Here are some finding aids from the US Holocaust Memorial Museum to Nazi War Crimes Records from Russia (Osobyi Files), at:
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archival Guide
Document 14 of 14
RG-11 --- Selected Records from the Former Special [Osobyi] State Archive in the Russian State Military Archive (RGVA)
In the years immediately following the end of World War II, the Soviet police and security services established a series of secret archival holding facilities to maintain the millions of pages of documents and files the so-called "Trophy Brigades" confiscated for various reasons in the territories occupied by the Red Army. The records were cataloged and examined by officials involved with collecting evidence to convict individuals and organizations of crimes against humanity and of war crimes. Afterward, the records were sought by officials concerned with gathering evidence to present at a peace conference during which reparation demands would be made against the Germans and their collaborators, and by officials concerned with the possibility of blackmailing prominent individuals with a "Third Reich past." Eventually, the records were placed in various secret archival facilities. Over the years Soviet security officials transferred some of the files to governments in the Warsaw Pact nations, but the great bulk remained in the Soviet Union.
Soviet archival authorities retained the original arrangement of the records in that each collection (called a fond in Russian) contains files from a particular German government, Nazi party, or other governments' agencies and non-governmental organizations. Therefore, the microfilmed records at the USHMM follow this arrangement and each of the collections in RG-11 represents a file from a specific organization, the name of which is listed in the collection's title.
In 1990-1991 a reporter for Isvestia discovered the existence of the hitherto secret Special (Osobyi) Archives in Moscow and wrote a series of articles about the history and contents of this facility. Since then, European governments and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have requested that Russian officials transfer to them either records created by state agencies in those countries or those created by NGOs. This has been a lengthy and difficult process, which is by no means completed.
The USHMM began negotiating with archival and other officials in Moscow as soon as news of the Osobyi's existence became public, with a view toward microfilming relevant parts of the collections. For many years, Russian policy would not allow the reproduction of complete collections, thus the Museum's earlier accessions from this source are incomplete (that is, records from the period prior to 1933 have in many cases not been reproduced) or scattered throughout several accessions. More recently, the Museum has been able to reproduce some complete collections.
In several collections, the material appears on non-sequentially numbered microfilm rolls due to extremely haphazard reproduction conditions early in the Museum's project in Moscow. This makes access to some of the collections cumbersome, but each folder-level description in the detailed finding aids indicates which roll contains files related to the particular organization whose records make up the collection. For example, the records of the Berlin Gestapo office (RG-11.001M) are mainly on roll 17, but some files appear on rolls 26 and 185. Thus, when a certain number of film rolls are given for a collection, it is possible that material from other collections also appears on those rolls.
In 1992, the Osobyi was renamed the Center for the Preservation of Historical Documentary Collections (CPHDC) and in 1999 The Russian Archives Committee merged the CPHDC into the Russian State Military Archives (RGVA) located next door. The RGVA contains prewar Soviet military documents. While the Osobyi is now a part of RGVA, the old Osobyi fond numbers for the various collections remain unchanged.
As of February 2002, the Museum continues to reproduce files in the former Osobyi Archives.
There follows a brief description of each of the more than 63 collections, which the Museum holds in full or in part, on more than 300 16 mm microfilm rolls. The folder-level finding aids to the collections also indicate for each folder the Osobyi designator (call number/Signatur) in the form fond/opis/delo, or in English, collection number/sub-collection number/folder number. For example, 500/1/286 would denominate folder number 286 of sub-collection 1 of collection 500.
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Dokumente von besonderer Bedeutung (Sammlung) (Osobyi Fond #1525) (Records in Special Storage (Miscellania) [manuscript RG-11.001M.24]
Reel 94, middle
1525-1-
68 Volume I and II: Archive of former SS officer Prutzmann. 2 files. no date. 175 pages total.
Nazi party correspondence, list of membership dues, internal party organizations (mostly in Hamburg region); letter to Sipo Chief Heydrich referring to a recent lunch in Dachau, etc. Memo from Daluege about Hitler approval of the following positions for the duration of the war: SS and Police Chief, occupied Norway; SS and Police Chief, Northeast region; SS and Police Chief, Rhein (all July 1940). Various SS administrative matters, assignments, documentation, etc. mostly in and around Hamburg.
313 Work of an SS doctor on forced sterilization. no date. 128 pp.
Memo from Thuringia to Soviet Military Administration Health Department concerning report about forced sterilization at sanatorium Pfafferode, with list of scientific studies of subject. 1946.
315 The black book of Hungarian police. no date. 920 pp.
Name list of various foreign nationals with annotations such as "surveillance," "espionage suspect," "agitator," etc.
