Selected records from the war trial cases of the Nazi collaborators tried in the Kazakh SSR
Extent and Medium
1,500 pages of photocopies,
23 microfiche,
Archival History
Archives of the National Security Committee of the Republic of Kazakhstan
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 Archives of the National Security Committee of the Republic of Kazakhstan (former KGB Archives). The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the filmed collection via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum International Archives Project in Mar. 2004.
Scope and Content
Contains material from trials conducted in the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic (SSR) from 1943 to 1950. The material includes documents from pretrial investigations by the "SMERSH" ("Death to Spies"-Soviet military counter-intelligence units)) and Kazakh NKVD (MGB and KGB), as well as protocols of interrogations, indictments, verdicts and sentences. For each trial, the principal defendant, the geographic area where the defendant committed his/her crimes, the rank/occupation, and the year of trial are listed.
System of Arrangement
Organized in the following order by defendant name : RG-74.001001-RG-74.00149 Arrangement is thematic
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Copyright Holder: Archives of the National Security Committee of the Republic of Kazakhstan
Corporate Bodies
- Soviet Union. Military counter-intelligence (SMERSh)
- Soviet Union. People’s Commissariat for Internal Affairs (NKVD)
Subjects
- War crime trials--Kazakhstan--Sources.
- World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons.
- Kazakhstan--History.
- War crime trials--Soviet Union--Sources.
Genre
- Document