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Postwar trials and investigations from the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Republic of Georgia (Fond 6)

Document | Accession Number: 2013.6 | RG Number: RG-38.001

Criminal investigation files and records of trials of residents of the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic accused of wartime crimes. It includes interrogation transcripts, witness statements, arrest warrants, sketches, diagrams, photographs, and other evidentiary documents related to suspected war criminals.

Collection Subtitle
Trials of the German collaborators conducted after WWII on the territory of the Georgia SSR kept by the ex-KGB Archives
Date
1944-1953  (inclusive)
Language
Russian
Genre/Form
Sketches.
Diagrams.
Transcripts.
Photographs.
Registers.
Extent
685,291 digital images : JPEG ; 3.32 TB .
Credit Line
Claims Conference Collection
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About This Document

Document Creator
Narodnyy Komissariat Vnutrennikh Del
Ministerstvo Gosudarstvennoi Bezopasnosti
Komitet gosudarstvennoy bezopasnosti
Biography
The Narodnyy Komissariat Vnutrennikh Del (NKVD) formed in 1934 as was a law enforcement agency of the Soviet Union, contained the regular, public police force of the USSR, including traffic police, firefighting, border guards and archives. It is best known for the activities of the Gulag and the Main Directorate for State Security (GUGB), the predecessor of the KGB). The NKVD conducted mass extrajudicial executions, ran the Gulag system of forced labor camps and suppressed underground resistance, and was also responsible for mass deportations of entire nationalities and Kulaks to unpopulated regions of the country. It was also tasked with protection of Soviet borders and espionage, which included political assassinations abroad, influencing foreign governments and enforcing Stalinist policy within communist movements in other countries.
System of Arrangement
Organized by a case files of individuals and groups suspected of war crimes.
Special Collection
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive

Keywords and Subjects

Administrative History

Holder of Originals
Georgia (Republic). Šinagan sakʻmetʻa saministro.
Legal Status
Permanent Collection
Provenance
Source of acquisition is the Šinagan sakʻmetʻa saministro (Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Georgia), Fond 6. Records collected by the NKVD/MGB and KGB Archives of the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic, and later by the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Georgia. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the collection via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum International Archives Program in Jan. 2013, accretion in Dec. 2014, Feb. and Sept. 2015, and Feb. 2017.

Rights and Restrictions

Copyright Holder
Georgia (Republic). Šinagan sakʻmetʻa saministro.
Conditions on Access
No restrictions on access
Conditions on Use
Restrictions on use. Fair use only. Duplication and publication of documents/microfilm reels/ digital images for third parties require the written permission of the Archives of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Georgia.
 
Record last modified: 2017-10-11 13:00:59
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