340 Materials about the despotism of Hitlerites in the concentration camp of Sachsenhausen, 3 volumes. 1945 - 1946. volume I, 219 pp., volume II, 506 pp., and volume III, 544 pp.
volume I: Russian list of names of supervisory personnel in unidentified concentration camp, including names of people who had built crematoriums. Personnel questionnarie of and statement by German who was sent to Sachsenhausen suspected of high treason. Kripo document about someone acused of inhuman treatment of other camp inmates (Sachsenhausen, 1941-1943). Long list of names of former Sachsenhausen prisoners accused of criminal acts. [All of this material was assembled by a Soviet post-war tribunal and prepared in May 1945.] More material apparently assembled for use by a Russian commission investigating Sachsenhausen and prepared by former camp inmates: Report (May 31, 1945) by former Sachsenhausen political prisoners, ranging over a great variety of subjects, among them a day in the life of a prisoner; construction projects such as crematoriums built between 1942 and 1944; report on special camp for officers of Western alliance; list of factories and works, and numbers of prisoners used there; the arrival of 1,000 Jews after the von Rath assassination who reportedly were released after paying large sums with a commitment to leave Germany; after the 1944 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising 6,000 Jews from Hungary were sent to Sachsenhausen mostly from Auschwitz; report also states in mid-1944 Sachsenhausen and its affiliated camps held 75,000 prisoners (including 2,000 Jews, 100 gypsies, 250 Jehovah's Witnesses, 80 homosexuals, etc.) One section of report deals with "liquidation actions" including the killing of Poles late in 1940 and Russian POWs in 941; "In May of 1942, 100 Jews, personally selected by the camp chief, were murdered in the crematoriums to revenge the Heydrich assassination;" in October 1942, 5-6,000 Jews were to be sent to Auschwitz, but many rebelled publicly in front of the assembled prisoners, aware that they were to be killed, and the camp commander, recognizing the volatility of the situation, calmed them down. Another commission protocol by former Sachsenhausen prisoners cites numbers of prisoners received and released each year. List of directors of factories using Sachsenhausen prisoners. List of commanders and camp leaders in Sachsenhausen, 1936-1945. List of SS personnel, mostly blockleaders, active in Sachsenhausen (one was known as "bonebreaker"); with brief mention of their criminal behavior. List of former camp prisoners accused of criminal offenses against other inmates. List of blockleaders and administrators who stood out as murderers and ruffians among the camp personnel (all of them SS volunteers).
volume II: More material by Special commission investigating war crimes. Additional list of inmates accused of atrocities, including interrogations in Russian, and one report in English.
Reel 95
340 volume III: English copy of Sachsenhausen organization and staff plan. Interrogation report prepared by British member of War Crimes Investigation Team mentions that gold obtained from teeth of dead prisoners was used as bribes inside camp; includes list of prisoners selected for experiments with synthetic opiates. Reports that in Ravensbrück women's camp there were clinical samples of female sex organs, internal female organs to be used in training of medical assistants. Russian lists of SS members in Sachsenhausen; other Russian-language notes pertain to war crimes investigation [these were translated from English original]. Interrogation reports in English, including information given by British ex-prisoners of war. Notes in Russian, and other reports in English about mistreatment and killing of Allied POWs (these were located in "special camp A" in Sachsenhausen).
365 Stenographic records of the court hearing of the Second Military Tribunal with the evidence of the former commander of SS anti-partisan units von dem Bach and a biographical note on him. January 1946. 39 pp.
Report from office of U.S. Chief of Counsel, Interrogation Division, Nüremberg, October 1945: about Erich von Bach-Zelewski, Reichstag member, General of Waffen-SS, interrogated by Colonel Taylor. Von Bach was active in anti-partisan campaigns in Russia. 1945-1946.
371 Certificate concerning Gestapo archive file #371, containing information about the leader of the "Mopper" underground organization in Hessen-Frankfurt. 1936. 3 pp.
War crimes interrogation reports in Russian. 1950.
413 Annotations of documents found in the building of the RSHA in Berlin. 1946. 25 pp.
Lists of Gestapo documents contained in various folders; also included are Foreign Ministry document lists. One list indicates that these documents were found in the RSHA [Himmler's headquarters]. Many of the documents deal with Russian nationals who sided with the Germans. One folder contains a special directive from Himmler to SS officer H. Mehlhorn to spend one year in the U.S. under the cover of a graduate research student to investigate and report on such topics as the Jewish question in the U.S., the Negro problem, unemployment, and related economic problems, etc.
473 Collection of documents on crimes committed by German fascist-occupiers, 1941 - 1944, in the territory of Byelorussia. Materials gathered for a German trial in Koblenz. Photographic copies of captured German documents collected for a war crimes trial in Koblenz (Heuser, Wilke, Schlegel, et al.). We were told that probably the originals were handed over to the German authorities, while only copies remain at the Special Archive. However, it seems that some of the original orders are part of file R-500/1/769. The volume also contains excerpts from reports and witness depositions gathered by the Soviet Special Commission, both in Russian and German translation. (AKTs for Baranovichi, Borrisow, Nesvizh, Minsk). 316 pp. [308 pp?]
