Overview
- Description
- Contains three interrelated collections pertaining to the Gestapo headquarters in the city of Neustadt an der Weinstrasse (Gestapostelle Neustadt). These Gestapo records cover the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate.The three collections are as follows (a. - c.): a. Bestand H90 (Geheime Staatspolizei Neustadt-Verwaltung): Administrative files of the Gestapo headquarters in Neustadt. Contains financial records, building plans, rules and regulations, and records pertaining to the monitoring of the French border, the transfer of political prisoners to the concentration camp Neustadt, registration of political opponents of various parties and organizations, and investigation files, 1919-1945; b. Bestand H91 (Geheime Staatspolizei Neustadt-Ermittlungsakten): Contains 14,767 alphabetically arranged Gestapo investigative files against individuals in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate for a number of alleged offenses, including: politically and religiously motivated resistance, anti-Nazi and anti-war statements and other offenses against the treachery law (Heimtückegesetz), the listening to foreign radio broadcasts, "asocial" behavior, homosexuality, membership in the Communist or Socialist parties, and other cases. Also includes individuals whose arrest by the Gestapo was racially motivated, such as Jews, foreign laborers and POWs, 1933-1944; c. Bestand R22 (Besatzungsakten nach 1945) Nr. 1: Card files of the Gestapostelle Neustadt with information about persons who had been investigated or arrested, as well as post-war card files belonging to the French military administration in Neustadt with information about persons mentioned in the Gestapo files, such as secret informers, accusers, and other private individuals who worked with and assisted the Gestapo. Also features personal dossiers of persons mentioned in the NSDAP Gauleitung Westmark (Bestand T65), including card files belonging to the Gestapo headquarters in the German state of Hessen (such as in the cities of Worms and Giessen).
- Date
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inclusive:
1919-1945
bulk: 1933-1945
- Credit Line
- 1
- Collection Creator
- Germany. Geheime Staatspolizei. Staatspolizeistelle Neustadt
Physical Details
- Language
- German
- Extent
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509,837 digital images : JPEG.
- System of Arrangement
- Arranged in three groups:
1. a. Bestand H90 (Geheime Staatspolizei Neustadt-Verwaltung): Administrative files of the Gestapo headquarters in Neustadt, 1919-1945.
2. b. Bestand H91 (Geheime Staatspolizei Neustadt-Ermittlungsakten): Gestapo investigative files arranged alphabetically, 1933-1944.
3. c. Bestand R22 (Besatzungsakten nach 1945) Nr. 1: Card files of the Gestapostelle Neustadt.
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- This material can only be accessed in a Museum reading room or other on-campus viewing stations. Users are required to complete a user declaration in order to access this material.
- Conditions on Use
- No transfer of reproductions to third parties or publication of documents without the written permission of the State Archival Administration of Rheinland-Pfalz. No publication on the Internet unless the source archive does so first (see Art.II.5. in the cooperation contract).
- Copyright Holder
- Landesarchivverwaltung Rheinland-Pfalz
Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Germany. World War (1939-1945)--Prisoners and prisons, Germany. Political parties--Germany--History--20th century. Political prisoners--Germany--History--20th century--Sources. Communists--Germany--History--20th century. Jews--Germany--History--20th century. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Germany--History--20th century.
- Geographic Name
- Germany--History--20th century. Giessen (Germany) Neustadt an der Weinstrasse (Germany) Rhineland-Palatinate (Germany) Worms (Germany)
- Corporate Name
- Germany. Gestapo Nazi Party Neustadt-Glewe (Concentration camp)
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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Landesarchiv Speyer
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Source of acquisition is the Landesarchiv Speyer (State Archive Speyer), Germany. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the collection via the United States Holocaust Museum International Archives Project in Aug. 2021 and an accretion in June 2022. This is an ongoing project. Accretions are expected as protection periods for individual case files expire.
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- 2024-06-04 10:44:17
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