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  1. Gestapo Headquarter Vienna : Daily Reports Gestapo Leitstelle Wien : Tagesrapporte

    Contains the daily arrest reports of the Gestapo Vienna, the originals of which are held by the Dokumentationsarchiv des österreichischen Widerstandes (DÖW) and the Bundesarchiv Berlin.

  2. Valsts slepenpolicijas pārvalde Gestapo

    • Secret State Police Office (Gestapo)
    • Geheime Staatspolizei - Gestapo Amt

    The fonds contains information collected since 1924, including information about the German secret police; German diplomatic mission reports, including reports on the activities of the Communist Party; Latvian political administration official staff lists; outgoing correspondence from the Baltic states to Germany; snippets from Latvian newspapers and newspapers from other European countries;; information about migrants (Übersiedler) from Baltic states in 1941, including names of agents and persons involved.

  3. Gestapo Brno (B 340)

    Investigative and arrest files as well administrative records of the Gestapo Brno. The investigative and arrest files concern mostly Czech individuals arrested on a variety of charges such as making anti-German remarks, listening to foreign radio broadcasts, sabotage, malingering, anti-social behavior, possession of arms, miscegenation, and other charges. The records also contain documentation pertaining to Gestapo actions against Czech resistance groups and Jews, the disbandment of Czech organizations, the confiscation of properties and assets, and situation reports including from Czech in...

  4. Gestapo of Brno

    The basis for the fonds consists of the surviving part of the registry office of the Brno branch of the Gestapo and all surviving rural stations in Moravia. The fonds contains the files of secured and investigated persons denounced for various reasons (listening to the radio, seditious speech against the Reich, sabotage etc.), records from actions conducted by the Gestapo against illegal resistance groups and actions conducted against Jews. The files also contain several hundred records about placement and escapes of persons from concentration, labour and other types of camps. Other records...

  5. Gestapo Records I

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file is the first part of a collection of originals and copies of circulars and correspondence of the Gestapo Erfurt in Thüringen. Among these are expatriation requests for emigrated Jewish citizens and background checks. In addition there are guidelines for activities in all areas of daily life and how Jews should be restricted or excluded from participation.

  6. [Gestapo Records Düsseldorf II ]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    This file is the second part of a series of historical documents from the Gestapo Offices in Düsseldorf. The file contains about 30 circulars and administrative correspondence regarding the stay of Jewish people issued by the Gestapo and distributed to various districts and cities in the Lower Rhine Region (Kleve, Viersen, Neuss) between August and October 1937. The circulars and correspondence mainly deal with Jewish people searched by the Gestapo. The circulars give information on the person in question, inquire his or her whereabouts, and demand their detention. One circular deals with t...

  7. [Gestapo Records Düsseldorf I ]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    This file is the first part of a series of historical documents from the Gestapo Offices in Düsseldorf. This file contains about 30 circulars and administrative correspondence regarding the stay of Jewish people issued by the Gestapo and distributed to various districts and cities in the Lower Rhine Region (Kleve, Viersen, Neuss) between March and August 1937. The circulars and correspondence mainly deal with Jewish people searched by the Gestapo. The circulars give information on the person in question, inquire his or her whereabouts, and demand their detention.

  8. Gestapo Records IV

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file is part of the collection of originals to the Gestapo Erfurt in Thüringen. It contains the obligatory monthly reports by the Jewish community Suhl/Muhlhausen to the Gestapo. The reports include number of people, assets and bookkeeping records. Further details list addresses, birth records and intentions/preparations for emigration.

  9. [Gestapo Records Düsseldorf IV]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    This file is the fourth part of a series of historical documents from the Gestapo Offices in Düsseldorf. The file contains circulars and administrative correspondence regarding the stay of Jewish people issued by the Gestapo and distributed to various districts and cities in the Lower Rhine Region (Kleve, Viersen, Neuss) between March 1938 and June 1938. The circulars and correspondence mainly deal with Jewish people searched by the Gestapo and the treatment of Émigrés returning to Germany. The circulars give information on the person in question, inquire his or her whereabouts, and demand ...

