Copyright Holder: Rossiĭskiĭ gosudarstvennyĭ voennyĭ arkhiv
Rossiĭskiĭ gosudarstvennyĭ voennyĭ arkhiv
German Police and Administrative offices in the occupied territories. All police entities in Germany were under the command of the Reichsfurer-SS and chief of the German police Heinrich Himmler. Police offices in the occupied territories conducted a policy of mass terror and annihilated Jews. Police offices ceased activities in 1945 with the defeat of Nazi Germany.
9 microfilm reels (partial), 16 mm 17,575 digital images, JPEG
Fond 1323 (1806-1945). Opis 1-3; Dela 681. Arranged in 13 series: 1. Himmler's directives and correspondence on creating security units in the event of emergencies in the occupied territories, 1941-1943; 2. KRIPO department Łódź (Litzmanstadt): Correspondence and orders on various administrative matters; 3. Orders regarding political and military training of police officers; 4. Operational guidelines, and agent lists for"solution of Jewish problem" , Freemasons, etc. 1940-1943; 5. Memorandums and punishment guidelines for members of the police; 6. Correspondence, orders, recommendations regarding awards for the members of police; 7. Memorandums and orders regarding ideological trainings; 8. Special orders relating to supplies , including food rations, weapons and ammunitions; 9. Lists of police sections and institutions in USSR, with indications of relevant Feldpost numbers, etc., 1942-1943; 10. Reports from the 133rd and 244th SS Police Regiments about operations against partisans, and the persecution of Jews and Roma, 1941-1943; 11. Police Institutions of Bialystok district; 12. Police institutions of Minsk-Mazowiecki; 12. Sipo and SD department, Parnov, Kraków district; 13. German police in Czechoslovakia; 12. Orders of Gestapo Wiener-Neustadt, Gendarmerie, and Landrat of Wiener-Neustadt district regarding measures against Communists and trade unionists; 13. Orders of German police regarding IDs for Roma, POWs, and Russian internees. Note: Location of digital images; Partial microfilm reels #80, 81, 83, 84, 405-409; Reel 80: Image #180-Reel end; Reel 81-83: Entire reels (Reel start-Reel end); Reel 84: Reel start-Image #189; Reel 405: Image #1970-Reel end; Reel 406, 407, 408: Entire reels (Reel start-Reel end) Reel 409: Reel start-Image #1528.
Diverse records of the police offices in Germany and includes plans, minutes, interrogations, bulletins, correspondence, personnel files, lists of police offices, reports and directives from the Reichsführer SS Himmler to intermediate levels and to SS Polizeiführer on lower levels. Consists of information about the organization of the Order Police (Orpo) units, Gendarmerie, indigenous formations "Schutzmannschafte"), and Geheime Feldpolizei (Secret Field Police) in the Occupied Eastern Territories; the regional reports and action plans for numerous localities; information about the activities of police/gendarmerie in Belarus and of German police in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia; records of administrative matters such as salaries and other individual personal matters; information about the handling of confiscated Jewish property; a list of police sections and institutions in the occupied USSR with Feldpost numbers, 1942-1943; reports about the military commander in Warsaw and the Warsaw ghetto, 1940-1941; 1942 Heydrich directives; September 1937 documents about the travel of Italians and other foreigners intending to assassinate Hitler and Mussolini; SD Aussenstelle in Solingen-Niederberg; information about events in Ostmark (Austria), 1938-1944; and records regarding police activity in France, the 1943 search for Allied air force officers who escaped from Oflag XXI, and anti-partisan actions. Note: USHMM Archives holds only selected records.
Records of German Police Agencies in the Occupied Territories Deutsche Polizeieinrichtungen in den okkupierten Gebieten (Fond 1323)