Overview
- Description
- This collection contains 64 cases, 85 volumes of documents from the criminal investigation files and trial records mostly of the residents of German colonies in the former Soviet Union. They were accused of wartime crimes. Most of them served in the Schutzstaffel (SS) unit as soldiers, between 1944 and 1945, were captured by the American Army and sent to POW camps, and in 1946, were repatriated to the Soviet Union, where they were convicted of treason for participation in the enemy's military formations against the Soviet Union. Files also contain testimonies of the convicted members of the Schutzstaffel (SS) cavalry punitive squadron, detailed descriptions of the evacuation of the ethnic German population in September 1943, descriptions about participation in the killing of Jews, participation in a punitive operation in Mariupol,́ Ukraine, and the burning of many Ukrainian villages along with their inhabitants.
- Date
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inclusive:
1943-1950
- Credit Line
- Forms part of the Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. This archive consists of documentation whose reproduction and/or acquisition was made possible with funding from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
Physical Details
- Language
- Russian
- Extent
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18,693 pages of photocopies..
338 microfiche.
- System of Arrangement
- The collection is organized into 64 series: RG-75.001*001-RG-75.001*64 One criminal case applies to one series. For each trial the case number and defendant is listed
Arrangement is thematic
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- This material can only be accessed in a Museum reading room or other on-campus viewing station. There are no additional access restrictions to this material.
- Conditions on Use
- The Museum is in the process of determining the possible use restrictions that may apply to material(s) in this collection.
- Copyright Holder
- National Security Service (Uzbekistan)
Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- War crime trials--Soviet Union--Sources. Russian Germans--Soviet Union--Sources. World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, Uzbek. World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, Ukrainian. Jews--Persecutions--Ukraine. World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Ukraine. World War, 1939-1945--Deportations. Escaped prisoners of war.
- Geographic Name
- Uzbekistan--Emigration and immigration--History--20th century.
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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National Security Service (Uzbekistan)
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- From the Archives of the Service for National Security (SNB) of the Republic of Uzbekistan. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the filmed collection via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum International Archives Project in May 2004.
- Special Collection
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Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2023-08-25 12:29:53
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn515979
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