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  1. Selected records from the collections of the Mehedinţi branch of the Romanian National Archive

    Contains records from Orsova, consisting of records related to requests and changes of citizenship, firing of Jews, expropriation of Jewish properties -- including orders and lists of names.

  2. Testimony re: Hitler's death, Horstenau testifies at Nuremberg Trial

    23:37:34 (Munich 275) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, June 12, 1946. LS, US prosecutor Thomas J. Dodd asking unidentified witness whether he was present at Hitler's death. HMS, Dodd asking witness if he wasn't the man who carried Hitler's body to the bunker and set it on fire. Witness actually testifies that he carried Hitler's wife out of the bunker and saw Hitler's body wrapped in a blanket. Asked whether he actually saw Hitler, he answers no, he could only see his legs hanging out of the blanket, which was a bit too short to cover the whole body. 23:40:30 (Munich 224) War Crimes T...

  3. M.52.DAViO - Documentation from the State Archives of the Vinnytsa Region

    M.52.DAViO - Documentation from the State Archives of the Vinnytsa Region History of the Archives The State Archives of the Vinnitsa Region was established in 1920 as the Archives of the Podole Region. During its first years, the Archives was intended as a place the storage and conservation of documents from the pre-Bolshevik period. The Archives was transferred to the responsibility of the NKVD in 1938. The Archives received the name: the State Archives of the Vinnitsa Region, in 1944. Since 1960, the Archives has been under the authority of the Implementation Committee of the Vinnitsa Reg...

  4. Opening Reichsbruecke suspension bridge

    Opening of the Reichsbruecke suspension bridge in Vienna. Cardinal Innitzer, President Wilhelm Miklas, Vice Mayor (and later Nazi Vice Mayor) Fritz Lahr (far right). The construction project was an important propaganda tool for Austria's authoritarian 'Staendestaat.' Parade of workers, floats. CU, officials.

  5. Selected Records from the State Archives of Verona

    This collection contains records from the Prefettura and Questura di Verona (1938-44) regarding racial laws and their implementation in Verona; census of Italian Jews and confiscation Jewish property.

  7. Fuchs, Konrad

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Deutscher Historiker und Hochschullehrer (11. Jan. 1928 in Gebhardshain - 22. Aug. 2015 in Mainz) Fuchs studierte Geschichte, Anglistik, Vor- und Frühgeschichte und Philosophie in Mainz und Leeds, England. Er promovierte 1954 und legte das Staatsexamen für das Lehramt ab. Bis zu seiner Habilitation 1968 arbeitete er als Lehrer für Englisch und Geschichte u.a. an Gymnasien in Speyer und Mainz. Von 1971 bis 1993 war er Professor für Neuere Geschichte, Geschichtliche Landeskunde und Sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte an der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz. F...

  8. Schiffsbesichtigungskommission der Kaiserlichen Marine

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Die Aufgaben der 1903 geschaffenen Schiffsbesichtigungskommission, die am 1.4.1904 ihre Tätigkeit in Hamburg aufnahm, bestanden in der Prüfung von Handelsschiffen auf ihre Verwendbarkeit für militärische Zwecke in Krieg und Frieden. Nach Auflösung der Dienststelle am 11.1.1920 gingen ihre Aufgaben auf die Dienststelle der Admiralität über. Bestandsbeschreibung Das Schriftgut enthält Unterlagen über die deutschen Reedereien, ihre Schiffe ( u.a. Charter- und Mietverträge) und beschlagnahmte ausländische Handelsschiffe. Darüber hinaus geben überlieferte Demobilm...

  9. Новомиколаївська районна комісія по сприянню в роботі Надзвичайної державної комісії по встановленню та розслідуванню злочинів німецько-фашистських загарбників та їх спільників і заподіяних ними збитків громадянам, колгоспам, громадським організаціям і державним підприємствам, с. Новомиколаївка Новомиколаївського району Запорізької області

    • Novomykolaivska District Commission for assistance to Extraordinary State Commission on Establishment and Investigation of the Crimes committed by the German-Fascist Invaders and their Accomplices, village of Novomykolaivka
    • Ново-Николаевская районная комиссия по оказанию содействия в работе Чрезвычайной государственной комиссии по установлению и расследованию злодеяний немецко-фашистских захватчиков и их сообщников и причиненного ими ущерба гражданам, колхозам, общественным организациям, государственным предприятиям и учреждениям СССР

    File 1. Statements about atrocities and crimes committed by the German-Fascist invaders in Novo-Mykolaivka district. 1943-1944. 55 pages.

  10. Prewar Vienna; President Miklas

    Garden path in Vienna. HAS, city street with Hotel Bristol. Streetcar, crowds. (:45) The Opera House Bustling city life, traffic, people walking around. Tracking shots along busy street, shop signs, pedestrians on sidewalks. "Wiener Werk-statte" "Kartner Kino" "Jakob Rothberger" "Phillip Kornitzer" Naschmarkt. Statue. (4:52) “Phillipp Hof” building on Albertinaplatz (building destroyed on March 12, 1945). Crowds of people walking down the street. "Mercedes Benz" "Nord Deutscher Lloyd Bremen" and other advertising signs affixed to the street lamps. Closer views of pedestrians on a bustling s...

