Records of the Gendarmerie Kreis Schrimm (Sygn.72)

Contains information about activities of Gendarmerie personnel in Schrimm (Srem), Poland; use of Poles from the Schrimm area for labor; activities of the SS, Gestapo, and local police in Poznań, Poland; treatment of POWs; treatment and persecution of Roma; members of the Reinefarthe Gruppe (police personnel from Schrimm) taking part in the suppression of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising; participation of the gendarmerie in the expulsion of Poles from their homes and settlement of Germans in their places; Polish orphans transferred to the camp at Łódź, Poland; establishment of a youth camp at Łódź (01 Dec 1942); regulations and monitoring of communication, travel, and use of postal service by Poles; pursuit and treatment of escaped prisoners; and escape of British prisoners of war.