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Country: Germany

  1. MFS 15 Bezirksverwaltung für Staatssicherheit Schwerin

    • Bundesarchiv-Stasi-Unterlagen-Archiv Schwerin
    • MFS 15 Bezirksverwaltung für Staatssicherheit Schwerin
    • German
    • 1940-1981
    • 24 Vorgänge innerhalb der Klassifikationspunkte 4.3.2 Ausspähung und Verfolgung, 4.3.3 Inoffizielle Mitarbeit, 5.1.2.1 Archivierter Untersuchungsvorgang bzw. 5.3 Kriminalpolizei

    Ermittlungen wegen der Beteiligung an Verbrechen gegen die jüdische Bevölkerung Polens; Informationen über die Beteiligung an der Verfolgung jüdischer Einwohner der Stadt Neustrelitz, der Reichskristallnacht und der Deportation jüdischer Bürger der Stadt Bützow, der Erschießung jüdischer Bürger von Thorn, dem Einsatz in den Konzentrationslagern Auschwitz und Monowitz, wegen Verfolgung der jüdischen Bevölkerung in den von Deutschland besetzten Gebiete.

  2. MFS 16 Bezirksverwaltung für Staatssicherheit Suhl

    • Bundesarchiv-Stasi-Unterlagen-Archiv Suhl
    • MFS 16 Bezirksverwaltung für Staatssicherheit Suhl
    • German
    • 1948-1967
    • 2 Vorgänge innerhalb der Klassifikationspunkte 4.2.3 Politische Repression insbesondere Staatsapparat, Kirche, Kultur, Sport, Oppositionsgruppen bzw. 4. 7. Kreisdienststelle Schmalkalden

    Übersicht zu den Beteiligten an der Reichskristallnacht in Schmalkalden; Befragung eines ehemaligen Häftlings zu den in den Konzentrationslagern Dora-Mittelbau, Bergen-Belsen und Friedrichshafen-Radarach begangenen Verbrechen.

  3. MFS 1 Ministerium für Staatssicherheit (MfS_Allgemeine Sachablage)

    Auskunftsberichte zu Nationalsozialistischen Verbrechen für die Gerichtsprozesse der Sowjetischen Militärverwaltung; Fragebögen des Hauptausschusses „Opfer des Faschismus“ zur Ermittlung von NS-Verbrechen; Informationen der Hauptabteilung IX über Ermittlungen wegen Verbrechen gegen die Menschlichkeit; Dokumentation der Gründung einer NS-Ärztegesellschaft, die in Konzentrationslagern medizinische Experimente durchführte; Augenzeugen- und andere Berichte über die Lebens- und Arbeitsbedingungen in Konzentrationslagern und im Werk IG Farben bei Auschwitz; Radiovortrag des „Komitee Freies Deutsc...

  4. MFS 1 Ministerium für Staatssicherheit (MfS_Ausspähung)

    Diverse AOP zu Personen, die unter dem Verdacht stehen, am Massenmord jüdischer Menschen in Konzentrationslagern oder anderen Gewaltverbrechen gegen diese beteiligt gewesen zu sein; AP zu ehemaligen KZ-Häftlingen, u.a. mit Aufzeichnungen und Vernehmungsprotokollen aus Gerichtsprozessen; Aufruf der Vereinigung Verfolgter des Naziregimes an potentielle Zeugen.

  5. MFS 1 Ministerium für Staatssicherheit (MfS_GH)

    Untersuchungsvorgänge zu Mitarbeitern des Staatssicherheitsdienstes und weiteren Personen, die im Verdacht standen an Verbrechen gegen die Menschlichkeit oder Kriegsverbrechen beteiligt zu sein.

