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GUIDES TO GERMAN RECORDS MICROFILMED AT ALEXANDRIA, VA, No. 5. Miscellaneous German Records Collection (Part I) The National Archives National Archives and Records Service General Services Administration Washington: 1958 This finding aid, prepared under the direction of the Committee fer the Study •f War Documents of the American Historical Association, has been reproduced by the National Archives as part of its program of facilitating the use of records in its custody* The microfilm described in this list has been deposited In the National Archives by the American Historical Association and may be identified as Microcopy No. T-8iu It may be consulted at the National Archives. A price list appears on the last page. Those desiring to purchase microfilm should -write to the Exhibits and Publications Branch, National Archives, Washington 25, D. C. AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION COM"ITT3E POH THE STUDY OF WAR DOCUMWTS GUIDES TO GERMAN RECORDS MICROFILMS!) AT AL^XAi-IDRIA, VA. No. 5» Miscellaneous German Records Colloction (Part I) THE AMERICA!* HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION (AHA) COMMITTEE FOR THS STUDY 0? WAR DOCUMENTS GUIDES TO GERMhH K2CORDS MldtOFILKSD AT ALEXANDRIA, VA. This is part of a series of guides prepared by the American Historical Association listing records microfilmed at Alexandria by the American Historical Association Microfilming Project. An American Committee for the Study of the War Documents was established in 1955 as e private group of scholars interested it documentary research and especially in the microfilming of records of foreign offigin kept in American depositories. In 1956 the American Committee became a committee of the American Historical Association. Its present Chairman (195^) is Professor Oron J. Hale, University of Virginia, whs» was preceded by Dean Reginald H. Phelps, Harvard University, and Professor I$rnn K. Case of the University of Pennsylvania. An initial Ford Foundation grant and additional funds provided by the Old Dominion Foundation enabled the Committee to undertake t&e cataloguing and Microfilming of declassified German records in the custody of the World War II Records Division of the National Archives (previously TAGO, Departmental Records Branch, more recently Military Records Branch, Federal Records Center, Region 3» General Services Administration) at Alexandria, Virginia. ^he plans for screening and microfilming of these materials were prepared by a Subcommittee on Microfilming under the Chairmanship to the end of 1956 of Professor S. Malcolm Carroll, Duke University, and his successor, Dr. Fritz T» Epstein, The Library of Congress, Professor G~rhard L. Weinberg of the University of Kentucky directed the microfilming team in Alexandria in 1956/57 which is now under the supervision of Dr. Dagmar Horna Ferman. « The jresent guide is a collection of descriptions of record* groups filmed by the Microfilming Project of the AHA Committee, because the project is not yet complete, this guide will appear in installments. The American Historical Association expresses its appreciation for the cooperation given to its Committee for the Study of War by the staffs of the WbpM Wbr II Records Division, tfce National Archives, and the U. G. Department of the Army. WS&s&ington, B.C., July 195g Dr. Boyd C, Shafer Executive Secretary, AHA P R E F A C E This Guide is one of a series of finding aids describing those declassified seized German records deposited at the Milit^r;- Records Branch, Federal Records Center, Region 3» General Services Administration, that have "been microfilmed "by the Microfilming Project of the American Committee for the Study of War Documents (now the Committee for the Study of War Documents of the American Historical Association). Tne Guide contains the text of data sheets identifying records filmed, A copy of the data sheet has been filmed as a target sheet at the beginning of each roll of film. The Guide covers 28 rolls of film of records from a record group containing a vide variety of documents organized according to a subject scheme, generally without regard to provenance. The group includes materials pertaining to the activities of leading National Socialist officials, to the opposition against Hitler, the German administration of Austria, and other subjects. Other parts of this record grou..; will be filmed at a later date. The terms "Serial" end "Roll" in this Guide refer to the sequence of the film. Ihe "Item" number is the identification symbol on the original folder within the captured records collection. "Provenance11 indicates, inhere ascertsinable, the arcuival origin of the documei?ts whose description follows. The symbol "FT" means that the folder has been filmed throughout, the symbol "ITS11 denotes that the folder has Leen filmed selectively. "1st Frame" gives the frame number of the first page of the folder. Every exposure has been given a frame number consecutively throughout the filming operation. The "Hotes" provide a general idea of the nature of the materials but should be taken as hints* not complete descriptions. V/hen the German file number could be ascertained, it has been included. The nature of the records filmed makes it necessary for researchers to check the whole guide since no index has been prepared. The original records are located in the War Records Division II, National Archives (previously Military Records Branch, Federal Record