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Holding Institution: Arhivele Militare Naționale Române, Statul Major General al Armatei României

  1. 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”.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

  6. 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.

  7. 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.

  8. 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.

  9. 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.

  10. 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.

  11. 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.

  12. 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.

  13. 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.

  14. 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.

  15. 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).

  16. 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.

  17. 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.

  18. Dispositions

    regarding the creation of a new Zionist organization, for the Jews from Romania. Information bulletin of the Pretorate in Odessa. 247 Jews in Shmerinca are taken over by German authorities. A German lieutenant is found to be a Jew from Cernauti.

  19. Pretorial service.

    Various correspondence regarding the administration of the territory and of the population. Information on the organization and working of the Soviet espionage obtained from a captured spy. Activity of the pretorial service June- Oct 1941.

  20. Documents and orders

    related to forced labor of Jews between the ages 20 to 40 outside their residence. Lists of mobilization and distribution of the Jews from various districts and of their working destinations. Age limit is increased to 19 to 41.