Geissler and Arp: British military court case material

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This microfilm collection of papers relates to the activities of 2 anti-nazi activists, Arthur Geissler and Erich Arp, who, at the end of the war, were indicted by a British Military Court for"the unlawful appropriation of authorit" by arresting the former Ortsgruppenleiter Krömer, Elmshorn, Schleswig-Holstein, at gun point. In addition to material relating to the court case, there are personal papers of Arp, born 1909 in Hamburg, former SPD member and leading member of the Berlin University Group of the Sozialistische Studenenschaft

Court case material and other papers including:

Personal papers of Erich Arp mainly concerning his membership of political and student organisations, frames1-6

Military Government Court indictments of Geissler and Arp and notes re indictments, 31 May 1945, frames 7-17

Enclosures including reports re the history of Nazi support and ant-nazi activity in Elmshorn; pamphlets produced at the end of the war by the Antifaschistisches Deutsches Kampf Komitee, Hamburg, frames 19-39