Reichs Prosecutor´s Office of Litoměřice

Identifier
COLLECTION.SURV.SOA_Litomerice/740
Language of Description
English
Dates
1 Jan 1932 - 31 Dec 1945
Level of Description
Fonds
Languages
  • German
Source
EHRI Partner

Extent and Medium

17,84 linear meters

Acquisition

The fonds was arranged in 1960 and an inventory was created for it. Professional internal appraisal was performed on the fonds in 1965, apart from the files of the special court, which were left in their original condition. An index was created in 1963 for the personal files of higher-ranking employees.

Scope and Content

The fonds contains files of the judicial agenda from the district of the Land Court Litoměřice. General and collective files are preserved in the fonds, as well as staff files. Proper files of the criminal agenda capture cases relating to political offences, serious social cases, murders, suicides, robberies, moral and property offences, major road and rail accidents, unauthorised contact with prisoners etc. Index Js holds records of political offences which were forwarded to the People’s Court of Justice in Berlin (high treason, treason, sabotage). Records of additional investigation of injury and killing during Nazi events in 1938–1939 are also kept here as are files of the Sondergericht (special court). Individual cases relating to the Jewish population can be traced with the aid of registers and indices.

System of Arrangement

The fonds is structured into several groups: I. General files, II. Collective files, III. Personal files of employees, IV. Proper criminal agenda according to individual references, V. Files of the Special court, VI. Additional lists of all preserved files from 1945.

Finding Aids

  • Janoušek P.: Německé státní zastupitelství Litoměřice, 1938 – 1945. Inventář, 1965, 30 s., ev. č. 198; Kolektiv autorů: Osobní spisy vyšších zaměstnanců u německých státních zastupitelství v oblasti tzv. Župy sudetské, 1938-1945 - Jmenný rejstřík. Rejstřík, 1963, 46 s., ev. č. 183.

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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