Center, Region III, General Services Administration) under Record Group lOUg, The microfilms are deposited in the Fational Archives, Washington 25. D.C., as microcopy Fo. T-SU and should be requested by adding to "T-gUn the roll numbers. Gerhard L. Weinberg, 1957 Serial Roll 1 Provenance Item Filmed 1st frame Notes 1-3 Amtsgericht MOnchen (?) EAP 105/7, FT Envelopes A-B 1 Adolf Hitler, Sekretar Hitler Let- FT ters Folder 1 Hitler LetFT ters Folder 2 Hitler Let- FT ters Folder 3 2917 2942 2963 3 4 4 4 5 6 7 4 4 4 Hitler Let- FT ters Folder 4 Hitler Let- FT ters Folder 5 Hitler Let- FT ters Folders 6, 7 Hitler Let- FT ters, Folder 8 Hitler Let- FT ters, Folder 9 Hitler Let- FT ters, Folder 10 3031 3042 • 3333 8 9 10 4 4 5 3704 3756 3943 Verbatim record of court proceedings, Hauptverhahdlurig gegen Hitler und Gen. wegen Hochverrates, 26 Februar 1924 - 1 April 1924. The record is complete, including those sessions or parts of session from which the public was excluded. Each Verhandlungstag has its own transcript. A partial index* indicating interrogations of defendants and witnesses, will be found on frames: 2165 - 2166. The final pleadings and judgments follow. Lists, registering Ein- und Ausl&ufe with postage costs. Einlaufe Sept,, Oct., 1923; AuslSufe 1 June - 31 Oct., 1923. Contains addresses, but very little on contents. Correspondence with Hitler, July - Oct. 1923, handled by his Secretariat. The outgoing correspondence is signed by Laubeck. The bulk of this material appears to be a pencil draft of a register of correspondence handled by Hitler's secretariat in 1922 and 1923- At the end of the folder are the following items: a letter, dated 6.5-36, on a camouflage invention; a picture of a man with the written note "Papa, 1870" on the back; a Meldezettel of Alois Hitler of 4-5 May, 1892; an unidentified group photo; and a letter by Dr. Eduard Htoer, Hitler's former history professor in Linz, about Hitler and the professor's deposition for 1he 1924 trial, the letter is dated 28 April 1935. 3 items, Oct. - Nov 1923 requesting funds and support. Interesting for sources of members (1/2 ex-communist in one case), relations with Reichswehr, and Erhardt Brigade. Incoming correspondence September 1923. Letters from a variety of individuals and nationalistic organizations. Included is material on the inter. nal problems of the Nazi Party in both Germany and Austria. Inc-oning correspondence handled by Hitler's secretariat in Oct. 2923? one folder Dringender Einlauf, the other Nicht Eiloider Einlauf. Included is material on the Kampfbund, various nationalistic organizations, and the internal problems of the Nazi Party in Germany and Austria. Also, some local newspapers. (Frame numbers not consecutive in this folder.) Various incoming correspondence, early November 1923. Included is an NSDAP official photostat of a letter of Houston S. Chamberlain to Hitler of 7 October 1923, hailing Hitler in exultation. Incoming correspondence handled by Hitler's secretariat in August 1923• See frame: 3827 for information on the Nazi Party in Austria. A collection of memoranda and documents submitted to Hitler »s secretariat, January - September 1923, arranged chronologically. A list of the contents maybe found on frame: 3845. The documaits deal with the internal problems of the Nazi Party in Germany and Austria, other nationalistic organizations, proposals of various kinds submitted to Hitler, information on current Serial Roll Provenan ce Adolf Hitler, Sekretar Item Filmed 1st frame Notes political problems, and intelligence on political organizations and individuals opposed to the Nazis. Four memoranda, submitted to Hitler's office in October 1923, and a letter of Dr. Klotz of 2 Oct. 1923, concerning his differences with Streicher. The memoranda deal with the current political situation in Germany and the activity of the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Vaterlandischer KampfverbSnde. Miscellaneous Eingange November 1922 - November 1923. Party matters, suggestions. Issue No. 2 (Nov. 1923) of Deutschlards Rettung. See frames: 4262 and 4263 for relations Hitler-Sauerbruch. Highly important folder of correspondence addressed to Hitler, 1920-1923, dealing with the internal problems of the Party and the current political situation in Germany. Especially interesting are the following items: Frames: 4337 - 4338 on the financial status of the Vttlkische Beobachter in Oct. 1920. Frames: 4409 - 4410 on the Dutch minister Jan D. Domela. Frames: 4432 - 4433 on the founding of the Deutschvttlkische Freiheitspartei by Wulle, Il.d.R. Frames: 4442 - 4449 draft constitution for an NSDA.P Ortsgruppe by Esser. (The foregoing is not a complete list.) Correspondence addressed to Hitler, much of it birthday congratulations, in 1923. Included are some items on the Vdlkische Beobachter and internal Party problems. Miscellaneous correspondence addressed to Hitler, May and June, 1923* Material concerning the organizations, finances, and internal problems of the Party, legal cases in vhich it was involved, and the current political situation in Germany. Among the many items of interest, the following may serve as samples; Frame: 4897 letter on the Heller case^!5 May 1923, concerning Hitler's alleged financing by the French. Frame: 4936 Letter 23 May 1923 by Ltttgebrttne. Frames: 5104 - 5106 ff. Offer 19 June 1923 of J. Schwartz to go on sabotage mission into the fiuhr area. Frames: 5H8 - 5127 Letters from the Nordic Aryan Federation of Portland, Oregon, 23 June 1923. (the