General State Prosecutors Office of the State Court of Berlin records (Fond A Rep. 358)
Extent and Medium
1,564 microfilm reels, 16 mm
4,450 microfilm reels, 35 mm
Creator(s)
- Martin Luchterhandt
Archival History
Landesarchiv Berlin
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 Landesarchiv Berlin, Record Group A Rep. 358. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's International Archival Programs Division acquired selected records from the Landesarchiv Berlin in 2005. The Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received several shipments of the collection: August 2005, March 2006, November 2008, December 2015, and Aug. 2018. The duplication project is complete.
Scope and Content
Contains the trial records of over 150,000 criminal cases processed in the vicinity of Berlin during the Nazi era. It includes many “routine” types of ordinary crime, as well as cases where the crime involves being Jewish, homosexual, or “asocial.”
Subjects
- Jews--Germany--History--1933-1945.
- Jews--Legal status, laws, etc.--Germany.
- Gays--Legal status, laws, etc.--Germany.
- War crimes trials--Germany.
- Victims of crimes--Germany.
- World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Germany.
- War victims--Germany.
- War criminals--Germany.
- Romanies--Legal status, laws, etc.--Germany.
Genre
- Document
Copies
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum holds copies of Holocaust-relevant archives from Landesarchiv Berlin