  10. [Gestapo Instructions Düsseldorf I]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file contains various documents issued mainly by the Gestapo Offices in Düsseldorf between 1937 and 1943. The documents include circulars and instructions regarding the treatment of Jewish sport clubs, organizations, and religious communities. Furthermore, the file contains various documents on the confiscation of Jewish property and money, the handover of the Jewish communities’ records, a court judgement following the destruction of a Jewish cemetery in Kleve, a report on the events of the “Kristallnacht” in November 1938 issued by the SS in Geldern, and finally, a circular regarding ...

  11. Gestapo Records III

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file is the third part of a collection of originals and copies of circulars and correspondence of the Gestapo Erfurt in Thüringen. The main contents of this file are expatriation requests for emigrated Jewish citizens and background checks.

  12. Gestapo Records II

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file is the second part of a collection of originals and copies of circulars and correspondence of the Gestapo Erfurt in Thüringen. Among these are expatriation requests for emigrated Jewish citizens and background checks

  13. [Gestapo Instructions Düsseldorf II]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file is the second part of a series of files containing various documents issued mainly by the Gestapo Offices in Düsseldorf between 1937 and 1943. The documents include circulars and instructions regarding the relations between Jewish and non-Jewish Germans, the treatment of Jews with foreign citizenship, anti-Jewish measures in everyday life (barber shops, broadcasting services, curfew, private relationships), the removal of citizenship and the entry to the Wehrmacht for children of Jewish and non-Jewish parents, and the confiscation of Jewish property. Furthermore, the file includes ...

  14. [Gestapo Instructions Düsseldorf V]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file is the fifth part of a series of files containing various documents issued mainly by the Gestapo Offices in Düsseldorf between 1939 and 1942. The documents include circulars and instructions regarding the deportation of Jewish people from the Lower Rhine Region in general, and specifically regarding the deportation of Jewish people from Goch to the concentration camp of Theresienstadt. The circulars provide information regarding the regulations and the procedures of the planned deportations as well as lists of property of the deportees. The file also contains a handwritten and anon...

  15. [Gestapo Records Düsseldorf III]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    This file is the third part of a series of historical documents from the Gestapo Offices in Düsseldorf. The file contains about 30 circulars and administrative correspondence regarding the stay of Jewish people issued by the Gestapo and distributed to various districts and cities in the Lower Rhine Region (Kleve, Viersen, Neuss) between October 1937 and April 1938. The circulars and correspondence mainly deal with Jewish people searched by the Gestapo and the treatment of Émigrés returning to Germany. The circulars give information on the person in question, inquire his or her whereabouts, ...

  16. [Gestapo Instructions Düsseldorf 3]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file is the third part of a series of files containing various documents issued mainly by the Gestapo Offices in Düsseldorf between 1938 and 1942. The documents include circulars and instructions regarding the confiscation and use of Jewish peoples’ apartments and personal property (radios, clothes, bicycles, technical supplies, household utensils), and the closing of Jewish schools. The documents also include lists of confiscated property. Some documents are of poor quality.

  17. [Gestapo Instructions Düsseldorf IV]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file is the fourth part of a series of files containing various documents issued mainly by the Gestapo Offices in Düsseldorf between 1937 and 1942. The documents include circulars and instructions regarding the ban of Jewish press organs, the interdiction for Jewish people to use public phones, the regulations regarding the use of the Yellow Star and the marking of apartments occupied by Jewish people. Furthermore, the file includes regulations on the prohibition for Jewish people to leave their home municipality. The file also contains forms for the declaration of property. Finally, th...

  18. Rosenthal family: Copy Gestapo documents

    This collection contains copies of the files of the Rosenthal family compiled by the Gestapo immediately prior to their deportation and murder at Auschwitz.Documents including declaration forms of financial assets confiscated by the state. The family requested to see these documents as part of their compensation claim at the Restitution Office in Berlin in 1966.

  20. Gestapo in Serbia 1941-1944

    1. German Occupying Forces 1941-1945

    The Gestapo in Serbia: structure, members, and duties. Details about the arresting and the deportation of the Jews to the Sajmiste camp.