Selected records from Hessisches Staatsarchiv Darmstadt
Extent and Medium
63 microfilm reels, 35 mm
Archival History
Hessisches Staatsarchiv Darmstadt
Acquisition
Original records located in the Hessisches Staatsarchiv Darmstadt. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's International Archives Project exchanged the microfilm with the Yad Vashem Archives in Jerusalem, Israel. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the microfilm in June 2003.
Scope and Content
Contains a variety of records related to the fate of Jews between 1933 and 1945 in the "Volksstaat Hessen" (Land Hessen), the city of Darmstadt, Germany, and the German towns Bensheim, Büdingen, Dieburg, and Friedberg. Records from offices of various institutions of the German government including Abteilung G5 Reichsstatthalter, Abteilung G11 Innenministerium, G12A Landespolizei, Schutzpolizei and Gendarmerie, G12B Gestapo, and SD. G15 local governmental records of many towns.
System of Arrangement
Organization is thematic
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Copyright Holder: Hessisches Staatsarchiv Darmstadt
Corporate Bodies
- Nazi Party
Subjects
- Antisemitism--Germany.
- Jews--Germany--History--1933-1945.
- World War, 1939-1945--Confiscations and contributions--Germany.
- Germany--Politics and government--1933-1945.
- Aryanization--Germany.
Genre
- Document
Copies
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum holds copies of Holocaust-relevant archives from Hessisches Staatsarchiv Darmstadt