Overview
- Description
- Selected records on activities of the office of the Higher SS and Police Leader in the Operational Zone of the Adriatic Littoral (Operationszone Adriatisches Küstenland, OZAK), a district of Nazi Germany created in 1943 after Italian capitulation following the Allied invasion of Italy. Includes a fragmentary list of local residents detailed by German police. The area of the OZAK with its capital in Trieste comprised parts of the territories of present-day Italy, Slovenia, and parts of Croatia (Rijeka region). Odilo Globocnik served as Higher SS and Police Leader of this district in 1943-1945 and in this capacity oversaw all major activities of the local SS and Police, including administration of the concentration camps, deportations of the local population, and anti-partisan warfare.
- Subtitle
- Operationszone Adriatisches Küstenland (OZAK)
- Date
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inclusive:
1943-1945
- Reference
- Joseph Poprzeczny. Odilo Globocnik, Hitler's Man in the East. McFarland & Company Inc 2004.
G. Reitlinger. The Final Solution. Vallentine & Mitchell 1953.
Physical Details
- Extent
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6,234 digital images : PDF ; 28 MB .
- System of Arrangement
- Arranged in four groups: 1. Records of Higher SS and Police Leader in the Operational Zone of the Adriatic Littoral; 2. Records related to the activities of Commander of the Security Police (Befehlshaber SiPo and des SD); 3. Documentation od SS Standarte Kurt Eggers, SS propaganda unit in Adria region (Kdo Adria); 4. Fragmentary documentation pertaining to the activities of various police, SS units, and commandos operated in the OZAK district in 1943-1945.
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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
- Researchers must sign an access form stating that they will use those archival materials for a private study and research only. Any commercial use of it may require the payment of a license fee in accordance with established prices for services provided by the Archives of the Republic of Slovenia (Archives). Any publishing of the archival materials will require the written permission of the Archives and the citation of sources as required by the Archives. A copy of any published work that includes archival materials from the Archives will be provided to the Museum and the Archives.
- Copyright Holder
- Arhiv Republike Slovenije
Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Europe. Fascism--Italy--History--20th century. Nazi propaganda--Europe--History--20th century. Police administration--Slovakia--History--20th century. Prisoners and prisons--Italy--History--20th century. Jews--Legal status, laws, etc.--Europe--History--20th century. Jews--Persecutions--History--20th century. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Italy.
- Geographic Name
- Kamno (Slovenia) Kneza (Slovenia) Koritnica (Slovenia) Rijeka (Croatia) Tolmin (Slovenia) Trieste (Italy)--History--20th century. Volarje (Slovenia) Germany--Politics and government--1933-1945. Slovenia--History--Axis occupation--1941-1945.
- Personal Name
- Globocnik, Odilo. Eggers, Kurt, 1905-1943.
- Corporate Name
- SS (Organization)
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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Arhiv Republike Slovenije
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Source of acquisition is the Arhiv Republike Slovenije (Archives of the Republic of Slovenia); Records: SI AS 1760.The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the filmed collection from the Arhiv Republike Slovenije via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum International Archives Project in Feb. 2021.
- Record last modified:
- 2023-06-01 07:28:24
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