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Kommandanteur der Ordnungspolizei Mähren (B 314)

Document | Digitized | Accession Number: 2018.414.1 | RG Number: RG-48.025

Overview

Description: Miscellaneous reports, memos, correspondence, registers of police personnel, and administrative records of police regiments in Moravia, including reports of events from commanders of SS of the 21st SS Police Regiment (Polizei-Regiment Mähren) to the Commander of Orpo, and an organization chart of the General Commandat of the Police with a register of personnel.
Alternate Title: Commandant of the order police Moravia
Velitel pořádkové policie Morava
Date: inclusive: 1939-1945
Reference: Tessin, Georg & Kannapin, Norbert. Waffen-SS under Ordnungspolizei im Kriegseinsatz 1939–1945: Ein Überlick anhand der Feldpostübersicht, Osnabrück, Germany: Biblio Verlag (2000).

Physical Details

Language: Czech
Genre/Form: Charts. Correspondence. Memorandums. Registers. Reports.
Extent: 4,830 digital images : JPEG.
System of Arrangement: Arranged in four series: 1. Reports, 1939-1945 [Carton 1-3]; 2. Memos, 1939 [Carton 4]; 3. Recruitment of German policeman into military service, 1941 [Carton 4]; 4. Organization chart of the general command of the Police with a register of personnel, 1942 [Carton 4]

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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: Commercial use requires a written permission from the source archive, the Moravian Provincial Archive, Brno, Czech Republic.
Copyright Holder: Moravský zemský archiv v Brně

Keywords & Subjects

Topical Term: World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Czechoslovakia. Police administration--Czechoslovakia--History--Registers. National socialism--Czechoslovakia--History--20th century. Jews--Czechoslovakia--History--20th century. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Czechoslovakia.
Geographic Name: Germany--Armed Forces--Military police--History--20th century. Czechoslovakia--History--German occupation, 1939-1945. Bohemia and Moravia (Protectorate, 1939-1945)
Corporate Name: Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei. Schutzstaffel Hauptamt Ordnungspolizei

Administrative Notes

Holder of Originals: Moravský zemský archiv v Brně
Legal Status: Permanent Collection
Provenance: Source of acquisition is the Moravian Provincial Archive (Moravský zemský archiv v Brně), Sign. B 314, Czech Republic. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received this collection via the United States Holocaust Museum International Archives Project in October 2018.

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