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Documentation from the trial of Bovensiepen and others: Trial against Wilhelm Koppe at the Bonn regional court, 1964

Documentation from the trial of Bovensiepen and others: Trial against Wilhelm Koppe at the Bonn regional court, 1964 Yad Vashem file card (p.1) Indictment against Wilhelm Heinrich Carl Koppe because of accessory of mass murder Overview about the content of the file (pp.2-7) Indictment and trial against Koppe in regional court Bonn in 1964: (pp.8-13) Koppe was accused because of different actions: The newly appointed police commander was an active participant in the implementation of Nazi racial ideals, and in November 1939 he declared that he would make Posen 'free from Jews' (Judenrein), after...

File Number : 138

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Testimony

Language : German

Documentation, including testimonies, witness reports and affidavits, in the context of the Nazi war crimes trials held in Germany, 1947-1969

Documentation, including testimonies, witness reports and affidavits, in the context of the Nazi war crimes trials held in Germany, 1947-1969 Included in the file: 13/10/1947 Record of interrogation concerning the hearing of Bernhard Loesener, a former undersecretary in the Reichs Interior Ministry, during the Ministries Trial or so-called "Wilhelmstrasse Trial"; (pp. 2-12). 17/10/1947 Affidavit of Bernhard Loesener, concerning his function as Undersecretary (Ministerialrat) in the "Judenreferat" of the Reich Interior Ministry, regarding the occurrence of the Nuremberg Laws (Law for the...

File Number : 141

Type of Material : Testimony, Questionnaire, Reports

Language : German

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, Reports, Correspondence, Protocol, Orders, Administrative Documentation

Language : German

Directives by Himmler, regarding the imposition of punishment by death with intervention [?] by the legal system, 1942

Directives by Himmler, regarding the imposition of punishment by death with intervention [?] by the legal system, 1942 The document was written by Himmler following his meeting with Staatssekretaer Rothenberger and with Streckenbach and Bender, senior members of the SS; in the event that the legal process is insufficient, the criminal can be put on "Special Treatment" by the Police, this following the decision by Himmler, Borman and the Minister of Justice; other means for the amendment of the law: People's Court (without Nazi Party intervention) and destruction by means of labor (putting of anti-social...

File Number : 102

Language : German

Documentation by the German SS and Police Administration concerning deportations in the context of the "Generalplan Ost" (Master Plan East), and in particular, regarding the distribution of Jewish property looted during "Aktion Reinhard" (the Reinhard Operation), 1939-1944 Included in the file: 12/04/1943 - 03/08/1943 Various bills for equipment, issued by the SS and Police Administration in Lublin, (pp. 3-63), 09/06/1942 Note regarding the approval of a request for clothing by an SS officer, (page 64), 08/06/1942 Report regarding five collaborators (probably Polish), who arrested three...

File Number : 68

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

Language : Polish, German

Documentation by the German Security Authorities in the annexed or occupied Polish territories, in particular regarding the deportations of Poles and Jews from Reichsgau Wartheland in the context of the Generalplan Ost, 1939-1944 Included in the file: Correspondence by the command of the POW camp of the Waffen-SS in Lublin, including: 09/02/1943 Request regarding an SS man accused of desertion (page 3), 09/02/1943 List of SS men who are farmers or agricultural workers (pp. 4-6), 09/02/1943 Various letters regarding SS staff matters (pp. 7-11), 09/02/1943 Report of an offense...

File Number : 66

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

Language : German