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Affidavit given by Karl Frank, the SS and Police commander in the Protectorate, before the Nuremburg Trial, regarding the student riots in Prague during autumn 1939

Affidavit given by Karl Frank, the SS and Police commander in the Protectorate, before the Nuremburg Trial, regarding the student riots in Prague during autumn 1939 Karl Frank served as Der SS und Polizeifuehrer (the SS and Police commander) in the Protectorate during 1939-1941; discussion held with Hitler by Frank on 28/11/1939, the day of the demonstration by students, in which Hitler gave the instruction to disperse the demonstration, using all means possible; embarrassment by Hacha, the President of the Protectorate; scope [?] of the riots; the death of the student Opletal, due to injuries incurred at...

File Number : 273

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : Czech

Report, probably by a German security agency, regarding the political, economic and demographic situation in the Reichkommissariat Ostland, especially in the occupied Baltic countries, including the "Jewish question", 1941 (?) File number: 184 unreadable. (pp. 1 - 2) Description of the war at the Eastern front in Estonia and Russia. (pp. 2 -3) first part unreadable, then: short description of the work of the Sicherheitspolizei. (Security police) (p. 4) unreadable (p. 5) Einsatzgruppen reach Riga. Focus on "pacification of Lithuanian and Latvian land". The Sicherheitspolizei was responsible for...

File Number : 184

Excerpts from reports by Einsatzgruppe A

Excerpts from reports by Einsatzgruppe A, 1941 - Excerpt from a Gesamtbericht (General report) for the period until 15/10/1941 (pp. 1-59): The report is signed by Stahlecker; General survey of the activity of Einsatzgruppe A, including details regarding its activities, according to areas and subjects; Survey regarding the Baltic States area, with differentiation between Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, including the establishment of local auxiliary forces, prisons, "cleaning and purging" the area of the action, the struggle against Communists and the struggle against the Jews (pp. 27-31); details...

File Number : 16

Type of Material : Survey Report, Diagram, Statistical Data, Maps

Language : German

Documentation regarding the handling of Hitler's order to construct a concentration camp in Latvia for Jews deported from Germany and the Protectorate by the Generalkommissariat (Regional commissioner's office) in Riga, 1941 Aktennotiz (Action notice) for Drechsler's file, that Stahlecker, the commander of Einsatzgruppe A, conveyed an order by Hitler to construct a concentration camp in the Riga, Jelgava or Tukkum area for Jews deported from Germany and the Protectorate; the notice is handwritten at the bottom of the page and is signed with the initial "W" (apparently, one of the commanders in the regional...

File Number : 153

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : German

Order given by Dr. Stahlecker to Einsatzkommandos 1A, 1B, 2 and 3, regarding the wearing of the yellow badge [by Jews], 01/08/1941

File Number : 105

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : German

Documentation regarding the Barbarossa Operation, including sitreps of SS units; activities of the Mährisch-Ostrau Gestapo; activities of the Centers for Jewish Emigration (Zentralstellen für jüdische Auswanderung) in Vienna and Prague; the "Nisko-Lublin plan", 1939-1945

Documentation regarding the Barbarossa Operation including sitreps (situation reports) of SS units concerning "cleansing" operations, the killing of Jews and partisans, behavior of the local population, special killing units, and the operational area of Einsatzgruppe I; activities of the Mährisch-Ostrau Gestapo including deportations and correspondence (Eichmann), and the Brünn Gestapo; activities of the Centers for Jewish Emigration (Zentralstellen für jüdische Auswanderung) in Vienna and Prague, and the "Nisko-Lublin plan", 1939-1945 Documentation regarding the Operation Barbarossa, inter alia sitreps of...

File Number : 93

Type of Material : Names of Perpetrators, Official Documentation

Language : German

Documentation including reports, correspondence, memoranda and telegrams regarding the activities of the RSHA, the Eichmann office in Prague (Central Office for Jewish Emigration), the SS, Bruenn and Maerisch Ostrau Gestapo, and lists of detainees, released prisoners, Jews on the run and deportees, all from the Maerisch Ostrau district, 1939-1944 Documentation includes: Memorandum written by Gestapo officers in Maehrisch-Ostrau regarding negotiations and correspondence with the head office of the German railroad company Reichsbahn in Oppeln, Silesia concerning transport logistics,...

File Number : 87

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : German

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