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  1. MFS 7 Bezirksverwaltung für Staatssicherheit Gera

    • Bundesarchiv-Stasi-Unterlagen-Archiv Gera
    • MFS 7 Bezirksverwaltung für Staatssicherheit Gera
    • German
    • 1947-1949
    • 3 Vorgänge innerhalb der Klassifikationspunkte 4.4 Allgemeine Sachablage bzw. 5.2. Staatsanwaltschaften

    Ermittlungsverfahren wegen Kontrollratsdirektive 38 in Verbindung mit Befehl 201 SMAD; Strafverfahren wegen der Misshandlung von Häftlingen im Konzentrationslager Ravensbrück; Auffinden sterblicher Überreste von auf den Evakuierungsmarsch getöteten Häftlingen des Konzentrationslagers Buchenwalds.

  2. Generalzolldirektion

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Die zum Geschäftsbereich des Bundesministeriums der Finanzen gehörende Generalzolldirektion (GZD) wurde zum 1. Januar 2016 als Ergebnis einer umfassenden Strukturreform zur Neuordnung der Zollverwaltung gegründet und ist für die operative Steuerung der Zollverwaltung zuständig. Ihre Aufgaben wurden zuvor vom Bundesministerium der Finanzen, den Bundesfinanzdirektionen, vom Zollkriminalamt und vom Bildungs- und Wissenschaftszentrum der Bundesfinanzverwaltung wahrgenommen. Die GZD gliedert sich in Direktionen an den Dienstorten Bonn, Potsdam, Neustadt an der Wei...

  3. Theresa Duello collection

    Contains copies and translations of eight doctoral dissertations on eugenics and sterilization by candidates from German universities; the originals are archived at the University of Wisconsin. Includes translations into English completed by donor: Dissertations include: "Bericht über 210 weibliche Sterilisationen," by Erich Bacher, Pforzheim 1940; "Über Tubensterilität und die Erfolge ihrer operativen Behandlung," by Werner Kilthau, Mannheim 1940; "Das Erlebnis der Unfruchtbarmachung bei weiblichen Erbkranken," by Gertrud Koch, Freiburg 1937; "Bericht über 480 weitere eugenische Tubensteri...

  4. Documentation of the Schweizerisches Arbeiter-Hilfswerk, Abteilung Fluechtlingshilfe (Swiss Workers' Social-Welfare Organization, Department for Refugees Relief), regarding refugees and emigrants from Germany

    Documentation of the Schweizerisches Arbeiter-Hilfswerk, Abteilung Fluechtlingshilfe (Swiss Workers' Social-Welfare Organization, Department for Refugees Relief), regarding refugees and emigrants from Germany Reports from the regional relief organizations and the directors of camps and residences of the Schweizerisches Arbeiter-Hilfswerk, Abteilung Fluechtlingshilfe (Swiss workers' social-welfare organization, Department for refugees relief), regarding the refugees' recreational activities including detailed reports from several refugee camps and residences concerning lectures and cultural ...

  5. Russo-Finnish War; Germans advance to Russia

    Russian air raids on Finland during Russo-Finnish War 1939-1940 and subsequent advance into Finland from Norway. German troops advance to Kaunas, Lithuania from Prussia with tanks and artillery. Russian prisoners are questioned. German troops cross river in steamboat and receive flowers from civilians. German troops move to Dunaburg, Latvia; Russian prisoners, including a woman soldier, are taken in street fighting. Cavalry and artillery advance and blast Russian strong point: prisoners are taken. Dead Russian crewmen lay beside wrecked tanks and vehicles near Bialystok, Poland. German moto...

  6. Philip P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Phillip P., who was born in approximately 1922 and served in the United States Army. He recounts military draft in 1942; deployment to England in 1943; arrival on Omaha Beach on D-Day; crossing through France into Germany; the Battle of the Bulge; liberating Leipzig, and a nearby camp; emaciated prisoners; many corpses; and moving south. He notes that prior to this, he had been skeptical when hearing about concentration camps, but realizing for what he had been fighting having liberated a camp. He shows photographs.

