Documentation collected in preparation for the Eichmann Trial, 1933-1962

The Office 06 investigators gathered the material from Nuremberg Trials documentation, documents from the German Foreign Ministry and other sources. Due to this fact, the collection also contains documents known from other sources. There are also original documents, such as opinions collected in anticipation of the trial regarding Eichmann's activities and protocols of testimonies recorded by the 06 investigators. The Record Group contains approximately 1,700 documents. In general, most of the material consists of copies that have been duplicated on duplicating machines with the 06 Unit Logo alongside the consecutive number of the document within the 06 material appearing at the top of each page. Most of the documentation is written in German, with a small number in other languages including Hebrew. Some of the documents were translated into Hebrew during the trial, and they, too, are part of the Record Group. The 06 investigators prepared a detailed catalogue including a description of each document, except for a few score of documents which were apparently received late in the trial.

The documents have been filed in the Yad Vashem Archive according to these numbers, so 06 Unit Document 182 appears as file Number TR. 3-182. There is no distinction between files and documents in the Record Group: at the 06 Unit, each document was filed in a separate file, so according to this filing system, every file in the Record Group is a document.