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Decrees, ordinances, regulations and announcements by the Generalgouvernement authorities, 1938-1945

Decrees, ordinances, regulations and announcements by the Generalgouvernement authorities, 1938-1945 Appeal by the Commander of the Army, Walther von Brauchitsch, regarding the invasion of German troops into Poland and his executive authority, 01/09/1939 (pp. 3 and 4); Decrees enacted by the Commander of the Army, Walther von Brauchitsch, regarding the introduction of German criminal law, special courts in the occupied Polish territory, and sentencing of crimes by adolescents, 05/09/1939-10/09/1939 (pp. 5-8); Decrees by the Fuehrer and Reich Chancellor regarding the: - Administration of the...

File Number : 1

Type of Material : Correspondence, Announcement, Reports, Circular, Orders, Lists, Official Documentation, Questionnaire, Copy

Language : Polish, German

Verdicts based on the Treachery Act of 1934 issued by the Vienna Special Court, 1942

Verdicts based on the Treachery Act of 1934 issued by the Vienna Special Court, 1942 Pages 2-6: Verdict based on the Treachery Act of 1934 issued against Johanna Hellmayer by the Vienna Special Court: sentenced to five month in prison, 11 March 1942; Pages 7-12: Verdict based on the Treachery Act of 1934 issued against the Jew Friedrich Israel Beer by the Vienna Special Court: sentenced to one year and three months in prison, 13 March 1942; Page 13: Note dated 09 December 1942 regarding the transfer of the Jewish inmate Friedrich Israel Beer from the Goellersdorf prison to the Vienna...

File Number : 353

Type of Material : Legal Documentation, Official Documentation

Language : German

Personnel files of employees of the Nazi executive in the Warsaw district, including Waldemar Schoen, the official in charge of relocation in Warsaw, Heinz Auerswald, commissioner of the Warsaw Ghetto ("Kommissar fuer den Juedischen Wohnbezirk Warschau") and Hans Krueger, judge at the court of Konitz in Pomerania; documents dated, 1940-1943 Included in the file: Page 119/3 (which seems to belong to another file): Letter from the Reichskommissar fuer das Ostland to the Reichsministerium fuer die besetzten Gebiete, 23 November 1942, stating that 30,000 Jews remained in the Minsk district ("Generalbezirk"),...

File Number : 49

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Legal Documentation

Language : Polish, German

"The German Penal System under the Nazi Regime", essay written by Dr. Bruno Blau

"The German Penal System under the Nazi Regime", essay written by Dr. Bruno Blau In the file: 2-Scanned File: Postwar "The German Penal System under the Nazi Regime", essay by Dr. Bruno Blau, New York, describing the history of Nazi law from its early days undermining lawful procedures to its totally arbitrary approach to prosecution: - Executions of politically undesirable persons during the "Night of the Long Knives"; - Death penalties, based on overriding of court decisions by direct intervention of Hitler; - The "Nacht und Nebel Erlass" (Night and Fog Decree), 1941; - Nazi...

File Number : 325

Type of Material : Research Article, Testimony, Official Documentation

Language : Hebrew, German

Documentation regarding the verdict handed down by a Nazi court in Berlin against Ernst Hallermann, born in Brussels, Belgium, 1911, and ten other defendants for (among other charges) illegal acquisition of food-stamps for Jews in hiding, 1942-1944 In the file: - Cover report by Dr. Ball-Kaduri regarding the documentation concerning the verdict handed down by a Nazi court in Berlin againstg Ernst Hallermann for (among other charges) illegal acquisition of food-stamps in Berlin, 1942-1943 (pp. 3-4), January 1960; - Memo by Dr. Ball-Kaduri regarding an interview with Ernst Hallermann in Cologne, 05 July...

File Number : 282

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Legal Documentation, Testimony

Language : Hebrew, German

Testimony of Dr. Leo Scherek regarding his experiences in detention in Baden-Baden, 1937

Testimony of Dr. Leo Scherek regarding his experiences in detention in Baden-Baden, 1937 - Keren Hayesod (United Israel Fund) information evening at the Hotel Tannhaeuser in Baden-Baden; lecture by Dr. Scherek regarding the political situation and development possibilities in Eretz Israel, April 1937; arrest of all the speakers after the information evening on the charge of making anti-German remarks; - Preliminary arrest of Dr. Scherek; obliging treatment by a prison officer regarding food supplies; interrogation in a polite manner by a perceptive judge over 24 hours; disclosure regarding the order of...

File Number : 45

Type of Material : Testimony, Official Documentation

Language : German

Documentation from the State Archive in Warsaw, Poland (Archiwum Panstwowe w Warszawie - APW), 1939-1950

Official documentation from the State Archive in Warsaw, including documentation from various places in the Warsaw district. Included in the documentation are the following collections' sub-record groups: Documents of the Warsaw province and the Warsaw municipality, and the local administration (county and commune) in Warsaw, Ostrowia Mazowiecka and Minsk; Courts of Law (the Special Court, District Court, Provincial Court and Municipal Court) in: Warsaw, Żyrardow, Ciechanów, Mława, Przasnysz and Płock; Prosecutors' Offices in Warsaw, Ciechanów and Ełk; Police in Warsaw, Garwolin and Ciechanów; Prisons in...

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Legal Documentation, Administrative Documentation

Language : Polish, Russian, German, Yiddish