  7. Doenitz testifies at Nuremberg Trial; Reichsbank gold

    (Munich 173) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, May 17 and 20, 1946. LS, MS, Adm. Karl Doenitz in prisoners' dock speaking to his counselor Dr. Otto Kranzbuehler. MS, Alfred Toms, Frankfurt Reichsbank employee, taking the oath. LS, US prosecutor Thomas J. Dodd questions Toms about his conversation with Emil Johann Rudolf Puhl. Pan from Hjalmar Schacht to Walther Funk to Toms testifying. Puhl is seated just right of Toms. MLS, Dr. Fritz Sauter, counselor for Funk, listening and taking notes. MS, Toms testifying about SS deposits of gold, silver, and dental gold in the Frankfurt Reichsbank.

  8. Parakowski family collection

    Photographs, documents, and correspondence from before, during and after WWII relating to the experiences of Jadwiga Wolinska (b. October 6, 1919 in Blizyn) and her husband Bronislaw Parakowski (b. October 29, 1914 in Niedrzwica Duza), both Roman Catholics who were taken to Germany as forced laborers in Leipzig, she in the HASAG factory and he in the Mansfeld machine works. Bronislaw had previously been posted in Sarny as a member of the KOP (Korpus Ochrony Pogranicza [Border Defense Corps]), captured near Tarnów, taken to Łódź and then Stalag IV-G (Oschatz) and later Wilhelmsdorf Thuringia...

  9. Kretinga district police commander, Fond R-1665/2

    Contains requests, name lists of police, records on the chief of police, and crime statistics.

  10. Baltimore Emergency Committee records

    Contains information about the Baltimore Emergency Committee post-World War II claims of former European Jews living in the Baltimore area who sought restitution from the government of West Germany and some of its courts for losses suffered during the Nazi regime and who served as court witnesses to Nazi atrocities, especially in Poland. Also included is information about war crimes, war criminals, concentration camps, survivors, expropriation of Jewish property, persecution of Jews, and Auschwitz.

  11. Collection of J. J. Weissman, regarding emigration applications of Jews, submitted to the Befehlshaber der Sicherheitspolizei in the Netherlands, 1941-1943

    Collection of J. J. Weissman, regarding emigration applications of Jews, submitted to the Befehlshaber der Sicherheitspolizei in the Netherlands, 1941-1943 Included in the collection: Curriculum Vitae (CVs) and letters sent by Weissman to the SIPO and SS commander, regarding the exchange of monies for emigration permits; documents regarding exemption from detention in a camp and deportation, until the end of the procedure for the transfer of the required sum in order to receive emigration permits; rejection announcements by the SIPO and SD commander.

  12. Selected records of the Prison in Busko Więzienie w Busku (Sygn. 695)

    Court and prison correspondence, protocols and personal files of individual Jewish prisoners. Includes personal data of prisoners, and short sentences for common crimes such as theft.

  13. Processo de pedido de visto para R. S. Cass, mulher de R. S. Cass, William Frederick Colley, Helene Colley e Louis Deckers

    Processo de pedido de visto da Embaixada Britânica ao Ministério dos Negócios Estrangeiros para R. S. Cass, de nacionalidade britânica e residente em França, com destino ao Reino Unido. Visto autorizado. Processo de pedido de visto da Embaixada Britânica ao Ministério dos Negócios Estrangeiros para mulher de R. S. Cass, de nacionalidade britânica e residente em França, com destino ao Reino Unido. Visto autorizado. Processo de pedido de visto da Embaixada Britânica ao Ministério dos Negócios Estrangeiros para William Frederick Colley, de nacionalidade britânica e residente em França, com des...

  14. Akta miasta Puław

    • Files of the town of Puławy

    Karta A: Zarząd Miejski, 1929-1932, 6 j.a. Miejska Rada Narodowa, 1944-1950[1954], 22 j.a. Zarząd Miejski, 1944-1950[1955], 161 j.a. Karta B: Rejestry mieszkańców, 1895-1930, 2 j.a.

