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Language of Description: English
Country: Romania

  1. Documents related to the activity of partisans

    Text of first Ordinance to be distributed after crossing the Dniester. The German Kommandatur advises the General Staff in re of listening to foreign radio transmissions. Brochure on Soviet parachutists and partisans. Complaints by Romanian Military in re of attitude of German troops towards civilian population. A number of Ordinances issued for the civilian population. Activity of Censoring Services. Information regarding minorities: Ukrainians, poles etc. NB. A number of pages were taken out by the Security Services in 1958-1962.

  2. Orders and requests.

    Orders of permanent nature, for military personnel and organization. Colonization of Bessarabia. Request to settle there, from a number of NC officers. Officers’ wives requested to perform duties at social services. Instructions regulating the duties of Jews in the working brigades. Order from Antonescu to limit the body weight of the officers to 75 Kg. Obligatory physical exercises are instituted. Casa Ostirii (Army Club): description, history, functions.

  3. Suspicious elements in the Army

    Communists, Legionnaires, Irredentists, Sectants, terrorists. Due to the international situation, an increase in the activities of various factions requires higher vigilance in the detection of suspicious elements in the armed forces. Under suspicion are officers of German origin (Saxons, swabs). Reports and analyses of personnel from various minorities and provinces: German, Ukrainian, Hungarian, Bessarabia, Transylvania.

  4. Exceptional measures. Various Orders of the Day to be issued. Orders regarding refugees.

    No Jews or Russians allowed to cross the Prut into Romania. Vigilance for foreign agents Report of operations. Hostile attitude of the local population. The attitude of the Jews and the reaction to it by the troops. Solution proposed to protect (by internment) the Jews from the troops. Requests for information regarding the hostile acts against the Army and the population, by the “jewish-communists”.

  5. Military counter-espionage.

    Military counter-espionage. Army Corps IV. 1942 - 1943. Periodic reports an the morale of the troops; the mood of the population: Romanians, Ukrainians, Polish, Jews, Hungarians; the clandestine activities of legionnaires and communists. Minor incidents and discovery of war materials left from the Soviets. Report from the German military mission on the situation on the front in Crimea and on the river Don.

  6. The army of occupation.

    Orders and instructions for guarding of the territory. Redeployment of the 3-rd Army: details and distribution of troops. “General Instructions Nr. 8575” with 10 annexes. Instructions for organizing the operation of the telecommunication equipment. Instructions for the collaboration between Romanian troops of occupation and the German authorities.

  7. Actions against partisans in Transnistria

    Reports of counter-espionage. Fights with bands of partisans by German and Romanian troops. Reports of attacks by partisans on railroads, military installations, hospitals. Interception and fights with parachutists. Full scale fights against partisans with considerable human and material losses. Lists of victims.

  8. Reports

    Reports on the control of the security in various industries: factories, mills, electric stations etc. Inspections carried out by military personnel and related to: - ethnic composition of the administrative and technical personnel; of Jews required by necessity. - organization and composition of the security and guarding personnel and their organization. Results of inspection and suggestions and measures proposed for improvement.

  9. Orders of repartition and dispositions

    Orders of repartition and dispositions regarding the forced labor of the Jews. Following the orders of Maresal Antonescu, the City Hall (Primaria) of Iassy requests two detachments of Jews needed to disinter the remaining five thousand bodies in the Jewish cemetery in the suburb Tatarasi. Remarkable increase in requests for Jews for various tasks, Even the Metropolit asks for three tinsmiths.

  10. Instructions

    for Jewish forced labor brigades, forced labor, guards, field work, instructions for procurement of cattle food, concurrence between the base units and the spread-out formations for improving the situation of the villages. April 1 - August 3, 1944. Instructions for the formation of guard units. Documents related to the above.

  11. Ordinances in Romanian, German and Russian regarding the administration of Transnistria.

    Ordinances in Romanian, German and Russian regarding the administration of Transnistria. Measures for organizing the life of the Jews in Transnistria. Ordinance of the military commandment. Various other ordinances regarding the life and activities in Transnistria.

  12. Orders of repartition and dispositions

    Orders of repartition and dispositions regarding the forced labor of the Jews. A number of architects and engineers are sent for 90 days to the Government of Transnistria for forced labor. The German Mission in Bucharest requests 20 Jews for forced labor in Botosani. Jewish physicians working in prisoner camps. The Building Center of the German Marine requests 150 Jews for forced labor.

  13. The Communist and Anti-communist movements.

    The communist propaganda. Informative notes regarding the activity of Jewish industrialists. Copies of communist manifests. Synthesis of the organization and activity of the communist movement. The anti-communist propaganda in the Army. Anti-communist manifests.

  14. Reports

    Reports of military operations 2.VII -5.VII, 1941 (Vol.II). Partial occupation of Bessarabia and the Northern part of Bucovina; the fall of Cernautzi. Jews found with weapons are isolated. Among the prisoners are people from the region, the commanders are Jewish. Reports on aerial fights and of losses of planes and personnel on both sides.

  15. Orders of repartition and dispositions

    Orders of repartition and dispositions regarding the forced labor of the Jews. German Military Section in Iasi requests 20 Jews to unload war material from 120 railroad cars and load them with fuel for the allied armies on the front. Also a request for 40 Jews to dig trenches, and another for several craftsmen.

  16. Reports and orders

    Orders and Reports 2nd Army Corps, 20.VI - 11.VII, 1941 (Vol.I). Army and naval battles in Southern Bessarabia and Dobrudja.Instructions regarding the reaction of the troops when sighting parachutists. Information from the German front in the Ukraine. The bridge over the Danube in Cernavoda is damaged by Soviet aviation.

  17. Chiffered symbols and signatures.

    Measures are indicated to maintain secrecy as required; real names not to be used in telecommunications. Lists of signatures for telegraphic and telephonic communications. Lists for the symbols of various Units and Services.

  18. Manifests and informative reports

    with regard to the mood of the military. Atrocities committed by the Hungarian and German troops in Transylvania. Manifests spread by the legionnaires, full of antisemitic venom. (Note: a great number of pages were taken out by the Security Services and do not appear on the reel).

  19. Various information and complaints

    Various information and complaints regarding military personnel and civil population. Forced labor of Jews. Results of inspections of military hospitals and alimentation of the troops. Complaints that some Jews are equipped with special official authorization that allows them to travel free all over the country.

  20. Documents

    related to espionage of various illegal movements - communists, legionnaires, religious sects etc. Mention of a rebellion in Pascani (pages missing). NB. Numerous pages were taken out by the Security Services in 1958-1962; irrelevant material left.