foregoing is not a complete list.) Some most interesting material on the VGlkische Beobachter, including the Auflage-Statistik 1921 - 1922. Refusal of the Generalstaatskommissar, 9 October 1923>to move against the Bayerische Kurier because of attacks on Scheubner-Rienter as requested by Hitler. Ltlderitzbuchter Zeitung for 6 and 7 November 1923. Some other material of the same period. Hitler Letters, FT Folder 11 Hitler Letters, FT Folders 12, 13 4168 13 Hitler Letters, FT Folder H 14 15 5 6 Hitler Letters, FT Folders 15, 16 Hitler Letters, FT Folders 17, 18 4481 4779 16 Hitler Letters, FT Folder 19 5161 Serial Roll 17 18 Provenance Item Filmed 1st frame 5186 5249 Notes Miscellaneous letters addressed to Hitler, Sept. 1923. The last item contains some astrological predictions. A folder from the files of Minis tor ialrst Dr. G&rnnert, PersBnlicher Referent, chief of Abteilung I of the Stabsamt. The folder contains a wide variety of documaits, many of the highest importance, dealing with all aspects of Goering f s activities in the period September 1942 - January 1943. Among the topics covered by documents scattered through the files the following are included: exploitation of the occupied territories in East and West furope; German oil needs and supplies; the management of Carinhallj personnel questions; appointment lists and lists of documents submitted to Goering; travel arrangements for Goering; purchases for Goering f s offices or himself; black market operations in the occupied territories; inventions submitted to Goering; relations with Germany's satellites; rationing problems; Ordensverieihungen; partisans in the German-occupied parts of the USSR; professorial appointments; and many others. The following may serve as samples of the contents: Frame: 5257 The signature is Martin Bormann's. Frames: 528B - 5289 Appointment of SS-Obergruppenfuhrer Mttller about SchulzeBoysen (Rote Kapelle); likewise, frames: 5301 - 5303. Frame: 5352 Signature is Warlimont's. Note: Frame 5422 involving Goering»s positions as Reichstagsprasident. Barnes: 5312 - 5314 Letter of Gauleiter Burckel, 11 Sept. 1942, requesting flak for Lorraine. Frames: 5433 - 5437 On the oil situation. Frames: 5465 - 5471 on Schirach's troubles with Landesbauernftlhrer Reithaler. Frame: 5472 for answer, 27 Sept. 1942, to Hitler's request for details on an oil refinery with annual capacity of 2 million tons* Frames: 5504 - 5518 on plans for evacuating Russians and Ukranians from the Crimea with a protest by General Thomas. Frames: 5605 - 5637 Stenographischer Bericht Uber die (Ositzung, 10 July 1942, geheime Reichssache. Frames: 5639 - 5645 Funk f s report on his trip to Budapest and Bukarest, geheime Reichssache. Frames: 566! - 5699 Stenographischer Bericht tiber die Slbesprechung, 21 November 1942,geheime Reichssache. frames: 5723 - 5728 11 August 1942, Notizen aus der Gauleiterbesprechung zum Ftthrervortrag. Frames: 5790 - 5797 September 1942, Streitverfahren zwiscbsn dem Reichsamtsleiter Peiper und dem HeichSzahnflrztefiDirer Stuck. Adolf Hitler, Sekretflr Hitler Letters, FT Folder 20; Reichsmarschall des SAP 104/1 FT Grossdeutschen Reiches, Stabsamt, Abtetlung I Serial Roll Provenance Item Filmed 1st frame Frames: Notes 5900 - 5902 21 September 1942, report of Harajanz in the Reichsministerium fur Wissenschaft, Erziehung und Volksbildung about the official career of Dr. Walter Funk, President des Reichsiristitutes fttr die Geschichte des neuen Deutschlands. Frame: 5822 11 August 1942, Bor-mann's plans for the future of the General Gouvernement. Frames: 6008 - 6012 Organisationsplan des Stabsamtes des Reichsmarschalls des Grossdeutschen Reiches. (This is not a complete list.) File of SA Oberfuhrer Gbrnnert of Goering's Stabsamt for 1938-1939. Contains documents on a variety of problems related to Goering's various duties. Included is information on the following: Voluminous correspondence on the troubles of the firm C.&A. Brenninkmeyer and a related dispute between Goering and Gauleiter Muschmann about ine firm f s Leipzig branch. The signature on frame: 6210 is Herbert Rienter's, Material on the Standarte Feldherrnhalle and its component units. Administrative problems of the German air force and anti-aircraft defenses. Some items on the Spanish Civil War. Frames: 6322 - 6327 9 a memorandum ttber deri Wirtscha ft lichen Wiederanschluss Luxemburgs an die deutsche Wirtschaft. Material on the conflicts between the Deutsche Arbeitsfront and the Reichshandwerkftthrer, (Schramm). Material on foreign exchange problems, partial larly in the cases of Friedrich Schenck and Helge Rosw&rge. A folder from the files of Dr. Gbmnert, head of Abteilung I of the Stabsamt, for 1942. Contains scattered material on a wide variety of subjects related to Goering's various offices. Included is material on the famous restaurant Horcher, appeals of individuals to Goering for help, inventions, decorations, purchases for Goering, the Reichsforschungsrat, customs, regulations and violations, food production, the Behring Institut zur Gewinnung von Fleckfieberimpfstoffen in Lemberg, economic exploitation of the occupied territories, Arbeitseinsatz, land grants through the Reichskommissar fttr die Festigung deutschen Volkstums, and Carinhall. The following items are particularly important: Frames 6627 - 6631 on the Grozny oil fields. Frames 6696 - 6701 on the case of Dr, Grilndel, connected with the Goebbels boycott Frames 6703 - 6748 on Treuhandverwaltung in the occupied territories. Frames 6785 - 6788 letter of Gauleiter Kaufmann to Goering/4 Sept. 1942 on his troubles with the Ober finanzprfisident Hamburg and the confiscations of Jewish property and homes. Frames 6874 - 6904 Reports on Lorraine, 13 July and 16 September 1942. 