Justice Ministry : State Public Prosecutor's Office at the Superior State Court Vienna-General files Justizministerium : Staatsanwaltschaft beim Oberlandesgericht Wien-Generalakten

Identifier
irn46418
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2012.39
  • RG-17.039M
Dates
1 Jan 1939 - 31 Dec 1945
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • German
Source
EHRI Partner

Extent and Medium

41,554 digital images, JPEG

42 microfilm reels (partially digitized), 35 mm

Creator(s)

Archival History

Österreichisches Staatsarchiv

Acquisition

Source of acquisition is the Österreichisches Staatsarchiv (Austrian State Archives), a sub-collection of a larger group of records of the Ministry of Justice (Signatur: AT-OeStA/AVA Justiz). The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the filmed collection via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum International Archives Project in April 2012, and accretion in Nov. 2018.

Scope and Content

Contains miscellaneous documents relating to regulations and administrative and legal matters addressed by the Justice Ministry in Vienna on a variety of issues, such as: punishment of sexual relations between Jews and non-Jews living in the Protectorate; convictions of females by the state court of Vienna for forbidden contact with prisoners of war; treatment of foreign laborers; confiscation of assets ("Vermögensbeschlagnahme"), control of incoming and outgoing assets ("Devisenfahndungsamt") in Nazi Germany and the Ostmark as well as the Nazi occupied territories; secret investigations ("Bedeutsame Aufdeckungsfälle") of Jews accused of smuggling assets and goods, as well as reports about the handling of unclaimed and left behind Jewish assets; the Emsland camps and members of the clergy; prison labor; culture and public welfare, including public health measures ("Volksgesundheit").

Conditions Governing Reproduction

Copyright Holder: Österreichisches Staatsarchiv

Corporate Bodies

Subjects

Genre

This description is derived directly from structured data provided to EHRI by a partner institution. This collection holding institution considers this description as an accurate reflection of the archival holdings to which it refers at the moment of data transfer.