Aussenstelle Dahlwitz-Hoppegarten records (MfS IX/11) RG-14.063M

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e-mail: reference@ushmm.org Descriptive summary Title: Aussenstelle Dahlwitz-Hoppegarten records (MfS IX/11) Dates: 1923-1971 (inclusive) 1933-1945 (bulk) Accession number: Acc. 2003.185 Extent: 21 microfilm reels ; 35 mm. Repository: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives, 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place SW,

Washington, DC 20024-2126 Abstract: Selected records from record group MfS IX/11 compiled by the former East German Security

Service ("Stasi"). Languages: German. Administrative Information Access: Restrictions on access. To access Bundesarchiv collections researchers must fill out a "Request

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Preferred citation: RG-14.063, [Reel #], Aussenstelle Dahlwitz-Hoppegarten records (MfS IX/11), United

States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives, Washington, DC]

Acquisition information: Source of acquisition is the Bunesarchive, Germany. Records were a part of the East German archival system, then they were transferred to the Bundesarchiv. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the film in Mar. 2003.

Processing history: Processed by Aleksandra Borecka. Finding aid revised 29 November 2017 by Ron Coleman. Scope and content of collection Materials of mixed provenance, primarily papers generated by the German Security Police and SD between 1933 and 1945. Included are routine, periodic reports of local Gestapo surveillance of suspect political, religious, or fraternal groups; records of police documents such as circular letters, memos of telephone conversations, daily reports, situation reports; and reports from or about the "Ausland" such as Austria, Yugoslavia, and the occupied Eastern territories. System of arrangement Arrangement is thematic. NOTE: Previous versions of this finding aid identified USHMM reels as “Boxes” (e.g. Box XIV is USHMM Reel 14).

CONTAINER LIST Reel 1 [Bundesarchiv Reel 1] Collection Mfs IX/11 File 69 371 Content: Reports on the personal behavior of National Socialists between 1929 and 1931 Compiled by the German Socialist Party (SPD) publicity department 100 pages [Bundesarchiv Reel 2] 69 374 VII B 3 – Biographic information regarding leaders of the international workers movement. 100 pages [Bundesarchiv Reel 3] 69 459 Organization of the criminal investigation department headquarters 50 pages [Bundesarchiv Reel 4] 69 501 Austria’s security apparatus and its incorporation into the Reich’s security police following

Austria’s incorporation (Suedmark) 100 pages

[Bundesarchiv Reel 5] 69 505-521 pp 1-330 State Police circulars and radio messages, letters A through E 350 pages [Bundesarchiv Reel 6] 69 505–521 pp 1120-1160 State Police circulars and radio messages, letter B 50 pages [Bundesarchiv Reel 7] 69 505 – 521 pp 1161-1312 State Police circulars and radio messages, letters N through V 200 pages 187 Reel 2 [Bundesarchiv Reel 8] 69 505-521 pp 1688-2007 State Police circulars and radio messages, letter W 400 pages [Bundesarchiv Reel 9] 69 505-521 pp 2098-2292 State Police circulars and radio messages, letters W through Z 300 pages [Bundesarchiv Reel 10] 69 505-521 pp 2293-2371 State Police circulars and radio messages, letter E 100 pages [Bundesarchiv Reel 11] 69 505-521 pp 331-614 State Police circulars and radio messages, letter F 450 pages Reel 3 [Bundesarchiv Reel 12] 69 505-521 pp 615-788 State Police circulars and radio messages, letters G through L 250 pages [Bundesarchiv Reel 13] 69 505-521 pp 789-1119 State Police circulars and radio messages, letter M

500 pages [Bundesarchiv Reel 14] 69 552 Ideological opposition in Wuertemberg - Political Police status report, November 1933 80 pages [Bundesarchiv Reel 15] 69 554 Daily political and incidence reports 300 pages Reel 4 [Bundesarchiv Reel 16] 69 555 Surveillance of the Catholic church and political Catholicism. Status reports 350 pages [Bundesarchiv Reel 17] 69 556 Regime President Merseburg – political status report for July and August 1935 [Bundesarchiv Reel 18] 69 566 Status report from 1 October 1935 to 18 February 1937 60 pages [Bundesarchiv Reel 19] 69 575 1938 status report on Germany’s illegal Communist and Marxist movement 60 pages [Bundesarchiv Reel 20] 69 589 Report on important state police incidents, nr. 6, 17 May 1940 20 pages [Bundesarchiv Reel 21] 69 590 Compilation of daily state police reports for the month of June 1941 involving the reported

arrests of Jews, among others 20 pages [Bundesarchiv Reel 22] 69 600-601 Daily reports, January – April 1940 500 pages

