarian owner had sent to Himmler in which he makes reference to police book burning (January 1939). The author is also a SS Untersturmführer.

720 Correspondence of a Jewish writer with others about publishing articles on several matters. January - April 1939. 67 pp.

Various pieces of correspondence, from Paris, Prague, Budapest, etc. with Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and the university's responses.

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730 Report about the assimilation of Jews. Articles about the Congress of World Jewish Organizations in 1937. January 1940. 32 pp.

SD transmittal (January 1940) of newspaper reports about the World Organization Congress of Jews in Marienbad, August 1937.

734 Photographs of demonstrations in Latvia in connection with the Soviet occupation. 1940. (Reel 184)

743 List of pacifist and immigrant organizations in France. June 1940. 15 pp.

List of pacifist organizations in France. SD report on emigration to France as a supplementary item (June 1940).

749 Oberkommando der Wehrmacht directive about how to treat POWs from the eastern front, SD reports about freeing Russian POWs from the camps, and other documents. October 1941 - September 1942. [Contrasts between SS and military over partisans. p. 412, Jewish woman shot as member of underground. EG reports on partisans identifying many as Jews. Mostly press and radio summaries. Spotty regarding Jews and partisans.] 603 pp. (Reel 184, middle)

756 Reports of the security police about the activity of Soviet partisan and reconnaissance units on the territory of Latvia and the Ukraine, and lists of members. June 1941 - August 1943. 223 pp.

pp 1-7 1 July 1941 - Situation report from Einsatzkommando 1b about the situation in Kaunus and Lithuania more generally. Included is a description about which units are in charge of the Jewish liquidations at Fort VII in Kaunus!!
pp 8-90 Extracts from "Ereignismeldungen" and "Meldungen aus den besetzten Ostgebieten", relating to partisan activities in various areas of the occupied Eastern territories.
pp 91-225 Collection of search lists naming partisans.

Series of reports and situational reports from various Sipo-SD Einsatzkommandos in occupied Soviet Union, with headquarters in Kovno, Kiev, Simferopoz. Deals mostly with combating and identifying partisan groups and their activities. One report, from Einsatzgruppe D, deals with "Partisan Organization in West Crimean Region-Development, Build-up and Task of Partisan Movement." These reports also list casualities on both sides, arrests of suspected individuals, including Jews, and covers a period from summer 1941 to summer 1943.

757 Reports of the SIPO and SD about the arrests of Soviet paratroopers on the territory of occupied Germany. Saboteurs. Typed copy. Same memo mentions shooting of individuals as partisans or saboteurs. June 1941 - June 1943. 73 pp. (Reel 184, middle)

758 Reports of the German field police and the Einsatzkommando about their fight on the occupied territories, and reports on the situation in the territories not yet occupied, most being NKVD documents captured in Kovno. Reports on "cleansing actions"--numbers of Jews shot, etc. July 1941 - July 1943. 58 pp.

pp 2-5 1 July 1941 - Memorandum from the Gestapo post Tilsit about Jewish liquidations in the area of the former Soviet-Lithuanian border (i.e. Garsden, Krottingen, Polangen).
pp 6-8 2 July 1941 - Situational report by Einsatzkommando 1b in Kaunus.
pp 9-58 Collection of excerpts from "Ereignismeldungen", "Lageberichten", and "Meldungen aus den besetzten Ostgebieten".
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Gestapo report (July 1942) to RSHA Berlin "Clean-Up Activities Beyond the Former Soviet-Lithuanian Border...During three major actions primarily Jews were liquidated...." Various SD reports on events in the USSR from occupied territories. One report (12 June 1942) notes, "The Soviets selected in particular executions carried out by the SD. The graves were opened up and those who had been shot, primarily women and children, were photographed. Prints were displayed in cities in the form of posters and were used in the so-called photo gazettes by Moscow propaganda." SD report about mood of Finnish population (December 1942). March 1943 report on sabotage in occupied eastern territories. In a report from unoccupied Soviet territories mention was made that German publicity about the killing of Polish offices in Katyn Forest "was inopportune for the Soviets."

765 Propaganda Abteilung information in France about the special edition of a book on Jews. February 1941. 3 pp.

Report from Military Commander, France, Propaganda Section (February 1941) complaining about book published by a French author who worked for a newspaper, was a Freemason, and had published "vile defamations" of the Führer and the Reich.

766 Chapters from the book on pan-Germanism based on the work of Jewish academics. July 1941.

Report about Jewish World Congress; also chapter 7 of a publication "The Third Reich and the Paradox of Mexican Oil;" chapter 8, "How the Third Reich Served Canada;" chapter 9, "The Totalitarian States and Panarabism."

768a List of members of the Yugoslavian of B'nai Br'ith. May 1941. 15 pp.

Extensive report about Yugoslav Freemason lodges, with membership lists.

769 Orders of the security police commander, reports of the SS groups operating in Byelorussia and the Ukraine, and Ukrainian nationalist leaflets. June 1942 - February 1945. The orders are specific directives regarding Jews and Gypsies. The reports make specific reference to Jews (numbers) army partisan units destroyed. 594 pp.

Collections of orders, daily orders [Tagesbefehle], operational orders [Einsatzbefehle], daily situational reports, and other documents relating to activities in the occupied Eastern territories (mostly Byelorussia), including liquidations of Jews and anti-partisan operations. Materials relating to the Kampfgruppe von Gottberg and Sonderkommando Dirlewanger are voluminous. Among materials relevant to specific operations, the file contains documents relating to "Cottbus", "Günther", "Hermann", "Fritz", and "Heinrich". 576 pp. (examples follow)

pp 6-9 5 February 1943 - Order [Kommandobefehl] from the KdS for White Ruthenia, giving details on Operation "Hornung", the liquidation of the Jewish ghetto in Sluzk, including personnel and units (type-written signature by Strauch).
pp 14-17 5 June 1942 - Order [Einsatzbefehl] from the KdS for White Ruthenia, giving details on anti-partisan Aktion in the area Uzda-Kopyl-Stolpce (type-written signature by Strauch).
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Command directive, Sipo and SD, Byelorussia, Minsk (5 February 1943): "...On February 8 and 9 the local command will mount a resettlement action [Unsiedlung - denotes the transporting of Jews to camps for execution] of all Jews in Sluzk. Those members of the command listed below as well as around 110 members of Latvian Volunteers will participate....The anticipated duration of the endeavor: 10-12 days." Various reports stressing the seriousness of partisan activities and German concerns, with headquarters calling for all-out combat against partisans. Attack order No.1, action "Nürnberg," by 1st SS Infantry Brigade, 20 November 1942: "The First Infantry Brigade will attack the enemy and destroy him." "Every bandit, Jew, Gypsy, and suspected band member is the enemy." Detailed reporting on "Nürnberg" operation, conditions in areas, enemy disposition, etc. From Reich Representatives of RFSS for Fighting Partisan Bands (February 1943): "Outlines of Measures to Fight Bandits." From Byelorussia, various operational directives, with frequent mention of "Führerbefehl" to provide laborers. One secret directive states; "Those suspected of banditry and prisoners of war are not to receive special treatment but are to be put to work."

770 Reports about the activities of the Einsatzgruppen and the security police, and diagram of the structure of Einsatzgruppe B. February - March 1942. Numbers of Jews shot and references to resistance. 58 pp.

Sipo and SD, 1 March 1942: Activities and Situation Report of Einsatzgruppe B, 16-28 February 1942. Under section on "Special Treatment," more than 3,500 Jews are listed. Comments on Sonderbehandlung [stands for execution for political or other reasons solely on the order of the police] notes that more than 2,000 Jews were "sonderbehandelt" for allegedly spreading false propaganda and other offenses. Activities and Situation Report 10 of all SD and Sipo Einsatzgruppen in the USSR, February 1942. Section on Jews: "After the Jewish question in Ostland [Baltic States and parts of White Russia] has almost completely been solved and cleaned up, the solution of this problem in the remaining occupied territories continues. Ghettoization has generally been carried out. Jews who do not comply with official orders are being seized repeatedly and shot. To prevent the further spread of contagious diseases it became necessary here and there to shoot Jews." Activities and Situation Report 9, January 1942: "Estonia is free of Jews; in Latvia the number of Jews remaining in Riga was reduced from 29,500 to 2,500....There are still 35,000 Jews in Lithuania who are needed as laborers....In Byelorussia, the clean-up of Jews continues. The number of Jews located in areas turned over to the civilian administration is 139,000. In the meantime, 33,210 Jews were shot by the Sipo and SD Einsatzgruppe." 1942.