  6. MFS 1 Ministerium für Staatssicherheit (MfS_HA_IX_11)

    • Bundesarchiv-Stasi-Unterlagen-Archiv Berlin
    • MfS_HA_IX_11
    • German
    • 1946-1989
    • 823 lfm Schriftgut und Karteien im Klassifikationspunkt 5.1.3 „NS-Archiv des MfS“ 3 Filme im Nebenbestand MFS 1-FILM 6 Fotoakten im Nebenbestand MFS 1-BILD 28 Tonträger im Nebenbestand MFS 1-TON

    Zentrale Untersuchungsvorgänge (ZUV), Allgemeine, Berichte (AB), Verbrechen gegen die Menschlichkeit (VgM) und Untertägige Anlagen (UTA) Untersuchungen und Ermittlungen zu von Wehrmacht, Polizei und SS während des II. Weltkriegs verübten Verbrechen u. a. gegen Personen jüdischer Herkunft Sowjetisches Militärtribunal (SMT) und Rehabilitierungsverfahren (RV) Dokumentation der Verfolgung von NS-Straftätern Aktuelle Fragen (AF), Auskunftsersuchen (AK), Messesonderkartei, Personenauskünfte (PA) Dossiers zur NS-Vergangenheit v. a. von Bürgern der DDR und Westdeutschlands sowie Einwohnern von Berl...

  7. MFS 1 Ministerium für Staatssicherheit (MfS_HA_IX)

    Ermittlungen im Rahmen strafprozessualer Maßnahmen wegen des Verdachts der Beteiligung an Verbrechen gegen die Menschlichkeit.

  8. MFS 1 Ministerium für Staatssicherheit (MfS_HA_XXII)

    Presseberichterstattung der BRD über Prozesse zu an jüdischen Menschen verübten Verbrechen; Material zu Holocaustleugnern und ihren Publikationen; Broschüren und Dokumentationen zum Nationalsozialismus, u.a. zur Verfolgung jüdischer Menschen

  9. MFS 1 Ministerium für Staatssicherheit (MfS_Untersuchungsvorgänge)

    Diverse AU zum Delikt „Verbrechen gegen die Menschlichkeit“ in Konzentrationslagern

  10. Bequest Jan Sehn

    Jan Sehn (1909-1965) was born in Tuszów Maly in former Austria-Hungary on April 22, 1909. He graduated high school in Mielec and became involved in the youth organization Legion Mlodych (Legion of the Youth) of President Józef Pilsudski. He then studied law at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków. After graduating in 1933, Sehn obtained a position first as a judicial clerk and later as an assessor at Kraków District Court. During the German invasion in September 1939, Sehn participated in the defence of Poland. To avoid collaborating with the judicial apparatus of the new rulers, he then c...

  11. Bequest Margarethe Weber

    Margarethe, also known as Martha, Weber was born in Leverkusen-Wiesdorf on September 11, 1900. She graduated from the Volksschule on March 31, 1914. Starting in 1939, she worked as a commercial clerk for the I.G. Farben Industry at the plant in Leverkusen. The bequest Margarethe Weber covers personal documents of Margarethe and her family — especially of her younger sister Ilse Weber who also worked for the I.G. Farben. The holding covers numerous documents regarding the I.G. Farben since apart from Margarethe and Ilse Weber other family members also worked there. The bequest Margarethe Web...

  12. Bequest Theo Berger

    The Fritz Bauer Institute acquired the bequest of Theo Berger from one of Berger's nieces in 2008. Theo Berger was born on January 8, 1925. His parents were Theo Berger senior and Margarete Berger. The family lived in Frankfurt (Main), initially in the district Rödelheim, then after the Second World War shortly in the district Sachsenhausen and later in the district Bornheim. Theo Berger trained to be a precision engineer at Hartmann & Braun AG. In 1942, he was conscripted into the Reich Labor Service. On March 15, 1943, he became a member of the Waffen-SS. He then stayed at the SS case...

  13. Pre-death legacy Jürgen Hess

    The Fritz Bauer Institute acquired the holding from Jürgen Hess himself. Jürgen Hess was a state prosecutor and worked in the political department of the prosecution at Frankfurt (Main) from 1964 to 1996. He was especially concerned with Nazi violent crimes. Representing the prosecution, he conducted numerous proceedings concerning Nazi violent crimes (NSG-Verfahren) at the Landgericht Frankfurt (Main), for example, the fifth and sixth Frankfurt Auschwitz trial against Alois Frey and Willi Rudolf Sawatzki (4 Ks 2/73) and against Josef Schmidt and Horst Czerwinski (50/4 Js 773/70). During hi...