[Bundesarchiv Reel 23] 69 656 Commander of the security police and the Belgrade security service – situation and daily reports

for August 1941 20 pages [Bundesarchiv Reel 24] 69 594 Political newspaper and radio show reports on the situation and daily reports – typescript 1941 -

1944 250 pages Reel 5 [Bundesarchiv Reel 25] 69 695 Well poisoning by the foreign press and rumor mongers, special report, October 1934 40 pages [Bundesarchiv Reel 26] 69 696 Poisoning the relationship between the nation’s arms bearers and ideologists in the state and

party – special report (Presse) Dec/Jan 1934/35 50 pages, exhibit [Bundesarchiv Reel 27] 69 750 A.4 Individual allowance for the German agricultural organization and council staff 400 pages [Bundesarchiv Reel 28] 69 750 A.5 Photo album of the 1941 Yule party donated by the commander of the Gross-Rosen

concentration camp 50 pages, exhibit [Bundesarchiv Reel 29] 69 750 A.12 Photo album belonging to the senior squad leader of Adolf Hitler’s personal body guard

regiment 50 pages [Bundesarchiv Reel 30] 69 750 A.15 Photo album belonging to an armed forces member of the II German mountain troops, 98th

regiment 100 pages in two albums

Reel 6 [Bundesarchiv Reel 31] 69 750 A. 22 Diaries, personal and private duty notes 800 pages [Bundesarchiv Reel 32] 69 750 A. 22,vol. I to III War diary of a member of the armed forces, Russian campaign, 1941 to 1942 2000 pages Reel 7 [Bundesarchiv Reel 33] 69 750 A. 61 Heraldry research – SS Brigade leader Willigut Weisthor’s reference file 250 pages [Bundesarchiv Reel 34] 69 750 A. 62 Special Commando “R” – photo collection 60 pages (only photos) [Bundesarchiv Reel 35] 69 750 A. 65 1944 Slovak uprising – press photographs with text by war correspondents 30 pages [Bundesarchiv Reel 36] 69 750 A 70c People in the occupied eastern territories – press and propaganda photographs from the picture

archives 100 pages event. (?) [Bundesarchiv Reel 37] 69 750 A. 70d Agriculture in the occupied eastern territories – press and propaganda photographs from the

picture archives 100 pages event. [Bundesarchiv Reel 38] 69 750 A. 71 Minister Rosenberg’s business trip through the occupied eastern territories and Ukraine, July

1942 20 pages

[Bundesarchiv Reel 39] 69 750 A. 80 Eastern workers in Germany – propaganda photographs from the photo series “Eastern Workers

become Propagandists” 30 pages Reel 8 [Bundesarchiv Reel 40] 69 750 A. 87 Photo album belonging to a member of the SS Commando assigned to accompany Adolph Hitler 80 pages [Bundesarchiv Reel 41] 69 750 A. 91 Photo album from various sources 50 pages [Bundesarchiv Reel 42] 69 750 A. 96 Photograph collection 300 pages [Bundesarchiv Reel 43] 69 750 A. 101 Collection of propaganda pictures for the press 30 pages [Bundesarchiv Reel 44] 69 767 Collection of Allied fliers and pamphlets 500 pages [Bundesarchiv Reel 45] 69 777 Press clippings collection on Heinrich Himmler 100 pages [Bundesarchiv Reel 46] 69 785 Dangers and affects of the Spannkreis, May 1936 and August 1938 editions Reel 9 [Bundesarchiv Reel 47] 69 809 Security Service press report – foreign press analysis 300 pages

[Bundesarchiv Reel 48] 69 818 Mass graves of Polish prisoners from the Gross-Rosen concentration camp in Spohle near

