Selected records from police departments in the German occupied countries (R 70)

Identifier
irn522452
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2004.560
  • RG-68.048M
Dates
1 Jan 1938 - 31 Dec 1945
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • German
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn522452

Extent and Medium

15,341 digital images, JPEG

32 microfilm reels (digitized), 35 mm

Archival History

Bundesarchiv (Germany)

Acquisition

Original records, R 70, located in the Bundesarchiv, Berlin. 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 May 2004.

Scope and Content

This collection includes Security Service (SD) decrees and reports relating to the treatment of forced laborers; concentration camp Hertogenbosch (Netherlands); police measures against the resistance (France); police actions and raids against Jews and Roma (Slovakia); deportation to concentration camps in Poland and Czechoslovakia (Theresienstadt), including an index of names; denunciations; looting of Jewish assets; slave labor camps (Slovakia); Jewish councils (Judenräte), Gestapo function, forced resettlement of Jews, including an index of names of people executed (Poland).

System of Arrangement

Organized in the following order: Reel 1-18, Slovakia; Reel 19-21, Poland; Reel 22, Norway, Reel 23, Belgium; Reel 24, Bohemia and Moravia; Reel 25, Greece; Reel 26-27, 29, L'Alasce (France); Reel 28, Luxemburg; Reel 30-31, France; Reel 32, Lotharingia (France/Germany). Arrangement is thematic

Conditions Governing Reproduction

Copyright Holder: Bundesarchiv (Germany)

Corporate Bodies

Subjects

  • World War, 1939-1945--Confiscations and contributions.
  • Deportation--Slovakia.
  • Jewish property.
  • Romani Genocide, 1939-1945--Slovakia.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities.
  • Jews--Germany--History--1933-1945.
  • Anti-fascist movements--France.
  • Labor camps--Slovakia.
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Registers of dead--Poland.
  • Police--Germany--History--20th century.

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)