Records of the Central Office of the Judicial Authorities of the Federal States for the Investigation of National Socialist Crimes (B 162)

The Central Office of the State Justice Administrations for the Investigation of National Socialist Crimes is Germany’s main agency responsible for investigating Nazi war crimes since 1958. The mandate for the Central Office was and remains to collect and examine all relevant records on criminal acts of the Nazi regime. The facts ascertained are then handed over to the public prosecutor who institutes the formal preliminary and criminal proceeding. The public prosecutors are also obliged to forward all findings they obtain to the Central Office and to notify legal measures and decisions pronounced during the proceedings. Since its formation, the Central Office has helped track down and prosecute almost 7,000 Nazi criminals and collaborated with the agencies of other nations to track down war criminals. In 2000, the Federal Archives established a branch office located at the residence of the Central Office of the Judicial Authorities of the Federal States for the Investigation of National Socialist Crimes in Ludwigsburg. The task of this branch is to preserve those records which are no longer required by the Central Office and make them accessible to researchers.

Bundesarchiv (Germany). Außenstelle Ludwigsburg

Forms part of the Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. This archive consists of documentation whose reproduction and/or acquisition was made possible with funding from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.

Forms part of the Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. This archive consists of documentation whose reproduction and/or acquisition was made possible with funding from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.

Source of acquisition is the Bundesarchiv-Außenstelle Ludwigsburg, Germany; Signatura B 162. Records created by the Central Office for the Investigation of National Socialist Crimes.The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the collection via the United States Holocaust Museum International Archives Project in July. 2011, and additional accretions in 2011, 2012, 2014, 2015, and 2021. This is ongoing project. The Musuem Archives expects to recive the detailed registry card index contained Ca. 1.7 million entries in later time.