Reports on German atrocities in Byelorussia; one is an urgent request from Bach-Zelenski [see folder 365] for intelligence about partisans. Brief mention of a series of documents dealing with "Aktion Hornung," the elimination of all Jews in an (unspecified) city in November 1943, related directives, participants, including a list of names of members of Einsatzgruppe B. Implementation Directive of March 17, 1943 for carrying on Operation "Kottbus" with list of people in charge; combat group Dirlewanger is involved. Report about Nazi atrocities committed during Operation "Kottbus" (apparently a major anti-partisan action); number of enemy and own losses, and list of weapons and other captured booty. Notes showing that Nazis killed peaceful citizens under the pretext of anti-partisan activities. Another anti-partisan operation by Dirlewanger group. Report by the (Russian) Commission for Investigation Nazi Atrocities committed by German occupation forces in the city and district of Glubokoye. Contains report about treatment, killing, and transfer of Jews from their homes in a ghetto; "in the spring of 1942, the Germans killed 2,000 ghetto inhabitants in one day;" "in the fall of 1942, 1,000 Jews unable to work were taken to an adjoining forest and shot." In the summer of 1943, 5,000 Jews were still in the ghetto; virtually all of them were then killed in a concerted armed attack on the ghetto. More reports on anti-partisan drives. One notes that in the Uzda district, occupied by the Germans in July 1941, the entire Jewish population, 1,740 people, was killed on October 16 and 17, 1941. Final report on Operation "Sumpffieber" [swamp fever], an anti-partisan operation in White Ruthenia. Report about anti-partisan Operation "Hamburg" (around Byalistok): "The units assigned to my command have the task to attack the bandits [partisans] and destroy them. The enemy consists of each and every bandit, Jews, gypsies, and suspected bandits. In case any prisoners are taken, they are to be made available first of all to the SD for interrogation." Document listing hundreds of train transports bringing Jews from European countries to Minsk and eventual extermination, with columns "from" and "to" and numbers of "travelers" on each train, from January 20 to February 2, 1943. Various regional reports about getting workers for tasks in Germany. German reports about partisan interference with the administration of the occupied territories. (Russian) Extraordinary War Crimes Investigation Commission report about German atrocities in Baranovich (Byelorussia), including detailed reports of atrocities, including those against 7,000 Jews who were killed between August and October 1941. Protocol of confession of a German who participated in atrocities in the city and district of Borisov, including the killing of 8,000 Soviet Jews. Protocol of investigation of atrocities in Nesvish District about atrocities committed in Minsk.
475 Correspondence of the commander of the operational group of the 2nd MGB department with various departments of the MGB concerning the reception of Trophy German materials, and lists of same. 1952 - 1953. 673 pp.
[Material primarily in Russian.] Listing of captured Gestapo documents dealing with intelligence operations against France; another lists individuals who spied for Poland and Czechoslovakia. List of documents from Propaganda Ministry. One list indexes items from the Hitler chancellory, including letters addressed to Hitler and telegrams he sent. Detailed list of items in captured Foreign Ministry files. List of items in Gestapo files, mostly concerned with communist movements abroad. List of documents of Waffen-SS, 1937-1945. Inummerable other lists.
476 Correspondence of the commander of the operational group of the 2nd MGB department with various departments of the MGB concerning the reception of Trophy German materials, and lists of same. 1953. 364 pp.
More listings, in Russian, including documents from Justice Ministry files.
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Dokumente von besonderer Bedeutung (Sammlung) (Osobyi Fond #1525) (Records in Special Storage (Miscellania) [manuscript RG-11.001M.24]
Reel 94, middle
1525-1-
68 Volume I and II: Archive of former SS officer Prutzmann. 2 files. no date. 175 pages total.
Nazi party correspondence, list of membership dues, internal party organizations (mostly in Hamburg region); letter to Sipo Chief Heydrich referring to a recent lunch in Dachau, etc. Memo from Daluege about Hitler approval of the following positions for the duration of the war: SS and Police Chief, occupied Norway; SS and Police Chief, Northeast region; SS and Police Chief, Rhein (all July 1940). Various SS administrative matters, assignments, documentation, etc. mostly in and around Hamburg.
313 Work of an SS doctor on forced sterilization. no date. 128 pp.
Memo from Thuringia to Soviet Military Administration Health Department concerning report about forced sterilization at sanatorium Pfafferode, with list of scientific studies of subject. 1946.
315 The black book of Hungarian police. no date. 920 pp.
Name list of various foreign nationals with annotations such as "surveillance," "espionage suspect," "agitator," etc.
