Headquarters of Uniformierteregierungspolizei (Uniformed Government Police) in Brno (1919) 1942–1945

Identifier
COLLECTION.SURV.MZA_Brno/1081
Language of Description
English
Dates
1 Jan 1919 - 31 Dec 1945
Level of Description
Fonds
Languages
  • German
  • Czech
Source
EHRI Partner

Extent and Medium

2,76 linear meters

Acquisition

The fonds was created through the merging of individual parts kept at various places. The regulations were taken from the fonds of the Police Directorate Brno, and when the fonds was being arranged its original keeping in containers and marking with call numbers was retained. The actual documents of the Headquarters of Uniformed Government Police and Headquarters of the Police Company had already been listed by Dr. Milada Musilová. During the inventory of the fonds their listing was taken over with minor adjustments and it became a part of this inventory. Documents arising from the activity of the 1st Police District were also added to the fonds.

Scope and Content

The fonds contains written material from the time of the occupation, and it is preserved in a fragmentary fashion. It contains the documents of the Headquarters of Uniformed Government Police and Headquarters of the Police Company. Here reports about transports of Jews primarily concern the Jewish matter. They are these documents: Damage to posters, distribution of leaflets, damage to company signs, the painting of anti–Jewish slogans, anti–German graffiti etc. 1939–1943; Jews – orders and regulations about presence and behaviour of Jews in public rooms and parks, marking of Jewish shops and enterprises 1939–1940; Directive for transport of Jews by rail 1926 – 1942; Export of products – Jewish firms 1939; Order on suppressing reports about the conditions in transports of Jews, relocation from concentration camps in connection with Soviet winter offensive (deaths in open wagons at 20 degrees below zero, and naked bodies being thrown off the wagons along the track) 1945; Order to suppress rumours about situation during transport of Jews and prisoners transported across the Protectorate to concentration camps 1945.

System of Arrangement

The surviving documents of the fonds consist of two separate parts – collection of regulations designated by call numbers 1–45, which are divided into subgroups according to the amount and type of material, mainly from the period when the uniformed police guard was administered by the police directorate in Brno. The second part contains the actual documents of the Headquarters of the Uniformed Government Police from the years 1942–1945, to which has been added some of the surviving documents of its subordinate elements Headquarters of Police Company and 1st Police District.

Finding Aids

Process Info

  • This archival description was created by the Jewish Museum in Prague in the framework of the cooperation between EHRI and the Yerusha project.

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