National Archives Collection of Foreign Records Seized (Record Group 242)
Miscellaneous German Police Records, 1934-1943
Notice to Researchers in Records Released under the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act and the Japanese Imperial Government Records Act
The Nazi War Crimes and Japanese Imperial Government Records Interagency Working Group (IWG), in implementing the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act and the Japanese Imperial Government Records Act, has taken the broadest view in identifying records that may be responsive to the Acts. Information relevant to the Acts is often found among files related to other subjects. In order to preserve the archival integrity of the files, the IWG and the National Archives and Records Administration, where possible, have released entire files together, not just those items related to Nazi or Japanese war criminals, crimes, persecution, and looted assets. These records may relate to persons who are war criminals, former Axis personnel who are not war criminals, victims of war crimes or persecution, or civilian or military personnel investigating Nazi activities; the records may also include mention of, or information about, persons having no connection to these activities.
The Heinrich Himmler Collection
This series contains approximately 9,100 pages or items. It consists of miscellaneous items previously withheld or withdrawn from the much larger collection of records of the Reichsfuehrer SS and Chief of German Police, which are available on microfilm (T-175) and described in the Guides to the Captured German Records (Guides 32, 33, 39, and 81). Some material related to these records is also to be found in microfilm series T-84. These records contain nothing directly from or about Heinrich Himmler. Instead, it contains German intelligence and especially counterintelligence materials from a variety of police and military offices, especially the Gestapo and the Abwehr. Some of the Abwehr documents and file card indexes may have come into the possession of Division VI of the Reich Security Main Office, headed by Walter Schellenberg, when the RSHA took over the Abwehr in 1944. Included in the records is information gathered by Gestapo counterintelligence officials (Reich Security Main Office, IV E) regarding British, Soviet, French, and Polish intelligence activities in Nazi territories. Also included is a German file card index for persons of police or intelligence interest in Denmark and Scandinavia generally.
Boxes 1-8 location: 190/18/09/3
| Box # | Description |
|---|---|
| 1 | Miscellaneous Gestapo records, Abteilung III ; documents about wanted foreign agents and about foreign intelligence activities; Gestapo offices in Koeln and Muenster; Geheime Fahndungsliste; wanted individuals, October 1939; some collected analysis of British SIS SOE, SAS, activities; attempts to get information from captured airmen shot down; some RSHA IV E and IV A distributed information, 1943-45;. one Kriminal Police Grossfahndung for 46 British pilots who escaped from Lager Alt-Burgung (Schupin, Reg. Bez. Hohensalza), III/6/42; Stapoleitstelle Muenster, Abt. III, Geheime Fahndungsliste 1939; British intelligence officers in Morocco; alleged British and Dutch agents; list of Stapoleitstelle Muenster, 1939; suspected British agents (Netherlands); and, suspected Czech agent in Netherlands--information from Polizeifunkstelle Erfurt 1934. |
| 2-3 | File cards, apparently compiled by the Abwehr, regarding persons of intelligence interest, especially in Denmark, in some cases based on information from the Danish police. An example of interest is Hugo Rothenberg, a Danish Jew who had ties with Reich Marshal Hermann Goering. |
| 4 | Contains Mitteilungsblatt der Gruppe IV# Jg. 1943, no. 11, 15 November 1943; other publications and individual documents from RSHA IV, regarding parachuted agents (around the time of Heydrich=s assassination), British agents and training schools for agents, British intelligence personnel; Stapoleitpolizeistelle Muenster information suspected British agents, late 1939-early 1940; 1940 publications, RSHA IV/E, Geheimes Sammel-Rundschreiben ueber Landesverratsbekaempfung, Jg. 1940, Nr. 1,3, 4,5,7, and 8; list of individuals, mostly in conquered lands, with sections on French, British and Soviet intelligence and much material on individuals. Also apparently a continuation of Stapoleitstelle Muenster, 1940; information on Polish Intelligence Service, apparently used by Sicherheitspolizei Einsatzkommandao 1/II, Metz, during 1943, but includes earlier and later documents; and, miscellaneous documents, including Inhaltsverzeichnis der Agenten-Schulen in London and elsewhere. |
| 5 | Contains Geheime Fahndungsliste, Stapoleitstelle Muenster, October 1939 and Koeln, fall 1943; miscellaneous police and military material about suspected agents and escaped British POWs, 1943-45; Geheime Fahndungsliste, Stapoleitstelle Muenster, October 1939; list of British intelligence agents in Morocco, n.d.; Stapoleitstelle Muenster, October 1939, Geheime Fahndungsliste, British agents in Holland; information on British officials and suspected British agents in Holland; and one document relating to Polizei-Funkstelle Erfurt seeking information on a Paul Schoft in Holland, thought to be Czech intelligence, 1934. |
| 6 | Various documents on persons of counter-intelligence interest in Croatia, 1940; SD VI B documents on persons of counterintelligence interest in Serbia and Croatia, 1940; Miscellaneous documents on persons of counterintelligence interest in Rumania, Serbia, Croatia, 1940; and miscellaneous reports on foreign agents in Norway, 1944-45; also file card index on British agents there. |
| 7 | File card indexes of Abwehr agents in Balkans; Also some photos. Gives cover names. |
| 8 | File card indexes of Abwehr agents against different countries. Gives cover names. |
