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Documentation regarding the persecution and murder of Jews in the "occupied Eastern territories" (Soviet Union) during 1941-1944, including postwar testimonies and affidavits, administrative correspondence, reports, anti-Jewish decrees and orders, and other documents; documents dated, 1941-1965 Included in the file: 18/06/1943 (p. 3) Letter by the Reich Commissioner for the Ostland (Hinrich Lohse), addressed to the Reichsminister for the occupied Eastern territories (Alfred Rosenberg), regarding secret reports of the General Commissioner in Minsk, Wilhelm Kube, concerning the handling of the "Jewish...

File Number : 137

Type of Material : Laws and Decrees, Testimony, Survey Report, Reports, Correspondence, Circular, Letter(s), Legal Documentation, Note

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

Letter sent to Alfred Rosenberg by Fritz Sauckel, the chief Power of Attorney of the four-year plan for the draft of manpower, regarding the draft of laborers in the Occupied Territories in the East for the purpose of forced labor in Germany, 1943 Request by Sauckel for support of his plan for the draft one million women and men as forced laborers within four months of the date the letter was written, at a rate that will start at approximately 5,000 laborers each day and which will be doubled within two weeks; daily draft quotas will be implemented in the countries whose territory is under Rosenberg's...

File Number : 52

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : German

Order by Heydrich to locate the Soviet, Communist, and Jewish POWs in the POW camps, 1941

Order by Heydrich to locate the Soviet, Communist, and Jewish POWs in the POW camps, 1941 Directives to the Sicherheitspolizei-SIPO and the Sicherheitsdienst-SD Kommandos (Security Police and Security Service units) that will be established in the POW camps for the purpose of the political inspection of the POWs, following the agreement between the SIPO and the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht - OKW (Supreme Command of the Wehrmacht); details regarding 12 groups that are to be identified among the POWs, including: Jews, Communist Party functionaries, key people in the economy, commissars, members of the...

File Number : 30

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : German

Directives given by the office of the Reichsminister fuer die besetzten Ostgebiete (Reichs Minister for the Occupied Territories in the East), regarding the definition of the term "Jew" in the occupied territories in the East, 1942 Differentiation between Jews with German citizenship, and German Jews who were deported to the East because they lost their citizenship; validity of the Nuremberg Laws toward Jews with German citizenship; German Jews who were deported are considered as being stateless; validity of the directives toward first-degree Mischlinge, and [toward] Jews who are intermarried; the validity...

File Number : 198

Type of Material : Laws and Decrees, Official Documentation

Language : German

Order by Heydrich to locate the Soviet, Communist, and Jewish POWs in the POW camps, 1941

File Number : 104

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : German

Correspondence regarding General Wlassow (Andrey Vlasov) and his Russian Liberation Army, 1944-1945

File Number : 829

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : German

Official documentation regarding the coordination and integration of Cossack forces into the German Wehrmacht, 1941-1944

Official documentation regarding the coordination and integration of Cossack forces into the German Wehrmacht, 1941-1944 Included in the file: - Correspondence, advice, sitreps, reports, and newspaper clippings regarding the coordination and integration of Cossack forces into the Wehrmacht; - Cossack alignment with Hitler, including background and reasoning; - Cossack combat units that fought, along with Wehrmacht units, in the Nowogrodek area; - Insight into the ideology of the Cossack National Movement; - Assessment and resettlement of Cossacks in the German-occupied territories.

File Number : 828

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : German

Secret report prepared by SS-Untersturmfuhre Straube, regarding a discussion with Gauleiter Meyer concerning the military situation, the question of evacuation, the housing of the evacuees in Germany, and other matters Secret report prepared by SS-Untersturmfuhre Straube of the personnel (?) department, regarding a discussion with Gauleiter Meyer concerning the military situation, the question of evacuation, and the housing of evacuees in Germany and in Cossacks' defense villages.

File Number : 199

Type of Material : Survey Report

Letter from the Reichskommissar of Ostland (the eastern occupied areas) to the Reichsminister of Ostland, including a warning against cruelty to the Jews and acts of retaliation against the population

File Number : 140

Type of Material : Letter

Language : German