340 Materials about the despotism of Hitlerites in the concentration camp of Sachsenhausen, 3 volumes. 1945 - 1946. volume I, 219 pp., volume II, 506 pp., and volume III, 544 pp.
volume I: Russian list of names of supervisory personnel in unidentified concentration camp, including names of people who had built crematoriums. Personnel questionnarie of and statement by German who was sent to Sachsenhausen suspected of high treason. Kripo document about someone acused of inhuman treatment of other camp inmates (Sachsenhausen, 1941-1943). Long list of names of former Sachsenhausen prisoners accused of criminal acts. [All of this material was assembled by a Soviet post-war tribunal and prepared in May 1945.] More material apparently assembled for use by a Russian commission investigating Sachsenhausen and prepared by former camp inmates: Report (May 31, 1945) by former Sachsenhausen political prisoners, ranging over a great variety of subjects, among them a day in the life of a prisoner; construction projects such as crematoriums built between 1942 and 1944; report on special camp for officers of Western alliance; list of factories and works, and numbers of prisoners used there; the arrival of 1,000 Jews after the von Rath assassination who reportedly were released after paying large sums with a commitment to leave Germany; after the 1944 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising 6,000 Jews from Hungary were sent to Sachsenhausen mostly from Auschwitz; report also states in mid-1944 Sachsenhausen and its affiliated camps held 75,000 prisoners (including 2,000 Jews, 100 gypsies, 250 Jehovah's Witnesses, 80 homosexuals, etc.) One section of report deals with "liquidation actions" including the killing of Poles late in 1940 and Russian POWs in 941; "In May of 1942, 100 Jews, personally selected by the camp chief, were murdered in the crematoriums to revenge the Heydrich assassination;" in October 1942, 5-6,000 Jews were to be sent to Auschwitz, but many rebelled publicly in front of the assembled prisoners, aware that they were to be killed, and the camp commander, recognizing the volatility of the situation, calmed them down. Another commission protocol by former Sachsenhausen prisoners cites numbers of prisoners received and released each year. List of directors of factories using Sachsenhausen prisoners. List of commanders and camp leaders in Sachsenhausen, 1936-1945. List of SS personnel, mostly blockleaders, active in Sachsenhausen (one was known as "bonebreaker"); with brief mention of their criminal behavior. List of former camp prisoners accused of criminal offenses against other inmates. List of blockleaders and administrators who stood out as murderers and ruffians among the camp personnel (all of them SS volunteers).
volume II: More material by Special commission investigating war crimes. Additional list of inmates accused of atrocities, including interrogations in Russian, and one report in English.
Reel 95
340 volume III: English copy of Sachsenhausen organization and staff plan. Interrogation report prepared by British member of War Crimes Investigation Team mentions that gold obtained from teeth of dead prisoners was used as bribes inside camp; includes list of prisoners selected for experiments with synthetic opiates. Reports that in Ravensbrück women's camp there were clinical samples of female sex organs, internal female organs to be used in training of medical assistants. Russian lists of SS members in Sachsenhausen; other Russian-language notes pertain to war crimes investigation [these were translated from English original]. Interrogation reports in English, including information given by British ex-prisoners of war. Notes in Russian, and other reports in English about mistreatment and killing of Allied POWs (these were located in "special camp A" in Sachsenhausen).
365 Stenographic records of the court hearing of the Second Military Tribunal with the evidence of the former commander of SS anti-partisan units von dem Bach and a biographical note on him. January 1946. 39 pp.
Report from office of U.S. Chief of Counsel, Interrogation Division, Nüremberg, October 1945: about Erich von Bach-Zelewski, Reichstag member, General of Waffen-SS, interrogated by Colonel Taylor. Von Bach was active in anti-partisan campaigns in Russia. 1945-1946.
371 Certificate concerning Gestapo archive file #371, containing information about the leader of the "Mopper" underground organization in Hessen-Frankfurt. 1936. 3 pp.
War crimes interrogation reports in Russian. 1950.
413 Annotations of documents found in the building of the RSHA in Berlin. 1946. 25 pp.
Lists of Gestapo documents contained in various folders; also included are Foreign Ministry document lists. One list indicates that these documents were found in the RSHA [Himmler's headquarters]. Many of the documents deal with Russian nationals who sided with the Germans. One folder contains a special directive from Himmler to SS officer H. Mehlhorn to spend one year in the U.S. under the cover of a graduate research student to investigate and report on such topics as the Jewish question in the U.S., the Negro problem, unemployment, and related economic problems, etc.
473 Collection of documents on crimes committed by German fascist-occupiers, 1941 - 1944, in the territory of Byelorussia. Materials gathered for a German trial in Koblenz. Photographic copies of captured German documents collected for a war crimes trial in Koblenz (Heuser, Wilke, Schlegel, et al.). We were told that probably the originals were handed over to the German authorities, while only copies remain at the Special Archive. However, it seems that some of the original orders are part of file R-500/1/769. The volume also contains excerpts from reports and witness depositions gathered by the Soviet Special Commission, both in Russian and German translation. (AKTs for Baranovichi, Borrisow, Nesvizh, Minsk). 316 pp. [308 pp?]
