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Collection of Hanns Albin Rauter, the Höhere SS und Polizeiführer, Generalkommissar für das Sicherheitswesen in the Netherlands, 1940-1945

Collection of Hanns Albin Rauter, the Höhere SS und Polizeiführer, Generalkommissar für das Sicherheitswesen in the Netherlands, 1940-1945 Hanns Albin Rauter was the head of the security system in the Netherlands, the Generalkommissar für das Sicherheitswesen en Höhere SS und Polizeiführer, the HSSPF during 1940-1945; operating beneath him were the SS, the Befehlshaber der Sicherheitspolizei, the SD and the Dutch Police; despite his subordination to Seyss-Inquart, he had direct contact with Reichsführer SS Heinrich Himmler, in a relatively independent status; Rauter was also the supervisor over the legal...

Type of Material : Certification, Statistical Reports, Correspondence, Protocol, Document

Language : Dutch, German

Documentation of Das Ahnenerbe (The Ancestral Heritage) Society, 1935-1945

Documentation of Das Ahnenerbe (The Ancestral Heritage) Society, 1935-1945 Documentation of Das Ahnenerbe Society, a pseudo-scientific organization founded through the initiative of Heinrich Himmler and Darre, in 1935, which dealt with the study of ancient German history and in anthropological research in order to decide on various issues in Nazi ideology. At the peak of its activities, the organization included 40 scientific departments headed by Wolfram Sivers, who was executed as a result of the Nurenberg Trials. Following 1939, the organization frequently used the results of medical experiments carried...

Type of Material : Survey Report, Official Documentation

Language : German

Documentation from 1942-1943, including evidence from the Nuremberg Trial, regarding the building of a collection of skeletons by Nazi physicians, the expropriation of a Jewish sanitarium, and the deportation of Hungarian Jewry - Letter sent to Eichmann by Dr. Karl Brandt, regarding the building of a collection of skeletons for the anatomy department of the University of Strassburg in 1942: instructions by Himmler, to grant the head of the department, Professor Hirt, everything he needs on the occasion of his research; transfer of Brandt's request to the Ahnenerbe ("Ancestral Heritage") by the research...

File Number : 78

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Legal Documentation

Language : German

Letter sent to Dr. Karl Brandt by the Ahnenerbe ("Ancestral Heritage") research institute, regarding the need for a supply of skeletons of inmates and Jews, 1942

Letter sent to Dr. Karl Brandt by the Ahnenerbe ("Ancestral Heritage") research institute, regarding the need for a supply of skeletons of inmates and Jews, 1942 Order by Himmler to give SS Hauptscturmfuehrer Hirt all that he requires for the research he is conducting; need for 150 skeletons of inmates and Jews from Auschwitz that were already allotted for this purpose; There is earlier correspondence on this subject (see file O.18/3 and O.18/50); The document is part of the Evidence material at the Nuremberg Trial; The source of the document: Berlin Document Center; The document is in the books:...

File Number : 51

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : German

Letter sent to Eichmann by Wolfram Sievers, from the Ahnenerbe ("Ancestral Heritage") research institute, regarding the building of a collection of skeletons, 1943

Letter sent to Eichmann by Wolfram Sievers, from the Ahnenerbe ("Ancestral Heritage") research institute, regarding the building of a collection of skeletons, 1943 Halting of the activities for the establishment of the collection [of skeletons] in Auschwitz, due to the danger of epidemics in the camp; 115 inmates were found [selected] for the building of the collection, including 79 Jewish men and 30 Jewish women in the Krankenlager (sick barracks) in Auschwitz; given the danger of epidemics, they [the selected inmates] are to be transferred to Natzweiler, for the continuation of the Bearbeitung...

File Number : 50

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : German

Proposal by anatomy professor August Hirt, to create a collection of skulls of Jewish commissars who were killed at the Eastern front, 1942

Proposal by anatomy professor August Hirt, to create a collection of skulls of Jewish commissars who were killed at the Eastern front, 1942 Proposal by anatomy professor August Hirt, to create a collection of skulls for the University of Strasbourg whose source will be from the corpses of Jewish commissars who were killed at the Eastern front; the collection will constitute an important source for research regarding the Untermensch ("subhuman") race; Included in the file: Letter sent by the Reichsgeschaeftsfuerer (Reichs general director) of the Ahnenerbe ("Ancestral Heritage") research institute to...

File Number : 3

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : German

Two letters by Dr. Thomson, chief director of operations (Haupteinsatzfuehrer) in departmental library (Stabsfuehrung) no. IV/6 in the operational headquarters of Rosenberg (Einsatzstab Reichsleiter), 1943 - Letters by SS-Standartenfuhrer Helmut Sievers, acting director of the "Ancestral Heritage" (Amt Ahnenerebe) office, to Eichmann, regarding the preparation of a collection of skeletons from corpses of Auschwitz inmates in order to form a scientific basis regarding racial theory; - Translations to English of the letters, which were prepared for the prosecution during the Nuremberg Trials (document no....

File Number : 340

Type of Material : Letter

Language : German

Correspondence of the main Reich Security Head Office (RSHA) and SD bureaus with German professors, 1943-1945

Correspondence of the main Reich Security Head Office (RSHA) and SD bureaus with German professors, 1943-1945 - Lending of books from the Reich Security Head Office (RSHA) VII office library for research; - Acquisition of new publications; - Lists of books on various topics: Lists of books needed by the Ahnenerbe Institute (an institute in Nazi Germany whose purpose was to research the archaeological and cultural history of the Aryan race; List of books regarding Jewish artists, pp. 1986-1989; List of books regarding Jews and Judaism along with covering correspondence, pp. 2057-2089; ...

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Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : German

Documentation on matters pertaining to administration, finance, personnel and service conditions in the SS and the Waffen SS from the Osoby Archive in Moscow, 1936-1943

Documentation on matters pertaining to administration, finance, personnel and service conditions in the SS and the Waffen SS from the Osoby Archive in Moscow, 1936-1943 Among other items, the collection contains correspondence, circulars and guidelines of various bodies within the SS and the Waffen SS regarding matters pertaining to administration, finance, personnel and the service conditions of their people. In the material there are reports regarding promotions and postings to new positions; general guidelines concerning SS and Waffen SS personnel and their service conditions, some of signed by Himmler...

Type of Material : Laws and Decrees, Book, Journal, Names of Perpetrators, Booklet(s), Survey Report, Official Documentation, Photograph, List of Nazi War Criminals, Financial Accounts, Form

Language : German