Records of the Landgericht Posen (Sygn.75)

Identifier
irn504379
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1994.A.0118
  • RG-15.009M
Dates
1 Jan 1938 - 31 Dec 1945
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • German
  • Polish
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn504379

Extent and Medium

6 microfilm reels, 35 mm

Creator(s)

  • Germany. Sondergerich.
  • Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei

Archival History

Instytut Pamięci Narodowej-Komisja Ścigania Zbrodni przeciwko Narodowi Polskiemu

Acquisition

Source of acquisition is the Instytut Pamięci Narodowej-Komisja Ścigania Zbrodni przeciwko Narodowi Polskiemu (Main Commission for the Investigation of Crimes Against the Polish Nation), Sygn.75. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum recieved the collection in 1994.

Scope and Content

Contains instructions, guidelines, and special rules to be enforced in Warthegau; indictments drawn up by the prosecutor's Sondergericht in Posen; verdicts issued by the Sondergericht in Posen; indictments issued by the Sondergericht Posen; an alphabetical index of accused persons from the Songdergericht Posen for 1941 through 1942 and 1943 through 1944; and miscellaneous cases concerning protective custody and dissolution of marriage, In all cases in this collection, Germans or Volksdeutsche accuse Poles of crimes against them. In some cases defendants are accused of not wanting to give up their houses and property to Germans.

System of Arrangement

This collection is arranged chronologically. Records are arranged in the original order of their acquisition from the source archive. The museum has acquired only selected records from Institute of National Remembrance (Instytut Pamięci Narodowej-Komisja Ścigania Zbrodni przeciwko Narodowi Polskiemu, or IPN). More information about this collection and other materials in the possession of the Institute of National Remembrance, including archival finding aids from the Archives of the Institute of National Remembrance, is available at the website: https://ipn.gov.pl

Conditions Governing Reproduction

Copyright Holder: Instytut Pamięci Narodowej-Komisja Ścigania Zbrodni przeciwko Narodowi Polskiemu

Corporate Bodies

  • Germany. Sondergericht

Subjects

  • Poznań (Poland)--Occupation, 1939-1945.
  • Polish property--Poland--Poznań.
  • Polish people--Crimes against--Poland--Poznań--Registers.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Poland--Poznań.
  • Polish people--Legal status, laws, etc.--Poland.
  • Poland (Territory under German occupation, 1939-1945)
  • Wartheland (Reichsgau)
  • Police administration--Poland--History--German occupation, 1939-1944.

Genre

  • Document
  • Registers.
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.

Copies

  • Archiwum Instytutu Pamięci Narodowej

    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum holds copies of Holocaust-relevant archives from Instytut Pamięci Narodowej-Komisja Ścigania Zbrodni przeciwko Narodowi Polskiemu