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Guides to German Records Microfilmed at Alexandria, Va GUIDES TO GERMAN RECORDS MICROFILMED AT ALEXANDRIA, VA. No. 33. Records of the Reich Leader of the SS and Chief of the German Police (Part II) The National Archives National Archives and Records Service General Services Administration Washington: 1961 This finding aid has been prepared by the National Archives as part of its program of facilitating the use of records in its custody. The microfilm described in this guide may be consulted at the National Archives, where it is identified as RG 242, Microfilm Publication T175. To order microfilm, write to the Publications Sales Branch (NEPS), National Archives and Records Service (GSA), Washington, DC 20408. Some of the papers reproduced on the microfilm referred to in this and other guides of the same series may have been of private origin. The fact of their seizure is not believed to divest their original owners of any literary property rights in them. Anyone, therefore, who publishes them in whole or in part without permission of their authors may be held liable for infringement of such literary property rights. Library of Congress Catalog Card No. 58-9982 AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION COMMITTEE FOR THE STUDY OF WAR DOCUMENTS GUIDES TO GERMAN RECORDS MICROFILMED AT ALEXANDRIA, VA. No« 33» Records of the Reich Leader of the S3 and Chief of the German Police (Reichsfitthrer SS und Chef der Deutschen Polizei) (Part II) TH® .AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION (AHA) COMMITTEE FOR THE STUDY OF WAR DOCUMENTS GUIDES TO GERMAN RECORDS MICROFILMED AT AL3XAM)RIA, VA. This is part of a series of guides prepared "by the American Historical Association listing records microfilmed at Alesandria, Va., "by the American Historical Association Microfilming Project* An American Committee for the Study of War Documents was established in 1955 &s a private group of scholars interested in docu- mentary research and especially in the microfilming of records of foreign origin kept in American depositories* In 195^* the American Committee became a committee of the American Historical Association* Its present chairman is Professor oroa J. Hale, University of Virginia, who was preceded "by Dean Reginald H» Phelps, Harvrr.-d University, and Professor Lynn M. Case, The University of Pennsylvania. An initial Ford Foundation grant and additional funds provided "by the Old Dominion Foundation, the Lilly Endowment and the Avalon Founda- tion enabled the Committee to undertake the cataloguing *nd microfilming of declassified German records in the custody of the World War II Records Divfsion of the National Archives (previously TAGO, Departmental Records Branch), at Alexandria, Virginia* The p:ans for screening and microfilming these materials were prepared "by a Subcommittee on Microfilming under the chairmanship to the end <f 1956 of Professor S» Malcolm Carroll, Duke University, and his successor, Dr* Fritz T. Spstein, The Library of Congress« The microfilming team in Alexandria, Virginia, was under the direction of Professor Gerhard L, VJeinberg of the University of Michigan in 1956/57* of ®T9 Dagmar Horna Perman from 1957 to September 1959» of Mr, James G. McDowell from September 1959 to August I960, and is now under the supervision of Dr. Willard Allen Fletcher of the University of Colorado. The American Historical Association expresses its appreciation for the cooperation given to its Committee for the Study of War Documents "by the staff of the National Archives, especially its World War II Records Division, and "by the U.S. Department of the Army. Washington, D»C., June 196! III PUBLISHES) GTJID2S TO G~'RMAIT RSCuRDS MICROFILMED A3? ALEXANDRIA, VA. 1. T- 71, Records of the Reich Ministry of Economics (Reichswirtschaftsministerium). 1958. 75 P« 29 T~ 7^, Records of the Office of the Reich Commissioner for the Strengthening of Germandom (Reichskommissar ftlr die Festigung deutschon Volksturns). 1958« 15 P» 3. T~ 81, Records of the Rational Socialist German Labor Party (Bationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei)* Part !• 1958« 1^-1 p* ij-. 5- 76, Records of the Organisation Todt. 1958. 2 p. 5. 2- 8U, Miscellaneous German Records Collection (Part I). 1958* 15 P* 6. 5- 32, Records of &azi Cultural and E.esearca Institutions, and Records Pertaining to Axis Relations and Interests in the Far East* 1958. l6l p. 7» T- 77, Records of Headquarters, German Armed Forces High Command (Oberk^ramando der Wehrmacht/OKW) Part I. 1S59- 222 p. 8. T- s4, Miscellaneous German Records Collection (Part II). 1959» 203 p. 9. !T-253, Records of Private German Individuals. 1959» 23 p. 10. T- 73, Records of the Reich Ministry for Armaments and War Production (Reicbsministerium ftlr Rftstung und Kriegsprodufction). 1959* 109 P» 11. T-178, Fragmentary Records of Miscellaneous Reich Ministries and ti'f ices. 1959- ^9 P« 12. T- 78, Records of Headquarters of the German Army High Command (Ober commando des Heeres/OKH) Part I. 1959* 19 P« 13. T-177, Records of the Reich Air Ministry (Reichsluf tfahrtministerium). 1959. 