Volksdeutsche Mittelstelle (R 59)

Identifier

irn502296

Language of Description

English

Alt. Identifiers

1999.A.0256
RG-14.047M

Dates

1 Jan 1922 - 31 Dec 1945, 1 Jan 1940 - 31 Dec 1944

Level of Description

Item

Languages

German

Source

EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn502296

Extent and Medium

1,415 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.

Source of acquisition is the Bundesarchiv, Berlin, Germany, Record Group 59. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's International Programs Division acquired the microfiche from the Bundesarchiv in Koblenz, Germany, in Oct. 1999. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the microfiche in Nov. 1999.

Scope and Content

Records relate to the activities of the agency in directing and overseeing German "Volksgruppen" outside Germany proper, especially population transfers (Umsiedlungspolitik), transit facilities, and ideological indoctrination.

Conditions Governing Reproduction

Corporate Bodies

SS (Organization)

Subjects

Germany--Politics and government--1933-1945.
Population transfers--Germans--History--20th century.
Ethnic relations.
Nationalism--Germany.

Genre

Document

This description is derived directly from structured data provided to EHRI by a partner institution. This collection holding institution considers this description as an accurate reflection of the archival holdings to which it refers at the moment of data transfer.

Copies

Bundesarchiv, Koblenz

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