Documentation of the office of the Geheime Staatspolizei Staatspolizeistelle Litzmannstadt (German Secret Police) in Lodz during 1939-1943 Included in the collection is a list of Jewish inmates from the main prison in Sieradz; reports of the SIPO supervisor and the SD, regarding the mood among the Polish population, Gestapo activities and deported Jewish inmates; reports of the SIPO supervisor and the SD in Poznan, regarding the mood among the Polish population and the fight against the Polish underground; periodical reports of the SIPO supervisor to the Reichsgau Wartheland governor, regarding the mood among the Polish population, the fight against the Polish underground and the subject of the solution of the "Jewish question"; periodical reports of the Criminal Police in Lodz, [regarding] the attitude of the Poles toward the Germans and the theft of Jewish property; reports regarding the activities of the German Police headquarters, instructions regarding the Jews, Poles and Volksdeutsche, and the enforcement of the Nuremberg Laws; documentation regarding the Brzeziny Ghetto and the illegal acceptance of Jews from other ghettos.