3^ P* lU. OJ-3^2, Records of German Field Commands, Armies (Part I). 1959* 6l p« 15. T-179* Records of Former German and Japanese Embassies and Consulates 1890-19^5. I960. 63 p# 16. T- 81, Records of the Deutsches Ausland-Institut, Stuttgart. Fart I: Records on Resettlement. 1960. 105 P» 17. T- 77t Records of Headquarters, German Armed Forces High Command (Oberkommando der Wehrmacht/OKV?) Part II. I960. 213 p» 18. T- 77» Records of Headquarters, German Armed Forces High Command (Oberkommando der Wehrmacht/O&f) Part III* I960. 118 p. 19. T- 77> Records of Headquarters, German Armed Forces High Command (Oberkommando der VJehrmacht/OKW) Part IV. I960. 76 p* 20. T- 81, Records of the National Socialist German Labor Party (Kationalsozialigtische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei) Psrt II. 1960* ^5 P* 21. T- 81, Records of the Deutsches Ausland-Institut, Stuttgart. Part II: The General Records. 1961. 180 p. 22. T- 70, Records of the Reich Ministry for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda. 1961. Ul p» 23. T- 83, Records of Private Austrian, Dutch, and German Enterprises 1917-19^-6. 1961. 119 p. 2^-. T-321, Records of Headquarters of the German Air Force High Command (Oberkommando der Luf twaffe/OKL). 196!. 59 p* 25. T-l!-05, German Air Force Records: Luftgaukommandos, Flak, Deutsche Luftwaffenmission in Rum&iien. 1961. ^1 p» 26* T-401, Records of Reich Office for Soil Exploration (Reichsamt fiir Bodenforschung). 1961. 11 p. 27. T-35^» Miscellaneous SS Records: Einwandererzentralstells, Waffen-SS, and SS-Oberabschnitte. 1961. 3^ p* 28. T-^5^» Records of the Reich Ministry for the Occupied Eastern Territories (Reichsministerium f&r die besetzten Ostgebiete), 19U1-U5. 69 p, 29. T- 78, Records of Headquarters, German Army High Command (Oberkommando des Heeres/OKH) Part II. 1961. 15^ p. 30. T- 78, Records of Headquarters, German Army High Command (Oberkommando des Heeres/OKH) Part III. 1961. 212 p» 31* T~459» Records of the Office of the Reich Commissioner for the Baltic States (Reichskommissar f£r das Ostland)> 19Ul-lljU5» 19^1. 19 p. 32. T-175t Records of the Reich Leader of the SS and Chief of the German Police (Reichsfiihrer SS und Chef der Deutschen Polizel) Part I. 1961. 165 p, IV PREFACE This Guide is one of a series of finding aids describing those declassified seized German records deposited at the World War II Records Division, National Archives, which have been microfilmed by the Microfilming Project of the Commit te for the Study of War Documents of the American Historical Association. The Guide contains the text of data sheets identifying records filmed* A copy of the data sheets has been filmed as a target sheet at the beginning of each roll of film. This Guide describes 96 rolls of film of records of Reichsffthrer-SS und Chef der deutschen Polizei. Since these files, largely from RF-SS/Pers&ilicher Stab, reflect the variety and multiplicity of Eleinrich Eimmler's activities, a partial list of his titles and position may be useful in coping with the diversity of subjects covered in this collection* By the time his career had run its course, Himmler had been ReichsfiUhrer-SS, Chef der deutschen Polizei, Reichsminister ties Innern, Reichskomiriissar ftlr die ITeatigung deutschen Yolkstums, Chef der Heeres- rUstung und Befehlshabsr des Ersatzhaeres, Oberbefehlshaber des Srsatzheeres, Oberbefehlshsber der Keeresgruppe Oberrhein, Oberbefehlshaber der Heeresgruppe Weichsel, Chef des Kriegsgefangenenweaens, as well as patron of Ahnenerbe, Lebensborn and other foundations. Rolls 12U through 19^- contain records chiefly from KF-^S/Pers0nlicher Stab, RF-SS/Feldkommandostelle, and other departments and sections* i\!umerou3 stray folders of various Kaupt&ntern and subordinate offices, as well as of tfaffen-SS and police units, were also filmed with the collection, since they include correspondence with RF-SS/?ers0alicb.er Stab. Reference material, filmed on rolls 20^-209 inclusive, is composed of microcopies of Bienstalterslisten, SS-?erordnungsblatter, SS-Befehlsblatter, statistical and other SS handbooks, and compilations of S3 reg- ulations. Rolls 211 through 219 contain records from the Dachau and Natzweiler concentration camps, as well as folders of SS-Wirtschaf ts«Ver~ waltungshauptarat *• the agency in charge of the concentration camps during the war years* The terms "Serial" and Roll" in this Guide refer to the sequence of toe film* The rtltemn number is the identification symbol on the original folder within the captured records collection. "Provenance" indicates, where ascertainable, the archival origin of the documents whose description follows. The symbol "FT" means that the folder has been filmed throughout, the symbol "PS" denotes that the folder has been filmed selectively* Mlst frame11 gives the frame number of the first page of the folder. Every exposure has been given a frame number consecutively throughout the filming operation. German file numbers, whenever ascertainable, have also been Included. The BKo tea "provide a general idea of the nature of the materials but should not be taken as exhaustive descriptions.
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