Overview
- Description
- Contains diverse military records and directives of the German Army, orders, personnel lists, addresses, appeals and correspondence of the Nazi civil and military administration on the occupied territories, anti-Soviet and anti-Jewish propaganda, records related to the organizations of interrogations of the German POW by the Soviet intelligence services (SMERSH), Soviet partisan warfare and its suppression, treatment of the Soviet POW, and the like.
- Date
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inclusive:
1938-1945
- 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.
Physical Details
- Language
- German Russian Ukrainian Other languages
- Extent
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43,925 digital images : JPEG ; 18.5 GB.
43 microfilm reels (digitized) ; 35 mm.
- System of Arrangement
- Fond 7021, Opis 148, File 1-554. Arrangement is thematic.
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- This material can only be accessed in a Museum reading room or other on-campus viewing stations. No other access restrictions apply to this material.
- Conditions on Use
- No copies or publication for third parties without permission of the source archive
- Copyright Holder
- Gosudarstvennyĭ arkhiv Rossiĭskoĭ Federat︠s︡ii
Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- Propaganda--Germany. Escaped prisoners of war--Germany. Escaped prisoners of war--Soviet Union. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Europe. Intelligence service--Germany. Intelligence service--Soviet Union.
- Geographic Name
- Soviet Union--History--German occupation, 1941-1944.
- Corporate Name
- Soviet Union. Military counter-intelligence (SMERSh)
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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Gosudarstvennyĭ arkhiv Rossiĭskoĭ Federat︠s︡ii
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Source of acquisition is the State Archives of the Russian Federation (Gosudarstvennyĭ arkhiv Rossiĭskoĭ Federat︠s︡ii), Fond 7021, opis 148. The “trophy” records were captured by the Soviet Red Army through military operations and ultimately placed in the custody of the of the Soviet State Extraordinary Commission to Investigate Crimes Committed by the Nazis and the Allies on the Territory of the Soviet Union during WWII. These records were used for by the Soviet intelligence services as well as investigative authorities to collect evidence of crimes and destruction committed by the Nazis and their allies on the territory of USSR and Eastern Europe during the war. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's International Archives acquired the filmed collection from the State Archives of the Russian Federation in 2006. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the microfilms in July 2006.
- Special Collection
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Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2023-06-07 10:51:44
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn518592
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