Hoyerswerda – photo album 50 pages, exhibit [Bundesarchiv Reel 49] 69 819 Reports on world opinion – selected expenditures to the Catholic Church (?) 700 pages [Bundesarchiv Reel 50] 69 864 The Jewish question as a factor in foreign policy in 1938 30 pages [Bundesarchiv Reel 51] 69 521 S 1313-16787 State police circulars and radio messages, letter W 400 pages Reel 10 [Bundesarchiv Reel 52] 70 133 The current situation in the area of eastern research (with special regard to the University of

Berlin) 1937 40 pages [Bundesarchiv Reel 53] 70 135 The subversive activities of political Catholicism, December 1934 50 pages [Bundesarchiv Reel 54] 70 137 Political Catholicism’s new forms of advertising, September 1934 25 pages [Bundesarchiv Reel 55] 70 143 Collection of materials for official internal use 50 pages [Bundesarchiv Reel 56] 70 152 Newsletter Nrs. 1/1940 to 1/1944

1500 pages [Bundesarchiv Reel 57] 70 162 A 23 Report on public relations in the Baltics 120 pages [Bundesarchiv Reel 58] 70 167 Enforcement of the death penalty in the eastern regions – draft of a circular from the

government ministry for the occupied eastern regions, 8 July 1943 4 pages [Bundesarchiv Reel 59] 70 168 The commissioner for the four-year plan, discrimination and exclusion of Jews from German

economic life 20 pages Reel 11 [Bundesarchiv Reel 60] 70 169 Measures to satisfy the agricultural labor requirements – reports on the “Four-year Plan” by SS

Commander Greifelt of the SS Reichsfueher’s personal staff 350 pages (5 volumes of 70 pages each) [Bundesarchiv Reel 61] 70 180 National and international press reactions to the article “Fighting the Nation’s Enemies” in the

“People’s Observer” by SS group leader Reinhard Heydrich, and reports by the foreign press on the work of the German security police

150 pages [Bundesarchiv Reel 62] 70 181 Jewish participation in crimes – special edition of a newsletter from the Prussian state criminal

authority in Berlin, November 1935 40 pages [Bundesarchiv Reel 63] 70 190 Report on important Security Police events, nr. 1944/217-222 80 pages [Bundesarchiv Reel 64] 70 196 A.8 Buildup and reorganization of the Security Police and the Security Service

50 pages (Reports 1-9 are tied together in 70/196) [Bundesarchiv Reel 65] 70 196 A.9 Processing of all homicide investigations by the Berlin Criminal Investigation K.J.M. I/2 (?)

Department – directory and overview 50 pages (Reports 1-9 are tied together in 70-196) [Bundesarchiv Reel 66] 70 198 National Socialist German Workers Party (NSDAP) Imperial Council (Reichsleitung), Eastern

workers division – instruction and education 80 pages [Bundesarchiv Reel 67] 70 327 New death penalty regulations – report from the Minister for Science, Education and Public

Instruction, 18 February 1939 4 pages [Bundesarchiv Reel 68] 70 328 Enforcement of the death penalty and executioners resource planning 100 pages [Bundesarchiv Reel 69] 70 348 Special circulars, circulars, newsletters, and directives from various NDSAP areas 50 pages [Bundesarchiv Reel 70] 70 349 Orders regarding the Slovak minority in Kaernten and the supervision of Czech workers in the

German territories, July 1941 5 pages and copies [Bundesarchiv Reel 71] 70 353 Financial computation for the Security Police for the fiscal year 1941 100 pages Reel 12 [Bundesarchiv Reel 72] 70 362 Office group D – log 10 pages