772 Plans of movement of German civilians from Galicia and Volhynia districts, and orders from Heydrich about the use of chemicals to mark those arrested. May 1942.

May 1942: memo from chief, Sipo and SD, discusses a chemical which can be used to mark criminals arrested by the Sipo who are suspected of intentions to escape. 1942.

773 SIPO and SD report about the situation within the Soviet Union. Ereignis Meldungen UdSSR Nr. 175 of 2 March 1942 to Nr. 195 of 24 April 1942. 2 March - 24 April 1942. 376 pp.

Reports from Einsatzgruppen and Kommandos (March 1942): Einsatzgruppen A, B, C, and D. With detailed situation reports and attitudes of population in all occupied Soviet territories - Lithuania, Byelorussia, and Ukraine in particular. Also a special report on conditions in Leningrad.




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774 Meldungen aus d. besezten Ostgebiet: SIPO and SD report and protocols of POW interrogations about the activities of partisans in occupied Byelorussia. August 1942 - March 1944. 174 pp.

Russian translation of German anti-partisan operational documents, interspersed with handwritten notes. One page German cipher and code messages. Series of reports on popular attitudes and reports on military anti-partisan actions in occupied Soviet territory. Various SD and SS reports on partisan activities and strength, including field reports about enemy positions and interrogation of captured partisans. List of captured Russian documents and maps; list of Polish activists in Nowogrodek (July 1943). Reports from "Aktion Hermann" against partisans, including final report (August 1943). Directive from Commander, Sipo, and SD in White Russia (Byelorussia) containing "Instructions for the Interrogation of Prisoners and Deserters." Translation of leaflet by Ukrainian Nationalists, "Death to the German Occupiers." Actually a threatening appeal to those who belong to national partisan groups to join the USSR partisans. Another appeal to all nationalities arguing that it makes no sense for individual Soviet republics like the Ukraine to attempt to liberate their republic from the Germans unless it is done jointly with the Soviet (Red) Army. Directive to Poles in Kowel to protect themselves from numerous elements by banding together and acquiring arms for protection (February 1944). Also from a publication "Our News" in February 1944 a report stressing that the greatest aim of the Poles is to achieve independence in the family of nations, and warnings about what the Germans are doing to the Poles during their retreat from Russia.

775 Idem: SIPO and SD reports from the occupied eastern territories, 1 May - 28 August 1942. Numbers 1-18. 497 pp.

Report from Einsatzgruppe A about reconnaissance activities (May 1942), mostly from Latvia and Byelorussia, but there are also another Einsatzgruppen reports. From chief, Sipo, and SD Command Staff: "Report from Occupied Eastern Territories No. 1" (May 1942), with detailed situation reports and command staff set-up, including also subordinated Sonderkommandos. There is a section on Jews: "Only a small number of Jews, who were in hiding, was `umgesiedelt' [i.e. moved and eliminated]." Report No. 2 (May 1942), No. 3; No. 4 (containing reports from the Crimea and Ukraine) concerning Jewish life in the Crimea with historic background. Mentions that 44,000 Jews were concentrated in the five largest cities, and of the 6,000 Krimchaks, whom the Germans counted among the Jews, more than half lived in urban areas. "Their eradication [Ausmerzung], together with the real Jews and Gypsies in the Crimea was essentially carried out by early December 1941. The inclusion of Krimchaks and Gypsies in the fate of the Jews hardly caused a ripple among the population." Report No. 6 (June 1942) had a section on Jews in Estonia: "With the entry of the German troops the majority of Jews left Estonia. Only about 2,000 Jews remained, of whom half lived in Reval. The Sipo and SD gradually seized these Jews, avoiding any unnecessary disturbances of Estonian economic life. Today, there are no more Jews in Estonia." Report No. 7 has a section on Jews in Latvia. There were 93,479 Jews in the 1935 census. "After entry of the German troops there were about 70,000 Jews in Latvia; the remainder had fled with the Bolshevik Army. Acts of sabotage and arson soon after entry of the German troops were to a large extent instigated or carried out directly by Jews. Currently there are only a few Jews in the ghettos, who are being utilized as skilled craftsmen. Apart from these Jews (about 3,750) Latvia has in the meantime become free of Jews [Judenfrei]." Report No. 8; "The Jews in Lithuania" (1923 statistics 153,743 Jews; the NKVD eventually transported 40,000 to Siberia). "Even though Lithuanian hatred of Jews resulted in various pogroms, here too the Jewish problem had to be dealt with by the Sipo and the SD. Those Jews, who did not leave Lithuania with the retreating Bolshevik army were put into ghettos....Currently there are ghettos in three cities only, which hold around 34,000 Jews. These Jews are currently being used as specialized workers primarily in defense-related industries....With the exception of those Jews, Lithuania is already free of Jews." Report No. 9:

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"The Jews in Byelorussia" (500,000 Jews in 1931 census, particularly in Minsk, with 100-200,000 Jews). The measures taken by the Sipo and the SD have resulted there also in a basic change of the situation. To bring the Jews under effective control independent of measures to be taken later, Jewish councils of elders were established which were responsible to Sipo and SD for the behavior of their fellow Jews. Additionally, registration of all Jews and their collection into ghettos were started. Lastly, the Jews were also identified by a yellow insignia to be worn front and back similar to the yellow Star of David introduced on Reich territory....These measures created in the Byelorussian region as well the basis for the solution of the European Jewish question contemplated for later on." Report no. 10 (July 1942): evacuation of Jews from the Reich. Between 17 November 1941 - 6 February 1942, 25 transports evacuated 25,103 Jews from every city in the Reich to Riga, and there they were put into camps and ghettos respectively. Those involved are currently being included in the general measures planned for the Jews in the Eastern territories....In Byelorussia, altogether 1,894 Byelorussian Jews were shot [all had been accused of various violations and economic crimes]. Also, reports Nos. 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 (August 1942), 16, 17, and 18. 1942.

776 Idem. September - November 1942. Numbers 19-28. 453 pp.

Reports from Occupied Eastern Territories [mostly Ukraine]: No. 28, November 1942; No. 27, October 1942; Nos. 26, 25, 24, 23, 22, September 1942; Nos. 21, 20, 19. 1942.

777 Idem. November 1942 - January 1943. 419 pp. (Reel 12)

790 Informational reports by the security police commander about the Freemason question. May 1943 - May 1944. 134 pp.

From Chief, Sipo, and SD. Informational Report about Freemasons question (May 1943). Includes a report claiming that President Roosevelt not only holds high rank in the Freemasons but that he is also a member of Odd Fellows, "which resembles a Freemason lodge." Various reports about Freemasonry in France, England, United States, Hungary, and Switzerland. 1943 - 1944.

791 Reports of the SIPO and SD from the occupied and unoccupied eastern territories. February - August 1943. Meldungen numbers 40-55 (last report) mimeo. 322 pp.

Notices that as of 6 August 1943, "Reports from Occupied Eastern Territories" will no longer be published. Last report, No. 55 (also reports Nos. 54 and 40). 1943.

797 Informational note about the "Secret Army" (Resistance) of France. January 1943 - September 1944.

798 Reports of SS groups supporting the retreating German units, and report of the commander of the SS headquarters on the Black Sea to the main SD office concerning the number of available laborers. July - August 1944. (Reel 184, middle)

799 SIPO and SD reports about the actions of the Einsatzkommando and the situation in the area of Gatschino near Leningrad. February 1944. 41 pp.

Special report, excerpted, from Eastern territories, dealing mostly with unoccupied territories and with the Soviet military: includes maps and sketches of Soviet military installations. 1944.

