Collection of the Binnenlands Bestuur - Ministry of the Interior of the Netherlands, Local Authorities Department, 1924-1944

Collection of the Binnenlands Bestuur - Ministry of the Interior of the Netherlands, Local Authorities Department, 1924-1944 Binnenlands Bestuur - Ministry of the Interior of the Netherlands, Local Authorities Department, was responsible for the administration of matters related to the regions, municipalities, and needy persons, Armwezen. The local Police, firefighters and air defense forces were subordinate to it and were transferred to the responsibility of the Ministry of Justice during the Nazi occupation period. A general draft of the Dutch Army was declared in June 1939. Binnenlands Bestuur supervised the Bureau Afvoer Burgerbevolking - BAB, the Bureau for the Evacuation of Civilians. The BAB and the Centraal Bureau Verzorging Oorlogsslachtoffers - CBVO (Central Bureau for the Handling of War Victims) were merged in 1945. During the occupation period, the Germans established a confiscation department and a department for occupation damages in the Binnenlands Bestuur. After the war, the Binnenlands Bestuur supervised the abolition of the Nederlandse Arbeidsdienst NAD - Dutch labor service, and the purging of Nazi organizations from the government institutions in the Netherlands; Included in the collection: Documents regarding the removal of Jewish companies from representative organizations in the Netherlands during 1940-1941; Official documentation regarding the supervision over Gypsies, 1924-1933; Official documentation regarding the implementation of Nazi anti-Jewish legislation in the Netherlands; Official documentation regarding the registration of Jews, including clarification of Aryan origin; Correspondence by the authorities regarding Jewish refugees; Documents regarding the establishment of a Jewish educational system, 1941-1949.