[Bundesarchiv Reel 73] 70 377 War reports, letters B through Z 200 pages [Bundesarchiv Reel 74] 70 404 Secret Security Police office – German youth front 200 pages [Bundesarchiv Reel 75] 70 407 vol.1 Central Division II 2 situation report from 1 April to 31 May and from 1 to 30 September 1938 200 pages [Bundesarchiv Reel 76] 70 407 vol.2 Central Division II 1 situation report from1 January 1937 to 31 January 1938 250 pages Reel 13 [Bundesarchiv Reel 77] 70 410 SD-Oberabschnitt “Fukia-Werra” in Frankfurt/Main status reports on political and ideological

opposition 100 pages [Bundesarchiv Reel 78] 70 411 SD-Oberabschnitt “Ost” in Berlin status reports on political and ideological opposition 300 pages [Bundesarchiv Reel 79] 70 411 SD main outpost Potsdam correspondence with the head of the SD outpost Bad-Saarow 30 pages [Bundesarchiv Reel 80] 70 412 SD-Oberabschnitt “Sued-Ost” in Breslau status reports on the catholic church, protestant

church, and liberalism 150 pages [Bundesarchiv Reel 81] 70 413 SD-Oberabschnitt “Elbe” in Leipzig status reports on political and ideological opposition 200 pages

[Bundesarchiv Reel 82] 70 414 SD-Oberabschnitt “West” in Duesseldorf status reports on political and ideological opposition 150 pages [Bundesarchiv Reel 83] 70 415 SD-Oberabschnitt “Nordwest” in Hamburg status reports on political and ideological opposition 200 pages Reel 14 [Bundesarchiv Reel 84] 70 416 SD-Oberabschnitt “Nord-Ost” in Koenigsberg status reports on political and ideological

opposition 200 pages [Bundesarchiv Reel 85] 70 417 SD-Oberabschnitt “Sud” in Munich status reports on political and ideological opposition 200 pages [Bundesarchiv Reel 86] 70 418 SD-Oberabschnitt “Nord” in Stettin status reports on political and ideological opposition 200 pages [Bundesarchiv Reel 87] 70 419 SD-Oberabschnitt “Suedwest” in Stuttgart status reports on political and ideological opposition 400 pages [Bundesarchiv Reel 88] 70 420 SD-Oberabschnitt “Rhein” in Frankfurt status reports on political and ideological opposition 50 pages [Bundesarchiv Reel 89] 70 421 SD-Oberabschnitt “Donau” in Vienna status reports on political and ideological opposition 100 pages [Bundesarchiv Reel 90] 70 423 SD-Oberabschnitt “Magdeburg-Anhalt” in Dessau status report on the catholic church, August

1939

2 pages Reel 15 [Bundesarchiv Reel 91] 70 424 Elaboration on the influence of political catholicism 400 pages [Bundesarchiv Reel 92] 70 426 Report on political catholicism 50 pages [Bundesarchiv Reel 93] 70 428 Status report on the protestant and catholic churches 350 pages [Bundesarchiv Reel 94] 70 434 Reports on anthroposophy and on the Catholic church 350 pages Reel 16 [Bundesarchiv Reel 95] 70 445 Talks and plans on the Catholic action and on political Protestantism 150 pages [Bundesarchiv Reel 96] 70 445 Catholic action and protestant church controversy 250 pages [Bundesarchiv Reel 97] 70 467 A.3 Department II – elaboration on the Jewish question in Germany and Europe 300 pages [Bundesarchiv Reel 98] 70 467 Labor report – the Jewish community in Krakow from 13 September 1939 to 30 September 1940

and its activities 140 page exhibit

Reel 17 [Bundesarchiv Reel 99] 70 519 A.1-2 Department IV – circulars, activity reports, business division plans, cover names lists, cover

words, guidelines 400 pages [Bundesarchiv Reel 100] 70 550 A.2 Department II – material collection 500 pages [Bundesarchiv Reel 101] 70 550 A.3 Department III B – Work assignments based on race and health issues Reel 18 [Bundesarchiv Reel 102] 70 616 Department IV - circulars 300 pages [Bundesarchiv Reel 103] 70 621 Memo regarding the files on the Gruenspan affair confiscated by the German secret police in

June-July 1940 200 pages [Bundesarchiv Reel 104] 72 249 Report on the 17 April 1936 government Working Committee for Space Research conference in

the government Science Ministry 200 pages [Bundesarchiv Reel 105] 72 361 Assignment and handling of foreign workers 600 pages Reel 19 [Bundesarchiv Reel 106] 72 375 Protective custody and handling of prisoners – instructions and circulars 700 pages [Bundesarchiv Reel 107] 72 639

