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Material of the Reich Commissariat Ukraine, 1941-1944

Material of the Reich Commissariat Ukraine, 1941-1944 After the German attack on the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941, the Reich Commissariat Ukraine was established on September 1, 1941. At the beginning, its borders were the Generalgovernement in the west, the Dnjestr river in the south, the Slutsch and the Horyn rivers to the East, and the Reich Commissariat Ostland in the north. With the further occupation by the German troopes, the Reich Commissariat was expanded by and by until September 1, 1942. During 1943 the Red Army re-gained most parts of the commissariat. At the beginning of 1944 the Reich...

Type of Material : Protocol, Laws and Decrees, Correspondence, Survey Report, Telephone Directory, Propaganda, Lists of Businesses and Skilled Workers, Official Documentation, List of Names in Government Records

Language : German

Directive from the Reichskommissar fuer das Ostland in Riga to the Generalkommissar (General Commander) of Belorussia in Minsk regarding confiscation of cultural property of value in Belorussia by the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg (ERR - Reichsleiter Rosenberg Taskforce), 1941 Directive regarding the start of ERR activities throughout the Reichskommissatiat Ostland (RKO), including Belorussia; operation of the unit under Reichshauptstellenleiter Gerhard Utikal; confiscation of cultural property of value; designation of 10 objectives, including synagogues, community buildings, rabbinical homes, Jewish...

File Number : 3117

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : German

Order given by Hitler, regarding the authorities and functions of Rosenberg's office in the Occupied Territories, 1942

Order given by Hitler, regarding the authorities and functions of Rosenberg's office in the Occupied Territories, 1942 Rights for Rosenberg's personnel to conduct searches in archives, libraries and other cultural institutions, and to confiscate material for the Nazi university (Hohe Schule), including cultural properties owned by Jews; Included in the file: Order by Hitler, edited by Lammers; The document is part of the Evidence material at the Nuremberg Trial; The document is identical to the ng 3902 document and the ps 151 document (partially); The document in German is in JM 2115,...

File Number : 91

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : German

Report written by the Einsatzstab Rosenberg (Operational Staff Rosenberg), regarding the confiscation of libraries and archives in the Netherlands in 1940

Report written by the Einsatzstab Rosenberg (Operational Staff Rosenberg), regarding the confiscation of libraries and archives in the Netherlands in 1940 Description of the Arbeitsgruppe Niederlande (Netherlands work group) of the Einsatzstab Rosenberg (Operational Staff Rosenberg); details regarding the institutions and organizations whose books and archives were confiscated starting in 09/1940, including approximately 80 Freemasons lodges, [several] Rotary Club branches, the Internationale Institut fuer Soziale Geschichte in Amsterdam (an institution that dealt mainly with Jewish emigrants from Germany),...

File Number : 62

Type of Material : Survey Report

Language : German

Directive given by the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht - OKW (Supreme Command of the Wehrmacht), regarding the authorities and functions of the Einsatzstab Rosenberg (Operational Staff Rosenberg) in the occupied territories in the East, 1942 Description of the functions of the Einsatzstab Rosenberg (Operational Staff Rosenberg), as described by Hitler in a special order published on 01/03/1942; character of the contact of the headquarters units with the Wehrmacht factors in the area; authorization of the Sonderkommandos of the Einsatzstab Rosenberg to make searches and to confiscate archives, libraries, cultural...

File Number : 61

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : German

Documentation, including the directive given by Hitler, regarding the authorities and functions of Rosenberg's office in the Occupied Territories, 1942

Documentation, including the directive given by Hitler, regarding the authorities and functions of Rosenberg's office in the Occupied Territories, 1942 Letter written by Lammers, the head of the Reichskanzlei (Reichs Chancellor's office), including Hitler's directive: Due to the functions filled by Rosenberg as the person responsible for the education of the Nazi Party personnel, and for the spiritual struggle against [Judaism? and] the Freemasons, permission is given to Rosenberg's Einsatzstab (activities headquarters) personnel to conduct searches in the archives, libraries and Freemasons lodges, and...

File Number : 60

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : German

Documentation including the rules of action of the Sonderkommandos RR (Reichsleiter Rosenberg) units alongside the Wehrmacht, 1941

Documentation including the rules of action of the Sonderkommandos RR (Reichsleiter Rosenberg) units alongside the Wehrmacht, 1941 - Rules of action of the Sonderkommandos RR (Reichsleiter Rosenberg) units together with the military actions of the Wehrmacht, sent from the headquarters of Alfred Rosenberg for the purpose of the approval of Eduard Wagner in the Wehrmacht headquarters; definition of the aim of the Sonderkommandos: confiscation of the libraries, archives and documentation belonging to senior Church persons, Freemasons and Jewish organizations, or material important for research concerning...

File Number : 31

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : German

Directives given by Walther von Brauchitsch, the Oberbefehlshaber des Heeres (Supreme Commander of the Land Forces), regarding the activities of the Sicherheitspolizei-SIPO (Security Police) and the Sicherheitsdienst-SD (Security Service) units alongside the Wehrmacht units during the occupation of the Soviet Union, April 1941 Directives given to the Sonderkommando and the Einsatzgruppen: Sonderkommando units: - Functions of the Sonderkommando in the combat areas: Capture of property, archives and documentation belonging to organizations; capture of people of special importance (leading emigres or...

File Number : 136

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : German

Residential census of the Jewish community of Vienna , 1826-1938

Residential census of the Jewish community of Vienna , 1826-1938 Registration of birth books, marriages and deaths by the year; various files from the archives of the Jewish community in Vienna including the office supplies; the material was handed over to the Reichsstatthalter in Gemeindeverwaltung (the local Reich governor) in Vienna by the community for safekeeping and administration according to an official regulation, 03 June 1940.

File Number : 38

Type of Material : Survey Report, Official Documentation

Language : German

NSDAP (Nazi party) and Gestapo documentation regarding travel permits, arrests, confiscation of property of the Jewish community and its library and looting the contents of synagogues during the Novemberaktion (November "Aktion"), 1938 Nazi documentation regarding the Novemberaktion, 1938: - Arrests of Jews following the Kristallnacht riots among the Jews of St. Poelten; the Eichgraben vocational training camp and the Talheim vocational camp; confiscation of the archives of the Jewish community of Vienna; issuing of passports; detention of Jews with a previous conviction in the Dachau concentration camp on...

File Number : 36

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Administrative Documentation

Language : German

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