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Documentation of the Reichsministerium fuer Wissenschaft, Erziehung und Volksbildung (Reich Ministry of Science, Education and Public Education), Germany, 1933-1945

Type of Material : Survey Report, Official Documentation

Language : 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 : Official Documentation, Survey Report

Language : German

Testimony of Eliahu Ben-Yehuda, born in Gelsenkirchen, Germany, 1914, regarding his experiences in Gelsenkirchen until 1934, Amsterdam until 1936 and fighting in the Jewish Brigade

Testimony of Eliahu Ben-Yehuda, born in Gelsenkirchen, Germany, 1914, regarding his experiences in Gelsenkirchen until 1934, Amsterdam until 1936 and fighting in the Jewish Brigade Eldest son in a secular family; move to Salzwedel; displays of antisemitism; move to Gelsenkirchen, 1929; activities in the Jewish Scouts and the social-democratic movement; participation in sport; Nazi rise to power; his father’s injury; the family escape to the Netherlands; life with grandparents and completion of his studies; family move to Amsterdam, 1934; joins Hechalutz; joins aliya training; travel to the Zionist Congress...

File Number : 12340

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Documentation, including reports, protocols, orders and so forth, related mainly to activities of the RSHA, SS, SD, Police and Wehrmacht, 1939-1944; documentation dated, 1939-1946

Documentation, including reports, protocols, orders and so forth, related mainly to activities of the RSHA, SS, SD, Police and Wehrmacht, 1939-1944; documentation dated, 1939-1946 Included in the file: 23/06/1942 Letter, marked as Classified, of SS-Oberfuehrer Viktor Brack to Reichsfuehrer-SS Heinrich Himmler, in which he suggests to select and preserve approximately two-three million fit-for-work Jews following their sterilization or castration by X-ray. (pp. 2-3). 27/10/1943 Letter of SS-Gruppenfuehrer Odilo Globocnik (from Triest) to SS-Gruppenfuehrer Maximilian von Herff in the...

File Number : 120

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Correspondence, Protocol, Reports, Administrative Documentation, Orders

Language : German

Essay regarding National Socialism and the organization of science and universities by Hauptsturmfuehrer Helmut Fischer

Essay regarding National Socialism and the organization of science and universities by Hauptsturmfuehrer Helmut Fischer Essay by Hauptsturmfuehrer Helmut Fischer regarding the relationship between scientists, the organization of science and higher education, and Nazi politics.

File Number : 23

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : German

Documentation regarding the anti-Mischlinge legislation, and the conduct of medical experiments on concentration camp inmates, 1942-1944

Documentation regarding the anti-Mischlinge legislation, and the conduct of medical experiments on concentration camp inmates, 1942-1944 - Letter sent to Lammers by Minister of the Justice Schlegelberger, including a request for a repeat discussion regarding the treatment of Jews and Mischlinge, before a final decision will be made regarding the matter; - Letter written by Schlegelberger regarding the Final Solution, including an argument that the "means for the solution of the problem" are not to include second degree Mischlinge or first degree Mischlinge whose children became valued members of society;...

File Number : 81

Type of Material : 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

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