II A to 4 – cost sheets 300 pages (each A 3) oversize [Bundesarchiv Reel 108] 72 1208 Stories, reports and poems from relatives of the second train (?) 50 pages, exhibit [Bundesarchiv Reel 109] 72 1210 Report on the Sachsenhausen concentration camp – typescript by the political prisoners 25 pages [Bundesarchiv Reel 110] 72 1530 Nr. 100 Luebeck city testing and stables prison – planning, March 1938 30 pages [Bundesarchiv Reel 111] 72 1530 Nr. 101 Lichtenburg prison – layout 10 pages (some oversize) [Bundesarchiv Reel 112] 72 1530 Nr. 53 Court prison in Altona –prison management planning, 15 February 1938 20 pages [Bundesarchiv Reel 113] 72 1530 Nr. 58 Prison and workhouse St. Georgen in Bayreuth –management planning 30 pages [Bundesarchiv Reel 114] 72 1530 Nr. 65 Glasmoor near Glashuette/Holstein prison –management planning, 2 February 1938 20 pages [Bundesarchiv Reel 115] 72 1530 Nr. 67 Hamburg city testing prison - management planning 20 pages [Bundesarchiv Reel 116] 72 1530 Nr. 71 Kassel-Wehlheiden jail - management planning, 1 March 1938 10 pages (with oversized map)

[Bundesarchiv Reel 117] 72 1530 Nr. 73 Kiel prison - management planning 20 pages [Bundesarchiv Reel 118] 72 1530 Nr. 76 Kaishelm jail management planning, 22 April 1938 10 pages [Bundesarchiv Reel 120] 72 1530 Nr. 79 Women’s penal and custody section Laufen, Bernau/Oberbayern jails, management planning.

April 1938 20 pages [Bundesarchiv Reel 121] 72 1530 Nr. 81 Luebeck-Lauerhof jail - management planning 30 pages [Bundesarchiv Reel 122] 72 1530 Nr. 84 Munich=Stadelheim jail - management planning 10 pages [Bundesarchiv Reel 123] 72 1530 Nr. 86 Nurenberg jail – planning] 30 pages [Bundesarchiv Reel 124] 72 1530 Nr. 89 Rothenburg/Neckar penitentiary - management planning 30 pages Reel 20 [Bundesarchiv Reel 125] 72 1530 Nr. 91 Schwaebish Hall jail - management planning, February 1938 30 pages [Bundesarchiv Reel 126] 72 1530 Nr. 92 Schwaebisch Hall security institution with external working places for Klein-Komburg prisoners –

management planning, 10 October 1942 80 pages

[Bundesarchiv Reel 127] 72 1530 Nr. 95 Prison and workhouse in Vechta i. O. - management planning, 1938 30 pages [Bundesarchiv Reel 128] 72 1530 Nr. 96 Wiesbaden jail management planning, 1938 [Bundesarchiv Reel 129] 72 2083 Complete itemization of the contents of the classified documents in the USSR’s central state

archives confiscated during the period 16-27 February 1971 concerning the Sachsenhausen concentration camp.

[Bundesarchiv Reel 130] No call number Reporting system, development and organization of the Secret State Police and Security Service 300 pages [Bundesarchiv Reel 131] No call number Thueringen’s district office Sondershausen circulars 100 pages [Bundesarchiv Reel 132] No call number State police control centers Koenigsberg, Zichenau/Schroettersburg search lists 30 pages, old call numbers for instance II 4344 A.12 Reel 21 [Bundesarchiv Reel 133] No call number The SA Commander in chief – Information trip by higher SA commanders as guests of Hitler’s SS,

8-30 November 1943 50 pages (copy by films) [Bundesarchiv Reel 134] No call number Government compilation of preliminary and main proceedings with details concerning the

elements of a crime and the number of death sentences, 1936-39 100 pages [Bundesarchiv Reel 135] No call number Data collection – Handling of war prisoners and foreign workers

300 pages [Bundesarchiv Reel 136] No call number NSDAP and its “protective staff “observation in Sachsen, 1923-26 [Bundesarchiv Reel 137] No call number Training documents for a future colonial police