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Death sentences given by the Volksgerichtshof (Folk Court of Law) to German civilians accused of resistance to the Nazis during 1942-1945

Death sentences given by the Volksgerichtshof (Folk Court of Law) to German civilians accused of resistance to the Nazis during 1942-1945 - Former Regierungspraesident (Regional head) Ernst von Harnach and Lawyer Helmuth von Moltke, accused of non-transmission of the intention for the coup by Goerdeler, Leber and Leuschner; - Church personages Alfred Delp and Franz Sperr, accused of cooperating with Moltke; - Regierungrat Karl Granget and his wife Emma, accused of attempting to convince their son not to enlist in the Wehrmacht, in letters (they sent him); - Catholic Priest Ludwig Mitterer, accused...

File Number : 279

Type of Material : Legal Documentation

Language : German

Legal documentation regarding resistance to the Nazis in Germany, 1935-1937

Legal documentation regarding resistance to the Nazis in Germany, 1935-1937 - Indictment and verdict by the Oberlandesgericht (Regional Superior Court of Law for Appeals) in Hamm (Westfalen), regarding Communist organization activists, December 1935: Eighty people, most of them residents of Velbert, were accused of organizing activities for the Kommunistische Partei Deutschlands - KPD (Communist Party of Germany), the Kommunistische Jugendverband Deutschland - KJVD (Communist Party Youth Movement in Germany) and other Communist organizations in the Dusseldorf area, including the collection of membership...

File Number : 278

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : German

Survey of conditions in German-occupied countries and the Middle Eastern countries, as reported in the Nazi and local press, letters and by witnesses with an emphasis on the situation of the Jews, June-July 1943 Poland: The history of the Warsaw Ghetto; establishment of the ghetto; liquidation of the ghetto; the Uprising; deportations; deportations in the outlying areas; gas chambers in Treblinka; report from a person who visited Poland; severe economic situation; murder of Poles; murder of the intelligentsia and mass murder of farmers in the villages; lack of control of the German officers over their...

File Number : 11

Type of Material : Survey Report

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of a German woman, Tamen Koehler, regarding her experiences as a child in Berlin and concerning Communist activities during the Nazi rule

Memoirs of a German woman, Tamen Koehler, regarding her experiences as a child in Berlin and concerning Communist activities during the Nazi rule Life in a workers neighborhood in Berlin; life in a single parent family; life alongside Communist circles; small acts of resistance by Communists, including help to Jewish or Communist escapees.

File Number : 6363

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : German

Trials of employees of the Gestapoleitstelle (Gestapo Regional Headquarters) Berlin; 1966: Pre-trial hearings of former employees of the Stapoleitstelle (police administration) Berlin and testimonies of Jewish survivors

Trials of employees of the Gestapoleitstelle (Gestapo Regional Headquarters) Berlin: Pre-trial hearings of former employees of the Stapoleitstelle (police administration) Berlin and testimonies of Jewish survivors, 1966 In the file: - Information regarding Hans Dreier and Dr. Edwin Kunz, former employees of the Stapoleitstelle Berlin (pp.1-2); - Protocol, and a list of names and addresses of Gestapoleitstelle employees who had not been questioned until then, including Otto Bovensiepen (p. 3) and Eugen Woerner, temporary chief of the Judenreferat (Department for Jewish Affairs) RSHA IV-D-1 (p. 4), both...

File Number : 25

Type of Material : Letter, Record of Persecuted Persons, Record of Survivors, Legal Documentation, Record of Deportees, Names of Perpetrators, Sentence, Official Documentation, Testimony, Photograph

Language : German

Letters sent by Ursula Anna Maria De Boor from prison, to her family members and to Harold Berman in London, 1944-1946

Letters sent by Ursula Anna Maria De Boor from prison, to her family members and to Harold Berman in London, 1944-1946 Ursula Anna Maria De Boor was a German woman, a Christian who was persecuted by the Germans due to her views.

File Number : 662

Type of Material : Letter

Language : German

Pre-trial hearings of former employees of the Gestapoleitstelle (Central Office) Berlin for murder (deportation of Jews to extermination camps): Examination of Josef Kania and Josef Kirchhoff, other former employees of the Gestapoleitstelle (Central Office) Berlin and Berlin Jewish survivors, 1964 - 1965 The file includes i. A.: - Pre-trial hearing of Josef Kania and Josef Kirchhoff, who were accused to have of working for Section IV-C-3 (=Section for confiscation, administration and seizure of Jewish property); pp. 133-139; 184-190.- Testimonies with information on the participation of former members ...

File Number : 6

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : German

Documents and excerpts from books regarding the David Frankfurter Trial, mainly regarding German-Swiss relations throughout the Nazi period in Germany, 1933-1991

Documents and excerpts from books regarding the David Frankfurter Trial, mainly regarding German-Swiss relations throughout the Nazi period in Germany, 1933-1991 Most of the documents are regarding German-Swiss relations during the Nazi period, and mainly regarding the German undermining of the Swiss rule; documentation of the Jewish resistance (pp. 1-33, 258-275); the origins of the Frankfurter family and their fate (pp. 211-216, 219-229); the fate of David Frankfurter after his conviction (pp. 255, 257). Pages 1-2: Title page and short summary regarding the "Stand Und Problematik Der Erforschung Des...

File Number : 5

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Letter, Book, Article, Research Literature, Film, Research Article

Language : Italian, French, English, German

Trial against Otto Bovensiepen and other employees of the Gestapoleitstelle (Central Office) Berlin; Testimony by Franz Buechel, former member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany imprisoned during the Nazi rule, and other documentation related to Buechel, 1950 - 1970 Franz Buechel claimed compensation for his imprisonment during the Nazi rule in Germany. The file contains i.A.: -resume of Franz Buechel (pp. 1-2) -list of Buechel's imprisonments (p. 4) -notes for the file regarding the case of Franz Buechel (pp. 5-7, p. 18, pp. 19-20) -attestation concerning the death of Hans Buechel, son of...

File Number : 210

Language : German

Trial against employees of the Gestapoleitstelle (Central Office) Berlin; Documentation by the RSHA and Jewish communities in the German Reich regarding the reprisals taken by the Gestapo against Berlin Jews following the arson against the propaganda exhibition "The Soviet Paradise" ("Das Sowjet-Paradies") in Berlin in May 1942 Official announcements made by the RSHA to the Jewish communities of Germany (Reichsvereinigung), Prague and Vienna, demanding the to inform the Jews in the Reich about the reprisals taken by Nazi authorities against Jews and threatening them with harsher measures in the future. The...

File Number : 162

Type of Material : Lists, List of Deportees, List of Murdered Jews, Legal Documentation

Language : German

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