  11. Kirovohrad city administration

    • Кіровоградська міська управа
    • Kirovohradska miska uprava

    Collection contains order of the German military commandant's office No. 679 on the establishment and organization of the Kirovohrad city administration. Orders of the German civilian commandant of the city of Kirovohrad. Orders of the city government on administrative and economic issues and orders on the personnel of the city council. Minutes of meetings of the city council. Information on the number of people and unemployed dwellers of Kirovohrad as of 14.09.1941. Directory of villages of Mykolaiv, Kherson and Kirovograd regions with data on the total number of their population and the n...

  12. Фольксдойче Миттельштеле "СС Зондеркоманд РБК ХХУ" м. Одеси.

    Відомості зборів членських внесків, списки німців, плани господарств німецьких колоній, матеріали для друкування у німецьких газетах, листування з редакцією газети "Дер дойче ін трансністріі".

  13. United Jewish Craft Union in Warta, the Sieradz County Cech Zjednoczonych Rzemieślników Żydów w Warcie Powiatu Sieradzkiego (Sygn. 83)

    This collection contains 20 protocols and meeting minues of the United Jewish Craft Union in Warta, in Sieradz County in Poland.

  14. War crimes investigation and trial records from the former Lithuanian KGB Archives (Fond K)

    Contains documents from the criminal investigation files and trial records of Lithuanian citizens of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) accused of wartime crimes related to the Holocaust.

  15. Waffen SS; SS volunteers in Denmark, Sweden, Croatia, Hungary; International fascist organizations and SS volunteers

    Various film recordings. European Waffen SS major rally of the DNSAP, in Denmark. (05:18:17). Advertising poster for Dutch SS, Sven Olov Lindholm, leader of the Swedish Nazi party. 1938: Swedish Nazis in Stockholm. 1933: Lindholm in Hamburg, Hungary: an arrow cruiser (07:55:09). December 21, 1944: Goebbels receives Russian volunteers, "Eastern volunteers" Rally of the Committee for the Liberation of the Peoples of Russia. Includes Gen. Skilenkow, Gen. Wlassow, Dr. Ante Pavelic (Croatia), Bosnian SS volunteers, Muslim volunteer. September 26, 1944: German-American Bund (USA). November 2, 194...

  16. "80574"

    Consists of one typed portion of a memoir, 37 pages, entitled "80574" written by Simha Naor, born Stella Silberstein, 1899-1994, originally of Vienna, Austria. In the memoir, which was written based on the diary she began immediately after liberation, Simha describes her arrest in southern France in 1943, her deportation to Drancy and almost immediately thereafter, to Auschwitz. She describes the process of arriving at Auschwitz, the architecture of the barracks, and life with fellow prisoners. The memoir, which is incomplete, contains a preface by Tisa von der Schulenburg. The original Ger...

  17. Blueprint copies for Buchenwald

    Includes three copies of the blueprint plans for Buchenwald concentration camp. Also included is a report by the Sixth Service Command describing conditions in Buchenwald in 1944. This report contains testimony by Henry Glass, a prisoner of Buchenwald for approximately four months, from September 1938 to January 1939. The report describes the physical layout of the camp, its administration, methods of torture practiced in the camp, and the colored markings used to identify the prisoners.

  18. Paul Koerner testifies re. Goering at Nuremberg Trial

    (Munich 40) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, March 13, 1946. Paul Koerner testifies under interrogation of a defense counselor. MSs, rear views, correspondents listening at trial. LSs, rear views, Chief US Prosecutor Robert H. Jackson cross examines the witness. Discussion of events in 1934....re. Goering and Thaelmann, in German. Break at 06:05, questioning beings in English. re. Thaelmann and Reichstag Fire. Koerner replies in German. Refers to Thaelmann in Buchenwald camp and complaints to Goering about conditions or treatment in concentration camps. 06:09:01 Would you tell us...ab...

  19. Wolff, Theodor

    • Bundesarchiv, Koblenz
    • N 1207
    • German
    • 1890-1942
    • Nachlässe 36 Aufbewahrungseinheiten 1,0 laufende Meter

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Theodor Wolff, Pariser Tagebuch, München 1908 (Berlin 1927).- ders., Der Marsch durch zwei Jahrzehnte Amsterdam 1936 Gotthard Schwarz, Theodor Wolff und das Berliner Tageblatt, Tübingen 1958 Pariser Korrespondent (1894-1906) und Chefredakteur (1906-1933) des Berliner Tageblattes Bestandsbeschreibung Der Nachlass besteht in der Hauptsache aus Briefen, Tagebüchern und Manuskripten und stellt etwa ein Drittel des in der Emigration geretteten Gesamtnachlasses dar. Ein Teil des Nachlasses wurde von Wolff selbst aussortiert, weitere Unterlagen gingen in Nizza durch...

  20. Leopold Prinz document

    Consists of German identification card (Kennkarte) of Leopold Prinz, born in 1888, which was issued on February 6, 1939. The document identifies Mr. Prinz as a Jewish man living in Berlin and includes a photograph. Mr. Prinz was able to leave Germany in 1939 and emigrated with his mother to Haiti and, in 1940, to the United States.