19 7 Stabsamt Goering EAP 1 4 2 0/ FT 6074 20 7-8 Reichsmarschall des Grossdeut s chen Reiches, Stabsamt, Abteilung I EAP 104/3 FT 6607 Continued Serial Roll Provenance Relchsmarschall des Grossdeutschen Seiches, Stabsamt, Abteilung I Item Filmed 1st frame Notes Frames: 7009 - 7010 on Sonderbattalion der Waffen-SS Kttnsberg. Frames: 7140 - 7155 report of OKW, Ausl. Abw. Abt. I, Sonderkommando Dora on Sttdlybien- und Tibestieinsatz, 20 June to 14 Dec. 1942. Frames: 7215 - 7217 Himmler to Goering«29 July 1^42 j requesting support for his proposal to Hitler for the execution of Otto Schmidt, the main "witness" in the Fritsch case. Very interesting marginal comment, followed by initial which is probably Goering's: "Der sollte ja schon langst erschossen werden!" Frames: 7250 - 7253 the case of Generalkommissar Klemm, Shitomir. (This is not a complete list.) A folder from the files of Dr. Gttrimert, head of Abteilung I of the Stabsamt, 1942. Contains a large variety of documents dealing with all aspects of Goering's activities, including the following: Decorations, congratulations, schedules of visits, conferences and trips, the Feldherrahalle Battalion of the air force, economic exploitation of the occupied territories, the oil problem, generators, Carinhall, research and inventions, manpower problems, rationing, lists of documents submitted to Goering, notes for Goering's conferences with Hitler, the munitions industry, transportation, synthetic rubber, Arbeitseinsatz, the Zentrale Planing im Vierjahresplan, problems of foreign exchange, price control. Note the following items: Frames: 7569 and 7997 about a letter from Fritz Thyssen. Frame: 7687 Note of Gttrnnert of 24 July 1942 on trouble with the Schwarze Korps. Frame: 7726 The Professor Nikuradse mentioned publi^ied his works under the pseudonym "A. Sanders." FraiP.es: 7888 - 7891 31 July 1942, Notiz for Goering for the Gauleitertagung of 5 August 1942. Frames: 8029 - 8036 relations Goering-Bouhler. (This is not a complete list.) Folder from the files of Dr. G6rnnert, head of Abteilung I of the Stabsamt. Primarily for 1942, scattered items for 1941. Contains a wide variety of materials* among subjects covered: Arts and other purchases for Goering, price control, suggested music for the Geiman air force, Carinhall, oil problems, correspondence concerning pardons, transportation, purchases and bills of various kinds, economic exploitation of occupied territories, Goering's trains. Note the following items: Frames: 8320 - 8321 relations Goering-Bormann 24 my 1942. Frame: 8336 Goering to Darre, 24 May 1942 on the latter's position. 21 8 FT 7542 22 3-9 EAP 104/5 FT 8274 ' , Continued Serial Roll Provenance Item Filmed 1st frame Notes 6 23 9 Hitter von Epp EAP l-e-16/1 FT 9099 24 9 EAP l-e-16/2 FT 9359 Continued Frames: 8344 - 8349 draft 11 June 1942 of letter Goering to Mussolini concerning German-Italian economic relations. Frame: 8408 draft of letter Goering to Himmler on Sonderbattalion der Waffen-SS, KUnsberg. frames: 8448 - 8455 interesting case of Sippenforschung. frames: 8721 - 8725 a list of Ahnenerbe publications. Frames: 8796 - 8800 complaints about the situation in the Reichsbahn, 9 March 1942. Frames: 8804 - 8806 minor documents concerning the relations GoeringDahlerus, 1939 and 1942. (This is not a complete list.) Pfeterial from Epp's file in two parts. The first is a collection of letters, 1933 - 1944? containing birthday congratulations and similar messages. The second is political material from the period 1930 - 1932 when Epp was the expert for military questions of the Nazi Party group in the Reichstag. Included is information on the organization of the Reichswehiministerium, a list of "Schwarze Betriebe" making military supplies, internal problems, political, of the Reichswehr. correspondence with Hammerstein in connection witii the latter f s letter to all active and retired generals about criticism of Germany's military command, material on Grbner, clippings and documents on problems of the Reichswehr 1930 - 1931 such as the Prozess Scheringer-Ludin, an exchange with Schleicher about Communist infiltration of the Reichswehr, and material on the careers of Schleicher and Grttaer. Frame: 9229 on Dttsterberg is presumably related to the discussion of D.f s descent at the time of his candidacy for the presidency. Frames: 9302 - 9304 contain information on Germany's secret military relations with Russia. (This is not a complete list.) A series of numbered items from the Epp papers. The most important are listed below: Item: 24 frames: 9361 - 9478 Bundesordnung and description of the Bund Deutsches Vaterland. Item: 23 Frames: 9379 - 9393 Reichsflagge, Landesverband Bayern, with organizational chart. Item: 22 Frames: 9394 - 9401| Diary, Chef des Generalstabes des Peldheeres, 0,1s Nr. 66/19 gen. op. (Schleicher) on important events 10 Nov. 1918 - 16 Jan. 1920. Item: 21 Frames: 9405 - 9408 Heine Erlebnisse am 9-11-1918 im Gr. H. Qu. Serial Roll Provenance Item Filmed 1st frame Notes written from memory on 14 Sept 1919 by Major Beck (later Chief of the German General Staff), cf. item 16. Item: 20 Frames: 9409 - 9419 Material on the "purging" of Furst Wrede and others from the Bayer. Militar Max Joseph Orden, 1926. Item: 19 - 15, Frames: 9420-9472 and items 