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      <titlestmt>
        <titleproper>Valtiollisen poliisin II arkisto</titleproper>
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        <publisher>Kansallisarkisto</publisher>
        <address>
          <addressline>Rauhankatu 17</addressline>
          <addressline> 00170</addressline>
          <addressline>Helsinki</addressline>
          <addressline>FI</addressline>
          <addressline>+358 29 533 7000</addressline>
          <addressline>+358 9 176 302</addressline>
          <addressline>https://www.arkisto.fi/</addressline>
          <addressline>kirjaamo@arkisto.fi</addressline>
          <addressline>Finland</addressline>
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      <creation>This file was exported automatically from the EHRI database administration tool and represents a work-in-progress.
        <date normal="20210102">2021-01-02T19:09:45.058Z</date>
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        <language langcode="eng">English</language>
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        <language langcode="swe" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Swedish</language>
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      <repository>
        <corpname>Kansallisarkisto</corpname>
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      <p><![CDATA[Description was made by Filip Sikorski, on the basis of "Arkistojen portti" [The Gates of the Archives] website, http://wiki.narc.fi/portti/index.php/Valtiollinen_poliisi.]]></p>
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    <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
      <p><![CDATA[The archive includes personal cards, personal files, interrogation minutes, case files, reports, photos, and journals, among other things. The Holocaust-related records are only a small part of this vast collection. They are described as child collections.]]></p>
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      <p><![CDATA[In 1948 some parts of the archive were deliberately destroyed.]]></p>
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          <unitid>Valpo II, amp IX A 4</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">SS-miehet</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">2 boxes</physdesc>
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            <language langcode="fin" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Finnish</language>
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          <p><![CDATA[Description was made by Filip Sikorski.]]></p>
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        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[The records concern establishment and activity of the Finnish Volunteer Battalion of the *Waffen-SS*.]]></p>
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        <bibliography encodinganalog="3.5.4">
          <p><![CDATA[Finland’s Holocaust: Silences of History / edited by Simo Muir and Hana Worthen. – Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. – Includes Antero Holmila’s article “*’Soldaten wie andere auch’*: Finnish *Waffen*-SS Volunteers and Finland’s Historical Imagination.”

Panttipataljoona: Suomalaisen SS-pataljoonan historia [The pawn battalion: History of the Finnish SS-battalion] / Mauno Jokipii. – Helsinki: Weilin+Göös, 1968. ]]></p>
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          <corpname source="ehri_cb" authfilenumber="001392">Suomalainen Waffen-SS-vapaaehtoispataljoona</corpname>
          <corpname source="ehri_cb" authfilenumber="437">Waffen-SS</corpname>
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          <unitid>Valpo II, amp XII J</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Vieraat kansallisuudet ja ulkomaalaiset Suomessa: Juutalaiset</unittitle>
          <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">2 folders</physdesc>
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            <language langcode="fin" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Finnish</language>
            <language langcode="swe" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Swedish</language>
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          <p><![CDATA[Description was made by Filip Sikorski.]]></p>
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        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[The records concern Jews and Jewish refugees in Finland in 1940s. The records include lists of the Finnish Jews and Jewish refugees, and files concerning Arno Anthoni’s trial.]]></p>
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          <p><![CDATA[The records are divided into two groups: J (Jews) and J 5 (Deported Jews).]]></p>
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          <p>
            <date><![CDATA[2014-03]]></date>
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      <c01 level="subseries">
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          <unitid>Valpo II, amp XXV G</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Vuosien 1939-1944 sodat ja niistä johtunut toiminta: Suhteet Saksaan</unittitle>
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            <language langcode="fin" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Finnish</language>
            <language langcode="swe" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Swedish</language>
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          <p><![CDATA[Description was made by Filip Sikorski.]]></p>
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        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[The records concern Finland’s relations with Germany during World War II. Subgroup G 5 is especially important; it includes records concerning deportations of Jewish refugees to Germany.]]></p>
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          <p><![CDATA[The group XXV G is divided into several subgroups. 1: political relations; 1a: Germans’ border traffic at the Finland-Norway border; 2: Finland’s and Germany’s war; 2a: Fraternizing during wartime; 2b: Persons who moved to Germany’s side; 2c: Persons imprisoned by the Germans; 2d: Finns interned by the Germans; 2e: Germans who stayed in Finland; 5: Deportations to Germany.]]></p>
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        <bibliography encodinganalog="3.5.4">
          <p><![CDATA[Salaiset aseveljet: Suomen ja Saksan turvallisuuspoliisiyhteistyö 1933-1944 [Secret brothers-in-arms: The cooperation of the Finnish and German security police 1933-1944] / Oula Silvennoinen. – Helsinki: Otava, 2008.

Silvennoinen’s book has appeared also in German and Estonian.

Geheime Waffenbrüderschaft: Die sicherheitspolizeiliche Zusammenarbeit zwischen Finnland und Deutschland 1933-1944 / Oula Silvennoinen; translated by Klaus Rachel and Kaija Rachel. – Darmstadt: WBG, 2010.
]]></p>
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            <date><![CDATA[2014-03]]></date>
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      <persname source="ehri_pers" authfilenumber="000441">Anthoni, Arno</persname>
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      <geogname>Finland</geogname>
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