Reports on German atrocities in Byelorussia; one is an urgent request from Bach-Zelenski [see folder 365] for intelligence about partisans. Brief mention of a series of documents dealing with "Aktion Hornung," the elimination of all Jews in an (unspecified) city in November 1943, related directives, participants, including a list of names of members of Einsatzgruppe B. Implementation Directive of March 17, 1943 for carrying on Operation "Kottbus" with list of people in charge; combat group Dirlewanger is involved. Report about Nazi atrocities committed during Operation "Kottbus" (apparently a major anti-partisan action); number of enemy and own losses, and list of weapons and other captured booty. Notes showing that Nazis killed peaceful citizens under the pretext of anti-partisan activities. Another anti-partisan operation by Dirlewanger group. Report by the (Russian) Commission for Investigation Nazi Atrocities committed by German occupation forces in the city and district of Glubokoye. Contains report about treatment, killing, and transfer of Jews from their homes in a ghetto; "in the spring of 1942, the Germans killed 2,000 ghetto inhabitants in one day;" "in the fall of 1942, 1,000 Jews unable to work were taken to an adjoining forest and shot." In the summer of 1943, 5,000 Jews were still in the ghetto; virtually all of them were then killed in a concerted armed attack on the ghetto. More reports on anti-partisan drives. One notes that in the Uzda district, occupied by the Germans in July 1941, the entire Jewish population, 1,740 people, was killed on October 16 and 17, 1941. Final report on Operation "Sumpffieber" [swamp fever], an anti-partisan operation in White Ruthenia. Report about anti-partisan Operation "Hamburg" (around Byalistok): "The units assigned to my command have the task to attack the bandits [partisans] and destroy them. The enemy consists of each and every bandit, Jews, gypsies, and suspected bandits. In case any prisoners are taken, they are to be made available first of all to the SD for interrogation." Document listing hundreds of train transports bringing Jews from European countries to Minsk and eventual extermination, with columns "from" and "to" and numbers of "travelers" on each train, from January 20 to February 2, 1943. Various regional reports about getting workers for tasks in Germany. German reports about partisan interference with the administration of the occupied territories. (Russian) Extraordinary War Crimes Investigation Commission report about German atrocities in Baranovich (Byelorussia), including detailed reports of atrocities, including those against 7,000 Jews who were killed between August and October 1941. Protocol of confession of a German who participated in atrocities in the city and district of Borisov, including the killing of 8,000 Soviet Jews. Protocol of investigation of atrocities in Nesvish District about atrocities committed in Minsk.
475 Correspondence of the commander of the operational group of the 2nd MGB department with various departments of the MGB concerning the reception of Trophy German materials, and lists of same. 1952 - 1953. 673 pp.
[Material primarily in Russian.] Listing of captured Gestapo documents dealing with intelligence operations against France; another lists individuals who spied for Poland and Czechoslovakia. List of documents from Propaganda Ministry. One list indexes items from the Hitler chancellory, including letters addressed to Hitler and telegrams he sent. Detailed list of items in captured Foreign Ministry files. List of items in Gestapo files, mostly concerned with communist movements abroad. List of documents of Waffen-SS, 1937-1945. Inummerable other lists.
476 Correspondence of the commander of the operational group of the 2nd MGB department with various departments of the MGB concerning the reception of Trophy German materials, and lists of same. 1953. 364 pp.
More listings, in Russian, including documents from Justice Ministry files.
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Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, (NSDAP), Berlin (Osobyi Fond #519) (Nazi Party, NSDAP, Berlin) [manuscript RG-11.001M.07]
Reel 77, near end
519-1-
10 Investigation file for a member of the Party, Karl Eggen, editor of Der Beobachter newspaper accused of concealing his Jewish relatives when he joined the Party. 26 September 1935 - 8 December 1936. 202 pp.
Family tree of a von Eggen, with correspondence charging that Party member von Eggen had lied about Jews in his family. All the correspondence in support of or opposed to von Eggen's status as a Nazi. 1935-1936.
11 Idem. 4 January 1935 - 10 December 1938. 170 pp.
Family tree of a von Eggen, with correspondence charging that Party member von Eggen had lied about Jews in his family. All the correspondence in support of or opposed to von Eggen's status as a Nazi. 1935-1936.
Reel 78
519-3-
1 Correspondence with Ministry Propaganda, local group of the Nazi Party in Holland about the confiscation of Jewish libraries in Holland and Lublin (Poland). About the opportunity of using former agent of French Intelligence, Bertololy, in the work of Rosenberg's office. 1937 - 1940. 191 pp.
[Material in this folder is related to Rosenberg ministry.] Various items dealing with Holland under occupation, acquisition of libraries and book collections in line with Führer's request to select books in occupied countries for use in Party elite schools. One communication notes that Jewish question in Holland is becoming acute and that Jews are transferring their valuable possessions to non-Jews (June 1940). Army was also engaged in occupied western Europe to secure Jewish and Freemason property and valuables, art object, etc. One message concerns large Carnegie Foundation library in the Peace Palace in The Hague (120,000 volumes), inquiring how it is to be disposed of. Report from occupied Polish territory about a planned exhibit "German Achievements in the Weichsel River Region" (April 1940). Other reports about planned propaganda exhibits in occupied eastern Europe. Memo about incorporation of Jewish libraries from occupied areas into holdings of similar materials confiscated in Germany.