  14. Collection NSDAP Auslandsorganisation Chile

    The NSDAP-Auslandsorganisation Chile was founded in 1931 and existed until 1945. The NSDAP-Auslandsorganisation Chile was one of the foreign organizations of the National Socialist Party, the NSDAP/AO. Citizens of the German Reich living in foreign countries organized themselves in the NSDAP/AO. The organization was especially occupied with the ideological indoctrination of its members. The collection's provenance is unclear. A document accompanying the collection attests that the records were purchased in the region around Valdivia in 1989 or 1990. The previous owner apparently disposed of...

  15. Bequest Carl Bringer

    Carl Bringer was born in Dusseldorf in 1929. From 1962 to 1994, he worked as an editor for the Hessischer Rundfunk, the Hessian state radio. From 1994 to 2006, he volunteered for the psychological services of the "Fritz Bauer Haus", a detention center in Darmstadt-Eberstadt. He was friends with Fritz Bauer. Carl Bringer passed away in 2017. The bequest mostly consists of papers, linked to his friendship with Fritz Bauer and connected to Bauer's work. The bequest Carl Bringer covers after description, demetallization, and filing nine archival units with a total extent of 0.3 running meters. ...

  16. Bequest Hermann Weinkauff

    The Fritz Bauer Institute acquired the bequest of Hermann Weinkauff from his granddaughter in June 2023. Hermann Weinkauff (1894-1981) was born in Trippstadt in Rhenish Palatinate on February 10, 1984. Until his Abitur in 1912, he attended the classical language high school in Speyer. He then studied law in Munich, Heidelberg and Würzburg. In Munich, he became a member of the fraternity Corps Hubertia Munich. Weinkauff participated in the First World War as a Bavarian field artillery volunteer at the Western Front and since 1917 as a reserve lieutenant. In 1920, he passed his first juridica...

  17. Bequest Wilhelm Boger

    The bequest Wilhelm Boger was given to the Fritz Bauer Institute by his granddaughter in 2012. Wilhelm Boger was born in Stuttgart on December 19, 1906. His father was a businessman and Boger also completed a commercial traineeship after graduating from high school. Starting in 1925, he worked for the Deutschnationaler Handlungsgehilfenverband in Stuttgart. During his school years, he became an active member of the Nazi youth (NS-Jugend), later the Hitler Youth (Hitlerjugend), and the Artamanenbund. In 1929, Boger joined the NSDAP and the SA. A year later, he changed to the SS. At the begin...

  18. Collection Pfungst family

    Mile Braach, born Emilie Marie Auguste Hirschfeld, a Frankfurt annalist and entrepreneur studied the feminist Marie Eleonore Pfungst in the 1990s. To do so, she collected documents regarding the life of the Pfungst family. The Jewish entrepreneurial family owned the Naxos Union, one of the first producers of sanding machines. The family was persecuted during National Socialism. Braach's biography of Marie Eleonore Pfungst was published by the Fritz Bauer Institute in 1995. The records used to write the biography were then transferred to the Institute's archive. The collection Pfungst family...

  19. Bequest Brunner family

    The Brunner family was a German-speaking Jewish-Czech family from Saaz or Žatec, northwest of Prague. Hilde Brunner, born in Saaz on November 20, 1904, as Hildegard Lang, was a successful violinist. She was musically trained since her childhood. Later, she studied at the Deutsche Musikakademie in Prague and was instructed among others by Henri Marteau and Otakar Ševcik. She completed the academy's masterclass in 1924. During and after her education, she gave many concerts, sometimes together with her sister Margit Lang who played the piano. In 1929, Hilde married Hanno or Hans Brunner. Thei...

  20. Pre-death legacy Heimo Moßbauer

    Heimo Moßbauer was born in Judenburg, Austria on May 28, 1941. He lived in Frankfurt (Main) for a long time and worked as a cellist. The pre-death legacy Heimo Moßbauer covers after description, demetallization, and filing six archival units with a total extent of 0.15 running meters. Since the record group did not have an inner structure upon the acquisition the processor Inga Steinhauser completely reorganized the holding during indexing in December 2022. It follows the “rules for the description of personal papers and autographs” (RNA, Regeln zur Erschließung von Nachlässen und Autograph...