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  1. Gestapo in Serbia 1941-1944

    1. German Occupying Forces 1941-1945

    The Gestapo in Serbia: structure, members, and duties. Details about the arresting and the deportation of the Jews to the Sajmiste camp.

  2. Case files from the Gestapo in Düsseldorf

    Consists of case files individual Poles, both Christians and Jews, who were working in Germany and accused of crimes against the Third Reich in and near Düsseldorf, Germany. Includes information about arrests and imprisonment; movement of transient labor between Germany and Poland; alleged criminal acts; confiscation of Jewish property; and persecution of Poles and communists.

  6. Files in the Munich Gestapo regarding Jews

    Files in the Munich Gestapo regarding Jews Included in the Collection, among other material, is a file with lists of emigres whose citizenship was revoked, and a file with decrees.

  7. Documentation of the Stettin Gestapo, 1933-1943

    Documentation of the Stettin Gestapo from the Osoby Archive in Moscow, 1933-1943

  8. Aryanization files of the Nuernberg-Fuerth Gestapo

    • ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
    • 12435013
    • English, Hebrew
    • Financial accounts Inventory list Names of perpetrators Official documentation Record of deportees Record of murdered persons Record of persecuted persons

    Aryanization files of the Nuernberg-Fuerth Gestapo

  9. Records of the Gestapo in Łódź

    Consists of various documents created by the Gestapo in Łòdź, Poland, from 1940 to 1944. The records relate to emergency plans for air attacks, air-raid shelters, rebuild in after bomb raids, anti-Nazi literature, resistance of the Polish population, and individual criminal cases investigated by the Łódź Gestapo office. Also included are files for individuals who were deported to Auschwitz.

  10. Geheime Staatspolizei (Gestapo). Selected records, France.

    Wide range of documentation of Gestapo activities in France: deportations of Jews, implementation of anti-Jewish legislation (e.g., wearing the star of David, confiscation of property), propaganda, internment camps, relations between German and French police and military authorities, relations with Italian authorities, resistance and repression, and the like.

  11. The work and origin of the Gestapo

    1. Research files: research conducted by the JCIO and the Wiener Library

    The files contain information on the work and origin of the Gestapo. The Gestapo was established in 1933. Members of the Gestapo had to be of a certain age, be part of the NSDAP and have acquired certain skills and distinctions. Through the years the Gestapo gained more and more power through measures like protective custody. According to the documents its purpose was to investigate, monitor and fight all efforts and acts that were considered dangerous for national safety and the unity of the people. The Gestapo enforced the many anti-Semitic decrees. Furthermore, not reporting an illegal l...

  12. List of Gestapo and SS war criminals

    This is a typescript list of Nazi war criminals, with brief details of the nature of their crimes arranged, in sections according to the place of crime eg Lithuania, Latvia or Belsen, Auschwitz.

  14. List of Gestapo and SS war criminals

    This list of leading Nazi war criminals with brief details of their crimes and fate, is the result of research conducted by the Zentrale Stelle der Landesjustizverwaltungen

  15. Gestapo Sonderkommando, Lehrter Strasse Prison: Admissions book

    Readers need to reserve a reading room terminal to access a digital version of this archive.This microfilmed copy document was produced when the original was still at the Royal United Service Institution, London. It is now at the Imperial War Museum.A note which precedes the list, dated 19 July 1945, from the director of the Lehrterstrasse prison, after it was taken over by the British Military authorities, states that he found the list and that it contains the names of those allegedly involved in the 20 July 1944 plot to assassinate Hitler. He also states that those who were transported to...

  16. Barbie Trial -- Day 5 -- Discussion of Gestapo hierarchy in France

    14:55 Barbie's lawyer, Vergès, argues that the court has overridden France's judicial traditions in the trial so far, and that using force to make him appear in court would reduce the trial to a lynching 15:00 President Cerdini calls for a recess to deliberate 15:34 President Cerdini reads a decision noting the refusal of Klaus Barbie to appear in court and indicating that this will be ignored in the proceedings; reads a motion receiving the testimony of plaintiff Vogel, née Eissner 15:38 Prosecution lawyer Rappaport gives information concerning the recent desecration of a monument erected ...

  18. Documentation from the Gestapo Staatspolizeistelle Saarbruecken, 1937-1944

    Documentation from the Gestapo Staatspolizeistelle Saarbruecken, 1937-1944 In the documentation that was copied for Yad Vashem, there are files that deal with supervision over the clergy; training of candidates for the position of supervisor; examination [inspection] of members of the Foreign Legion in Metz, on suspicion of spying; foreign workers; people who are in need of special police protection; The documentation was copied for Yad Vashem in 2012.

  19. Documentation from the Staatspolizeileitstelle (Gestapo Headquarters) in Stuttgart

    Documentation from the Staatspolizeileitstelle (Gestapo Headquarters) in Stuttgart

  20. Biskupi i kapłani Lubelszczyzny w szponach Gestapo 1939-1945

    1. Anti-Nazi resistance and opposition

    The Polish publication “Bishops and priest of the Lublin region in the clutches of the Gestapo” provides information on the abuse, torture and murder Catholic clergy had to endure at the hands of the Nazsi during its occupation of the Lublin region of Poland during World War II. It includes a list of victims.