Reichssicherheitshauptamt selected records (R 58)

Identifier
irn502159
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1999.A.0050
  • RG-14.016M
Dates
1 Jan 1933 - 31 Dec 1945
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • German
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn502159

Extent and Medium

14,442 microfiche,

Creator(s)

  • Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei

Archival History

Bundesarchiv (Germany)

Acquisition

Forms part of the Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. This archive consists of documentation whose reproduction and/or acquisition was made possible with funding from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.

From the German Federal Archives, collection R 58. A portion of R 58 came from the East German Archives in Potsdam, where it was formerly collection 17.01/PSt 3, before it was moved to the German Federal Archives and added to R 58. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's International Archives Project acquired the microfiche from the Bundesarchiv, Germany, in 1999 and 2002. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the microfiche in Apr. 1999 and May 2002.

Scope and Content

Contains files relating to the surveillance and persecution of leftist political parties and their organs, and labor unions; the control of the press and literature; the combat against and the destruction of anti-Nazi organizations in the occupied and annexed territories and the treatment of prisoners of war and foreign laborers; and the persecution of Jews. Also includes documents of organizational orders and decrees relating to the Sicherheitspolizei, opinion and situation reports of the SD from 1938 to 1944, activity reports for the USSR from 1941 to 1942, and SD reports on the political and economic situation in areas outside Germany.

System of Arrangement

Record Group R 58, Reichssicherheitshauptamt. Organized: File 1-1566; 2001-4265 (files 2554-3000 not allocated). File 2001-4265 formerly held at the East German State Archives in Potsdam as a collection of 17.01 PSt 3

Conditions Governing Reproduction

Copyright Holder: Bundesarchiv (Germany)

Corporate Bodies

  • SS (Organization)

Subjects

  • Antisemitism--Germany.
  • Labor unions and fascism.
  • Germany--Politics and government--1933-1945.
  • Forced labor--Germany--History--20th century.
  • Political parties--Germany.
  • Jews--Germany--History.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, German.

Genre

  • Document
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Copies

  • Bundesarchiv, Koblenz

    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum holds copies of Holocaust-relevant archives from Bundesarchiv (Germany)