Etat-Major Allemand en France: Otages et Exécutions
Extent and Medium
5 microfilm reels, 35 mm
Archival History
Mémorial de la Shoah, Centre de Documentation Juive Contemporaine
Acquisition
From the Memorial to the Shoah, Jewish Contemporary Documentation Center (Centre de Documentation Juive Contemporaine), cartons XLIII–XLVa, which acquired this material after 1944.
Scope and Content
The collection documents the development and application of hostage and reprisal policies in occupied France under the military authorities and later the SS. Contains detailed prisoner and hostage lists from places such as Melun, Amiens, Laon, and Rouen, as well as reports and correspondence about prison conditions and shootings. Title of collection used is that applied by the source repository, to denote selected records they obtained after the war, which had originated from various military and SS offices in occupied France.
System of Arrangement
Collection is arranged by numeric filing system used by source repository.
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Copyright Holder: Mémorial de la Shoah, Centre de Documentation Juive Contemporaine
Corporate Bodies
- France. Army
Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945--Hostages--France.
- World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--France.
- France--History--German occupation, 1940-1945.
Genre
- Document
Copies
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum holds copies of Holocaust-relevant archives from Mémorial de la Shoah, Centre de Documentation Juive Contemporaine