800 Informational reports of the SIPO and SD about the Freemasons and Jewish questions, and various magazine articles concerning the Jewish question. February - November 1944. 196 pp.
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Chief, Sipo, and SD: "Information Reports on Jewish Question" (February 1944). Contains topics such as "America and the Palestine Problem" (March 1944); "Stephen S. Wise" (May 1944); "Marshall, Roosevelt, Oil and Palestine;" "UNRRA and War Refugee Board;" "Anti-Jewish Attitudes in America." Series of publications, SS-Information Service, 1944; includes whole series of "exposés" and attacks on international Jewry and Jewish activities abroad. Also, copies of Welt-Dienst publication, issued twice a month, in twenty languages, and dealing with all aspects of the Jewish Question. 1944.



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777 Series of Reports from Occupied Eastern Territories, published by Chief, Security Police and Security Service (Sipo and SD), Command Staff, Berlin; nos. 38, 22 January 1943; 37 15 January 1943; 36, 8 January 1943; 35 23 December 1942; 34 18 December 1942; 33, 11 December 1942; 32 4 December 1942; 31 27 November 1942; 30, 20 November 1942; 9 13 November 1942. Interspersed, and issued by same office, were Information Bulletin nos. 13, 27 November 1942 and 12, 6 November 1942. The Reports and the Information Bulletins dealt in detail with the work of Einsatzgruppen and Einsatzkommandos. They reported on partisan activities, local political and economic conditions, public opinion, etc. The areas covered included the Crimea, Byelorussia, Lithuania, Ukraine, Latvia, and the North Causasus. Report no. 36 included detailed organizational and staffing lists of Einsatzgruppen and Sonderkommandos. Report no. 31 had a list of SD and special units bases and communication network.

1013 Reports of an SS officer about his activities in Prague. March - June 1939.

Report from Special Command, Prague (31 March 1939) concerning a German student who was to collaborate with the police in Prague. Copy of a report on the "Czech State Police - Counterintelligence." Activities Report of an SS official with the SD Special Command in Prague (2 May 1939).

1026 Personal service records of SS officer Arndt, commander of the special purpose group "Zeppelin". December 1939 - March 1943. 44 pp.

SD questionnaire and innumerable communications, travel documents, duty plans, and other pertinent material concerning SS man Richard Arndt. He was apparently being detailed to do espionage and counterintelligence work in the East. He spoke Russian and Polish.

1036 Correspondence of the security department with the office in the city of Wiesbaden about the recruitment of French intelligence personnel. March -June 1939. (Reel 184, middle)

1037 Correspondence with the special SD group, Prague, prohibiting access to and sealing the Russian historical archive. April - May 1939.

Message form RFSS, SD to Special Command, Prague, concerning Russian Historical Archives.

1077 SD agent reports about the situation in Greece. January 1941 - August 1942. (Reel 184, middle)

1084 SD agent reports and reports from operational groups about the relations between Italy and Yugoslavia and the situation in Horvatia. May 1941 -September 1942. (Reel 184, middle)

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1089 Report from the SIPO commander and from SD agents in the Leibach area of Yugoslavia regarding development of resistance and partisans. Jews in Leibach. January 1941 - February 1942. 606 pp.

A whole series of reports by SD and Sipo on conditions in occupied territories of Carinthia, with particular focus on province (and city) of Laibach [Ljubljana]. Another series of reports deals with the situation in Slovenia and regions occupied by Italy. There is mention of German-Italian tensions in Slovenia, with Italians reportedly telling Slovenes they are lucky not to be occupied by Germany. Other reports mention demonstrations by Slovenes in Italian-occupied areas. Included is a leaflet in which Slovenes call for sabotage and economic boycott against the occupiers. Concerning Laibach, there are reports about anti-Italian demonstrations and also about an anti-German sentiment. The SD disseminates information about anti-German atrocity propaganda and about alleged misdeeds and murders by communists.

1092 Operational group commander of the SIPO and SD, and their reports about the situation in Greece and Albania. January 1941 - September 1942.

Report on war situation in Albania, 7 January 1941. Report on military campaign against Greece and on Italian defeat in Albania. Other reports deal with Albanians in Romania, Greeks and Albanians, and the situation and mood in Albania. Other reports deal with Italian activities in Hungary (July 1942) and Italian intelligence activities in France.

1106 File about a German intelligence agent who worked for the Romanians. June 1942 - October 1944. (Reel 184, middle)

1139a Correspondence of the special purpose group "Zeppelin" concerning all administrative matters. 1944. (Reel 184, end)

1140 Correspondence of the special purpose group "Zeppelin" in Lvov concerning claimants to German citizenship. December 1942 - February 1943. (Reel 184)

1140a SD Intelligence materials on the purchase of shares in a Romanian oil company. December 1942 - March 1943. (Reel 184)

1164 Draft of a report delivered at a meeting in Salzburg on the work of SD agents, with a list of participants. May 1944. (Reel 184, end)

1177 Information about the German consul in Switzerland. June - November 1944. (Reel 184, end)

1242 Album of an artist Pann Abel, "A Pot of Tears" (Der Tränenkrug) about the life of Jews. 1928. 24pp.

Reproduction of book of drawings by Abel Pann, "The Pitcher of Tears," published in Palestine. The drawings commemorate the pogrom victims in Tsarist Russia.

1251 Regulations, and declarations of the organization of Zionists-Revisionists of Austria. 10 October 1930 - 26 March 1937. 30 pp.

RFSS, SD Report on "Union of Zionist-Revisionists of Austria," October 1930. Also, various pieces of correspondence by the Union with individuals and organizations, primarily abroad.


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1301 Monthly report of Amt Presse u. Schriftum of SD-HA. Includes section on Theosophy and Jewry. December 1935. 143 pp.

Monthly report from the Office of Press and Literature, Main Office Literature, December 1935. Contains sections on Reich ideology as reflected in nationalist literature at home and abroad; report on Theosophy literature; Catholic youth literature. It also includes a supplemental list of prohibited printed material after the Nazi accession to power.

1302 RSHA: correspondence regarding evacuation of RSHA archives to Schloss Fuerstensteiin and then to Schloss Wölfendorf, Oberschlesien. 1944 - 1945. SS-Befehlsblatt. 1 September 1944. 128 pp.

A series of documents, freight lists, communications and related personnel matter concerning the transfer of archival and records material to specified locations. In the wake of the September 1944 disbanding of the Reich Organization of Jews there is an inquiry when Jewish religious items will be sent for storage and a list of these items. Another shipment that is mentioned contains a list of books dealing with Freemasons. Other items mentioned to go into central storage come from Serbian government offices: Interior; Police Presidium Belgrade; Press Buro material; material from Police Presidium Sarajevo, etc. Publication of SS directives list, 1 September 1944, dealing with SS personnel and administrative matters, SS court decisions, etc. From Reichsführer SS (Himmler): directive how families and next of kin are to be informed in case of suicide by SS and police members (30 October 1944); Himmler will decide in each case when this is to be done, and how.

1303 Correspondence with the archives concerning various matters. January 1945. 6 pp.

Incidental, unrelated items without specific pertinence. Example: results of examination of horses stabled at one of the locations where archives are stored, showing that the horses are free of disease.

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19a Unbound steno notes on character of police and SD in occupied France. Informers' reports. Reports on activities of individual units of SS. 1944 - 1945. 46 pp. (Reel 185)

Amt IV, Gestapo:

79 Schemata of network of Jewish political organizations in Germany after 1933. 2 pp.

Organization chart of "Political Stratification of Jewish Organizations for the Establishment of Palestine."

80 Handwritten lists of Jewish organizations in Germany after 1933. 29 pp.

Pages of a practically undecipherable handwritten list, including references to foreign countries.

81 Jewish alphabet.

81a SD regarding cases of anti-Semitic propaganda. Surveillance over Jewish trading companies. 1936 - 1937. 82 pp.


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A series of situation reports prepared regularly by SD and reporting on domestic popular opinion and various issues. The ones excerpted here come from various SD administrative regions and deal with anti-Jewish themes, how they are seen by the population, and with the struggle against Judaism at home. One such report from the Southwest region, mentions race violations by a Jew and the resulting prohibition for Jews to use spas in Baden-Baden, or to live in local hotels, pensions, or use local restaurants.