4 Documents sent to Gestapo Berlin regarding former Party leaders Schumann and Zelger, arrested for contacts with foreign political figures without knowledge of their superiors [German negative photocopies too dark to film and often illegible]. 1934. 53 pp.
[Documents are of very poor, virtually unreadable quality.] Apparently a political interrogation of an individual, including phone intercepts, ending up with oath that individual being questioned will no longer do intelligence work for the Germans.
5 History of a German who returned from African colonies, and who becomes involved in a criminal investigation. The interrogation report, sometimes difficult to decipher, suggests that he had made his passport available to another person. 1934. 39 pp.
14a Reports of the intelligence service of the Nazi Party, about political and economic situation in Romania, Austria, and other countries. Including Jewish influence in Romania, 1934; Jews in Poland, 1933; Jewish press in USA, 1933. Short reports on Cuba, USA, Hungary, Japan, Italy, and Brazil. 1933 - 1934. 132 pp.
Directive to foreign policy section of Nazi Party that all official foreigners wanting to visit Party offices or institutions must make the request through their diplomatic representatives. Views of Romanian official, including relationship between National Socialism and Romania. Special Party Reports, such as treatment of Nazis in pre-Anschluss Austria (that conditions in prison camps are terrible; complaints echo what was eventually to become the Jews' fate in concentration camps, namely that the imprisoned Nazis encountered terrible hygenic conditions, overflowing toilets, no medical help for the sick, with 50-60 prisoners in one room.) Press article about Germany's Polish policy. Special Party Report (July 1933) about a Chicagoan, chairman of the Reichsflag Black-Red-Gold Club who is reported to denigrate the Nazis, with a recommendation that if he has relatives in Germany they are to be put into a concentration camp.
26 Idem, regarding political and economic situation in Italy. Including Jews and the German Consulate. 1934. 15 pp.
More Party Special Reports covering events in Southern Tirol, Italy (including one on Mussolini's views of German fascism). 1934.
30 Idem, regarding trade agreement with Romania, political situation report for Romania, and other documents, including reference to Jewish importers. 1934. 75 pp.
Notes for the files about various diplomatic and economic activities (mostly about Romanian efforts to achieve economic independence).
31 Weekly reports of Bureau of Frontier Intelligence, SD.Ab Southwest (the Saar), for November - December 1934. Includes Jewish emigrants. 1934. 140 pp.
RSHA report to Rosenberg: SD report from a border intelligence unit about events in the Saarland for the month of November (then under French occupation).
33 Correspondenc with agent of German intelligence (of APA) in Czechoslovakia, Hans Krebs, and with the organization Einheit of Sudeten Germans regarding political situation in Czechoslovakia. Reorganization of Einheit and sending agent Fitz to Czechoslovakia. Includes Jewish attitudes and actions. 1933. 7 pp.
File reports from a confidential agent about Polich-Czech relations. Items on Sudeten Germans, and propaganda about their cause. Correspondence on Austrian matters: a report from a Sudeten German who fled Czechoslovakia and offers his services to Germany about Austrian Chancellor Dollfuss and Vice-Chancellor Frey being "ready to negotiate" (apparent references to ongoing efforts to align Austria with Germany). Party memo about election propaganda, with detailed guidance as result of a Führer directive that all Nazi organizations peddle the same line. More material about Sudeten Germans, including material from the Sudeten German "self-liberation" organization.
34 Political situation in Estonia and England, including Jewish influence in financial circles. Jewish question in British Union of Fascists. 1933 - 1934. 17 pp.
More Nazi Party Special Reports (Estonian-Polish propaganda; UK-British Union of Fascists; UK arms industry; economic affairs; British anti-German agitation, etc.).
36 Correspondence with German intelligence agent Fredrich Weber in Romania regarding political and economic situation. Regarding his deportation from Romania. Includes Jewish influence. 1934 - 1935. 85 pp.
Reports about expulsion of Nazi Party paper correspondent from Bucharest, with related material on German Foreign Ministry and Romanian officials concerning this case. 1934-1935.
37 File of German intelligence agent Radu Lecca in Romania. 1936 - 1937. 223 pp.
Various items on German-Romanian relations and contacts between Romanian National Christian Front and German organizations; official Romanian interest in whether Party supports Romanian right-wing radicals, etc.
38 Reports of foreign policy department of Nazi Party regarding political and economic situation in Romania, Yugoslavia, Turkey, Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Brazil, and other countries. Includes material on Jews. 1936 -1937. 355 pp.
