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Finding Aid (English) Befehlshaber der Sicherheitspolizei und des SD in Riga (Fond 504) RG-11.001M.05 United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place SW Washington, DC 20024-2126 Tel. (202) 479-9717 e-mail: [email protected] Descriptive summary Title: Befehlshaber der Sicherheitspolizei und des SD in Riga (Fond 504) Dates: 1941-1944 Accession number: 1993.A.0085.1.6 Creator: Befehlshaber der Sicherheitspolizei und des Sicherheitsdienstes Extent: 5 microfilm reels (partial) 5,218 digital images Repository: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives, 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place SW, Washington, DC 20024-2126 Languages: German Russian Scope and content of collection The collection contains reports, German translations of documents, minutes, circulars, orders, reviews, secret publications, financial documents, correspondence, special bulletins, transcripts of testimonies, and various materials such as copies of documents and maps. Includes information on police activities against partisans and other resistance efforts in the Occupied Eastern Territories; the activities of Einsatzgruppe A; directives and instructions of Himmler and other senior police officials about the treatment of foreign workers; measures for their punishment; the treatment of Communist Party officials; documents created by resistance groups and CP organs that were captured by the Wehrmacht and SS; Schutzmannschaften activities; Jewish partisan activities; the slave labor of Jews, Soviet POWs, and others; the collaboration of Polish and other nationalist groups with Germans against the USSR; the transport and forced labor of Jews; the establishment and maintenance of camps and prisoners; the killing of Jews and others in forests; the Spanish Blue Division; Latvian and Dutch volunteers in German military units; and the general administration of occupied territories. Administrative Information Restrictions on access: No restrictions on access. Restrictions on reproduction and use: Reproduction and publication only with written permission of the Russian State Military Archives. Preferred citation: Preferred citation for USHMM archival collections; consult the USHMM website for guidance. Acquisition information: Source of acquisition is the Russian State Military Archive (Rossiĭskiĭ gosudarstvennyĭ voennyĭ arkhiv), Osobyi Archive, Fond 504. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the filmed collection via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum International Archival Programs Division in 1993. Existence and location of originals: Rossiĭskiĭ gosudarstvennyĭ voennyĭ arkhiv Related materials: Fishman, D. E. and Kupovetsky, M, Kuzelenkov, V. (ed.), Nazi-Looted Jewish Archives in Moscow. A guide to Jewish Historical and Cultural Collections in the Russian State Military Archive. Scranton: University of Scranton Press 2010. Published in association with the United States Holocaust memorial Museum and The Jewish Theological Seminary. https://www.lootedart.com/MFEU4M60512_print;Y [accessed 11 September 2018] http://www.sonderarchiv.de/fonds/fond0503.pdf [accessed 11 September 2018] http://www.ceelbas-cdt.ac.uk/archive-guide/structure-soviet-archives [accessed 11 September 2018] Browder, G. C. Captured German and other Nation's Documents in the Osobyi (Special) Archive, Moscow. Published by: Cambridge University Press on behalf of Conference Group for Central European History of the American Historical Association. Internet access: http://www.jstor.org/stable/4546224 [accessed 11 September 2018] http://www.sonderarchiv.de/fondverzeichnis.htm [accessed 11 September 2018] Processing history: Processed by Aleksandra Borecka, 2018. Historical note It was copied as the whole collection. System of arrangement Fond 504 (1941-1944). Opis 1-2, delo 1-46. Arranged in eight series: 1. SIPO various reports; 2. Orders and instructions to the various police bodies in the occupied Baltic States; 3. Instructions and correspondence of the SIPO and SD on various matters; 4. Orders, regulations and directives from Himmler and other German police officials; 5. Orders, regulations, and correspondence of the RSHA with various security police units in Ostland about the formation and reorganization of concentration and labor camps in Pakrie, Slansi, Stutthof, Lublin, Warsaw, Nowogrodek, Riga, and other territories in the occupied countries; 6. Travel reports to Kaunas (Lithuania) and Minsk (Belarus) by a Nazi functionaries, 1943; 7. Personnel documents of German officials (resumes, Page 2 forms, letters, excerpts from the "Who is Who in the Third Reich" ); 8. Lists of officials of the German civil administration in Riga; January 1942-June 1944. Note: Microfilm reels: #74 (near the end)-75, 186, 204, 205 (16 mm) Indexing terms Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei. Schutzstaffel. Sicherheitsdienst--History. Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei. Einsatzgruppen des Sicherheitsdienstes und der Sicherheitspolizei. Einsatzgruppe A. Germany. Geheime Staatspoliz World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Europe. World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Europe. Jews--Persecutions--Europe--History--20th century. Forced labor--Latvia--Riga. Police administration--Germany--History, 1939-1945. Police administration--Lat Germany--Politics and government -1933-1945. Kaunas (Lithuania) Minsk (Belarus) Riga (Latvia)--History--German occupation, 1941-1944. Bulletins. Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.) Correspondence. Maps. Registers. Reports. Resumes. CONTAINER LIST Note: Files were not microfilmed in order, and may be interspersed on the microfilm reels with materials from other collections. Some folders were duplicated twice on different reels; check both versions to ensure all pages from that file were captured. Reel 74 Fond 504, opis 1 1 Sipo reports on communist and partisan activity in Estonia. September 1941 -November 1943. 37 pp. Folder begins on image RG-11.001M.0074.00001283.jpg From RSHA (Reichssicherheits Hauptamt) to Einsatzgruppe A (September 1941) Communist Activities in Ostland: Communism in the Estonian regions occupied as of August 1941. Additional communication from Commander, Security Police, and SD, Einsatzgruppe A to RSHA Berlin, noting that action (Aktion) was assigned to Sonderkommando A (regarding Communist activities). RSHA memo regarding the carrying out of combat against Communism in the occupied eastern territories (August Page 3 1943). Report about regional Communist Party committee directives sent to district party committees about preparing armed insurrection (in occupied areas) during 1943. German translation of plans for communist party; political activities behind the front, 1942-1943. [Russian] instructions on how to organize partisan units in the steppes. From Reich Commissioner for Ostland to commander Sipo and SD, Ostland in Riga: Communists in the Riga state organizations. 1941-1942. 2 German translation of the report made by the chief of the political department of the northwestern front, Commissar Ryachev, sent to the main political department of the Red Army about the organization of Soviet partisan groups, and protocol of the meeting of police chiefs chaired by Latvian police commander Schroeder on methods to be used in combatting Soviet partisans. August 1941 - July 1942. 18 pp. Folder begins on image RG-11.001M.0074.00001340.jpg [Interspersed with Russian translations of earlier materials.] German translation of leaflet spelling out partisan organizational affairs; also of a report on the organization of Soviet partisan units. Material designed to inform Germans tasked with combating Russian partisans; to collect all the necessary information, the memo says "partisans are only to be arrested initially in order to interrogate them, and they are to be shot only in threatening combat situations." Discussion about who was to do what among the military and security services concerning anti-partisan actions, indicates that largest part of these actions are being carried out by local nationals, so-called Schutzmannschaften under German police leadership. 1941-1942. 4 Order No. 42 of the SIPO and SD commander about the fight against Soviet partisans and reports about the methods employed by Soviet partisans. 14 February - 27 April 1942. 21 pp. Folder begins on image RG-11.001M.0074.00001384.jpg Transmittal of report about experiences with the operation of partisan units, to Chief, Einsatzgruppe A. Contains detailed prior history of Bolshevik, Russian and Soviet partisan movements. 1942. 6 Reports of the security police about the Soviet partisan operations and the capture of some of their number by the Germans. February 1942 - August 1944. 71 pp. Folder begins on image RG-11.001M.0074.00001421.jpg Report about a German army lieutenant's participation in partisan activities. Various items about partisan activities. 1942-1944. 7 Security police reports about Jewish participation in the partisan movement in the Baltics. September 1942 -June 1944. 60 pp. Folder begins on image RG- 11.001M.0074.00001495.jpg From White Ruthenia (Minsk): Jews among partisans. Report says that their extensive involvement can be counteracted only by the speedy elimination of Jews in a given region. In that connection, all local officials are requested to reduce the number of Jews with special skills to a bare minimum and to guard them within a ghetto. Telegram reporting the destruction of a partisan unit composed of Jews, noting that others were Page 4 still in the area who had previously escaped from the Bialystok ghetto during its partial
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