Correspondence regarding research on Judaism by the Nazis, and the employment of Jews in the Reichssicherheitshauptamt (RSHA- Reich Main Security Office) Library, 1935-1944

Correspondence regarding research on Judaism by the Nazis, and the employment of Jews in the Reichssicherheitshauptamt (RSHA- Reich Main Security Office) Library, 1935-1944 Correspondence between the SD Head Office (after 1939, Reichssicherheitshauptamt [RSHA- Reich Main Security Office]) and various SD and Gestapo regional stations on the following topics: - The creation of a Jewish Department in the RSHA Central Library and division of senior positions among German scientists; - Acquisition of books for the Jewish Department of the library; - Employment of Jews in the Central Library in Berlin; - Buying Jewish books from private people and confiscation of private Jewish libraries; - Transfer of Jewish books from outside of Berlin; - Study days for the SD staff on the subject of handling the Jewish Question. Description of selected documents: - Proposals of [the names of] German scientists who know Biblical and modern Hebrew thoroughly by various regional stations to RSHA Berlin in order to create a Jewish Department in the RSHA Central Library, Department VII, from 1943, pp. 1542-1554; - List of books published by the SD sent to the Central Library along with covering letters, 1941-1942, pp. 1555-1566; - List of Jews who were employed in the evaluation of the Jewish Library in RSHA Department VII and dismissed, 1944, pp. 1567-1593; - Reduction of the number of Jews employed by the RSHA due to the lessening of the need to clear the library's storage areas, July 1944, pp. 1594-1599; - Names, addresses, birth dates, positions and date of termination of employment of those Jews, pp. 1600-1604; - Correspondence between the RSHA, the Berlin Gestapo and SD Leitabschnitt (SD Regional Headquarters) Berlin regarding four Jews who were dismissed from the library after they revealed that they were employed at the RSHA in contravenience to their being directed to say that they work at the Reichsvereinigung der Juden in Deutschland (the National Association of German Jews); the Jews (their names and addresses) were recorded by the Gestapo, 1944, pp. 1605-1619; - Correspondence between RSHA Department VII and the Leipzig Gestapo regarding books in Hebrew confiscated from Jewish houses, including a list of the books, 1943; purchase of scientific books that formerly belonged to Jews; sorting of Jewish books stored in Stuttgart; transfer of Jewish books from the concentration camp in Krakow to Sudentengau, pp. 1620-1658; - Internal correspondence of RSHA Department VII regarding the transfer of manuscripts belonging to Free Masons in Berlin and books regarding the Free Masons borrowed by the Reichsführer-SS (RSFF) Himmler, 1943-1944, 1659-1663; - Letters from the SD Southern-Munich regional station to the SD Head Office in Berlin regarding the Nazi demonstration against a Jewish book store in Munich that was opened by a Jewish woman with a permit from the Propaganda Ministry. In early January 1938 the Nazis destroyed the show windows at the store, and carried on. The owner of the store was arrested and put into protective custody. On 01 February 1938, the store was reopened, 1938, pp. 1664-1666; - Correspondence of the SD Jewish department with various SD regional stations, 1935-1939, on these subjects: Directives for the management of a card index file, directives for constructing and expanding the Jewish Department, curriculum for study days for personnel at the Berlin station regarding the Jewish Question, lists and ranks of ranking SS-Fuehrer who taught Judaism, pp. 1667-1798; Names to enter: - Index cards for Jews, and a list of Jews who worked in the RSHA Central Library and were dismissed - see the list documents; - Documentation regarding the four Jews who were dismissed from the RSHA Central Library, pp. 1605-1619; - Luise Bing, pp. 1664-1666.