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Contains records of the District Commission in Katowice to Investigate the Nazi Crimes of the Silesia territory. Records are very diverse and include files of investigations of German crimes; files on wanted war criminals and verdicts of criminal trials against war criminals, including the case of the crew of KL Auschwitz and its chief officer, Rudolf Hoess; administrative files, including lists of ...

A chronology of events in Auschwitz, based on official camp documents, prisoners' notes hidden in the camp or smuggled out to underground organizations, testimony in war crimes trials, and memoirs of victims and camp personnel (including Rudolf Höss, the commander). Much of the material is now in the archives of the State Museum in Auschwitz. Notes in the introduction that although the Nazis destroyed ...

Emil Knebel was a cinematographer known for Andante (2010), Adam (1973), and Wild Is My Love (1963). He was one of the cameramen who recorded daily coverage of the Eichmann trial in Jerusalem (produced by Capital Cities Broadcasting Corp and later held academic positions in Israel and New York teaching filmmaking at universities. Refer to CV in file.

Footage begins with a shot of Attorney General Gideon Hausner and Assistant State Attorney Gabriel Bach seated at the prosecution table. Dr. Robert Servatius, counsel for the defense, enters (00:00:26) and the camera cuts to a long shot of the courtroom. Servatius walks over to the defense table and is seated. The camera cuts to another angle and Adolf Eichmann enters the booth (00:00:39) carrying ...

Karl Höcker (1911-2000) was born in Engershausen, Germany, on December 11, 1911, as the youngest of six children. His father, Heinrich Höcker, was a construction worker and was killed in World War I. His mother, Louise Höcker (nee Unger) struggled to support the family. Höcker worked as an assistant cashier and office worker at banks in Lubbecke. He joined the SS in 1933 and the Nazi party in 1937. ...

The Supreme National Tribunal (Najwyższy Trybunał Narodowy, NTN) was a war crimes tribunal active in Poland from 1946 to 1948. The Tribunal's aims and purpose were defined by the State National Council in the Decrees of 22 January and 17 October 1946 and 11 April 1947. The new law was based on the earlier Decree of 31 August 1944 (Sierpniówka) issued by the new Polish pro-Soviet government, with jurisdiction ...

Jan Sehn (1909-1965) was born in Tuszów Maly in former Austria-Hungary on April 22, 1909. He graduated high school in Mielec and became involved in the youth organization Legion Mlodych (Legion of the Youth) of President Józef Pilsudski. He then studied law at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków. After graduating in 1933, Sehn obtained a position first as a judicial clerk and later as an assessor ...

The Central Archives of Modern Records was created through a decree issued by chief of state Józef Piłsudski on 7 February 1919. The archive quickly became one of the largest archives, which, in 1939 was a possession of 35 kilometers of records of central state institutions. Unfortunately, 97% of the records gathered were destroyed, burned during 2nd World War, under German occupation. Nowadays, the ...

This tape begins near the middle of Session 102, during a discussion about a meeting held in a cinema pertaining to the issuing of orders to the Einsatzkommando/Einsatzgruppen. Eichmann is cross-examined by Attorney General Gideon Hausner about the number of people who attended the meeting and his own role. Eichmann talks of his personal ambitions to be the commander of an Einsatzkommando, which he ...

Footage begins near the opening of Session 99. Hausner continues with cross examination asking the accused about meeting Heinrich Müller, head of Section IV (Gestapo) of the Reich Main Security Office, after witnessing the Einsatzgruppen units in action and telling him that their method was making them into sadists suggesting that another method for executions had to be found. When Eichmann replies ...

Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Geschichte des Bestandes Im Zuge von Rückführungen deutscher Akten aus den USA, die dort nach einem dem Einheitsaktenplan (EAP) der Wehrmacht zu Grunde liegenden Schema alfa-numerisch geordnet worden waren, gelangte der Bestand im Jahre 1962 in das Bundesarchiv. Im Zuge von aktuellen Bestandsbereinigungen wurden in den Bestand auch Akten aus dem sogenannten "NS-Archiv" ...