[War Criminal Preeceedings on Crimes perpetrated in the Baltic States]

The file contains extensive preparations for court preceedings, testimony given and requested of victims regarding the Nazi-war crimes and crimes against humanity as well as ethnical cleansing conducted by German forces during World War II in the Baltic States. Many of the testimonials refer to Riga Ghetto and the massacres and mistreatments the victims were subjected to. Several perpetrators are named, among them Rudolf Lange and Eduard Roschmann. The file also contains extensive correspondence with Jewish organisations in Sweden, Great Britain and Germany trying to find survivors from the atrocities in the Baltic States, especially Riga and names of additional perpetrators and data regarding specific events as well as locations of those events. The correspondence also deals with the ongoing investigations and court preceedings in Germany against former war criminals and collaborators.