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Selected Records from the Czech State Archives, 1938-1945 RG-48.001M Selected Records from the Czech State Archives, 1938-1945 RG-48.001M 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: Selected Records from the Czech State Archives, 1938-1945 Dates: 1938-1945 Accession number: 1990.320 Creator: Národní archiv v Praze Extent: 2 microfilm reels Repository: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives, 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place SW, Washington, DC 20024-2126 Abstract: [Use description created for “Scope and Content” note, or MARC 520 field. Will be able to use more detailed scope and content note, if needed, in section for that below]. Languages: Czech, German Administrative Information Access: Collection is open for use at Museum research facilities. Please contact the Reference Desk with questions about accessing this collection. Reproduction and use: Publication of documents and duplication of reels for third parties require the written permission of the Czech National Archive. Use for commercial purposes expressly prohibited Preferred citation: [(Identification of folder and/or reel), Name of collection, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives, Washington, DC] Acquisition information: In 1990, as a gesture of good will toward the Museum, the Czech State Archives in Prague filmed a series of documents from various state archival institutions in the Czech Republic. Existence and location of originals: Národní archiv v Praze Scope and content of collection This collection contains a wide variety of documents relating to the fate of Jews, communists, and other anti-fascist groups in the Czech lands (e.g., underground armed resistance, church groups, etc.). Also included is documentation on pro-Nazi activities by Sudeten Germans prior to the German occupation of Czech lands; implementation of the Munich agreement; preparations for the military occupation of Bohemia and Moravia; internment in Terezín (Theresienstadt) concentration camp; the destruction of synagogues; increasing restrictions on Jews in business and public life; the arrest of Roma and Sinti and the transport of Jews from provinces to Prague; and the confiscation (Aryanization) of Jewish property. The documents date from 1938 to 1945. System of arrangement Arrangement is thematic. CONTAINER LIST Note: An item-level guide to the collection, in Czech, can be found at the end of the second microfilm reel. Reel 1: Document number: 1. Police document concerning an attack on the police station in Nejdek on 1938 Sept. 12. A group of about 10 young men, members of the local “Turnverein” participating in a demonstration of approximately 2,500 to 3,000 people, which started marching through the streets right after a rousing speech by Adolf Hitler in Nuremberg, threw large stones in the windows of the police station and tried to break in by force. The group leader was Wolfgang Deimer who fled shortly after the attack to Germany. The group was chased away before they were able to enter the station, but they broke windows in other municipal buildings and threatened several Czech government employees and other citizens. Several participants were temporarily detained and questioned. Hey will be indicted for disturbing the public and damaging public property. In Czech. 16 September, 1938. 2. Arrest of Frant. Schmied, Leopold Fickert, Ant. Haas, Jan Stroher and Gustav Wenk, German residents of small towns around Chodov near Loket and members of the SDP political party. They entered the post office and disconnected the telephone communications and tried to enter the gendarmerie building. They were accompanied by several Nazi Party members from Munich. They used guns against a police detachment. When brought to the police station and searched, several were carrying knives. All admitted their act was pre-medicated, planned and directed against the Czechoslovak Republic. All were arrested and indicted. In Czech. 14 September 1938. 3. Another document describing a public disturbance in another Sudeten German town. The perpetrators were arrested. In Czech. 21 September 1928. 4. Photograph of police officer Jan Koukal, shot to death in Habersbig police station. In Czech. No date. 5. Picture of a page from the Ascher Zeitung with a prominently displayed swastika and an announcement that the day of liberation by Adolf Hitler is near. September 1938. 6. Police report describing demonstration and subsequent strike by factory workers led by members of the Communist Party. The demonstrators and strikers demanded that the country not be partitioned. 22 September 1938. 