Miscellaneous records. Materials in special custody Materialien in Spezialverwahrung (Fond 1525)
Extent and Medium
2 microfilm reels (partial), 16 mm
3,884 digital images, JPEG
Archival History
Rossiĭskiĭ gosudarstvennyĭ voennyĭ arkhiv
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 Russian State Military Archive (Rossiĭskiĭ gosudarstvennyĭ voennyĭ arkhiv), Osobyi Archive, Fond 1525. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the filmed collection via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum International Archival Programs Division in 1993.
Scope and Content
Diverse records including the archive of the former SS officer Prützmann; records about an SS doctor's work on forced sterilization; name lists of foreign nationals, annotated by the Hungarian police; details about atrocities at KL Sachsenhausen; records about Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski, a commander of SS anti-partisan units, including his military tribunal hearing; Gestapo information about the "Mopper" underground organization in Hessen-Frankfurt in 1936; lists of Gestapo documents found in the building of the Reichssicherheitshauptamt in Berlin; materials on German crimes in Belorussia, including documents of the Extraordinary Commission; correspondence of the Ministerstvo gosudarstvennoĭ bezopasnosti (MGB) from 1952 to 1953 concerning the receipt of captured German documents, and listing of captured Gestapo documents dealing with intelligence. Note: USHMM Archives holds only selected records.
System of Arrangement
Fond 1525 (1797-1963). Opis 1; Dela 275. Selected records arranged in three series: 1. Archive of the former SS officer Hans Prützmann, 1940; 2. Records relating to medical experiments, 3. Materials relating to concentration camp of Sachsenhausen (Volume I-III); 3. Russian Ministries correspondence, 1952-1953. Note: Location od digital images; Partial microfilm reels: #94-95; Reel 94: Image #393-Reel end; Reel 95: Reel start-Reel end.
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Copyright Holder: Rossiĭskiĭ gosudarstvennyĭ voennyĭ arkhiv
People
- Himmler, Heinrich, 1900-1945.
- Prützmann, Hans Adolf, 1901-1945.
- Bach, Erich von dem, 1899-1972.
Corporate Bodies
- Soviet Union. Committee for State Security (KGB)
- Sachsenhausen (Concentration camp)
- Einsatzgruppen
Subjects
- War crimes--History--20th century.
- Holocaust Jewish (1939-1945)
- Crime and criminals--Europe--History--20th century.
- Jews--Persecutions--Estonia--History--20th century.
- Propaganda--Germany--History--20th century.
- Underground movements--Russia (Federation)--1940-1950.
- War crimes investigation.
- Operation Hamburg, 1943.
- Human experimentation in medicine--Germany--History--20th century.
- Operation Kottbus, 1943.
- World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Europe.
- Russia (Federation)--Politics and government--1936-1953.
- Germany--Politics and government--1933-1945.
- Poland--History--Occupation, 1939-1945 .
Genre
- Registers.
- Correspondence.
- Certificates.
- Document