Collection of Hanns Albin Rauter, the Höhere SS und Polizeiführer, Generalkommissar für das Sicherheitswesen in the Netherlands, 1940-1945 Hanns Albin Rauter was the head of the security system in the Netherlands, the Generalkommissar für das Sicherheitswesen en Höhere SS und Polizeiführer, the HSSPF during 1940-1945; operating beneath him were the SS, the Befehlshaber der Sicherheitspolizei, the SD and the Dutch Police; despite his subordination to Seyss-Inquart, he had direct contact with Reichsführer SS Heinrich Himmler, in a relatively independent status; Rauter was also the supervisor over the legal system of the Police, the SS und Polizeigericht X, during 1941-1944; Included in the collection: Correspondence between Hanns Alvin Rauter and various organizations in the Netherlands and Berlin regarding various subjects, 1941-1944: The February Strike, personal and internal-organizational matters of the SS, the Allied invasion of France, concentration camps, Dutch collaborators, forced labor of Dutchmen in Germany, and disagreements between Mussert and Rauter; Statistical reports regarding the growth of the population; Correspondence by Rauter with people and institutions in The Hague, regarding the Dutch underground, the registration of residents, executions of women, and the matter of the Aryan race and marriages of Germans and Dutch women, 1941-1944; Protocols of 27-29 meetings, regarding the Aryanization of various branches of industry and commerce in the Netherlands, 1942-1943; Lists with names of businesses in the Netherlands that are designated for Aryanization or liquidation, 1941; Documents related to the Distribution-Stammkarten (ration) cards in the Netherlands, 1944; Approval of Hanns Albin Rauter, regarding the enlargement of the monthly budget of the Leitstelle Niederlande der Germanischen Freiwilligern (Dutch Volunteers head office) in the Netherlands, 1943; Confirmations issued by Rauter, from the Abteilung IV A head office in The Hague, 1943-1945; Sentences given by SS und Polizeigericht X field courts, against Dutch SS men in The Hague, 1943-1945; Correspondence by Rauter with the Germanische (freiwilligen) Leitstelle, regarding the Avegoor school for Dutch SS trainees in Ellecom, and regarding propaganda, 1942-1944; Correspondence of the Ahnenerbe (Ancestral Heritage) office in The Hague, from the Archive of Hanns Albin Rauter in the Netherlands, 1943.