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82 Reviews of activities of Jewish organizations in Germany. 15 April 1937. 48 pp. (Reel 13, end)

83 Liquidation of Central Association of German Citizens of Jewish Faith. 1928 - 1932. 82 pp.

Report on Central Organization of German Citizens of the Jewish Faith (September 1930), including statutes. Disbandment of the Organization, 26 October 1938; material interspersed with barely decipherable handwritten notes and comments. Secret circular of Organization to all its trustees, pointing to the need for action in view of anti-Jewish measures, and noting that the von Papen government "means well and understands Jews" (19 October 1932). Various items from Gestapo about the Central Organization's efforts to retrain Jews and further emigration. 1928 - 1938.

84 Photo: participants of international conference of Agudas Israel in Marienbad, Czechoslovakia. April 1937. 73 pp.

Series of photo negatives of individuals, groups, and events from Marienbad international conference of Agudas Israel.

85 Correspondence SD Abtl. on preparation of liquidation of Zionist Organizations. 3 April 1938. 4 pp.

From SD to all SD leaders: report on State Zionists (March 1938). Report on liquidation of all Zionist organizations in Germany (April 1938).

86 Correspondence of Austrian League of Friends of League of Nations with B'nai Brith regarding contributions by Jewish members of their membership. 52 pp.

Items from Jewish Information Bulletin, November 1938, about emigration possibilities. Various items of correspondence between individuals and the Austrian branch of the League of Nations, mostly requesting financial support. Letter from Vienna's chief Rabbi to Konstantin Dumba, president of Austrian branch of League of Nations, thanking him for his public stand against the persecution of Jews. Excerpts from the "Resolutions of the League of Nations" opposing attacks on "national and religious minorities." 1938.

87 Multiple copies of Orders Chef d. Sipo and SD, 1939, regarding police measures to prepare for massive deportations of Jews from Germany. (Bildung einer Reichsvereinigung der Juden) 24 pp.



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From Chief, SD: concerning emigration of Jews and creation of a Reich Organization of Jews (February 1939) with regard to preparations for massive deportation procedures. (Folder contains a number of repeats of the same item.) 1939.

88 Article by [on?] Jewish University in Pressburg, Czechoslovakia. March 1939. 2 pp.

Translation of a paper "La difesa della Razza," 5 March 1939, no. 9.

89 1939 letter from woman in Nürnberg to Fritz Wolff in Brussels regarding personal matters. 2 pp.

NSDAP (Party) memo to RFSS, Chief SHA, transmitting a postcard addressed to person in Brussels and sent to German embassy in that city for delivery because of insufficient postage. 1939.

90 Review of reaction of foreign press to massive liquidations of Jewish organizations in Germany. May 1939. 3 pp.

Subject: Tactics and Methods Used by Democracies in their Propaganda against "Authoritarian" States, an analysis of voluminous foreign press coverage and comment in wake the of Kristallnacht. 1939.

91 SD-Hauptamt II/112 file regarding proposal to dump Jews in Abyssinia: correspondence from Hansiatischen Reisebüro, Heinrich Schlie, and newspaper clippings. 1939. 7 pp.

Letter from Vienna Hanseatic Travel Bureau to Gestapo Berlin. Renewal of proposal for emigration of Jews to the Sahara now that visas from other countries are drying up (May 1939). Subsequent correspondence mentions Abyssinia as potential emigration goal, and also promises to provide an analysis of the chances for emigration through Yugoslavia. 1939.

92 Report on the "trimming" of a Jew and his admission into the Catholic Church. June 1939, 8 pp.

SD Prague to Chief, SHA Berlin; subject: Jewish Records for the SD Museum (include 1842 documents on circumcisions, report cards, religious affiliation certificates, etc.). 1939 - 1942(?)

94 Chart of document on filing system about Jewish activities in Germany. no date. 1 page.

Various charts about Assimilants, including Jewish assimilants, with subsections on "Neutrals," and on Zionists. Charts have parallel columns on Basics, Organization, and Effect. no date.

Amt VII, Archives and Library:

265 Miscellaneous, some antisemitic propaganda in library.

Publication "Foundations and Forms of Political Propaganda," essentially a how-to book on how to combat nascent Nazi propaganda. Includes drawings, showing how to deface Nazi posters and symbols through use of three diagonal arrows, the insignia of German and Austrian socialists. 1932.

272 List of materials of Masonic lodges, Austrian Fatherland Fund, and Jewish organizations confiscated by Gestapo. 1939 - 1943. 4 pp.

SD Stettin to RSHA Berlin: list of Jewish archival material from the Stettin synagogue community. Detailed list of archival material packed in crates ready for shipment to central storage point (from

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unidentified Jewish libraries, files and private collections. One crate contains material from Austrian holdings.), 30 July 1943. 1939 - 1943.

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1 List of directives and orders of the RSHA. 1935 - 1940. 144 pp. (Reel 185)

Organization and staff list of the Reich Main Security Office (RSHA). Internal organization, departments. The same also for SD Main Sections (SD Oberabschnitt [OA]). Effective as of 15 January 1936. 1936.

2 Instructions and regulations concerning the storage of documents in the RSHA archives. (Reel 185)

3 Regulation concerning the filing of documents in the RSHA. 1938. (Reel 185)

4 List of documents and files opened at the RSHA headquarters concerning the analysis of the situation in various countries. (Reel 185)

5 Heydrich order about the new SD structure to be effective January 1936. 19 pp. Most precise breakdown of subsections responsible for Jews, etc.

16 Telephone directory of the RSHA and Gestapo. 1937. 82 pp.

Corrections of SD telephone directory (September 1937). Telephone list of Main Office, Sipo, and Gestapo (August 1937). (The list of frequently used numbers is headed by Inspection of Concentration Camps.) 1937.

18 Directives of the RSHA about the appeals of private individuals and veterans for mercy, the restoration of their rights, and the seizure of their pensions. March 1938 - October 1941.

21 Directives from the RSHA about the distribution of functions between the departments and the formation of new departments. June 1939 - April 1942. 201 pp.

Listing of competences for RSHA (September 1937). Directives about tasks of RSHA components. List of competence changes in various RSHA offices (February 1942). Section on secrecy requirements. Heydrich puts Eichmann in charge of "cleaning out eastern provinces" (December 1939). Memo forbidding the issuing of information about the Munich assassination attempt (Bürgerbräu Keller). Heydrich takes personal command of investigation. Führer Order on strengthening the German people (October 1939). Concerns Police Courts Martial. September 1939 advisory that further orders of toilet paper for RSHA offices are not to be expected. Suggests use of newspapers instead, but of the "gentle kind" so as not to clog the toilets. An announcement from Goebbels as head of propaganda ministry of August 1939 about the upcoming start of rationing of certain items, this is not to be publicized. Address list of Staatspolizei (Stapo) and Gestapo departments as of 1 September 1939. Various exhortations in the wake of the start of war, including a call to reduce gasoline consumption. Discussion on how police and SD members are to behave in the occupied territories. 1939 - 1942.

33 Diensstellenverzeichnis, Sipo and SD. Personnel structure of RSHA Amt V, Kripo. List of commanders of KL. Miscellaneous personnel lists and charts. 1940 - 1944. 192 pp.



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Office roster of Sipo and SD, April 1943, with organizational telephone lists. List of twelve concentration camps and their commanders. List of RSHA tasks, February 1940, and March 1941 (in the latter Section IV B 4 is headed by Eichmann; its task: Jewish Affairs and Removals). List of all RSHA offices in the occupied territories (east and west) and in the Reich. 1940 - 1944.

37 See file no. 33.

47 Directives and orders from the RSHA about the organizations of intelligence and counter-intelligence services. SD correspondence with the Berlin Gestapo and other districts about providing weapons for the Sudeten Germans and other subversive activities. 1938 - 1945. 241 pp. (Reel 185)

48 Correspondence with the Berlin Gestapo about prohibiting the writings of a certain writer. February - June 1940. (Reel 185)

51 Correspondence with the heads of the SIPO and SD in Germany and the occupied territories in Poland about personnel matters. List of SD and Kripo officers. Biographic information and assignments in Ost, EG, etc. August 1938 - April 1945. 212 pp.

