[War Criminal Preeceedings on Crimes perpetrated in the Baltic States]
Extent and Medium
1 electronic resource (337 pages)
Creator(s)
- Association of Baltic Jews in Great Britain
- Jewish Committee for Relief Abroad
- Tsenṭral ḳomiṭeṭ fun di bafrayṭe Yidn in der Ameriḳaner zone
- Committee for the investigation of Nazi Crimes in Baltic Countries
- Michelson, H., 1908-
- Elwyn-Jones, Frederick, Baron, 1909-1989
- Kaufmann, Max
- Dam, H. G. van (Hendrik George), 1906-1973
Scope and Content
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 and their Baltic collaborators 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, Otto Tuchel, Eduard Roschmann, as well as Latvian SS collaborator Herbert Cukurs, the so called "Butcher of Riga" or "Hangman of Riga". The file also contains extensive correspondence with Jewish organisations in Sweden, Great Britain and Germany trying to find survivors and their testimony 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 their collaborators. The file also contains a tractise of Adolf Hitler's speeches and occasions of public speaking, constructing the Jews as the ultimate enemy of the German people. The tractise contains a large number of excerpts including the most common types of anti-jewish propaganda used by the nazi ideology.
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Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Mode of access: WWW
Note(s)
Electronic access only
Electronic text and image data. Jerusalem : Yad Vashem 2015
Title viewed 28.11.2016
People
- Tuchel, Otto
- Seck, Rudolf Joachim, 1908-1974
- Sorge, Gustav Hermann
- Migge, Kurt Richard Rudolf, 1908-
- Cukurs, Herbert, 1900-1965
- Roschmann, Eduard, 1908-1977
- Lange, Rudolf, 1910-1945
Subjects
- Military history, Modern--20th century.
- War crimes--History--20th century
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
- Jews--Psychology--Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Baltic States.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Baltic States
- Riga Ghetto Case
- Affidavits
- War crimes--Baltic States
- War criminals--Baltic States
- World War, 1939-1945--Occupied territories
- World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns
- Nuremberg War Crime Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, 1946-1949
- World War, 1939-1945--Collaborationists--Latvia
Places
- Europe--History--1939-1945