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Language of Description: English
Country: Germany

  3. Stadt Dachau

    • Dachau
    • City of Dachau

  6. Card index of the “general documents” of the collection Incarceration and Persecution

    Card index of the “general documents”: Descriptions, among others, of the general documents of the Concentration Camp Collection. Their structure follows a multi-level classification on the overall topics Concentration Camp, SS-Construction Brigades, SS-Iron Construction Brigades, Extermination Camps, Youth Protection Camps, Police Detention Camps under the command of the security police, Slave-Labor Camps for Jews, Ghettos and a chronological index. The referenced collection contains, among others: correspondence, decrees and orders from the Reich Main Security Administration and the SS Ec...

  7. Concentration Camp Esterwegen

    The collection includes: Report by the commander’s office of Concentration Camp Esterwegen to the Inspector of the Concentration Camps in Berlin, Prinz-Albrechtstr. 8, and record of the interrogation of the post responsible for the shooting of a prisoner on protective custody who had tried to escape on 8.5.1935, Prisoner registration card created in Concentration Camp Esterwegen for Mr Charles Weise For the history of Concentration Camp Esterwegen 1933-1945 cf.:http://www.gedenkstaette-esterwegen.de/

  8. Nachlässe

  9. Pressesammlung

  11. Landgericht Braunschweig

    Zivilprozesssachen und Strafprozesssachen (1797-1973); Zivil- und Strafprozessregister; Ehescheidungsakten (1934-1945); Gerichtsverwaltungsakten (1935-1945)

  12. Collection of Ethnics and History of Medicine

    Initiated by Hans Fleischhacker in 1943, the collection mainly consists of more than 600 hand-, foot-, and finger-prints of mostly Jewish inmates of the Lódź Ghetto (Litzmannstadt Ghetto) in Poland. Strongly influenced by racial biology, it was the antropologists aim to use this collection for attesting the supposed morphological differences between the palms of Jews and non-Jews. It is the only collection of this kind, and testimony to the terrifying abuse of scientific methods under the National Socialists.

  13. Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Landesflüchtlingsverwaltungen

    • Bundesarchiv, Koblenz
    • B 373
    • German, English
    • 1953
    • 11,4 laufende Meter, 158 Aufbewahrungseinheiten

    Organisation und Geschäftsverkehr, Kassensachen, allgemeiner Schriftwechsel (1952-1990, 11), Tagungen der ArgeFlü, Durchführung und Protokolle (1952-1978, 1987-1990, 23), Ausschüsse (1951-1990, 55), Zusammenarbeit mit Behörden und Institutionen von Bund und Ländern (1952-1990, 18), Kulturarbeit, Sprachförderung, Schülerwettbewerb (1952-1990, 11); Verschiedenes (1952-1989, 11).

  15. Bequest Fritz Bauer

    Since its establishment in 1995, the Fritz Bauer Institute is eager to gather documents regarding its eponym, the Hessian Attorney General Fritz Bauer (1903-1968). According to Bauer's wishes, his inheritance was dispensed among his relatives and friends after his death. Unfortunately, because of that a large part of the literary bequest — especially Bauer's private correspondence — was lost irretrievably. Exceptions to this are the records obtained by the executor of Bauer's last will and testament. They make up the core of the current collection at the Fritz Bauer Institute. In 1996, Baue...

  16. Bequest Theo Berger

    The Fritz Bauer Institute acquired the bequest of Theo Berger from one of Berger's nieces in 2008. Theo Berger was born on January 8, 1925. His parents were Theo Berger senior and Margarete Berger. The family lived in Frankfurt (Main), initially in the district Rödelheim, then after the Second World War shortly in the district Sachsenhausen and later in the district Bornheim. Theo Berger trained to be a precision engineer at Hartmann & Braun AG. In 1942, he was conscripted into the Reich Labor Service. On March 15, 1943, he became a member of the Waffen-SS. He then stayed at the SS case...

  17. Bequest Wilhelm Boger

    The bequest Wilhelm Boger was given to the Fritz Bauer Institute by his granddaughter in 2012. Wilhelm Boger was born in Stuttgart on December 19, 1906. His father was a businessman and Boger also completed a commercial traineeship after graduating from high school. Starting in 1925, he worked for the Deutschnationaler Handlungsgehilfenverband in Stuttgart. During his school years, he became an active member of the Nazi youth (NS-Jugend), later the Hitler Youth (Hitlerjugend), and the Artamanenbund. In 1929, Boger joined the NSDAP and the SA. A year later, he changed to the SS. At the begin...

  18. Bequest Carl Bringer

    Carl Bringer was born in Dusseldorf in 1929. From 1962 to 1994, he worked as an editor for the Hessischer Rundfunk, the Hessian state radio. From 1994 to 2006, he volunteered for the psychological services of the "Fritz Bauer Haus", a detention center in Darmstadt-Eberstadt. He was friends with Fritz Bauer. Carl Bringer passed away in 2017. The bequest mostly consists of papers, linked to his friendship with Fritz Bauer and connected to Bauer's work. The bequest Carl Bringer covers after description, demetallization, and filing nine archival units with a total extent of 0.3 running meters. ...

  19. Bequest Brunner family

    The Brunner family was a German-speaking Jewish-Czech family from Saaz or Žatec, northwest of Prague. Hilde Brunner, born in Saaz on November 20, 1904, as Hildegard Lang, was a successful violinist. She was musically trained since her childhood. Later, she studied at the Deutsche Musikakademie in Prague and was instructed among others by Henri Marteau and Otakar Ševcik. She completed the academy's masterclass in 1924. During and after her education, she gave many concerts, sometimes together with her sister Margit Lang who played the piano. In 1929, Hilde married Hanno or Hans Brunner. Thei...

  20. Bequest Georg Bürger

    Georg Bürger was born in 1926 and studied law at Frankfurt University. Following his studies, he worked as an attorney and notary and had his own law firm in the east of Frankfurt (Main). He was the assigned counsel to the defendant Bruno Schlage during the "proceedings against Mulka and others (4 Ks 2/63)" ("Verfahren gegen Mulka u.a. (4 Ks 2/63)"), the First Frankfurt Auschwitz trial. At the same time, he was in close contact with Hermann Langbein, a representative of the Comité International des Camps and worked towards receiving compensation payments for forced laborers. His bequest fir...