Copies of file cards with names and date of birth of a number of employees of the Criminal Police; also reports on personnel matters and on assignments. Discussion on how to use suspended Sipo and SD personnel; some are detailed to PW camps in Poland (June 1942). Series of efficiency and proficiency reports of SS personnel. Various decommissioning and retirement orders.

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93 Translation of article from book The Truth about Pan-Germanism, a Jewish publication. August 1939. 42 pp.

Chapter X of a study "Truth about Pan Germanism" (from the Jewish World Congress Meeting in Paris, August 1939).

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55 Copy of the personnel structure of the RSHA. March 1941. 16 pp.


RSHA tasks distribution, 1 March 1941 (same as folder no. 33).

57 Materials of Section IV of the RSHA, including a scheme of the telecommunications structure and the addresses of officers and offices. February 1945. (Reel 185, middle)

66 Service records for the officers of the Kripo compiled during consideration of their promotion. 1940 - 1942. Indicates specific specialties, activities, etc. A few worked on "Jews". 94 pp.

Performance ratings, other personnel matters; mostly Criminal Police. RSHA budget, 1941. 1940 - 1942.

82 Political stratification of Jews in Germany, 15 February 1936.



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67 Gestapo department telephone directory. October 1944. 41 pp.

Telephone list of SS employees and staff. Telephone list of Gestapo(?) officers at RSHA. 1944.

82 Telephone directories of the RSHA and Gestapo. August 1937. 40 pp.

Telephone list of Sipo Main Office and Gestapo Office (heading list of frequently called numbers: Inspection of Concentration Camps).

327 Document and intelligence card file filing codes SDHA (date ranges not defined). Telephone book of SDHA January 1939. 1939. 77 pp.

SD Hauptamt: draft by Organization Commission of a plan for subject matter files in Department II-III-4, on Freemasonry Abroad; general list of activities and their breakdown. SD telephone list of SHA, 1939 edition. Signatory abbreviations of SD HA personnel (Eichmann is Ech); also those of assistants in other main departments (directive provides that these name abbreviations have to be used in upper lefthand corner of typed copies or dictation copies).

780 Reports of German police officers about their impressions of the interrogation of Russian POWs and Jews. 1941. 17 pp. Three handwritten essays by students at a school for members of the Criminal Police about the Jewish question and Soviet POWs. November - December 1941.

Handwritten study "The Mentality of Soviet Russian POWs and Deductions about its Consequences for the Russian People" (November 1941). Handwritten study "The Jewish Question as a World Historical Problem" (December 1941). Handwritten document, SHA Department IV A (1A), Berlin, as addendum to first item above. 1941.

799 Abstracts from informational bulletins of Department VI on its personnel. Lists of addresses of concentration camps including those in the USSR. 1941 - 1944. 214 pp.

Lengthy series of excerpts from RSHA Information Bulletins for internal use only. Deals with personnel matters, assignments, etc. Samples: March 1943 Bulletin has announcement that Himmler promoted and awarded medals to SS officers "for services rendered while involved in a special action abroad by Group IV C." The October 1942 Bulletin carries a list of addresses of concentration camps, including special camps for Caucasians, Turkmen, and Russians. It also lists the addresses of Einsatzgruppen A, B, C, and D. 1941 - 1944.

800 Informational bulletin from the Main SD department on the conviction of police officers by field courts, and other regulations and directives. 1942 - 1943. 47 pp.

pp 1-10 1 December 1942 - Secret bulletin issued by the RSHA in Berlin, summarizing the most significant trials and verdicts of the SS and Police Court, all related to members of the Sipo/SD.
pp 11-23 Copies of three SS bulletins [SS Befehlsblätter], published in Berlin 1942 - 1943, listing names of SS personnel under various categories (i.e., loss of SS-pass, transfers, discharges).


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pp 24-47 Collection of secret bulletins published by the RSHA, Department VI in Berlin [Mitteilungsblatt des RSHA, Amt VI], mostly from 1943. Bulletins cover orders and directives, as well as personnel matters.

Printed information bulletin from RSHA (December 1942) citing legal and police action against Sipo and SD members. These deal with a multitude of charges from moral turpitude to theft, and the punishment handed out. Among the charges is one of helping concentration camp prisoners to "buy" their way out. SS orders for October 1942 and March 1943; list of contents of 1942 SS orders. Additional RSHA Information Bulletins from January to July 1943.

806 Report of the central bureau of the SIPO and SD about the work of industry in the occupied eastern territories. Allied plans for the occupation of Berlin. Intelligence on Allied war-time planning. 1945. (Reel 185, middle)

811 SD report on the police and intelligence services, and ideological enemy circles in Belgium. no date. [ca. 1939]. 50 pp.

RSHA survey of administration, police, intelligence services, and opposition groups in Belgium, for the information of Sipo and SD offices to be deployed in that country. Contains lists of confidential informants, political parties, trade unions, and one on Jewry. The latter discusses history, organization, Jewish influence in press and economy, leading Jewish personalities. It mentions that there are about 30,000 Jews in Antwerp, with other large concentrations in Brussels, Liège, Ghent, as well as smaller groups throughout the country.

816 Review of the activity of Jewish immigrants and Czechoslovak intelligence agents. 1940. 17 pp.

A June 1940 report about "Treasonable Activity of Jewish Emigrees on behalf of Military Intelligence of former Czech Republic." 1940.

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13 RSHA table of organization. Sachaktenplan, Amt VII. Includes file categories for confiscated Jewish libraries.

List of (Police) offices apparently dealing mostly with books, libraries, and related activities. List of general activities of what apparently are SD departments and areas of competences.

21 From Reichsführer, SS and Chief of Police in Interior Ministry (July 1936): areas of competences at Sipo HA, with Heydrich as chief. Department II B is Internal Political Police and includes section on Jewish immigrants. Department II D includes the areas of protective custody and concentration camps. Heydrich heads the Criminal Police. Organization of German Sipo and its competences, with Heydrich as its chief, too. Daluege becomes chief of Ordnungspolizei (Orpo). (The Sipo has two major components: Criminal Police (Kripo) and Gestapo. The Orpo deals with regular police, gendarmes, and local police, as well as with administrative police.) List of competences and tasks of Gestapo as of February 1936 ("The Gestapo administers the State Concentration Camps.") List of Kripo competences and tasks. Structural chart of the German Sipo; detailed listing of all competences of entire police system, with office symbols, file numbers for its material, and description of this material.

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Competencies of RSHA for 1938; with description of duties, legal justification, and functions of various police organs. Organization chart of Interior Ministry for Sipo and Orpo, down to local organizations. Orpo tasks plan. 1935 - 1940.

25 SD-Hauptamt: abbreviation code for staff members and Referats of Zentralabteilungen. 1937. 13 pp.

Staff directives for SD Hauptamt. 1937.

30 Clarification of order of the Chief of the Central Department of State Security and of the Sipo about the division of power between Gestapo and SD. Points of view of SD staff members on this matter. 1937. 9 pp.

Memo on division of tasks between SD and Gestapo as result of question on competencies raised in one of the administrative districts. Directive that Marxism is exclusively a Gestapo matter, and touching also on the question about the division of tasks between Gestapo and SD.

36 Order of Chef Sipo and SD about promotion of staff members of SD. Correspondence regarding Aktion Barbarossa - EG. Notes on V-Männer and SD-Nuremberg. Miscellaneous lists and correspondence. 1936 - 1941. 150 pp.

Concern circulars and service directives of the SD. Includes items submitted by SD informants. SD of RFSS, SD-HA organization directives and supplements. SD-HA: concerning `Barbarossa' [attack on USSR]: command staff and appointment of a combat report leader of the RSHA (3 July 1941) whose task is equivalent to that of an Army intelligence officer and who is to provide regular reports for officials at SD, RSHA headquarters; how this material is to be handled at RSHA. Directive from Chief, Sipo, and SD, "Combating the Communist Movement" in connection with foreign policy developments (18 June 1941). Organization of field offices and Sipo border police commissariats in the General Gouvernment of occupied Poland (January 1940). Office list of RSHA as of October 1941.