11-B Frames: 9483-9524 are copies of various documents dealing with the abdication of the Kaiser and the later political disputes about this. Should be checked against Kuno Graf von Westarp's Das Ende der Monarchic !EL 9. November 1918. Included are some highly interesting copies of Hocuments, some from the Reichsarchiv. Item: 12 Frames: 9479 - 9482 Letter Schleicher to Eppj7 June 1930,enclosing Geheim-Erlass of 30 April 1930 on Fall Scheringer-LudinWendt. Item: 11 Frames: 9483 - 9490 Copies of seven leaflets issued by the Soldatenrat with the OHL, inspired by the Section Is (Schleicher). Item: 7 Frames: 9525 - 9545 Highly interesting memorandum of Grcner., 17 June 1919>on the military situation if Germany should refuse to sign the Treaty of Versailles. Item: 6 Frames: 9547 - 9567 Miscellaneous clippings and issues of the Wehrkreisverordnungsblatt of WK I in connection with the Kapp Putsch. Item: 5 frames: 9568 - 9585 Most interesting collection of material on the Kapp Putsch and the relations between Berlin and WK I during the critical days. Item: 4 Frames: 9586 - 9618 A group of memoranda on the aims and problems and programs of various nationalistic organizations, ca. 1921. Item: 3 Frames: 9619 - 9639 Correspondence between Graf TBrring and Flirst Wrede on differences with Ludendorff and the Milit&r Max Joseph Orden, 1927 - 1929. Items 2 and 1: Frames: 9640 - 9694 Exchanges of birthday greetings between Epp and Hitler and Epp and Goer ing; copy of Epp!s appointment as Reichstadthalter in Bavaria? an I.O.U. of Dietrich Eckardt of 17 Dec. 1920 to Epp for 60,000 Mark. Folder «f material on "eigene KSmpfe" of Ritter von Epp. Included is documentation on the following subjects: Epp's suit in 1920 against Geisler for an attack in the SPD press. Epp's position in the Reichswehr in Bavaria $ disputes concerning his loan of 60,000 Mark to Dietrich Eckardt (see Serial: 24, Frame: 9692); discussion of the incident; Epp's claim that the money has been repaid. Epp's retirement from the Reichswehr in 1923 (material at several points in the folder). Hitter von Epp 25 10 EAP l-e-16/3 FT 9695 Continued Serial Roll Provenance Item Filmed 1st frame Notes 8 26 10 SAP l-e-16/4 FT 9916 27 R18 Staatspolizeistelle, EAP 107/1 Wien, Abteilung II B FT 10464 28 29 R18 13 EAP 107/2 FT FT 10659 10244 Reichskommissar ftlr EAP 106/1 die Wiedervereinigung Osterreichs rait dem Deutschen Reich Continued Epp*s order endorsing some issues of the Heimatlandbrief and the furor which resulted when this order leaked out; Seekt's reprimand; and the later publication of news of the reprimand; USPD contacts in the Reichswehr. Various troubles and machinations of Epp in 1923., including his and Gtirtner's effort to sabotage the 1923 investigation of the Organization C /consul/. (Some duplicates have been omitted from the filming.) ~" Material on various nationalistic organizations in the 1919-1924 period; secret rearmament; the Freikorps; Oberland; Zeller; the NSDAP; Bund Bludier; R&hm's troubles; Freie Bauern- und B&rgerwehr; Zeitfreiwilligenkorps Milnchen; correspondence with the J.F. Lehmanns Verlag (leading publisher of books in the fields of military affairs and Rassenkunde); the case Ludendorff — Pittinger — Rtthm (related material in the files of Wehrkreis VII); differences in the nationalistic camp; material on the political situation in 1924; newspaper clippings: material on the Hitler trial; draft of letter to Schleicher (see Serial: 23); letter from Count Arco to Epp, 30 Sept. 19233 Hindenburgfs order (drafted by Schleicher) of 28 Nov* 1918, on the relations of military commanders with the Arbeiter- und Soldatenra'te, frames: 10242 10243* Added to this folder has been one stray item, a letter from Sholto Douglas to Epp, 1 Aug. 1922, with a report on the political situation in North Germany. Note: Frame 10243 is followed by 28371 - 28373An Schuschnigg adressierte Briefe und Karten, Sept. 1938 - Dec. 1939» Miscellaneous letters and postcards addressed to Schuschnigg in jail, sending good wishes, requesting autographs, and discussing politics. These items were intercepted by the police, and the file contains notes indicating action taken by the police. See frames: 10475 - 10479 for undated letter of political interest from F.W. Fttrster. "Dr. Auster" is used as the cover name for Schuschnigg. Irtzliche Uhtersuchungen des Schuschnigg 9 August 1938 - 20 October 1939. Periodic reports on the health of Dr. Schuschnigg, indicating Himinler's interest in this question* "Dr. Auster" is used as cover name for Schuschnigg. A series of folders from the files of the Reichskommissar (office of Barth). Each folder is preceded by a short list of contents. Frames: 10246 - 10262 Retroactive opening of cases amnestied by amnesty of the Austrian president of 16 February 1938. Frames: 10263 - 10275 Verordnung liber die Anmeldung des Vennttgens von Juden. Frames: 10276 - 10281 (July 1938, Entwurf) Gesetz zum Ausgleich von SchUden die dem Deutschen Reich durch Juden erwachsen sind. Frames: 10282 - 10302 Reichsverteidigungsgesetz, 1938 - 1939, text and amendments. Serial Roll Provenance Item Filmed 1st frame Notes Frames: 10303 - 10353 Correspondence 1939 on the planned Reichsverweisung der Mitglieder des Hauses Hapsburg-Lothringen. Frames: 10354 - 10376 Material on the administration of Vienna, 1938-1939. Proposed candidates for Gauleiter, Globcning, Neubacher. Frames: 10377 - 10384 9 February 1939 information of intelligence operations of the Soviet Union in Austria and Czechoslovakia., Frames: 