More reports, other items on German-Romanian relations and economic contacts. Report about German-Afghan negotiations (February 1937) in the wake of a recently concluded Afghan-Russian agreement. Various memos suggesting that Afghanistan should be allowed to order military equipment "without exhausting the German war industry." 1936-1937.
519-4-
8 Excursion program for Reich Union of German Workers. Announcement regarding lawyers. Meeting of committee of women editors. Meeting minutes of National-Socialist Racial Union in Berlin, 4 - 19 May 1937, discussing the Jewish question. 27 September 1934 - 27 August 1941. 23 pp.
Meeting report from Berlin regional civil servant committee on how to deal with Jewish question. Report of results of War Winter Aid Society collection, 1939-1940. Official report about 38 motorized churches being sent to remote eastern areas where German troops are located; report concerning medical care in Warsaw.
36 Correspondence with Nazi Party members regarding struggle against Masons and NSDAP policy toward Jews. Anti-Semitic leaflets. Letters and other documents of Jewish organizations. 1932 - 1937. 348 pp.
Organization chart trying to establish monetary and intellectual linkage of Freemasons, Jesuits, Jewish banks, etc. Memo from Central Organization of German Jews in Karlsruhe to all members preparatory to Reichstag elections (July 1932). Other items on Zionists, Jewish organizations, Jewish Freemason lodge; report from German-Christian Order about Nazi opposition to all Freemason lodges and religious orders. List of Freemason lodges and private clubs. Paean about Hitler whose mission is supposed to be equal to historical significance of Martin Luther.
Reel 186, near end
519-5-
8 Circulars of Führer's deputy regarding military training of political leaders of NSDAP. Prohibition of Party members from staying in Jewish hotels. Medical care for Party members. Encouragement of German Red Cross. 1937. 162 pp.
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archival Finding Aid
Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, (NSDAP), Berlin (Osobyi Fond #519) (Nazi Party, NSDAP, Berlin) [manuscript RG-11.001M.07]
Reel 77, near end
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10 Investigation file for a member of the Party, Karl Eggen, editor of Der Beobachter newspaper accused of concealing his Jewish relatives when he joined the Party. 26 September 1935 - 8 December 1936. 202 pp.
Family tree of a von Eggen, with correspondence charging that Party member von Eggen had lied about Jews in his family. All the correspondence in support of or opposed to von Eggen's status as a Nazi. 1935-1936.
11 Idem. 4 January 1935 - 10 December 1938. 170 pp.
Family tree of a von Eggen, with correspondence charging that Party member von Eggen had lied about Jews in his family. All the correspondence in support of or opposed to von Eggen's status as a Nazi. 1935-1936.
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1 Correspondence with Ministry Propaganda, local group of the Nazi Party in Holland about the confiscation of Jewish libraries in Holland and Lublin (Poland). About the opportunity of using former agent of French Intelligence, Bertololy, in the work of Rosenberg's office. 1937 - 1940. 191 pp.
[Material in this folder is related to Rosenberg ministry.] Various items dealing with Holland under occupation, acquisition of libraries and book collections in line with Führer's request to select books in occupied countries for use in Party elite schools. One communication notes that Jewish question in Holland is becoming acute and that Jews are transferring their valuable possessions to non-Jews (June 1940). Army was also engaged in occupied western Europe to secure Jewish and Freemason property and valuables, art object, etc. One message concerns large Carnegie Foundation library in the Peace Palace in The Hague (120,000 volumes), inquiring how it is to be disposed of. Report from occupied Polish territory about a planned exhibit "German Achievements in the Weichsel River Region" (April 1940). Other reports about planned propaganda exhibits in occupied eastern Europe. Memo about incorporation of Jewish libraries from occupied areas into holdings of similar materials confiscated in Germany.
4 Documents sent to Gestapo Berlin regarding former Party leaders Schumann and Zelger, arrested for contacts with foreign political figures without knowledge of their superiors [German negative photocopies too dark to film and often illegible]. 1934. 53 pp.
[Documents are of very poor, virtually unreadable quality.] Apparently a political interrogation of an individual, including phone intercepts, ending up with oath that individual being questioned will no longer do intelligence work for the Germans.
5 History of a German who returned from African colonies, and who becomes involved in a criminal investigation. The interrogation report, sometimes difficult to decipher, suggests that he had made his passport available to another person. 1934. 39 pp.
14a Reports of the intelligence service of the Nazi Party, about political and economic situation in Romania, Austria, and other countries. Including Jewish influence in Romania, 1934; Jews in Poland, 1933; Jewish press in USA, 1933. Short reports on Cuba, USA, Hungary, Japan, Italy, and Brazil. 1933 - 1934. 132 pp.
