Collection of documents of SS and German Police Zbiór zespołów szczątkowych jednostek SS i Policji (Sygn. GK 91)

This collection contains a variety of documents of the German police and SS offices from the western territories of Poland, incorporated into the Third Reich following 1939, including: BdO and Kriminalpolizeileitstelle Danzig (Gdańsk), Der Polizeidirektor in Thorn (Toruń), KdS und des SD in Bromberg (Bydgoszcz), Der Höhere SS-und-Polizeiführer Posen (Poznań), SS-Oberabschnitt Warthe (Warta), Polizei-Revier Posen (Poznań), Gendarmerieposten from Lobau/Luboń near Poznań, Gendarmerie Posten Wollstein, Krmiminalpolizeileitstelle Litzmannstadt (Łódź) and others. There are also lists of gendarmes; matters related to the Germanization of the Polish population; legal regulations for criminal procedures applied to Poles, Russians and Jews; information about German prisons, ordinances, budgets, and investigative files. Also contains situational reports within the Białystok District, personal files of gendarmes, name lists of prisoners, creation and liquidation of camps, lists of members of the Ukrainian Selbstschutzlegion Battalion 31, extermination of Jews.

Selected records arranged in one series: 1. Reports, correspondence and statistics of German Police, its activities during WWII in Poland. 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