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Documentation from the investigation report regarding Paul Wegener, the Reichsstatthalter (Reichs Gauleiter and governor) in the Gau Weser-Ems (area), concerning concentration camps, 03/07/1945

Documentation from the investigation report regarding Paul Wegener, the Reichsstatthalter (Reichs Gauleiter and governor) in the Gau Weser-Ems (area), concerning concentration camps, 03/07/1945 Claim by Wegener that the he did not know about the situation in the concentration camps and about concentration camps located in his Gau, except for the prisons in Papenburg and Esterwegen; claim by Wegener that Himmler and the SS elite are the main people responsible for the situation in the concentration camps; supposition by Wegener that there was a special organization that dealt with the administration of the...

File Number : 228

Type of Material : Investigation Report

Language : English

Benjamin Sagalowitz Archive: Articles in Swiss newspapers regarding Nazi activity and agents serving the Third Reich in Switzerland, 1933-1945

Benjamin Sagalowitz Archive: Articles in Swiss newspapers regarding Nazi activity and agents serving the Third Reich in Switzerland, 1933-1945 In the file: - "Whom The Gods Would Destroy, They Smite With Blindness", an article that appeared in the Erfurt "Welt-Dienst", as published in "Der Arbeitslose", November 1934, accusing the Jews of responsibility for the League of Nations decision to allow the Soviet Union to join the League of Nations (pp. 3-5); – Bulletin and articles regarding the Evian Conference that appeared in "Correspondance Juive", the WJC (World Jewish Congress) magazine published in...

File Number : 204

Type of Material : Newspaper Clippings, Article, Survey Report

Language : French, German

Testimony of Harry Nemesitz, born in Vienna, Austria, 1921, regarding his experiences in labor battalions in Galánta and Kassa and in Donnerskirchen and Mauthausen camps and more

Testimony of Harry Nemesitz, born in Vienna, Austria, 1921, regarding his experiences in labor battalions in Galánta and Kassa and in Donnerskirchen and Mauthausen camps and more Life in Galánta including being assigned to Labor Battalion (zászlóalj) No. 9 and Battalion No. 11; transfer to forced labor in the labor battalions, October 1942; labor in various locations in constructing fortifications and traps for tanks; transfer to the Carpathian Ruthenia area, November 1943; transfer to Stanislów; transfer to Csobád; cruelty of the battalion commander, Milhály Kovács, including torturing the laborers;...

File Number : 2679

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hungarian

To be translated

Documentation from the Amtsgericht Aalen Included in the Collection are files regarding trials, the grand majority of them against non-Jewish forced laborers.

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Circular, List of Detainees, Brochure, List of Party Members, Journal, List of Jews, Newspaper, List of Businesses

Language : German

To be translated

File Number : 2873

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hungarian

Letter written by a Jewish US Army soldier, F. Simons on 03/06/1945, sent from Fuerth, Germany to his family in New York, the United States, 03/06/1945

Letter written by a Jewish US Army soldier, F. Simons on 03/06/1945, sent from Fuerth, Germany to his family in New York, the United States, 03/06/1945 In his letter, Simons tells about his visit to a farm where Gauleiter Julius Streicher resided and a camp where German POWs were imprisoned; included are two telegrams sent to Streicher by Kreisleiter Engelhard and Maegerlein, regarding the results of the elections in their regions in 1933.

File Number : 2885

Language : Dutch, German