GUIDES TO GERMAN RECORDS MICROFILMED AT ALEXANDRIA, VA. No. 3. Records of the National Socialist German Labor Party The National Archives National Archives and Records Service General Services Administration Washington: 1958 This finding aid, prepared under the direction of the Committee for the Study of War Documents of the American Historical Association, has been reproduced by the National Archives as part of its program of facilitating the use of records in its custody. The microfilm described in this list has been deposited in the National Archives by the American Historical Association and may be identified as Microcopy No. T-81. It may be consulted at the National Archives, A price list appears on the last page. Those desiring to purchase microfilm should write to the Exhibits and Publications Branch, National Archives, Washington 25, D. C. AMERICAN HISTORICAL AS COMMITTEE FOR THE STUDY OF WAR GUIDtb r<j G^RljiN ittiOOKDo LICROFlUJuD AT ALDXAr-jDRIA, VA. No. 3. Records of the National Socialist German Labor Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei) Guide No, 3 has been brought up to date through alterations in the Roll, Provenance, and Item columns of pages 6, 8-11, 21-23, and 43-44 > affecting Rolls 10, 13-15, 19-20, 57,;R57B, 58, 60, 86, R87, and 88 of Microcopy No. T-81, respectively. All changes have the effect of making additional folders avail- able. The price list at the end of the guide has been adjusted accordingly, January 1963 THE AMERICAN JII3TORICAL ASSOCIATION (AHA) COMFITTEE FOR TEE STUDY OF WAR DOCUMENTS GUIDES TO GERMAN RECORDS MICROFILMED AT ALEXAIIDRIA, VA. This is part of a series of guides prepared by the American Historical Association listing records microfilmed at Alexandria "by the American Historical Association Microfilming Project. An American Committee for the Study of the War Documents w*s established in 1955 as a private group of scholars interested in documentary research and especially in the microfilming of records of foreign origin kept in American depositories. In 1956 the American Committee became a committee 8£ the American Historical Association. Its present Chairman (195#) is Professor Oron Jt Hale, University of Virginia, who was pre- ceded by Dean Reginald H. Phelps, %rvard University, and Professor Lynn H. Case of the University of Pennsylvania. An initial Ford Foundation grant and additional funds provided by the Old Dominion Pcundati6n enabled the Committee to undertake the cataloguing and microfilming of declas- sified German records in the custody of the World War IT Records Division of the National Archives (previously TAGC, Departmental Records Brancht more recently Military Records Branch, Federal Records Center, P.egion 3t General Services Administration) at Alexandria, Virginia. The plans for screening and microfilming of these materials were prepared by a Subcommittee on Kicrof liming under the Chairmanship ttf the end of 1956 of Professor E. Malcolm Carroll, Duke University, and his successor, Dr. Fritz T. Epstein. She-Library of Congress. Professor Ger- hard L. Weinberg of the University of Kentucky directed the microfilming team in Alexandria in 1956/57 which is now under the supervision of Dr. Dagmar Horna Perman. The present guide is a collection of descriptions of records groups filmed by the Microfilming Project of the AHA, Committee. Because the project is not yet complete, this guide will appear in installments. The American Historical Association expresses its appreciation for the cooperation given to its Committee: for the Study of War Documents by the staffs of the World. War II Records Division, the National Archives, and the U. 6*-Department -of the Army. Washington, D.C., May 1958 Dr. Boyd C. Shafer Executive Secretary, AHA PREFACE This Guide is one of a series of finding aids describing those declassified seized German records deposited at the Military Records Branch, Federal Records Center, Region 3» General Services Administration, that have "been microfilmed by the Ficrofiliaing Project of the American Com- mittee for the Study of War Documents (now the Committee for the Study of War Documents of the American Historical Association). The Guide con- tains the text of data sheets identifying records filmed. A copy of the data sheet has "been filmed as a target sheet at the beginnirg of each roll of film. This Guide covers 220 rolls of film of records of the 1T8DAP, its affiliated organizations and territorial divisions. With the exception of duplicates and some routine materials all NSDAP records in the Depsrtmental Records Branch, organized as of September 1, 1957» have been filmed. Materials related to the records on this film may be found in the Records of Nazi Research and Cultural Institutes, Record Group 1036, microcopy no. T 82. Some material of the 1ISDAP is in the Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress, and a large collection of HSDAP records is located in the Berlin Document Center of the Department