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Oberpräsident der Provinz Oberschlesien, Kattowitz (Fond 1232)

Document | Digitized | Accession Number: 2002.553.4 | RG Number: RG-11.001M.68

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    Overview

    Description
    This collection contains mainly files on the granting of German citizenship to ethnic Germans, especially in military service, by the committees for the implementation of the German People's List in Katowice (Kattowitz) and Opole (Oppeln) and church matters in general, ecclesiastical assets (cemeteries, buildings, taxes and collections), as well as the confiscation of monasteries, Catholic clergy (including accusations, exemption from military service), parish registers, Kindergartens, pastoral care in resettles. Also includes files on the labor input of prisoners of war, foreign workers and resettles, UK positions, fire police, household and salaries ( including the police 1939-1942), thereby funds for Nazi -Propaganda, for the promotion of tourism and art historical research, with lists of officials and their references, also on mercy petitions to death sentences of Poles and Jews (1942-1944). Consists of some files on the organization of the authorities (1942), marriages with foreigners (1941-1943), demarcation to the Generalgouvernement, war damage in Wroclaw and Opole, air raid, Poland prison camps, the consequences of July 20, 1944 plot (attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler), construction, traffic, confiscation Polish and Jewish property (lists of a year 1944) and statistics.

    Note: USHMM Archives holds only selected records.
    Alternate Title
    Head of the province of Upper Silesia, Katowice
    Date
    inclusive:  1940-1945
    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.
    Collection Creator
    Oberpräsident Kattowitz
    Biography
    The Katowice (Kattowitz) province was formed on April 1, 1941 under the Chief President and Gauleiter Fritz Bracht (Oberpräsident Kattowitz) included in addition to the district of Opole and to 1920 and 1922 Prussian parts of the administrative district Katowice also the Polish circles Będzin (Bendsbug), Bielsko (Bielitz), Blachownia (Blachstädt , from parts of the circles Zawiercie and Częstochowa), Chrzanów (Krenau), Olkusz (Ilkenau), Sosnowiec (Sosnowietz), Zawiercie (Warthenau), Żywiec (Saybusch) and the 1938 partially annexed by Poland Czech circle Teschen (Cieszyn).
    Reference
    Fishman, D. E. and Kupovetsky, M, Kuzelenkov, V. (ed.). Nazi-Looted Jewish Archives in Moscow. A guide to Jewish Historical and Cultural Collections in the Russian State Military Archive. Scranton: University of Scranton Press 2010. Published in association with the United States Holocaust memorial Museum and The Jewish Theological Seminary.

    http://www.sonderarchiv.de/fondverzeichnis.htm

    Browder, G. C. Captured German and other Nation's Documents in the osobyi (Special) Archive, Moscow. Published by: Cambridge University Press on behalf of Conference Group for Central European History of the American Historical Association.

    stefanski, Valentina, M. Nationalsozialistische Volkstums- und Arbeitseinsatzpolitik im Regierungsbezirk Kattowitz 1939-1945, In Geschichte und Gesellschaft

    Russian State Military Archive: http://opisi.rgvarchive.ru/ [accessed 27 April 2021]

    Physical Details

    Language
    German
    Extent
    1 microfilm reel ; 16 mm.
    269 digital images : JPEG.
    System of Arrangement
    Fond 1232 (1940-1945). Opis 1, Dela 205. Arranged in four series: 1. Correspondence and questionnaires relating to German citizenship cases, and lists of “Volksdeutsche”; 3. Catholic Church affairs under German occupation in Silesia; 3. Hitler's orders and research materials of Silesian museums, publishing houses, etc.; 4. List of Polish organizations; list of property confiscated from Jews; topographic maps, statistics and lists of communities in the district of Katowice (Kattowitz).

    Note: Location of digital images; Partial microfilm reel #394: Image #915-1184.

    Rights & Restrictions

    Conditions on Access
    There are no known restrictions on access to this material.
    Conditions on Use
    Reproduction and publication only with written permission of the Russian State Military Archives

    Keywords & Subjects

    Corporate Name
    Nazi Party

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Source of acquisition is the Russian State Military Archive (Rossiĭskiĭ gosudarstvennyĭ voennyĭ arkhiv), Fond 1232. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the filmed collection via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum International Archival Programs Division in 2002.
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    2023-06-01 09:05:07
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