Documentation from the Bundesarchiv (German Federal Archives) regarding the Holocaust

Identifier
M.29
Language of Description
English
Dates
1 Jan 1919 - 31 Dec 1945
Languages
  • German
Source
EHRI

Extent and Medium

The Record Group is open for accepting additional official documentation

Scope and Content

The Yad Vashem Archives has systematically gathered documentation from the Bundesarchiv, as well as documentation from the Militärarchiv in subsection M.29.Fr. The Records Groups in the Central Archive from which Yad Vashem gathers this documentation belongs to two Abteilungen (sections) of the Archives: - The R -Deutsches Reich Section which houses documentation from state institutions. In this section, only files from the 1920s until the end of World War II regarding Jews and the persecution of Jews are checked;- The NS Section is which the documentation regarding the Nazi party institutions and organizations and the State Institutions that were unique to the Third Reich (such as the RSHA) is concentrated. All the files related to Jews and their persecution are examined here.

Existence and Location of Originals

  • Bundesarchiv. Germany

Dates of Descriptions

2013-05-21

Subjects

Places

  • Germany

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