Gau Wien of the National Socialist Party (NSDAP, Vienna): Applications to the NSDAP with requests for amnesty from legislation and regulations relating to Jews, 1939-1941 The file includes personal applications to the NSDAP, in particular to Buerkl in his position as Gauleiter, to receive amnesty (Gnadengesuche) from legislation and regulations relating to Jews; some of the applications request exemptions, including being identified as a Jew, due to reasons related to the applicant's origins; transfer of these requests to the Kanzlei des Fuehrers (Office of the Fuehrer); other applications request amnesty from specific regulations related to Jews, such as evacuation from an apartment or deportation to the East, due to special reasons related to the applicant (age, health and economic situation, service in the Austrian Army, and so forth); most of the applications include personal documents that confirm military service or the applicants' situation; correspondence by the NSDAP relating to these applications is included; some of the applications were replied to in the positive; The file includes correspondence by the NSDAP with various organizations, in particular, the Entschaedigungsttele fuer die. Angestellten der Organisationen der gewerbllichen Wirtschaft in der Ostmark (Office for the Compensation of Employees of the Economic-Commercial-Industrial Organizations in Austria), regarding payment of compensation to the Austrian Association of Industrialists personnel who were dismissed from their work due to being Jewish or being considered politically unreliable.