7. Front page of the Prague daily Narodni Politika announcing that the Czech Government accepted the Anglo-French plan enforced by both governments. The Czech foreign minister Dr. [Kamil] Krofts told the French and British ambassadors that discussions about further developments would begin shortly and that the Czech Government would take all steps necessary to insure the independence and freedom of Czechs under the newly-created conditions. 22 September 1938. 8. Another page of Narodni Politika containing an announcement of general mobilization of the Czech armed forces and reserves and Neville Chamberlain’s statement to newsmen at his hotel that, after long discussions with Adolf Hitler, he is sending the Czech Government the memorandum containing the final position of the German Government on the Sudeten German problem. He added, “We cannot call it a complete disaster.” 24 September 1938. 9. Secret document concerning the presentation to the German Army High Command by Wilhelm von der Heyden-Rynsch of the German Foreign Office demands that should Prague be bombed the area around the castle was to be left intact. Most of the embassies, including that of Switzerland, were located in this area and the Swiss Government would probably represent German interests should a conflict arise. Letter from Woerman saying he had received a message that Gen. Keitel had already spoken with Hitler about this problem who, after talking with Göring, had decided he alone would make the final decision about such a plan. 26 September 1938. 10. An uncaptioned photograph of a group of soldiers with hospital nurses in the background. No date. 11. Article from the front page of Narodni Politika entitled “After the Conference in Munich,” which states that the Czech Government supports the changes in national borders demanded by Germany and that the commander of the Czech Army, Gen. Krejci and members of the Government ask the military and public to keep calm and accept the decisions of the conference. Included are texts of the Munich Agreement and the Agreement on the Implementation of the Munich Agreement. 1 October 1938. 12. Photographs of army units. 13. Photographs of army units. 14. Document from the Office of the Council of Ministers concerning implementation of the Munich Agreement as it relates to different ethnic populations in the country. 3 pages. 7 October 1938. 15. Letter from a regional head of the Sudeten Deutsche Partei (SDP), Marienbad, to party headquarters in Eger complaining that locals working for the Gestapo are arresting people under false pretences, possibly in revenge for having being expelled from or disciplined by the SDP, and asking that the SDP leadership complain directly to the highest military authorities. In German. 7 October 1938. 16. Official declaration to the Sudeten German regions of the Führer’s proclamation dated 1938 Oct. 4, concerning the administration of the Sudeten regions; the High Command of the Army’s proclamation dated 1 October 1938, to the Sudeten Germans; and regulations dated 4 October 1938, valid in the Sudeten regions. In German. 8 October 1938. 17. Photograph of the arrival of German troops and the “enthusiastic welcome” of the population. 18. Letter to the Presidium of the Police in Prague announcing that during the occupation of the town of Jindrichuv Hradec German troops crossed into the Czech part of town. British observers questioned this, and after talks with all concerned the German troops retreated. In Czech. 19. Memorandum concerning the takeover of the German-speaking territories of Moravia and Silesia. The Munich Protocol acknowledges the principles of self-determination of the population of these territories, and decisions should be based on the 1921 and 1930 censuses which determine language areas. 10 October 1938. 20. Telegram from the German military forces to headquarters concerning the prohibition of public gatherings in certain towns and villages. 21. Photographs of a celebration [possibly military or SDP] in towns under German occupation. 22. Secret action report of the Karlsbad Gestapo for 1938 Oct. 24, concerning arrests in Karlsbad, Elbogen, and Neudek; the arrest of some 721 members of the Social Democratic Party, the Communist Party and the Red Militia since 1938 Oct. 4; the search of homes and offices in many towns; the closing of Jewish homes and shops; a suicide attempt by Josef Ebert, a member of the Red Militia in Neudek. In German. 29 October 1938. 23. List of unreliable persons in several towns and villages prepared by the Wustung SDP. In German. October 1938. 24. Copy of letter from the Czech Legation to the Foreign Office in Berlin complaining about objectionable, possibly illegal, conduct of German authorities towards Czech citizens in occupied towns. In German. 25. Report of Karlsbad Gestapo concerning the arrest of 1157 persons in the local Gestapo jurisdiction during the period 3 October
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