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Language of Description: English
Item type: Authorities

  1. International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg

    • Mezinárodní vojenský tribunál v Norimberku
    • Międzynarodowy Trybunał Wojskowy w Norymberdze
    • Internationaler Militärgerichtshof (IMG)

    20 November 1945 - 1 October 1946

    The International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg was established after the mutual agreement of Great Britain, France, United States and the Soviet Union to punish captured Nazi officials for their war crimes. The main proceeding was lead against 24 Nazi representatives (including Hermann Göring or Rudolf Hess) and also against representatives of 6 criminal organizations (NSDAP, SS, SD, Gestapo, SA, OKW - these organizations were prohibited). During the proceeding were the accused sentenced to death, life imprisonment or 10-20 years of imprisonment. After the main proceeding went after subse...

  2. Úřad československého delegáta v komisi pro stíhání válečných zločinců

    • Office of the Czechoslovak delegate in the United Nations Commission for Prosecution of War Criminals
    • Úřad československého delegáta u mezinárodního vojenského soudu v Norimberku
    • Office of the Czechoslovak delegate at the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg

    The creator of the fonds, the Office of the Czechoslovak delegate in the United Nations Commission for Prosecution of War Criminals (from 1945 known as the Office of the Czechoslovak delegate at the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg) was founded in 1943 and its goal was to represent Czechoslovakia in the commission, to cooperate internationally on investigations and to take actions against war criminals from Czechoslovak point of view. In the same time, the office also reported back to the Czechoslovak government and to the Ministry of Interior and Justice (records of interrogati...

  3. Martin Benno

    • מרטין בנו

    Chief of Police in Nuremberg-Fürth, SS-Obergruppenführer, General of the Waffen SS and Higher SS and Chief of Police (Höherer SS- und Polizeiführer) Main

  4. Baeck Leo

    23/05/1873

    02/11/1956

    Rabbi, president of the Reichsvertretung der deutschen Juden (renamed the Reichsvertretung der Juden in Deutschland after the Nuremberg Laws were passed in 1935), sent to Terezin aged 70.

  5. Otto Ohlendorf

    • Ohlendorf Otto

    From 04/02/1907 to 08/06/1951

    Associate professor in Kiel. Initiated Sicherheitsdienst (1936), and lead Einsatzgruppe D and Referat SD-Inland in the Reichssicherheitshauptamt (1941-42). Undersecretary in the Reichwirtschaftsministerium.

  6. Gustave Mark Gilbert

    Gustave Mark Gilbert was an American psychologist best known for his psychological diagnoses of high ranking Nazi leaders and officials during the Nuremberg Trials.

  7. Yitzhak Stone

    Nuerenberg Trials

  8. Helmut Rudersdorf

    • הלמוט רודרסדורף

    Coordinator of Expropriation and Confiscation of Jewish Assets in Nuremberg

  9. Hans Match

    • הנס מאכט

    Staff member at the Jewish Affairs desk of Nuremberg Gestapo

  10. Bach-Zelewski Erich von dem

    • Bach, Erich ˜von demœ 1899-1972
    • Bach-Zelewski, Erich von dem, 1899-1972
    • Zelewski, Erich von dem Bach-, 1899-1972
    • Bach-Zalewski, Erich von dem, 1899-1972
    • Zalewski, Erich von dem Bach- 1899-1972
    • ...

    01/03/1899

    08/03/1972

    SS-Obergruppenführer , General der Polizei (General of police) (1944). 1938 Höherer SS- und Polizeiführer in Silesia, 1941 HSSPF Russland-Mitte, head of Einsatzgruppe B. Since 21 June 1943 Bevollmächtigter des Reichsführer-SS zur Bandenbekämpfung (murder of Jews and partisans). 1944 suppression of the Warsaw Uprising. End of 1944/1945 Stabschef des Befehlshabers des Ersatzheeres. In the Nuremberg Trials crown witness for the prosecution. Sentenced to life for the murder of three communists in 1961.

  11. Theodor Grafenberger

    Head of the Jewish Department in Nuremberg

  12. Brandt Rudolf

    • Brandt, Rudolf, 1909-1948
    • Brandt, Rudolf

    02/06/1909

    02/06/1948

    SS-Standartenführer (1944). Personal referent of Himmler. Head of the Ministerbüro in the Reichsinnenministerium (Reich Ministry of the Interior). Participated in the organisation of the murder of at least 86 Jews for Hirt's skeleton collection in Strassburg. Sentenced to death in Nuremberg Doctors' Trial.

  13. Brandt Karl

    • Brandt, Karl, ca. 1904-1948
    • Brandt, Karl, 1904-1948
    • Brandt, Karl
    • Brandt, K. 1904-1948
    • Brandt, Carl 1904-1948

    08/01/1904

    02/06/1948

    Brandt headed the administration of the Nazi euthanasia program from 1939 onwards and was selected as Adolf Hitler's personal physician in August 1934.

  14. Funk Walther Emanuel

    1890/08/18

    31/05/1960

    Reichswirtschaftsminister (Reich minister for economic affairs).

  15. Sauckel Fritz

    27/10/1894

    16/10/1946

    NSDAP-Gauleiter in Thüringen (since 1927),General Plenipotentiary for Labour Deployment (Generalbevollmächtigter für den Arbeitseinsatz) 1942/1945. Organized the systematic enslavement of millions of foreign citizens.

  16. Blobel Paul

    • Blobel, Paul 1894-1951
    • Blobel, Paul

    13/08/1894

    07/06/1951

    SS-Standartenführer (1941), head of Sonderkommando 4a, Leiter (head ) of the massacre of 33 771 Jews in the ravine of Babi Jar near Kiev. Later head of Sonderkommando 1005. Sentenced to death in Einsatzgruppen Trial and executed.

  17. Vermögensverkehrsstelle Wien

    • Property Registration Office in Vienna

    Founded in 1938-05-18

    On the basis of a decree of 1938-04-26 enforced in 1938-06, persons considered 'Jewish' under the racist Nuremberg Laws were required to register their property over RM 5,000 at the Vermögensverkehrsstelle, an authority created on 1938-05-18. The asset registrations formed the basis of later confiscations. The Vermögensverkehrsstelle had also an office in Vienna.

  18. Komisarstvo Evreyskite Vaprosi

    • Commissariat for Jewish Questions
    • KEV

    Founded in 1940

    The Bulgarian government created in 1940 the Komisarstvo Evreyskite Vaprosi to implement and oversee Jewish policies. The KEV was headed by Alexander Belev, an attorney just returned from Germany, where he had studied the Nuremberg Laws to help write the Zakon ze Zashtita na Natziata (Law for the Protection of the Nation). The KEV was funded by property stolen from Jews.

  19. Globke Hans

    • Globke, Hans, 1898-1973
    • Globke, Hans
    • Globke, Hans Josef Maria, 1898-1973
    • Globke, Hans Maria 1898-1973
    • גלאבקע, האנס
    • ...

    10/09/1898

    13/02/1973

    Jurist. Leading legal expert in the German Interior Ministry (Reichsinnenministerium), involved in drafting Nazi laws, including the implementation decrees to the Nuremberg Laws.

  20. Kritzinger Friedrich

    • Kritzinger, Friedrich Wilhelm
    • Kritzinger, Friedrich Wilhelm 1890-1947

    14/04/1890

    31/10/1947

    1938 Ministerialdirektor in the Reichskanzlei, since 1942 Staatssekretär (second in command after Lammers). Participant of the Wannsee Conference. Internment 1945/46, released due to illness, died in hospital.