Deutsche Polizeieinrichtungen in den okkupierten Gebieten (Fond 1323)

Diverse records of the police offices in Germany and includes plans, minutes, interrogations, bulletins, correspondence, personnel files, lists of police offices, reports and directives from the Reichsführer SS Himmler to intermediate levels and to SS Polizeiführer on lower levels. Consists of information about the organization of the Order Police (Orpo) units, Gendarmerie, indigenous formations ("Schutzmannschaften"), and Geheime Feldpolizei (Secret Field Police) in the Occupied Eastern Territories; the regional reports and action plans for numerous localities; information about the activities of police/gendarmerie in Belarus and of German police in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia; records of administrative matters such as salaries and other individual personal matters; information about the handling of confiscated Jewish property; a list of police sections and institutions in the occupied USSR with Feldpost numbers, 1942-1943; reports about the military commander in Warsaw and the Warsaw ghetto, 1940-1941; 1942 Heydrich directives; September 1937 documents about the travel of Italians and other foreigners intending to assassinate Hitler and Mussolini; SD Aussenstelle in Solingen-Niederberg; information about events in Ostmark (Austria), 1938-1944; and records regarding police activity in France, the 1943 search for Allied air force officers who escaped from Oflag XXI, and anti-partisan actions. Note: USHMM Archives holds only selected records.