ru-003203-501k
type: RecordSet
archivist note: Entry selected by Krzysztof Tyszka from the book “Nazi-Looted Jewish Archives in Moscow. A guide to Jewish Historical and Cultural Collections in the Russian State Military Archive”, ed. by D. E. Fishman, M. Kupovetsky, V. Kuzelenkov
biographical history: The German Secret State Police (Gestapo) originated in the political department of the police headquarters in Berlin during the Weimar Republic. With the Nazi assumption of power in 1933, this agency, renamed the Gestapo, came under the control of Hermann Goring and Rudolf Diels, and later, of Heinrich Himmler and Reinhard Heydrich. It was given broad powers of arrest and wiretapping, and engaged in torture and executions. Section II 1 of the Gestapo was charged with fighting the"enemie" of the regime, including the Jews. After Kristallnacht (November 9-10, 1938), the Gestapo became the main instrument of the Nazi regime's anti-Jewish policies. In 1939, the Gestapo was fused with other security arms (the Sipo and SD) to form the Reichssicherheitshauptamt (RSHA). The Gestapo took part in the enslavement of"inferior races""pacifyin" and subduing the occupied territories, and persecuting the Jews; it carried out a major role in the"Final Solution" It supervised deportations from the ghettos to extermination camps, and pressured German-allied countries to deport their Jews.
has or had script: Latn
location of copies: Microfilms are held by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives.
other finding aids: Nazi-Looted Jewish Archives in Moscow. A guide to Jewish Historical and Cultural Collections in the Russian State Military Archive, ed. by D. E. Fishman, M. Kupovetsky, V. Kuzelenkov, Scranton - London 2010.
has beginning date: 1933
has end date: 1945
has or had holder: ru-003203
has or had some members with language: eng
has or had some members with language: ita
has or had some members with language: pol
has or had some members with language: spa
has or had some members with language: fra
has or had some members with language: deu
has or had title: Geheimes Staatspolizeiamt Berlin ; Office of the Secret State Police Gestapo Berlin
has or had title: Upravlenie gosudarstvennoi tainoi politsii Gestapo g. Berlin
has record set type: Collection
identifier: 501k
record resource extent: 930 files
scope and content: A significant portion of the collection's contents was transferred to the German Democratic Republic in the 1950s-70s. (These materials are noted in the inventories and are not included among the collection's files.) The collection's contents are catalogued in three inventories. Documents in the collection contain information on communist, social-democratic, anti-fascist, religious, and Jewish organizations in Germany; reports on"unreliabl" persons; information on Masonic lodges; police surveillance files (for example, on the conduct of the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin); agents' dispatches by agents on the activities of emigre organizations outside Germany; and clippings from German and foreign newspapers, journals, and other printed publications concerning the situation in Germany. The documents on Jewish affairs relate to the period before the Second World War. The collection includes documents and surveillance related to the Zionist movement in Germany: correspondence of the Reich and Prussian Minister of the Interior and of the Prussian Gestapo Office with the Zionist Federation of Germany; reports by the Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA) on the twenty-fifth congress of the Zionist Federation of Germany (1936) and other materials of the conference; reports by Gestapo agents and correspondence with them, regarding the twenty-fifth conference of the Zionist Union of Germany; a message from the Berlin Zionist Union to the Berlin Gestapo on the departure for Jerusalem of union leaders Dr. G. Landauer and K. Blumenfeld with a pledge to report to the Gestapo on the situation in Palestine and on the development of the Zionist movement in Palestine (28 January 1936); results of elections of the Zionist Federation of Germany leadership (chairman: S. Moses; secretariat: I. Eisner, H. Friedenthal, G. Joseftam, R. Katzenstein, A. Lehmann, G. Lubinski, A. Michaelis, J. Prinz, E. Rosenberg, M. Traub, S. Chertok, and K. Tuchler); a list of other top officers of the Zionist Union…
title: Управление государственной тайной полиции (Гестапо) (г. Берлин)