Overview
- Description
- Contains miscellaneous documents relating to regulations and administrative and legal matters addressed by the Justice Ministry in Vienna on a variety of issues, such as: punishment of sexual relations between Jews and non-Jews living in the Protectorate; convictions of females by the state court of Vienna for forbidden contact with prisoners of war; treatment of foreign laborers; confiscation of assets ("Vermögensbeschlagnahme"), control of incoming and outgoing assets ("Devisenfahndungsamt") in Nazi Germany and the Ostmark as well as the Nazi occupied territories; secret investigations ("Bedeutsame Aufdeckungsfälle") of Jews accused of smuggling assets and goods, as well as reports about the handling of unclaimed and left behind Jewish assets; the Emsland camps and members of the clergy; prison labor; culture and public welfare, including public health measures ("Volksgesundheit").
- Alternate Title
- Justice Ministry : State Public Prosecutor's Office at the Superior State Court Vienna-General files
- Date
-
inclusive:
1939-1945
- Collection Creator
- Austria. Justizministerium
- Reference
- Description of records: http://www.archivinformationssystem.at/detail.aspx?ID=1573
Physical Details
- Language
- German
- Extent
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41,554 digital images : JPEG ; 25.4 GB.
42 microfilm reels (partially digitized) ; 35 mm.
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--Concentration camps--Germany--Emsland--1930-1940. World War, 1939-1945--Confiscations and contributions--Austria. Criminal justice, Administration of--Germany. Prisoners of war--Austria. Nazis--Legal status, laws, etc. Forced labor--Germany--Emsland--1930-1940. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Austria.
- Geographic Name
- Austria--History--German occupation, 1940-1945. Austria--Politics and government--1918-1938. Emsland (Germany)--History. Austria
- Corporate Name
- Nazi Party Ministry of Justice (Austria)
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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Österreichisches Staatsarchiv
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Source of acquisition is the Österreichisches Staatsarchiv (Austrian State Archives), a sub-collection of a larger group of records of the Ministry of Justice (Signatur: AT-OeStA/AVA Justiz). The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the filmed collection via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum International Archives Project in April 2012, and accretion in Nov. 2018.
- Record last modified:
- 2023-06-06 15:38:37
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn46418
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