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Volksgericht Linz (Verfahren mit Urteil and Verfahren ohne Urteil)

Document | Accession Number: 2010.75 | RG Number: RG-17.034

Contains 322 post-war trials of defendants accused of Nazi war crimes. The trials took place in the Volksgericht Linz (People's Court in Linz), Austria from 1946 to 1955. These cases mostly relate to Jewish victims. Includes cases from Salzburg over which the Volksgericht Linz also had jurisdiction.

Collection Subtitle
The Peoples' Court in Linz (court cases with a verdict and court cases without a verdict)
Date
1938-1945  (inclusive)
Language
German
Extent
32,450 digital files : JPEG ; 49.8 GB.
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About This Document

System of Arrangement
The files are organized in the following order: Case number of the Court ("Aktenzahl Gericht"); Case number of the Prosecutor ("Aktenzahl Staatsanwaltschaft"); Archival signature in the State Archives of Upper Austria and carton number; Volume of the case file; Analysis of the court case.

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Administrative History

Holder of Originals
Oberösterreichisches Landesarchiv
Legal Status
Permanent Collection
Provenance
Records created by the People's Court in Linz, Austria, 1946-1955. The digitization of the post-war Linz court case files was done as a research and digitization project by the Zentrale österreichische Forschungsstelle Nachkriegsjustiz (Austrian Research Agency for Post-War Trials, FStN) with the financial support of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. The Museum acquired the collection from the Oberösterreichisches Landesarchiv (State Archives of Upper Austria). The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received digitized collection via the United States Holocaust Museum International Archives Project in Dec. 2010.

Rights and Restrictions

Copyright Holder
Oberösterreichisches Landesarchiv
Conditions on Access
Restrictions on access. Users are required to complete a User Declaration in order to gain access to the collection. User declarations are shared by USHMM with State Archives of Upper Austria - the USHMM Archives shall send once a year signed user declarations to the Oberösterreichisches Landesarchiv.
Conditions on Use
Restrictions on use. Use of archival material from the State Archives of Upper Austria is limited to personal or scholarly research or for research about the applicant’s family members. Transfer of the reproduced archival material to third parties is not permitted. Publication of archival material requires the written permission of the State Archives of Upper Austria. If permission is granted, the applicant agrees to cite original archival reference and name of source archive in all publications, personal data are to be published in anonymized form only, a copy of any publication in which archival material from the State Archives of Upper Austria was used shall be sent to the State Archives of Upper Austria free of charge.
 
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