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  1. Doctor and Gestapo prisoner testifies at Nuremberg Trial

    (Paris 489) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, January 11, 1946. Thomas J. Dodd, US prosecution, introducing witness Dr. Franz Blaha. Dodd reads Dr. Blaha's signed affidavit telling of his career as head of a hospital in Czechoslovakia and his experiences as a Gestapo prisoner. The affidavit reveals that the Germans used healthy prisoners for various medical experiments. If the prisoners did not die in the experiments they were later killed. Additional trial footage missing from NARA original documentation: (Lieutenant Breshnen?) Prosecutor (from behind) reads an affidavit of someone de...

  2. Case files from the Gestapo in Zichenau, Poland (Sygn. 186)

    Case files kept on individuals by the Gestapo in Zichenau (Ciechanów), Poland. The case files contain information about individuals in the Zichenau area suspected of crimes such as acts of resistance, smuggling, and illegal border crossings. In some cases, the persons accused were sent to concentration camps. Also contains files concerning Polish priests involved in underground movements, attacks by partisan groups, and investigations of illegal border crossings.

  3. תיקים אישיים,בעיקר של יהודים, של Gestapo Staatspolizeileitstelle Duesseldorf

    Structure of the Gestapo Staatspolizeirektion Duesseldorf: Division II (Domestic Police) is subdivided into subdivisions, of which the Department of Culture (II B), Division II C (Reaction and Opposition), II H (Party Affairs) and II E, the Department of Economics, are mentioned. Head of the Cultural Department (II B) was from 1935 to 1943/44 police superintendent Wilhelm Friedrich. The cultural department was again subdivided into the department for the Catholic Church (II B 1), the department for the Protestant Church and sects (II B 2), the department for emigrants (II B 3) and the depar...

  4. Gestapo Düsseldorf Geheime Staatspolizei-Staatspolizeileitstelle Düsseldorf (RW 0058)

    Case files of individuals arrested by the Gestapo in the Rhine Land region, consisting of questionnaires, protocols, internments and dismissals, Schutzhaft orders, arrest orders, flyers, photographs, and biographical information with particular focus on the Communist Party in Germany and associated political organizations (Kommunistische Partei Deutschlands (KPD), Kommunistischer Jugendverband Deutschlands (KJVD), Kampfbund gegen den Faschismus, Roter Frontkämpferbund (RFB), Revolutionäre Gewerkschaftsopposition (RGO), Rot Sport, Aufbruch-Arbeitskreis, Ringbolschewisten); the Communist move...

  5. March of Time -- outtakes -- Former Gestapo torture site in Paris

    Scenes of a "Gestapo torture chamber" in Paris. A contingent inspects the torture chamber; a line of relatives of torture victims waits outside. More interior shots, including a room where victims were burned. Handprints are visible on the walls, and a man points them out to the camera and places his hands in some of the impressions by way of illustration. In another room, a group of men inspects wooden posts to which people were presumably tied and executed. The tops of the posts are riddled with what may be bullet holes. A string of rosary beads and a blindfold have been placed on one of ...

  6. Gestapo and murder of Jews discussed at Nuremberg Trial

    (Paris 458) US Prosecutor Col. Robert G. Storey tells of the Gestapo's part in Germany's attack on Poland ("attack" on the Gleiwitz radio station) and how the Gestapo and SD murdered thousands of Jews in occupied countries. CU, chart indicating the number of Jews murdered in the Baltic States and parts of Russia and Poland. Side view of Tribunal as Chief Justice Geoffrey Lawrence announces adjournment of court. LS, Tribunal, spectators, and others standing up and leaving courtroom.

  7. Evidence against Kaltenbrunner and Gestapo at Nuremberg Trial

    (Paris 474) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, January 2, 1946. LSs, EXT, judges enter courtroom, spectators stand, are seated. Trial resumes. LS, MSs, Robert G. Storey in his opening remarks since the adjournment on December 20 continues presenting evidence on the policies of Ernst Kaltenbrunner and the Gestapo. MSs, defense counselor for Kaltenbrunner addresses the Tribunal. Chief Justice Sir Geoffrey Lawrence informs the attorney that he will have ample opportunity to question any evidence presented in relation to his client.

