General State Prosecutors Office of the State Court of Berlin records (Fond A Rep. 358)

Identifier
irn517822
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2005.507
  • RG-14.070M
Dates
1 Jan 1933 - 31 Dec 1946
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • German
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn517822

Extent and Medium

1,564 microfilm reels, 16 mm

4,450 microfilm reels, 35 mm

Creator(s)

  • Martin Luchterhandt

Archival History

Landesarchiv Berlin

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 Landesarchiv Berlin, Record Group A Rep. 358. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's International Archival Programs Division acquired selected records from the Landesarchiv Berlin in 2005. The Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received several shipments of the collection: August 2005, March 2006, November 2008, December 2015, and Aug. 2018. The duplication project is complete.

Scope and Content

Contains the trial records of over 150,000 criminal cases processed in the vicinity of Berlin during the Nazi era. It includes many “routine” types of ordinary crime, as well as cases where the crime involves being Jewish, homosexual, or “asocial.”

Subjects

  • Jews--Germany--History--1933-1945.
  • War criminals--Germany.
  • Jews--Legal status, laws, etc.--Germany.
  • Victims of crimes--Germany.
  • Romanies--Legal status, laws, etc.--Germany.
  • War crimes trials--Germany.
  • War victims--Germany.
  • Gays--Legal status, laws, etc.--Germany.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Germany.

Genre

  • Document
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

  • Landesarchiv Berlin

    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum holds copies of Holocaust-relevant archives from Landesarchiv Berlin