Direction generale des etudes et recherches : Section Speciale Allemagne (SSA) (GR 28 P 7)

Document | Digitized | Accession Number: 2018.494.1 | RG Number: RG-43.169

Overview

Description: The collection contains the archives of the SSA and primarily documents the organization and personnel of the German special services (RSHA and Abwehr) during World War II. The archives come from two different sources: 1) the archives “ DALO” from the Bureau of Documention in Germany (Bdoc 9000) and to which the second office gave a classification scheme of two to seven digits beginning with 4, and 2) the archives “K” arranged thematically. The collection includes reports on the German special services and documents pertaining to the Abwehr and the SIPO-SD/ RSHA, collaboration, the Wehrmacht, special units, the SS, the Nazi Party and its organization, resistance to the Allied forces occupying Germany after the war, missing persons, interned persons, transfers and repatriation, people accused of war crimes, concentration and internment camps, surveillance and communications control, anti-Nazi Germans, and the German press.
Alternate Title: General Directorate of Studies and Investigations : Special Section devoted to Germany
Date: inclusive: 1934-1953
Reference: Joseph Billig, L'Institut d'étude des questions juives, officine française des autorités nazies en France: inventaire commenté de la collection de documents provenant des archives de l'lnstitut conservés au C.D.J.C. (Paris, 1974)

Language: German French English
Genre/Form: Registers. Reports.
Extent: 46,038 digital images.
System of Arrangement: The records are arranged in the following 18 groups:
• Etudes sur les services spéciaux allemands
• Abwehr et SIPO-SD
• Reichssicherheitshauptamt (RSHA)
• Abwehr
• Collaboration
• Wehrmacht
• Unités spéciales
• Schutzstaffel (SS)
• Parti nazi et organisations du parti
• Résistance aux allies en Allemagne occupée
• Personnes recherchées
• Personnes internées
• Transferts et rapatriements
• Criminels de guerre
• Camps de concentrations et camps d’internement
• Surveillance et contrôle des communications
• Allemands anti-nazis
• Presse allemande

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: Any use of the collection must comply with the regulation of the Commission nationale de l'informatique et des libertes (CNIL), France. Use by USHMM (Museum) of the digital reproductions of documents held by the archival repositories of the Ministry of Defense and the information contained therein for any other purpose than consultation in the reading rooms or through the intranet servers of the Museum (for example, for an exhibition or a publication) is not permitted by the Cooperative Agreement and requires a specific request made to the Ministry of Defense. Any request to reproduce or use reproductions coming from researchers or users at the Museum must be addressed to the archival repository of the Ministry of Defense that holds the original document.
Copyright Holder: France. Ministère de la défense

Topical Term: World War, 1939-1945--France. World War, 1939-1945--Collaborationists--France. Police--France--Sources. Sabotage--France. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--France. Concentration camps--France.
Geographic Name: France--Politics and government--20th century. France--History--German occupation, 1940-1945. Vichy (France)--Politics and government.

Holder of Originals: France. Service historique de la défense
Legal Status: Permanent Collection
Provenance: Source of acquisition is the Historical Archives of the French Ministry of Defense at the Chateau de Vincennes (Service historique de la Defense Chateau de Vincennes). The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum received the filmed collection via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum International Archival Programs Division in November 2018.