of State. The terms "Serial" and "Roll" in this Guide refer to the sequence of the film. The "Item" number is the identification symbol on the original folder within the captured records collection. "Provenance" indicates, where ascertatriable, the archival origin of the documents whose description fallows. The symbol "IPT" means that the folder has been filmed throughout, the symbol "FS" denotes that the folder has been filmed selectively. "1st Frame'1 gives the franB number of the first page of the folder. Every closure has been given a frame number consecutively throughout the filmiig operation. The "Notes" provide a general idea of the nature of the materials but should be taken as hints, not complete descriptions. When the German file number could be ascertained, it has been included. The nature of the records filmed makes it necessary for researchers to check the whole guide. The original records of the NSDAP are located in the Military Records Brp.ach, Federal Records Center, Region 3» General Services Adminis- tration^ under Record Group 1035. Ehe microfilms are deposited in the national Archives, Washington 25, B.C., as microcopy no, T 81 and should be requested by adding to "T 81H the roll numbers. Gerhard L. Weiriber£ and Bagmar H. Perman, 1957. Serial Roll Provenance Item Filmed 1st frame Notes •1 Various offices of the EAP 250-a/l FT 10804 Anordnungen des Leiters der Partei-Kanzlei (Bormann), 1943-1945, dealing NSDAP, mainly Gau Baden, with various subjects, including the Reichsarbeitsdienst; Nazi officials in Mainfranken, and Landes- territory overrun by the Allies 5 PW administration; morale; attitude toward gruppe Italien Poles; transportation; administration; Party archives; Polish resistance movement; a report by Kreisleitung Waldshut (see Serial: 3)» See frames: 10932 - 10935 for Geheime Criminal statistik for 1942-1943* Some duplicates, an unrelated card file, and some/other unrelated publi- cations have not been filmed. 1 NSDAP, Partei-Kanzlei EAP 250-a/3 FT 10961 Material on the laws governing the Deutsche Arbeitsfromt, 1938. 3 -1 NSDAP, Gauschulungsamt EAP 250-a/4 FT 11060 weltanschauliche Berichte der Kreisleitungen, 1 Sept. 1943 - 30 Dec. Baden 1943. The reports deal witti the attitude and activities of the Catholic Church in the Gau. 4 1 NSDAP, Gauleitung Main- EAP 250-a/7 FT 11107 Anordnungen und Bekanntraachun^en of the Partei-Kanzlei (Bormann), Febru- franken ary 1945, military, transportation and economic problems. 5 1 ? EAP 250-a/9 FT 11185 Text, Rede des Stellvertreters des Fuhrers vor den Gau- und Kreisleitern am 13. September 1937. Speech of Hess in a closed session of the NSDAP officials at the end of the Reichsparteitag. 6 1 Polizeiprasidium Kiel; EAP 250-a/ll FT' 11214 First folder contains Bormann material of March 1943 on Party-Army rela- and 12 tions in the front areas. NSDAP, Gauleitung Baden Second folder contains 1944 Partei-Kanzlei orders about the Volkssturnu -1 Adolf Hitlar, Kanzlei EAP 250-a/14 FT 112S4 Folder 14 contains correspondence and memoranda relating to the politi- cal situation in 1932, Included is correspondence between Hitler and Hinderiburg, keissner, and Papen; material on other political parties; material on the internal problems of the M3DAP; memoranda on conversations with officers of the Reichswehr; a long attack on Goner; reports on the morale of the SA; a report on the Staiilhelm; suggestions of Kess for the Reichstagswanlkampf ; drafts of letters and speeches of Hitler; a memoran- dum by Gottfried Feder on relieving unemployment; a memorandum on "Kris is and Neugeburt Luropas" by Alfred Rosenberg; a copy of Hitler's letter to Reichenau of 4 Dec. 1932, indicating some of hig views on military and foreign policy; and other uaterial. The letter Keppler to Hitler, 19 Dec. 1932, on Frames: 11318 - 11319 is connected with the famous pa pen-Hitler meeting. 8 1-2 NSDAP, Kreisleitung EAP 250~a/l6, FT 11586 Mscellaneous directives and copies of the Re ichsverf ugungsblatt of the Geilenkirchen and other 15, 17 partei-&anzlei, 1941 - 1943. Every conceivable subject. M>DAP offices Serial Roll Provenance Item Filmed 1st frame Notes r.-2 NSDAP, Gauleitung Baden EAP 250-a/23 FT Anordnungen of the Stellvertreer des Fiihrers: August 1938, on taking over 7 of Jewish property; June 1939, on former members of the clergy; measures con- cerning Jews; January 1940, on visits to Hitler; May 1939, on Zwischenstaat- Xiche Grganisationen und Austauschvareine; February 1939, on the Volksbund fur das BeutscJ". turn ira Ausland und Bund Deutscher Osten; February 1939, Richt- linien zur Verhutung der Industrieversehleppung; and other subjects. Dupli- cates omitted. 10 -2-3 iSDAP, Partei-Kanzlei EAP 250-a/26- FT 12625 The Vertraulicho Inforiuaticnen der Partei-Kanzlei for 1942, These 81 106 and folders represent a complete rim plus an index volume which is on folder 63178 EAP 250-a/26. The Vertraulichen Infornationen cover all aspects of Party activity and contemporary German life.