Collection of the Generalkommissariat für Verwaltung und Justiz (the German Office for Administration and Justice) in the Netherlands, 1940-1944 The Germans established a system for civil administration in 1940; Arthur Seyss-Inquart stood as the Reichskommissar - head of the civil administration; establishment of the Generalkommissariat für Verwaltung und Justiz (German Office for Administration and Justice) under Seyss-Inquart, and under the administration of Friedrich Wimmer in The Hague; among the office's functions were administration and justice: legislation, internal matters, justice, culture, education and religious matters; Included in the collection: Documents, circulars and letters of the Generalkommissariat für Verwaltung und Justiz in The Hague, regarding Jews, 1940-1944; Documentation regarding deportation laws, German citizenship and mixed marriages in the Netherlands, 1942; Documentation regarding protest by Churches in the Netherlands against the behavior of the Nazi occupation authorities, in particular against the Jewish population, 1942-1943; Circulars, including a proposal for a law related to Jews or Mischlinge in the Netherlands who serve in the public service, in positions of honor or in the free trades, 1940; Letters and a circular by Wimmer, the commissioner for Administration and Justice in the Netherlands, regarding prostitution, homosexuals, and the return of Jews to the places of work from which they were dismissed starting in 1941; Letter sent by Wimmer to the General Secretary in the Ministry of the Interior in The Hague in 1941, including a proof of the Aryan origin of Dutchmen, which was transferred to the head of the internal administration department, Calmeyer; Correspondence regarding the release of a Jewish woman, Lucie Hochheimer from Amsterdam, from the obligation to wear a yellow badge, and correspondence regarding anti-Nazi religious activities, 1941-1943; Circulars by Frederiks, the secretary general in the Ministry of the Interior in The Hague, regarding Jewish literature and art, 1942; Correspondence by Wimmer in The Hague with Seyss-Inquart and with Frederiks, the secretary general in the Ministry of the Interior, regarding the concentration of Jews in Amsterdam, 1942; Reports regarding Jewish authors Herman Heyermans, Da Costa and Herman de Man; Circular of "The Schools with the Biblia [Bible]" and the Association for Christian Folk Education, regarding the expulsion of Jewish pupils from the schools in the Netherlands in 1941; Orders given by Wimmer for the confiscation of the property of a Jew, Mannheimer from Amsterdam, and [for the confiscation] of art objects from the Kroeller Museum in the Netherlands, 1940; Internal correspondence regarding acts of violence against Jews, 1940.