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45 Notes of Amt II regarding circular about measures of security in connection with Hitler's trip to Italy. Notes of Amt II-112 about the words of NSDAP member Dr. Ley regarding the Jews. Draft order of Gestapo in Hamburg regarding arrest of German citizens for three (3) days for using Soviet ships. Gestapo information regarding forthcoming release of state traitors. 1937 - 1938. 1945 66 pp.

[David Thompson]

Part 8:

Robert Ley speech on Jewry, June 1936. Report that wives of leading Nazis (Göring, Goebbels) shop in Jewish stores (June 1936). In preparation for Führer visit to Italy, SD is being used to investigate all Jews who immigrated from Germany (January 1938). Report about Jewish emigrants conference in Tientsin (August 1938). 1937 - 1945.

48 63 pp. (Reel 185, middle)

65 23 pp. (Reel 185, middle)


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70 Creation of Hauptamt für Volkstumfragen under the NSDAP. Reichsleitung with regional offices in SD departments. 1941 - 1943. 114 pp.

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Organization chart of "Main Office for Settlement Planning and Implementation for the Strengthening of the German Race." Party reports from the Office for Volkstum Questions. [Volkstum: the totality of all aspects of the life of a people which characterizes its national peculiarity, its national characters.] Directive about enlarging NSDAP work concerning Volkstum; competencies of SS main offices and cooperation with Party representatives for all Volkstum issues. Various other party directives having to do with setting up at party headquarters and in regional offices a special office for Volkstum operations.

71 Gauämter für Volkstumfragen activity reports and correspondence. 1943- 1944. 124 pp.

Additional Volkstum issues (December 1943), this time at the regional levels, including meetings and other reports. Also, the integration of SD agents into the Volkstum organization network. 1943 - 1944.

73 Volkstumfragen Schulung und Ausrichtung. Creation of Reichsschule für Volkstumfragen discussions. Involvement of Propaganda Ministry, Hitler-Youth, NS-Frauenschaft, and Wehrmacht. Various Gauamt activities. 1942 - 1944. 171 pp.

More material on Volkstum organization and required training of personnel. Material on affiliation of propaganda ministry with Volkstum affairs and on the subsequent regional organizational set-ups and meetings of those involved in this propaganda work. Volkstum and the Nazi women's organizations. Military high command involvement in Volkstum issues. Additional regional reports about Volkstum work. 1942 - 1944.

91 Stahlecker Report no. II, 16 October 1941 - 31 January 1942. EG A Gesamtbericht. 147 pp. This files contains Stahlecker Report No. II (33rd of 50 copies), covering the time period from 16 October 1941 to 31 January 1942, with 147 pp. and twenty appendices, including the following:

p 1a Strength of Einsatzgruppe A
1b Location of individual chiefs attached to EG A
2 Strength of individual Kommandos
3 German offices in the RK Ostland
4 Lithuanian propaganda leaflet
5 Relationship of ethnic groups in Latvian cities
6 Ethnic groups in Byelorussia
7 Executions done by EG A
8 Religious groups in Latvia and Estonia
9 Religious life in Estonia
10 The church in Byelorussia
11 Relationship between minimum and maximum wage scales
12 Relationship between wages and existential minimum
13 Social security in RK Ostland
14 Age structure of population in Latvia
15 Cattle in Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia
16 Cultural diversity in Latvia and Estonia
17 Transport of goods in Latvia
18 Statistics relating to persons involved in trade and industry in Latvia
19 Enemy propaganda leaflets

Summary report of Einsatzgruppe A from 16 October 1941 to January 1942 [also known as Stahlecker report]. This Einsatzgruppe was active in the Baltic region; the report is rather negative, influenced by the military pressure exerted by the Russians, complains about poor propaganda work, cites dire

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economic conditions in the Baltic, etc. In a section on Jews it says: "The systematic cleaning-up work in Ostland [occupied Baltic area] involved, in accordance with basic orders, the best feasible complete removal of Jewry. This aim has essentially been achieved, with the exception of Ruthenia, with the execution so far of 229,052 Jews." (Details for each Baltic state follow.) There is also a section on Jews being continuously sent East from Germany, of whom only a fraction are said to be useful for labor. "The mortality rate is steadily climbing, in part also because of the extremely harsh winter." The overall report also discusses local church affairs, economic conditions, industry, and the resistance movements. List of Einsatzgruppe A's organization, leadership, with pie charts of staffing breakdown (the group consisted of 909 members as of February 1942). There are maps where the leaders are located, and more pie charts of the subordinated Einsatzkommandos. Also, a map of official German installations in the Reichskommissariat Ostland. Also attached are samples of anti-German leaflets and a Polish leaflet which notes that the German government has put the Poles on the same level as the Jews. 1941 - 1942.

93 Stahlecker Report I from (?) to 15 October 1941.

Einsatzgruppe A Summary Report up to 15 October 1941. States at the outset that the unit commenced its march on 23 June 1941, on the second day of the eastern campaign to repositioned camp sites. Mention is made of the use of local "volunteers": "...During the first hours after the invasion...local anti-Bolshevist forces were urged to carry out anti-Jewish pogroms."..."According to existing orders, the Sipo was determined to resolve the Jewish question with all means, and decisively." But it welcomed the opportunity not to appear on the scene of the anti-Jewish excesses, at least not right away," during the unusually harsh measures used [by the "volunteer"], which had an upsetting effect even among Germans." The "Struggle Against Jewry" section says in the first paragraph: "It was anticipated from the outset that pogroms alone will not resolve the Jewish question in Ostland. On the other hand, the Sipo clean-up work, according to basic orders, had as its aim the largest possible removal of the Jews. Consequently, Sonderkommandos to which were added selected forces - partisan groups in Lithuania, troops of auxiliary police in Latvia - carried out extensive executions in the cities and in the rural areas. The operations by the execution commandos went without a hitch. When assigning Lithuanian or Latvian forces to the execution commandos, the men primarily selected came whom families whose members and relatives were murdered or abducted by the Russians." Discussion of organizational measures taken by the group in the Baltic region. Report also includes a section on "Struggle Against Jewry," with detailed descriptions of action in the Baltic countries. Here is another mention that the "basic orders" required the most all-encompassing "removal of the Jews."

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Parts of attachments to Einsatzgruppe A 1941 report (see previous folder). Details of various subjects discussed in report (all attachments detailing Jewish casualties in region and breakdown of Jewish population are missing).


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105 (File of SS-Hauptsturmführer Kriminalrat Dr. Fischer, Referenten III A). Problems with Fahndungslisten. Counter-espionage measures. Personnel matters. Use of A.V.- Männer. 1936 - 1939. 30 pp.

Discussion of various SD personnel matters. Map of special commissariats in Alsace-Lorraine (1937?). Additional personnel matters, internal feuds, etc. 1936 - 1939.

Amt IV, Gestapo:

164 (Amt IVB 4b file) Includes: "Neue Tendenzen im jüdischen Schrifttum" MS (reactions to treatment of Jews in Germany and elsewhere). Walter Pötsch, "Die Grundlagen des jüdischen Volkes. Eine notwendige Abrechnung" (22 pp anti-Nazi brochure printed in London. Notes on "Besorgnisse der italienischen Juden über die Auswirkung der deutsch-italienischen Freundschaft" (2 pp. 1939). Table of contents for report on situation of German and international Jewry. Table of contents to report on Freemasonry. "Judentum und Freimaurerei" (report. no date. 10 pp.). Report on treatment of Jews in various parts of Germany. "Der Mord an Botschaftsrat vom Rath (typescript report) and reports on world reactions to treatment of Jews in Germany in connection with Kristallnacht. 1938 - 1939. 70 pp.

Report on "New Tendencies in Jewish Literature," with facsimile reprint of "The Foundation of the Jewish People: A Necessary Accounting," by Walter Pötsch. From Gestapo to Himmler: proposals concerning the Jewish Question. Analysis of foreign "hate" propaganda in the wake of the von Rath shooting, or "setting the record straight." 1939.

165 German female servants in Netherlands especially in Jewish households. 16 December 1938. 6 pp. Anti-German propaganda in Netherlands. 16 December 1938. 12 pp. Cover letter to Göring by author of the report regarding treatment of Jews and solution to the "Jewish question." 1938. 20 pp.

