Немецко-фашистские административные и судебные органы на временно оккупированных территориях

The collection's contents entered the RGVA among materials brought by the Soviet Army from the territory of Germany, Czechoslovakia, and Poland in 1945-46, and from the First Special Department of the USSR Ministry of Internal Affairs in 1953. The collection is described in one inventory, arranged structurally. The collection includes a broad range of documentary materials of German administrative and judicial agencies in the occupied territories of the Soviet Union, as well as edicts and orders of the occupation authorities on the structure of administrative services and degrees of jurisdiction, on economic and food issues, on the use of manpower, on establishing local institutions, on operating railroads, and on setting price controls. It also includes minutes of court sessions and investigative files. The collection contains edicts of the Reichskommissariat Ukraine, the Generalkommissariats in Dnepropetrovsk, Rovno, Kiev, Nikolaev, Zhitomir, and Volhynia-Podolia, and of the German Governor-General of Galicia for 1942-44; as well as circulars and edicts of the German district commissariat in Grodno, the Reichskommissariat (Ostland) for the Baltic region, and the office of the General Government on occupied territories of Poland. Among the documentation preserved in the collection is a circular letter from the Governor-General of the eastern territories (Krakow) to district and regional officials on evacuating Poles and Jews from the eastern territories of Germany and housing them in the lands of the General Government, and reports on executions of Jews in Grodno. The materials also deal with economic and administrative issues, and include dispatches by the administration of Minsk Mazowiecki (Poland) on foreigners living in the city, and correspondence on their status. There is also a circular from the Warsaw district head closing Jewish photography studios in the city. Also noteworthy are a list of Jewish foreigners registered in the city of Reisdorf. The collection also contains edicts, directives, and announcements by the head of General Government on the Jewish problem, including on receiving, daily, two trainloads of Jews being resettled from Germany to occupied Poland, and on procedures for this resettlement, on establishing the office of Commissar of the Jewish ghetto in Warsaw, and on creating a Jewish ghetto in Lvov and special isolation zones for Jews in a number of regions of Poland and Galicia (in Lvov, Bobrka, Novyi Yarichev, Grudek, Rudki, Yavorov, Zlochev, Peremyshlany, Brody, Rava Russkaya, Lyubachev, Busk, Sokal', Brzeany [a ghetto], Bukachevtsy, Podhajce, Rohatyn, Tarnopol [a ghetto], Skalat, Trembovla, Zborov, Zbarazh, Chertkov, Buchach, Borshchev, Kopyczynce, Tluste, Stanislav, Stry, Drogobych, Borislav, and Sambor).