10388 - 10398 Highly interesting report of Manfred Freiherr von Pawel-Ramingen about a trip to Hungary in July 1939, on which he discussed the international diplomatic crisis with a series of leading Hungarian officials and military leaders, including Teleki, assistant of Dzeky, Lt. Col. von Sibrik (head of the attache section of the Honved), and the British charge. Frames: 10399 - 10403 Relations of the Austrian Nazis with the Nazi party of Hungary, June 1939. Frames: 10404 - 10417 Memoranda June 1939 on the situation in Austria; primarily dealing with economic problems and the Vienna art collection. Frames: 10418 - 10423 Suggestions of Dr. C. KGnig, 6 August 1938, concerning the activity of the Gestapo in Austria. Frames: 10424 - 10428 Collection for the Adolf Hitler-Spende in Austria; letter Bormann to Bttrckel, 2 May 1938. There had been a dispute, Bormann asks for support of the Spende with reference to Hitler's financial problems. Frames: 10429 - 10436 General arrest problems, 1939. Frames: 10437 - 10453 Report of the Sicherheitspolizei, 15 my 1939, on the Deutsche Freiheitspartei and its activities. Frames: 10454 - 10463 Uhterbringung Sehuschnigjs 1938, including appeals in his behalf by Mrs. Schuschnigg, Folder 2, Geheime Staatspolizei, Staatspolizei-Leitstelle Wien, Tagesrapporte, Sept. - Dec. 1938. Copies sent to the office of the Reichskommissar. Contain material on "Nationale Opposition," Katholische Bewegung, Juden, Presse, Party Hatters, arrest statistics, the Communist Movemoit, and other matters which came to the attention of the police. Folder 3, beginning Frame: 40088. Same for September and October, 1939. See also Serial: 33Folder 4, Vienna Polizeiprasident, Preis&berwachungsstelle, "Preispolitischer Lagebericht," 17 Pfey 1940. A collection of the weekly reports of the SD-Leitabschnitt Wien for Iferch, April, and August, 1940, together with reports of the Inspekteur der Sicherheitspolizei und des SD in Wien for the same period. These reports deal with popular attitudes, the opposition, 30 13 Reichskommissar fur EAP 106/2 die Wiedervereinigung 6sterreichs mit dem Deutschen Reich EAP 106/3 FT 39698 FT FT 40088 40183 31 1314 SAP 106/4 Continued Serial Boll Provenance Item SAP 106/11 filmed FT FT 1st frame Notes 10 40574 lw.532 32 14•J15 Reichskoaunissar/EAP 106/ 5 fttr die ^ied^rvereinigung Osterreichs mit dem Deutschen Reich (files of Barth) JBAP 106/6 41795 Continued propaganda, sabotage, arrests, cultural and religious questions. Folder 11, beginning frame: 40574. Material from the same series of SD reports, September 1939~2'e'kruary 19*40. Folder 5> a series of folders from the files of the Reichskommissar. Each folder is preceded by a short list of contents. Frame: 41535 Eriegssanitatswesen, 1939. Frame: 4lR4l Kriegsgefangene, 1939 • Frame: 41560 Spionageabwehr, 1939-1940. Frame: 4l5J9 Grenzzone, 1938. Frame: ^1590 Passangelegenheit^ri, Sichtverraerkszwang, 1939-194-0. Frame: Ulo26 Vertrag zwischen Osterreieh und der Tschechoslovakei zur Regelung der Hechtsverhfiltnisse an der Staatsgrenze, 193 Frame: 41631 Behandlung von ^uslandern, 1939. Frerne: Ul^.59 Behaadlung der Hitglieder konsularischer Vertretungen feindlicher LSnder im HOD.-Fall, 1939. Frame: 4l673 Yolks turns- und Minderheitsfragen, 1939. Concerns the South Tyrol and gypsies. Frame; 41651 Italienische Staatsangehdrige in der Wehrmacht, 193S. Frame: 41693 Zollabfertigung der vom Sftdosten komnenden Donauschiffe, 19UO, Frame; Chef Sipo und SD, 10 March 1-40, ""Betreuung der Angehflrigen von politischen Eftftlingen und der HAftlinge selbst nach ihrer Entlassung. In the same folder is a report on tne situation in Warsaw at the "beginning of the Grerman occupation, written by a. former G-ermsn newspaper correspondent in Warsaw. Frarne: 41722 Verwaltung de^ Stadt Wien, 1938-1939. Frame: 41755 ?~onkordat in Osterreich, 193^Frame: 41764 Katholisch-5!heologische Fakultfit in Innsbruck, Wien und £ras, 1938-1939. Folder 6, beginning framet 41795- Continuation of the series of folders from the files of Barth. Frame: 41796 'Reichsverteidigungsreferenten, 193S-1940. Frame: 4lS13 Mob.-Fall der tfehbmacht (X-) Befehl, 1933~193S» Frame: 4lS30 forbereitung der personellen Mobilmachung in Osterreich, 193^-1940. Frame: 419&? Aashebungen zum "fehrdienst, 1933. Serial Roll Item Filmed 1st frame Notes 1 1 Frame: 41981 Vorttbergehende Verstfi-rkung der SS-Totenkopfverbande Frame: Frame: auf Grund der Notdienstverordnung, 1939. v Bestimmungen ftir die Erg&nzung der Ersatzwehrmacht, 1939. 42015 Ausriistung der Hilfs- und anderen Poliaeiforaationen, 1939-1940.' 419B9 "15 J6 fteichskornmissar fur HA? 106/7 die Wiedervereinlgung Gsterreichs mit dem EAP 106/9 Deutschen Reich EAP 106/10 EAP 106/13, 14 SAP 1 6 1 0/6 FT FT FT FT FT FT 42022 42353 42996 43734 43934 43991 34 16 35 16 N3BAP, Gauleitung EAP 106/15Wien, Gaurechtsamt (?); Files of Richard Riedel; ? EAP 106/18 FT 44045 EAP 106/19 FT 44248 Continued Folder 7. Geheime Staatspolizei, Staatscolizeileitstelle Wien, Tagesrapporte, June - September 1940. See Serial: 30. Folder 9, beginning Frame: .42353. Same series of reports,, JanuaryMay 1940. Folder 10, beginning Frame: 42996. Same series of reports, January W omember, 19 39. Folders 13 and 14. Material on the troubles of the Chorhermstift Klostemeuburg with the Nazis, 1938-1939. Folder 16,, beginning Frame: 43984. Reports on activities of religious groups in. Austria, 1)33. Folder 15. A folder, possibly from the Gaure chtsamt of the Gauleitung Wien, containing a "Bestechungsliste