Report on "The German Servant Girl Issue in the Netherlands." Letter by unidentified writer to Göring on the Jewish question (December 1938). Anti-German "hate" propaganda in the Netherlands.

166 Report on Red Army (in French). 6 pp. Report on Judeo-Masonic tactics in daily news media (in French). 8 pp. Both reports issued by "Un ami du `Service Mondial'". no date. 16 pp.

Report in French on the Red Army, author unidentifiable. no date.

251 Anti-Freemason and anti-Jewish exhibition in the Petit Palais, Paris. Reports and correspondence. 1942. 6 pp.

Memorandum on anti-Freemason, anti-Jewish exhibit in occupied France (October 1942).

252 Idem. Preparations and interagency cooperation. Disposition of material used. 1941 - 1944. 12 pp.

More material concerning the anti-Jewish exhibit in France, also discussed in folder 251. 1941.

254 "Antifreimaurerische und Antijüdische Vorträge des Albert Maitrot de la Motte-Capron im "Radio Paris". Various MS versions with handwritten corrections. 1943. 117 pp.

Memo on "Anti-Jewish lectures over Radio Paris," with various script texts. 1943.

257 Eighteenth century letters and essays about Jews in France (typescripts in French). 87 pp.

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French-language material, including pieces of correspondence between individuals not further identified. no date.

264 8 pp. (Reel 185, middle)

277 Sicherheitsdienst des RFSS. SD-Hauptamt. Geheime Kommandosache! Seven files (Sachakten III 2-130/1, 3, 5, 11, 12, 13, 15) containing SD regulations regarding file organization and maintenance (e.g., for Freemasons, Jews, political opponents, etc.). 1936 - 1937. 635 pp.

Directive for SD about "Subject File and Subject Folders - How to Set Up," with a number of copies of the same material.

278 Reorganization of Gestapo A-Kartei (enemies of the state to be arrested in case of general mobilization). 1938. 7 pp.

Memorandum about so-called "A File," containing lists of enemies of the state, people to be arrested with the start of mobilization, list of those who need not be arrested immediately but should be carefully watched. 1938.

279 Karteiführung für die Abteilung II A 4, 29 July 1937. Arbeitsverteilungsplan II A 4. 1 January 1938. Reorganization plans for II A. Memos regarding Fahndungsbücher for Einsatzgruppen in Poland 1939 and Sonderfahndungsliste "West" 1939 (esp. regarding Jewish-communist emigrés) (lists themselves not included). Draft regulations for treatment of emigrés in France. 10 August 1940. Treatment of communists 1935 - 1939. Organization and reorganization of filing systems in Abt. II A as such and II A 4 in particular. Collection of seven photos of German communists and marxists who fled Germany. 1935 - 1941. 306 pp. [II A 4: Auswertung und Beobachtung der bolschew. Bewegung; II B 4: Juden, Freimaurer, Pazifisten.]

More information on file categories, with breakdown of files on foreign territories from Prague to America and Asia. List of people responsible for various files. Establishment of a central file on communists and Marxists who had fled the country. (These files deal mostly with political enemies, such as communists, Russian emigrees, Soviet Russian institutions in Germany.) Memorandum about Einsatzgruppen in Poland (October 1939), with Special Search list for Poland, including a name list of Marxists to be arrested in the occupied territory. Another Special Search list for western countries (France, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Belgium, Holland). One category on list deals with "communists and Jewish communists," with numbers for each country (October 1939). Memorandum on German communists and those who have returned and are allegedly involved in anti-Nazi organizations and activities (January 1935). Additional material concerning central files, categories, mostly with emphasis on communists. Material on German and Czech communists in Czechoslovakia (September 1938).

279a 17 pp. (Reel 185, middle)

302 Aktenplan IV B 4. Report on activities of and plans for IV/III B. 9 January 1940 (incomplete). 1940. 37 pp.

File categories for Department IV B 4, dealing with Germans abroad and Volkstum issue.

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370 Various SD intelligence [sic] reports from Austria (Oka-Berichte) regarding a variety of faits divers and anti-Nazi activities. [Several frames unclear.] 1936 - 1937. 711 pp.

Reports on situation and conditions in Austria, from SD Main District (OA) South, on every aspect of life in Austria, political situation, media, etc. Focus is primarily on Vienna. (Number of duplicates of much of the same material in this folder.)



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372 Oka-Berichte. Polish-German cultural groups (lists of members). General intelligence reports. 1935 - 1944. 34 pp.

More reports on situation in Austria (see also folder 370 on Reel 15).

382 47 pp. (Reel 185)

391 World exhibition in Paris. Congresses and meetings of anti-Nazi and Jewish organizations (list). 1937. 35 pp.

Report on congresses held during Paris International Exposition (May 1937). Also, lists of exhibits and listing of all congresses.

391a List of important emigrés on the Sonderfahndung list. Dated Paris, 8 August 1940. 2 pp.

List of important emigrés for Special Search list, dated Paris, August 1940.

398 Reisebericht eines SD-Angehörigen [Herbert Mehlhorn] aus Amerika, Mexiko und Kanada in the form of letters to his friend Wilhelm Albert. Two-page introductory note in German, dated 13 January 1950, signed Quitzowa, possibly a GDR archivist or Stasi official. Letters are handwritten, typed versions probably done by Quitzowa. 1937 - 1938. 226 pp.

Series or reports, in form of letters, by an SD member during travels to the United States, Mexico, and Canada (typed and handwritten).

400 Introductory note in German dated Berlin, 3 May 1946. Sitrep on USSR from SS-Hauptkommando Nord des U.Z. [Unternehmung Zeppelin, a group reporting on USSR], dated 22 June 1943. 25 pp.

Material from files of SS Main Command North ("Aktion Zeppelin"), 22 June 1943. Mostly on mood in the Soviet Union.

415 Situation reports and press reports on reactions in Europe to German actions in Germany and abroad. Catholic church campaign against Rosenberg. Lutheran church reations to anti-Jewish campaign. Sitreps from Munich regarding anti-Jewish activities, etc. British anti-Nazi fliers, etc. 1934 - 1939. 310 pp.


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Clippings from social democratic press abroad. Samples of anti-German "hate"propaganda from Holland; also from London Daily Herald about the alleged mass arrest of SS men. More foreign press reports with anti-Nazi material, such as press rumor about a Himmler-Schacht conflict (February 1936). Series of foreign press items on conditions in Germany.

461 Situation reports on political, economic, and cultural conditions, public opinion and press in Poland and Greece. Polish emigration in France and Belgium. 1936 - 1940. 21 pp.

SD Aussendienst [External Service] report on Poland.

462 Idem, in Estonia, Lithuania, and Latvia. 1938 - 1940. 297 pp.

Series of External Service reports: Estonia, Lithuania, Baltic States (1940). Economic report on France, Latvia, Yugoslavia, Portugal, Romania (1940). Report on reaction in Baltic States to Russo-German Non-Aggression Pact (August 1939). Report on Northern Borderstates (September 1939).

463 Idem, in Hungary. 1938 - 1940. 287 pp.

More reports on national mood from the External Service: Hungary; Southeast Region (Hungarian-Russian border); Yugoslavia; Romania; Hungary - The Jewish Question (November 1939); Italy; France; and Lithuania.

464 Idem, in Soviet Union, including activities of anti-Nazi emigrés. 1936 - 1939. 173 pp.

National mood reports, Soviet Union (March 1936) and also for 1939.

476 Idem in Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, Slovakia, and Czechoslovakia, including activities of anti-Nazi emigrés. 1938 - 1940. 132 pp.

More on national moods: Protectorate Bohemia-Moravia (February 1940); Czechoslovakia (December 1938).

477 Idem, in Romania. 1939 - 1940. 65 pp.

National mood reports: Romania (August 1939).

478 Idem, in Yugoslavia. 1936 - 1940. 205 pp.

Reports: Yugoslavia (May 1937, Decmber 1939, February 1940); Denmark (June 1936); Czechoslovakia (May 1936); Soviet Union (June 1936).

484 Idem, in Mexico. 1939 - 1940. 24 pp.

Report on Mexico (May 1939).