  8. [The air raids on the Gestapo Headquater in Aarhus 1944]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    A pamphlet of the R.A.F. about the bombing of the Gestapo Headquaters in the university of Aarhus on 31.10.44. A illegal map of the University. A illegal paper coering the dead and wounded of the bombardement.

  9. Gestapo preparation of conquest of Austria and C.S.R.

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

    The file contains quotes from books published in Great Britain and one quote from the Manchester Guardian. The topic is the infiltration of Austrian society and police by Nazi agents and agents provocateurs prior to the "Anschluss". Similar techniques were used during the occupation of Czechoslovakia. The file lists the name of the book or newspaper, author and publisher.

  10. Copy Gestapo order re the confiscation of Agathe Barthel's property

    Copy order re the confiscation of all Agathe Barthel's property in accordance with laws ordaining the removal of the property of communists and enemies of the state.German 

  13. Управление государственной тайной полиции (Гестапо) (г. Штеттин)

    • Geheime Staatspolizeistelle (Gestapo) (Stettin); Office of the Secret State Police (Gestapo) (Stettin)
    • Upravlenie gosudarstvennoi tainoi politsii (Gestapo) (g. Shtettin)

    The collection's contents are described in three inventories. Inventories no. 1 and 2 are systematized by structure; they catalogue documentary materials of the first section (organizational issues), the second section (domestic political surveillance), and the third section (intelligence and counterintelligence). The files catalogued in inventory no. 3 are systematized thematically: Stettin Gestapo circulars and internal documents; surveillance of the Communist Party of Germany and of anti-fascists; surveillance of persons suspected of espionage, and of companies, the mail, and the press; ...

  14. Gestapo in Norway presented and SS interpreter testifes at Nuremberg Trial; Francisco Boix testifies

    (Paris 531) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, January 28, 1946. LS, MCU, Hans Cappenlen, Norwegian, testifying in English about the Gestapo in his country. Cappenlen testifies about his arrest and interrogation methods. Unidentified witness testifies in German. LS, MS, Francisco Boix, under questioning from defense attorney Dr. Babel, testifies in French about the symbols the prisoners wore in the camp and his duties as a camp photographer. Boix is then questioned by General Rudenko.

  15. Excerpts from Gestapo documents from Bialystok regarding the Bialystok Ghetto, 21 January-10 March 1943

    1. M.11 - The Mersik-Tenenbaum Archive: Documentation regarding the Bialystok Ghetto underground

    Excerpts from Gestapo documents from Bialystok regarding the Bialystok Ghetto, 21 January-10 March 1943 Orders related to decreasing the ghetto boundaries; continuation of forced labor in the ghetto factories; halting work for Jews outside the ghetto; replacing Jewish laborers with Belorussian laborers.

  16. Letters from the Gestapo to the German Consulate regarding the extension of passports

    1. R.3 - Documentation of the Nazi Party (National Socialist Party - NSDAP) in Eretz Israel, 1928-1939

    Letters from the Gestapo to the German Consulate regarding the extension of passports

  19. "Der Stuermer", Gestapo prisoner testifies, & forced labor discussed at Nuremberg Trial

    07:00:40 (Paris 489) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, January 11, 1946. Inserts, hands turning pages of "Der Stuermer." LS of courtroom as Chief Justice Geoffrey Lawrence adjourns court. LS, MSs, defendants talking to their lawyers during recess. MLS, Dr. Franz Blaha appearing as a witness. Dr. Blaha was arrested when Germany invaded Czechoslovakia in March 1939, held in a Gestapo prison without trial for two years, and sent to Dachau in April 1941. He tells how the Germans forced Russian children to work as slave laborers, and that nearly 60 percent of them died of tuberculosis withi...

  20. Gestapo office Würzburg (State Archive Würzburg, Germany) Gestapostelle Würzburg (Staatsarchiv Würzburg)

    Contains 24,780 arrest files, including photos of suspects (mug shots), private photos (for the most part ID photos), and a Gestapo photo album. 3,071 of the arrest files refer to Jews. The majority of the collection consist of the personal files; organized alphabetically by the name of the respective suspects (family name; first name; birth date; birth place; profession). The letters A to G; and V are missing. The cards give a short content description of the respective file. There is only a small percentage of thematic or administrative files; concerning the pogrom 1938, the deportation o...