  15. Διεύθυνση Διαφάνειας και Εξυπηρέτησης Δημοτών του Δήμου Θεσσαλονίκης- Τμήμα Δημοτολογίων

    • Division of Transparency and Civil Service of the Municipality of Thessaloniki - Civil Registry Office
    • Diefthynsi Diafaneias kai Exypiretisis Dimoton tou Dimou Thessalonikis - Tmima Dimotologion

    The archive contains 50 books with the names of girls who were born in Thessaloniki from 1896 to 1950; 144 books with the names of boys who were born in Thessaloniki from 1832 until today (the first decades have few names); and unknown number of books with the names of people who were born in Thessaloniki from 1931 to 2000. Data include name, surname, place and date of birth, the decision of the registry and the act of erasing.

  16. Bundesaufsichtsamt für Flugsicherung.- Organisationsunterlagen

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Im April 2004 wurde durch EU-Verordnungen die Schaffung eines einheitlichen Europäischen Luftraums SES („Single European Sky") in Kraft gesetzt. Ein bedeutender Bestandteil dieser Verordnungen war die funktionale Trennung der Flugsicherungsdienste und deren Aufsicht. Das Ziel von SES war die Vereinheitlichung der Flugsicherungsdienste. Auf nationaler Eben wird in der Bundesrepublik diese Aufsicht vom Bundesaufsichtsamt für Flugsicherung (BAF) wahrgenommen. Das BAF wurde per Gesetz am 4.8.2009 eingerichtet. Seine Hauptaufgabe besteht in der Kontrolle der Einha...

  17. Korff, Hans Clausen

    • Bundesarchiv, Koblenz
    • N 1550
    • German
    • 1947-1949
    • Nachlässe 7 Aufbewahrungseinheiten 0,2 laufende Meter

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Hans Clausen Korff, sen. 8.8.1905 geboren in Stranderott (heute: Stranderod, Grästen Kommune, Dänemark) 1911 Einschulung in Hamburg 1915 nach dem Tod des Vaters Übersiedlung mit der Familie (Mutter und 3 Geschwister) nach Flensburg, Besuch der Oberrealschule 1924 Abitur und Lehre bei der Reederei H. P. Vietsch 1926 Beginn des Jura-Studiums in Hamburg, später Freiburg, München, Kiel 1929 Examen in Kiel; Referendarszeit beim Amtsgericht in Kapplen, Altona, Landgericht Wandsbek und Flensburg, OLG Kiel 1933 Assessorexamen in Berlin, Assessor am Finanzamt Flensbur...

  18. DP camp in Austria

    Universal Newsreel, Vol. 19, No. 539, Part 4. Release date, 09/19/1946. According to UN Official Motion Picture Release: "Displaced Persons Camp" Upper Austria. Fifteen hundred refugees of Jewish descent live in this UNRRA sponsored camp at Admont, dreaming of the day when they can go to Palestine. They raise most of the food they eat. Men walk under sign (in Hebrew) with hoes and shovels on shoulders. LS countryside. Beautiful mountains. Young men and women in shorts hoeing. Two women outside washing clothes in tub. Four men walking together. CUs, children in pasture with women playing by ...

  20. Inventaris van het archief van mr. C.J.M. Schaepman [omvattende: 1° BZ / CHZ en HNS / AAD, 1940-1945; 2° Secretariaatsarchief College van Secretarissen-Generaal, 1940-1945; 3° Persoonlijke stukken van Schaepman; 4° Stukken Snouck]

    • Nationaal archief
    • 2.05.48.05
    • Dutch
    • 1940-1945
    • 1,3 meter; 184 inventarisnummers

    De collectie bestaat uit vier gedeelten met archief van verschillende herkomst, nl.: A. archief van mr. C.J.M. Schaepman als hoofd van de afdeling Consulaire en Handelszaken van het ministerie van Buitenlandse Zaken (1940-1942) en als Administrateur in Algemene Dienst van het ministerie van Handel Nijverheid en Scheepvaart (1942-1945); B. secretariaatsarchief van het college van Secretarissen-Generaal (1940-1945); C. persoonlijke stukken van mr. C.J.M. Schaepman, (1943-1944 en 1967); D. archiefbescheiden van jhr. mr. A.M. Snouck Hurgronje, in hoofdzaak als voorzitter van het erecomité van W...