der Phfinix," a detailed list of alleged bribes to various Austrian personalities, organizations, and newspapers, as well as some foreigners, by the "PhOnix," presumably the Austrian insurance company by that name. The list was apparently prepared on the basis of the company's records in 1940 (see, on cover, the file mark "Nr. Ph5 303/40 ")- Also in the same folder is a draft, probably from the files of the ^eichskommissar fttr die Riedervereinigung Osterreichs mit dem Deubschen :'eich, of B^ckel to OtaatssekretSr Keppler concerning the jurisdictional disputes between B&rckel and the Vierjahresplan about economic measures in Austria, probably written in 1938 or 1939. Folder 18, beginning Frame: 44045. Four folders from the files of Richard Riedel, 1925-19353 both during and after his term as Austrian Minister to Germany. Included is miscellaneous material on the political situation in Austria; Austrian-German relations, particularly in the economic field; and the Zollunion scheme. Some of the material deals with Riedel!s activities as GeschS-ftsfuhrendes PrUsiclialmitglied der Csterreiehischen Gruppe der Ihternationalen Hand els kammer. Folder 19, beginning Frame: 44248. A detailed memorandum with annexes on the background of the Anschluss movement in Austria and the activities of the Austrian Nazi Party. The report was presumably written by a menfoer of the Austrian Schutzstaffel or Sicherheitsdienst of the faction opposed to Habidit within the Party. Date of the report may be 1938 or 1939. The Serial Roll 36 .? 1 Heichskommissar fur die Wiedervereinigung Osterreichs mit dem Deutschen Reich EAP 106/17 Filmed 1st frame Data sheet: 4 3 4 no 42, frame numbers on film; NOTES Notes 12 FT 37 R18 3AP 106/20 38 1012 Fllhrerhauptquartier (U.S. Seventh Army, Document Center) Hitler Minutes FT 39 192021 Sekretar des Ftihrers SAP 105/20-34 FT annexes include documents on the crisis of Iferch 1933. Film prepared by the Departmental Records Branch and transferred to the National Archives. No frame numbers on film. This folder contains correspondence between the Reichsstatt halter Wien and Karl Hegerle of the Auswartige Amt, 1938-1939, regarding a search for papers of the former President of Austria,, Wilhelm Niklas, for a White Paper to be published on the Anschluss problem. Included are papers of Niklas dealing with the Austrian political situation in the 1930l s and Niklas *s claim for return of his funds. Some other materials are also included. A more detailed list of contents will be found at the beginning of the file* This folder contains reports by the Konuaando der Schutapolizei. "Be44325 sondere Vorkomnisse," Nos. 92-154, October-December 1939. Reports on a great variety of minor incidents such as anti-Mazi comments, finding of leaflets, and automobile accidents. Transcripts of the stenographic notes on the Lagebesprgchungen im Fiihrerdata sheet: hauptquartier. These transcripts were prepared by the stenographers after 44493 60382-61765 the war on the basis of the fragments of the original notes that survived the effort to burn them early in May 1945* Included at the beginning is a description of the nature and origin of the minutes, and a list of the 53 surviving fragments. Translations of many of these minutes and other information relating to them may be found in Felix Gilbert (ed.), Hit,le£ Directs His War (New York, 1950). data sheet: Film prepared by the Departmental Records Branch and transferred to the 44494 no National Archives, Rles of the Sekretar des Ftihrers (Jfertin Bonnann) on. frame num- the 20 July 1944 plot. bers on Folders 20-28, contain the reports of the Chef Sipo und SD ( Kaltenbrunner ) filmj SEE on the results of investigation into the plot, 21 July-15 December 1944. NOTES The initials on the Eingangsverm.erk are Bormarm's. Folders 29-31, contain reports on and the sentences of the V-olksgerichtshof in cases connected with the plot. In folder 31 there is also a collection of telegrams sent out by the opposition in Berlin and by the Nazis on July 20 and a collection of related documents, Folder 32, contains material en the cases of Sauerbruch and Remer = Folder 33, contains miscellaneous documents relating to the plot, including material on the security precautions of the Ftthrerhauptquartier and Boimaim'e directives to the Gauleiter in connection with the plot and its suppression. Folder 34, contains material on the Stauffenberg family and final letters of defendants condemned by the V oiks peri ehtshof to their families. Serial Roll Provenance OKH, Heeresperscaialamt der • 5 NSDAP, Gauleitung Ost~Hannover Item Filled FT 1st frame 44495 Notes 13 40 22 EAP 105/4 44534 EAP 105/14 FT 44543 41 22 Ftihrerhauptquartier EAP 105 /19a data sheet 78948^ no frame numbers on documents, SEE NOTES 42 23 FT Folder 2. List of German general staff officers lost in the period ^21 June - 15 September 1944* Lists of officers;dismissed from the army in connection with the 20 July plot, lists of Bother officers implicated or persona -«^lated to those implicated, and their ,fate. Fblder 4* beg3irrvi*vg .Frame: 44534. A report by Oberstleutnant im Generalstab Smend, 1 Augus't 1344, on. the background of the 20 July plot, in particular on the situation in the Operationsabteilung of OKH (General Heusinger) and on the Chief of Staff (General Zeitzler). There are marginal annotations by Jodl, these are transcribed on a page at the end of the folder. The document is .Initialled J /odl7 13.8. and W/arlimentJ 19.8. Folder 14, beginning