Overview
- Description
- Clemency appeals before the Vienna Court of Appeals, including from former illegal Nazi party members in Austria for crimes committed before Austria's annexation to Nazi Germany.
- Alternate Title
- Justice Ministry : State Public Prosecutor's Office at the Superior State Court Vienna-Criminal cases, 1939-1945.
- Date
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inclusive:
1939-1945
- Collection Creator
- Austria. Justizministerium
Physical Details
- Language
- German
- Genre/Form
- Correspondence.
- Extent
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84,705 digital images : JPEG ; 237 GB .
239 microfilm reels (partially digitized) ; 35 mm.
- System of Arrangement
- Arrangement is chronological. Records selected from 120 archival cartons (Carton 5185 to 5350). Reels #156 to #159, contain auxiliary files (Justizministerium: Oberlandesgericht Nachtrag).
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--Confiscations and contributions--Austria. Criminal justice, Administration of--Austria. National socialism--Austria--History. Nazis--Legal status, laws, etc. Antisemitism--Austria--History--20th century. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Austria.
- Geographic Name
- Austria--Politics and government--1918-1938. Austria--History--German occupation, 1940-1945. 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 March 2018.
- Record last modified:
- 2023-06-06 15:38:52
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