SS Troops and units; Pension payments to German military personnel, SS soldiers, and volunteers for Foreign Legions Waffen-SS, Fürsorge- und Versorgungsstellen, Militärangehörige, Fremdenlegion der SS (Fond 1372)
Extent and Medium
7 microfilm reels (partial), 16 mm
4,892 digital images, JPEG
Archival History
Rossiĭskiĭ gosudarstvennyĭ voennyĭ arkhiv
Acquisition
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 Russian State Military Archive (Rossiĭskiĭ gosudarstvennyĭ voennyĭ arkhiv), Osobyi Archive, Fond 1372. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the filmed collection via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum International Archival Programs Division in 2004.
Scope and Content
Documentary materials of the SS troops and units and materials on pension payments to the German military personnel, SS soldiers, and volunteers for foreign legions. Includes correspondence, statistics, publications, circular letters, Himmler orders, procedure for the registration of marriages and divorces of SS men, the rules for wearing badges of the NSDAP, correspondence with financial department regarding payments of salaries to the volunteers of the SS troops, informational bulletins, lists of the SS employees, lists of Latvians serving in SS battalions, photographs, correspondence with the branches of the Deutsche Bank in Friedrichshafen, and others, the Dresdner Bank in Stuttgart, etc. about receiving money for the issue of pensions to retired Germans who lived in Switzerland. Note: USHMM Archives holds only selected records.
System of Arrangement
Fond 1372 (1919-1945). Opis 1-6; Dela 22,873. Arranged in six series: 1. Pension and other matters of German conscripts and volunteers of the Foreign Legion of the Waffen-SS (1938-1945), organized alphabetical order [Opis 1-2]; 2. Documents of the SS administration and the pension insurance of the German military, the Members of the SS troops and volunteers of the foreign SS troops and their families (1919-1945) [Opis 3]; 3. Pension matters of German conscripts and volunteers of the Foreign Legion of the Waffen-SS (1892-1945), organized in alphabetical order [Opis 4]; 4. Documents of the SS administration (1932-1945) [Opis 5], formerly Fond 1366; 5. Documents of the SS administration and materials for pensions of German conscripts, members of the Waffen-SS and volunteers of foreign legions of the Waffen-SS and their families (1907-1947) [Opis 6]. Note: Location of digital images; Partial microfilm reels #419-425; Reel 419: Image #1172-Reel end; Reel 420: Reel start-Reel end; Reel 421: Reel start-Reel end; Reel 425: Reel start-Image #278.
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Copyright Holder: Rossiĭskiĭ gosudarstvennyĭ voennyĭ arkhiv
People
- Himmler, Heinrich, 1900-1945.
Corporate Bodies
- SS (Organization)
Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945--Germany--History.
- Germany--Armed Forces--20th century.
- Banks and banking--Germany--History--20th century.
- Germany--Politics and government--1918-1945.
- Germany--History, Military--20th century.
- National socialism--Germany--History--20th century.
- Military Personnel--Germany--History.
Genre
- Photographs.
- Bulletins.
- Document
- Registers.
- Statistics.
- Correspondence.
- Orders.