Frame: 44543. A file on the 20 July plot from the Handakten of Gauleiter Teles chow of Gau Ost-Hannover. It contains the instructions sent out by Eormannj SD reports on popular reactions to the plot and other contemporary events; and the Informationsbericht of the Reichspropagandaamt Ost-Hannover on the 20 July. Folder 16 (not filmed) contains photographs conrscted with the 20 July plot such as pictures of remnants of Stauffenbergs briefcase, explosives, and other technical items, Folder 1 (not filmed) is jag6 1 of the telegram "Der Flihrer ist tot" sent out on July 20 from Berlin and in Serial: 38. Folder 5 (not filmed) has the transcript of the Volksgerichtshof in the Witzleben case which has been published in fill in the Trial £f the Major War Criminals. i This is a record of Hitler l s daily schedule ansi appointments for the period 14 October 1944-28 February 1945, kept by his Kammerdiener, Heinz Linge. The original was found in the Reichskanzlei in 1945 and is in England> the Departmental Records Branch having a photostat. This film has been prepared from a negative photostat of the original, loaned for this: purpose by the British Government, and therefore not stamped with frame numbers. FAP 105/19, not filmed, is a photostat of a transcript made by Gerhard L. Weinberg of the water-damaged original in the National Archives (HG 242) of Heinz Linge's Record of Hitla: j s schedule and appointments, for the period 11 August 1943-30 December 1943. A stray item lent for filming by the British Government. Extracts from . La SS•" t!appellel Goristitu^ion d'un regiment francais fte Waffkn-SS (Paris, 1943). These are typed extracts from a publication dealing with the efforts to recruit a regiment for the Waffen-SS in France. Serial Roll 43 ,24 Provenance Item Filmed 1st frame 369507 Notes 14 Reichsstatthalter in FAP 106/8 Wien; Reichskomtnissar fur die Wiederverei^ &igung Osterreichs mit dem Deutschen Reich (Earth files) EAP 106/12 FT 369653 44 25, 26 Heinrich Himmler EAP 21-b/l-5 FT 368784 EAP 21-b/2 FT 369885 EAP 21~b/3 21~b/4 FT FT 370265 370360 Continued Folder 8, A folder from the office of the Reichsstatthalter in Wien containing the texts of incoming telegrams, 1942. Most of them are of routine nature, dealing with travel permits and such questions. A part of the folder has been filmed. It contains a few documoits of general interest and a few routine items. Among the documents are items dealing with the use of Russian prisoners of war on the railroads and one on the negotiations with the Italian Government about the Europ&ische Jugendverband. Folder 12 (begins frame 369653). A folder of the Reichskcmmissar on "Rlickftihrung und Bergung der Zivilbevtilkerung," 1939. This folder is of great interest as it shows the preparations of the Germans for evacuating people from the potential combat areas in the West beginning in May, 1939. This is a group of photostats, prepared by the 7771 Document Center, of a series of appointment and telephone log-books of Heinrich Himmler. The location of the originals is unkno-vn. Folder 1. This folder is rr, ade up of four parts. The first is the appointment register of Himmler for July-August 1937. Only a few of the entries, like the first one, are in Himmler T s handwriting. The second part (begins frame 369789) is a pocket calendar for 1931 with notations of Himmler f s travels and appointments. The third part (begins frame 369820) is a similar calendar for 1930, and the fourth (begins frame 36985*3) is for 1929. Folder 2 (begins frame 369885). This folder contains the daily register for the period 3 January-29 February 1944 and (beginning frame 369943) 2 January-16 December 1943. These calendars contain a sheet for each day and contain the hour-by-hour appointments, trips, etc. of Himmler, Practically all the entries are in his handwriting^ the calendars were presumably kept on Himmler's desk. A few of the photostats have lines drawn in colored pencil after the photostats were made. These are the lines drawn around some of the entries. Folder 3 (begins frame 370265). Like folder 2, for the period 1 March31 May 1944, Folder 4 (begins frame 370360), Most of this folder contains the log of Himmler' s telephone calls in the period 16 September 1941-17 August 1943. It is of the highest historical importance. On a day by day and hour by hour basis, the phone calls of Himmler are listed in his own handwriting. The entries give the time, name of person spoken to, place of person spoken to, and subject discussed. Apparently sheets with a heading "Telefongesprache des Reidhsftfhrers em. . ." were placed en Himmler!s desk Serial Roll Provenance Heinrich Himmler Item RLlmed 1st frame Notes 15 44 25, 26 EAP 21-b/5 FT FT 370834 45 27, 28 Communist Party of the EAP 116154 e, Soviet Union, Smolensk *, g, h Oblast EAP 116/155, 156, 171 each day, and he filled them in as he made and receiired the calls. At the end of the folder beginning frame 370823 are pages for 7, 10-13> and 22 Karch 1938. Folder 5 (begins frame 370834). Like folder 4, incomplete^for the period 21 August-23 November 1943. See T-87, Serial 1. Price List for Microfilm Copies of the Miscellaneous German Records Collection (part T* , National Arcuives Microcopy No. X-84 (Fart I) Microfilm copies of one or more rolls of the microfilm may be purchased at the prices listed below. These prices are- based on a cferge of 8 cents for each foot of microfilm, with all prices rounded off to the nearest dollar. 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