Overview
- Description
- Contains records pertaining to the Office of Reich Governor and Nazi party district leader Baldur von Schirach. Contains a wide variety of Nazi administrative records, including weekly reports from various countries in Europe and the Middle East; Gestapo records; speeches; administrative police matters including secret police reports; expropriation and Aryanization records; prison and court matters including prisoner transports; regulations concerning the treatment of Jews; appeals; records pertaining to the treatment of political enemies including clergy, as well as forced laborers and prisoners of war; the treatment of handicapped patients; Jewish emigration including the Central Office for Jewish Emigration; rules and regulations concerning emigration, passports; identification requirements for certain groups including Jews; correspondence from the general population; reports concerning deportations of Jews; administrative decrees concerning cultural events and propaganda; and more.
- Date
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inclusive:
1940-1945
- Reference
- Fink, Manfred, et al. Das Archiv der Republik und seine Bestände. Teil 1: Das Archivgut der 1. Republik und der Zeit von 1918 bis 1945. Wien: Österreichisches Staatsarchiv, 1993-. ;
Höffkes, Karl. Hitlers politische Generäle. Die Gauleiter des Dritten Reiches.Tübingen: 1986. ; Pfeifer, Helfried. Die Ostmark. Eingliederung und Neugestaltung. Wien: Staatsdruckerei Wien, 1941.;
Wilhelm, Friedrich. Die Polizei im NS-Staat. Die Geschichte ihrer Organisation im Überblick. Paderborn: Schöningh, 1997. ; Wortmann, Michael. Baldur von Schirach. Hitlers Jugendführer.Köln-Wien: 1982.
Physical Details
- Language
- German
- Extent
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159,946 digital images : JPEG ; 160 GB.
142 microfilm reels ; 35 mm.
- System of Arrangement
- Arrangement is thematic.
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- This material can only be accessed in a Museum reading room or other on-campus viewing stations. Users are required to complete a User Declaration in order to gain access to the collection. User declarations must be forwarded by USHMM once a year to Austrian State Archives.
- Conditions on Use
- Use of archival material from the Austrian State Archives is limited to personal or scholarly research or for research about the applicant’s family members. Transfer of the reproduced archival material to third persons is not permitted. Publication of archival material requires the written permission of the Austrian State Archives. The researcher agrees to cite the original archival reference and name of the source archive in any work and publications, personal data are to be published in anonymized form only, a copy of any publication in which archival material from the Austrian State Archives was used shall be sent to the Austrian State Archives free of charge.
- Copyright Holder
- Österreichisches Staatsarchiv
Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons--Europe. Forced labor--Germany--History--20th century. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Austria. Deportation--Austria--Vienna. Aryanization. National socialism. Prisoners of war--Europe. Political prisoners--Europe. Priests--Europe.
- Geographic Name
- Europe--Emigration and immigration--History. Germany--Politics and government--1933-1945. Austria--Politics and government--1933-1945.
- Personal Name
- Schirach, Baldur von, 1907-1974.
- Corporate Name
- Hitler Youth
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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Österreichisches Staatsarchiv
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Records created by the Office of Reich Governor and Nazi party district leader, Baldur von Schirach. After WWII records were held by the Allgemeines Verwaltungsarchiv/General Administrative Archives, and later by the Archiv der Republik/Austrian State Archives (1987-present). The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the collection from the Österreichisches Staatsarchiv (Austrian State Archives) via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s International Archives Project in Jan. 2011.
- Record last modified:
- 2023-08-25 09:42:25
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