Protektoratskriminalpolizei (Protectorate Criminal Police) – Kriminaldirektion (Criminal Headquarters) of Brno

Identifier
COLLECTION.SURV.MZA_Brno/1034
Language of Description
English
Dates
1 Jan 1942 - 31 Dec 1945
Level of Description
Fonds
Languages
  • German
  • Czech
Source
EHRI Partner

Extent and Medium

3,52 linear meters

Acquisition

The fonds was separated from the fonds of the Police Headquarters in Brno and other occupation units with which it was transferred to the Moravian Provincial Archives in Brno. The documents of the police headquarters in Brno were added to the fonds, as was the binder of documents of the headquarters from June 1945, the submission protocols of the Municipal Criminal Police Jihlava and District Office of Nové Město na Moravě. It was arranged in 1974.

Scope and Content

The fonds contains documents of the Police Headquarters in Brno from the period of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, inter alia material concerning transports to the concentration camp in Auschwitz, in the year 1942–1944; searches for persons accused of crimes, for escaped Soviet and English prisoners of war, also material concerning escapes of prisoners and escapes from Labour camps – establishment of searches, searches for missing persons, searches for military prisoners 1943–1945; Lists of persons intended for transports to Auschwitz near Katowice; Persecution of Gypsies and "anti-social" elements 1942–1944.

System of Arrangement

The fonds contains Files arranged in part alphabetically and in part according to reference numbers.

Finding Aids

  • Pulec J.: Protektorátní kriminální policie – Kriminální ředitelství Brno. 1942-1945 (1946). Inventář, 1974, s. 8, ev.č. 876.

Process Info

  • This archival description was created by the Jewish Museum in Prague in the framework of the cooperation between EHRI and the Yerusha project.

Places

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