Directive to foreign policy section of Nazi Party that all official foreigners wanting to visit Party offices or institutions must make the request through their diplomatic representatives. Views of Romanian official, including relationship between National Socialism and Romania. Special Party Reports, such as treatment of Nazis in pre-Anschluss Austria (that conditions in prison camps are terrible; complaints echo what was eventually to become the Jews' fate in concentration camps, namely that the imprisoned Nazis encountered terrible hygenic conditions, overflowing toilets, no medical help for the sick, with 50-60 prisoners in one room.) Press article about Germany's Polish policy. Special Party Report (July 1933) about a Chicagoan, chairman of the Reichsflag Black-Red-Gold Club who is reported to denigrate the Nazis, with a recommendation that if he has relatives in Germany they are to be put into a concentration camp.
26 Idem, regarding political and economic situation in Italy. Including Jews and the German Consulate. 1934. 15 pp.
More Party Special Reports covering events in Southern Tirol, Italy (including one on Mussolini's views of German fascism). 1934.
30 Idem, regarding trade agreement with Romania, political situation report for Romania, and other documents, including reference to Jewish importers. 1934. 75 pp.
Notes for the files about various diplomatic and economic activities (mostly about Romanian efforts to achieve economic independence).
31 Weekly reports of Bureau of Frontier Intelligence, SD.Ab Southwest (the Saar), for November - December 1934. Includes Jewish emigrants. 1934. 140 pp.
RSHA report to Rosenberg: SD report from a border intelligence unit about events in the Saarland for the month of November (then under French occupation).
33 Correspondenc with agent of German intelligence (of APA) in Czechoslovakia, Hans Krebs, and with the organization Einheit of Sudeten Germans regarding political situation in Czechoslovakia. Reorganization of Einheit and sending agent Fitz to Czechoslovakia. Includes Jewish attitudes and actions. 1933. 7 pp.
File reports from a confidential agent about Polich-Czech relations. Items on Sudeten Germans, and propaganda about their cause. Correspondence on Austrian matters: a report from a Sudeten German who fled Czechoslovakia and offers his services to Germany about Austrian Chancellor Dollfuss and Vice-Chancellor Frey being "ready to negotiate" (apparent references to ongoing efforts to align Austria with Germany). Party memo about election propaganda, with detailed guidance as result of a Führer directive that all Nazi organizations peddle the same line. More material about Sudeten Germans, including material from the Sudeten German "self-liberation" organization.
34 Political situation in Estonia and England, including Jewish influence in financial circles. Jewish question in British Union of Fascists. 1933 - 1934. 17 pp.
More Nazi Party Special Reports (Estonian-Polish propaganda; UK-British Union of Fascists; UK arms industry; economic affairs; British anti-German agitation, etc.).
36 Correspondence with German intelligence agent Fredrich Weber in Romania regarding political and economic situation. Regarding his deportation from Romania. Includes Jewish influence. 1934 - 1935. 85 pp.
Reports about expulsion of Nazi Party paper correspondent from Bucharest, with related material on German Foreign Ministry and Romanian officials concerning this case. 1934-1935.
37 File of German intelligence agent Radu Lecca in Romania. 1936 - 1937. 223 pp.
Various items on German-Romanian relations and contacts between Romanian National Christian Front and German organizations; official Romanian interest in whether Party supports Romanian right-wing radicals, etc.
38 Reports of foreign policy department of Nazi Party regarding political and economic situation in Romania, Yugoslavia, Turkey, Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Brazil, and other countries. Includes material on Jews. 1936 -1937. 355 pp.
More reports, other items on German-Romanian relations and economic contacts. Report about German-Afghan negotiations (February 1937) in the wake of a recently concluded Afghan-Russian agreement. Various memos suggesting that Afghanistan should be allowed to order military equipment "without exhausting the German war industry." 1936-1937.
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8 Excursion program for Reich Union of German Workers. Announcement regarding lawyers. Meeting of committee of women editors. Meeting minutes of National-Socialist Racial Union in Berlin, 4 - 19 May 1937, discussing the Jewish question. 27 September 1934 - 27 August 1941. 23 pp.
Meeting report from Berlin regional civil servant committee on how to deal with Jewish question. Report of results of War Winter Aid Society collection, 1939-1940. Official report about 38 motorized churches being sent to remote eastern areas where German troops are located; report concerning medical care in Warsaw.
36 Correspondence with Nazi Party members regarding struggle against Masons and NSDAP policy toward Jews. Anti-Semitic leaflets. Letters and other documents of Jewish organizations. 1932 - 1937. 348 pp.
Organization chart trying to establish monetary and intellectual linkage of Freemasons, Jesuits, Jewish banks, etc. Memo from Central Organization of German Jews in Karlsruhe to all members preparatory to Reichstag elections (July 1932). Other items on Zionists, Jewish organizations, Jewish Freemason lodge; report from German-Christian Order about Nazi opposition to all Freemason lodges and religious orders. List of Freemason lodges and private clubs. Paean about Hitler whose mission is supposed to be equal to historical significance of Martin Luther.
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8 Circulars of Führer's deputy regarding military training of political leaders of NSDAP. Prohibition of Party members from staying in Jewish hotels. Medical care for Party members. Encouragement of German Red Cross. 1937. 162 pp.