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  1. 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...

  2. Hans Litten: Correspondence

    This microfilm collection of correspondence of Irmgard Litten contains copy letters to her son whilst in concentration camps Lichtenburg and Dachau; copy correspondence to various authorities including Hitler, Hess and Göring asking for clemency; and some original letters from Hans Litten and various authorities. Most of it is typescript.

  3. Dr Bela Berend: Trial Judgement and other papers

    Readers need to reserve a terminal in the reading room to access the digital version of this archiveThis collection contains the personal papers of Dr A.B. Belton, formerly Bela Berend, Rabbi of the Budapest Ghetto, 1944. The papers document, in part, his activities in Hungary during the war; his trial by the Hungarian authorities for war crimes; his involvement with post war libel cases relating to his role as leader of the Jewish Council in Budapest, 1944; his relationship with prominent figures in the United States; his views about Israel and politics in the Middle East.According to a no...

  4. Cohn/ Baer family papers

    The material consists mostly of birth and death certificates, permits and travel documents. Included are papers which document the increasingly oppressive measures taken by the Nazis against the Jews. At 628/9 is Martha Cohn's identity card with the conspicuous “J” on the cover denoting Jew and which bears the additional information that she was ‘evacuated' from Berlin on 16 December 1942. At 628/10 is the order from the Amtsgericht, Berlin, that she must adopt the forename ‘Sara' to identify her as a Jew, dated 11 Jan 1939. At 628/11 is an order stamped by the Gestapo that she must leave G...

  5. 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.

  6. 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

  7. Fate of Jews, Vienna: Confidential

    Confidential notice from the Gestapo, Darmstadt, to various officials in the state of Hesse, regarding measures taken against the Jewish population of Vienna, by the police authorities there. 

  10. Gestapo HQ Berlin: copy order re dissolution of B'nai Brith, Berlin

    Copy order from the Gestapo Headquarters, Berlin, to the chair of the B'nai Brith, Berlin, stating that B'nai Brith will be dissolved forthwith and that all the organisation's property will be confiscated (19 Apr 1937) copy nd

  15. Kurt Sabatsky: reports on leading Nazis and incidents of Jewish persecution

    This collection consists of typescript reports about individual Nazis and accounts of incidents of Jewish persecution. Many of the reports are written in the first person. In the last report (-/23), an account of the author's dealings with Erich Koch, formerly Gauleiter of Ostpreussen, the author reveals his identity - Kurt Sabatsky, formerly District Syndicus of the Centralverein Deutscher Staatsbürger Jüdischen Glaubens, who later worked for the Wiener Library. At -/13 is a report of a meeting between Hermann Göring, then head of the Gestapo, and Brodnitz and Alfred Wiener, representative...

  16. Captain Robert Philip Baker-Byrne: personal papers

    This collection of personal papers documents, in part, the life of Robert Philip Baker-Byrne, formerly Rudolf Philipp Becker, a German Jewish emigrant to Great Britain who, having served in the Pioneer Corps, ended his war time activities working for the British Secret Service, and after the war as a war crimes investigator.

  17. Siegfried Kessler: Correspondence

    This collection of mostly original correspondence between Siegfried Kessler, a Czech Jewish exile in London, and various organisations and individuals, sheds light on the conditions of Czech Jews in Czechoslovakia in the early years of the war and the processes involved in getting them out.According to an incomplete curriculum vitae at -/20

  19. Reichsvereinigung der Juden in Deutschland: Records

    This finding aid is the result of a stage-by-stage series of arranging and indexing processes which could only be completed as recently as 1989.The collection “Reichsvereinigung der Juden in Deutschland” is a fragmentary sub-collection (18 shelf meters) covering the years 1939 - 1945. Some of the files date back to the early thirties: the so-called “Vorakten” (background files) by attorneys and by the Gesellschaft zur Förderung wirtschaftlicher Interessen von in Deutschland wohnhaften oder wohnhaft gewesenen Juden GmbH“/FWI (Association for assistance in financial matters of Jews residing i...

  20. Generalinspekteur für die Spruchgerichte in der britischen Zone

    • Bundesarchiv, Koblenz
    • Z 42-I
    • German
    • 1947-1955
    • Schriftgut 623 Aufbewahrungseinheiten 19,3 laufende Meter

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Die Aburteilung aller Mitglieder derjenigen Organisationen, die vom Internationalen Militärgerichtshof in Nürnberg für verbrecherisch erklärt worden waren (Korps der Politischen Leiter, Gestapo, SD, SS), war in der Britischen Zone Aufgabe von besonderen Spruchgerichten. Für die Insassen jedes der sechs britischen Internierungslager (Neuengamme, Eselsheide, Staumühle, Fallingbostel, Recklinghausen und Sandbostel) wurde durch allgemeine Verfügung des Präsidenten des Zentral-Justizamtes vom 1. Juni 1947 je ein Spruchgericht in Hamburg-Bergedorf, Bielefeld, Hidde...