488 Idem, in Argentina, Bulgaria, Denmark, Palestine, Uruguay, and Spain. 1939 - 1940. 24 pp.

Reports on Argentian (May 1939); Bulgaria (1940); Denmark (?).



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Amt VII, Archives and Library:

684 Essays on Jewry (with appendix "Zur Frage der vormilitärischen Ausbildung der jüdisch-nationalen Jugend in der Tschechoslowakai"). Political Catholicism and Protestantism by SS-Sturmbannführer Zapp. no date. 53 pp.

Report on Political Protestantism, Catholicism, and Jewry.

693 Filing system organization plans for archival records. 1942. 98 pp.

Supplement to previously mentioned file categories. Instructions where to file specific events and personalities.

695 Research materials on Jehovah's Witnesses for Irmgard Patzwald's work directed by Ritter of the Kriminalbiologische Institut. Correspondence regarding Arthur Ehrhardt's brochure "Kleinkrieg". Several personnel matters. 1944. 17 pp.

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1 Chef Sipo and SD, instructions and regulations: assuming Frontaufklaerung responsibility in RSHA, 1945. Dienstanweisung Fuehrerschul Sipo and SD, 8 February 1941 and Lehrplan. Regarding organization of Sipo work, territorial divisions of SD districts, the formation of SIPO and SD sections for the colonies, and the classifications of concentration camps. 1939 - 1945. ca. 116 pp.

Memo on takeover of Front Line Reconnaissance by RSHA (21 February 1945). Chief, Sipo, and SD: "Organization of Sipo and SD;" subject: simplifying the conduct of business (August 1943). SD order: cutting back on routine business during periods of tension or in the case of mobilization (September 1939). Deals with simplifying office procedures, technical tasks, reporting, organization, etc. Chief Sipo, Chief SHA to Sipo headquarters, Gestapo, and SD main office: "Routine Political Reportage" (September 1939). Other memos pertaining to Sipo and SD dealing with organization, departmental responsibilities, duties of Sipo and SD inspectors recruiting for staff among high school and college graduates, etc. Circular memo from RSHA: "Assassination attempt in Munich" [attempt on Hitler's life in Bürgerbräukeller] (15 November 1939). Asks that urgent efforts are made, to help solve the case including appeals to population. Chief, Sipo, and SD: "Classification by Grade of Concentration Camps" (for protective custody cases, depending on severity of case. No mention of Jews). Chief, Sipo, and SD: "Setting up Groups of Hlinka Guards on Reich Territory" [Slovak pro-Hitler groups]. Addendum to one of many SD organization reports, "Duties of the Reichs SD": pertains to guarding the Führer and other Nazi leaders, their offices, residences, etc. Chief, Sipo, and SD: memo to all Einsatzgruppen of Sipo and SD (A, B, C, and D) ordering that all operational directives and other individual directives for Einsatzgruppen and Einsatzkommandos must be secured in such a manner that they cannot reach unqualified individuals and above all not the enemy (August 1941). 1939 - 1945.

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the occupied territories, religious matters in the occupied eastern territories, and the interrogation procedures for captured partisans. 1939 - 1943. Evolution of the EG mission June - July 1941. Guidelines for Einsatz SuSD in Norway. October 1940 guidelines for internment. ca. 23 pp.

Chief, Sipo, and SD: "Directive for Use of Sipo and SD in Norway" (April 1940). Chief, Sipo, and SD: "How to Deal with POWs" (August 1940). Various memos on how to deal with ethnic Germans coming to the Reich from occupied eastern territories, and how to deal with emigres from Germany (in occupied West Europe). Section on Jews with German or former Austrian, Czech, or Polish citizenship: "Dealing with above-mentioned Jews should not get ahead of plans for the settling of the Jewish question in a Europe under German hegemony." For now they are to be sent to internment camps so that they will be readily available in case of a "total evacuation" out of Europe. Heydrich directive to four Einsatzgruppen leaders (Nebe, Ohlendorf, Rasch, and Stahlbecker), 29 June 1941: "Efforts at self-cleansing by anti-Communist, anti-Jewish circles in areas to be newly occupied are not to be interfered with. On the contrary, they are to be intensified when necessary without, however, leaving any traces, and are to be directed into the proper channels, but in such a way that local 'self-protection circles' cannot later claim that they had received orders or political assurances." This will require that Einsatzgruppen and Kommandos move on as expeditiously as possible in areas newly occupied by the military so as to be able to set into motion "whatever is necessary." Another Heydrich directive to Einsatzgruppen leaders (1 July 1941), which points out that "It is self-evident that the cleaning-up action is primarily concerned with Bolsheviks and Jews." 1940 - 1943.

8 Information from the chief of the SIPO about the formation of a Council of Ministers for the defence of the state, including a list of various positions and orders about the use of the railways by SD members. 1933 - 1945. List of EG commanders in Poland, 1939 and reference to EG in Czechoslovakia. 34 pp.

List of Einsatzgruppen and Einsatzkommandos in Occupied Territories (i.e. Poland), 12 September 1939. Also a list of commanders of regular police (Orpo) in occupied territories. List of concentration camp addresses (September 1942). 1933 - 1945.

26 Annual report of Department V, Kripo. 1939 - 1940. 94 pp.

Yearbook of Department V (Reichs Kripo) of the RSHA, 1939-1940.

26a Protocol of meetings of inspectors of the RSHA about the organizational structure, equipment, and tasks of the ORPO. 1940. 15 pp.

Memo concerning Orpo inspectors (January 1940).

27 Materials on the supervision of religious organizations within Germany, including Jews and Jehovah's Witnesses. 1934 - 1940. 40 pp.

Various foreign press items on fascism. Report (December 1939) about gathering of supporters of former German emperor to celebrate his birthday. List of "Political Stratification of Jewish Organizations for Building up Palestine" (August 1936). Reports on Atheist meetings abroad. 1939 - 1940.

50 List of Jews and stateless people with temporary passports. 1939 - 1941. 76 pp.

Page from an unidentified listing of Jewish individuals in Germany, with address, birthplace and date, passport number, and citizenship. no date.

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52 Confidential brochure containing a list of abbreviations. 1941 [IVA1. Used for Marxists and KPD]

RSHA: list of current abbreviations for communist and Marxist movements and organizations. May 1941.

56 Telephone directories of the various Kripo department sections and districts. 1943. 61 pp.

Telephone directory of Kripo Berlin headquarters and of other police departments and offices in the Berlin region. 1943.

58 List of telephones of various police institutions -- KSt. Berlin. 12 pp.

More Kripo Berlin telephone numbers. no date.

61 Appendix to a dossier on the Austrian security service and plans for its absorption in event of Anschluss. 36 pp.

Draft report: "Austrian Security System and its Integration into the Reich Sipo after the Incorporation of Austria" (compiled in the 1930s). 1942.


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64 Diagram of the political divisions of Jews in Germany. 1 page.

Russian-language copy of German schematic charts on Jewish assimilants, Zionists, etc. no date.

66 Work of the offices of Department IV on the racial policies of the Nazis and communists, and on occupied Czechoslovakia. 1942. 37 pp.

Handwritten reports (by SD personnel) on: Nationalsocialist Race Policy; Marxism and Communism; The New Order in Europe; Race and Inheritance; Historic Development of Bohemian-Moravian Protectorate. 1942.

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34 "Political Jewish Organizations in Germany as of February 15, 1936." 22 pp.

Political stratification of Jews in Germany.

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16a German and foreign press items on anti-Nazi boycott movement and activities abroad (1934). Heydrich report about a Jew with the covername `Stern' who has been working as a Nazi informer. He is now to be sent to London to investigate the boycott movement there. Also a report from `Stern' about anti-Jewish activities he has participated in on behalf of the SD. 1934 - 1935.

17 Bavarian Political Police report on Jewish youth organization, with local police contributions on Jewish and Zionist organizations. 1934.

18 Report on Jews in Germany. 1934 - 1935.

19 Report on Zionist Congress in Lucern (August 1935), part I. 1935.

20 More reportage material on Lucern congress. 1935.

21 Part II of Lucern Zionist Congress report. 1935.

22 More material on Lucern Zionist Congress. 1935.

23 German Zionist Organization report on Meeting of Delegates (November 1935). 1935 - 1936.