Selected records of postwar East German investigative court cases and trials to Nazi war crimes
- Collection Subtitle
- Records ZUV
- Date
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1945-1990
(inclusive)
- Language
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German
- Genre/Form
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Registers.
- Extent
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49,449 digital images (544 folders) : TIFF and JPEG ; 17.6 GB.
1,388 microfiche..
- Extent
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239 boxes
- Credit Line
- Forms part of the Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. This archive consists of documentation whose reproduction and/or acquisition was made possible with funding from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
Prosecutions in the Soviet-Occupied Zone of Germany (subsequently German Democratic Republic) against perpetrators of Nazi-era crimes. Victims were Jews, the mentally ill, prisoners of war, and other groups in ghettos, partisan areas, camps, and killing centers. Perpetrators were in the SS, the Einsatzgruppen, police battalions and regiments, the euthanasia program, the court system, ghetto and camp administrations, the Wehrmacht, and the latter's Field Police (Feldgendarmerie) and Secret Field Police (Geheime Feldpolizei).
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