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GUIDES TO GERMAN RECORDS MICROFILMED AT ALEXANDRIA, VA
No. 81. Records of the Reich Leader of the SS and Chief of the German Police
(Reichsfuehrer SS und Chef der Deutschen Polizei)
Part IV
National Archives and Records Service
General Services Administration
Washington: 1982
This finding aid has been prepared by the National Archives as part of its program of facilitating the
use of records in its custody.
The microfilm described in this guide may be consulted at the National Archives, where it is
identified as Microfilm Publication T175. To order microfilm, write to the Publications Sales Branch
(NEPS), National Archives and Records Service (GSA), Washington, DC 20408.
Some of the papers reproduced on the microfilm referred to in this and other guides of the same
series may have been of private origin. The fact of their seizure is not believed to divest their original
owners of any literary property rights in them. Anyone, therefore, who publishes them in whole or in
part without permission of their authors may be held liable for infringement of such literary
property rights.
Library of Congress Catalog Card No. 58-9982
GUIDES TO GERMAN RECORDS MICROFILMED AT ALEXANDRIA, VA
No. 81. Records of the Reich Leader of the SS and Chief of the German Police
(Reichsfuehrer SS und Chef der Deutschen Polizei), (Part IV)
National Archives and Records Service
General Services Administration
Washington: 1982

I N T R O D U C T I ON
The Guides to German Records Microfilmed at Alexandria, Va., suffers from disorganization due to the amorphous, overlapping,
constitute a series of finding aids to the National Archives and continually changing organization and functions of the
and Records Service (NARS) microfilm publications of seized agencies involved, but groupings of certain materials can be
records of German central, regional, and local government readily ascertained.
agencies and of'military commands and units, as well as of
the Nazi Party, its component formations, affiliated The main grouping consists of records from RG 242, National
associations, and supervised organizations. The records Archives Collection of Foreign Records Seized, 1941- . These
described in the guides were created generally during the are records of the Chief of Security Police and Security Service
period 1920-45. (Chef der Sicherheitspolizei und des Sicherheitsdienstes--CdS)
and his headquarters agency, the Reichssicherheitshauptamt (RSHA)
The guide series was initiated by the microfilming project of established in September 1P39. Included are files accessioned
the Committee for the Study of War Documents of the American from RSHA's joint predecessors, the Sicherheitshauptamt (SHA) and
Historical Association (AHA) in cooperation with NARS and the the Sicherheitsdienst-Hauptamt (SD-HA), and RSHA's seven component
Department of the Army. With the termination of AHA partici- offices (Aemter) and their subordinate divisions (Gruppen) and
pation in July 1963, NARS assumed sole responsibility for the sections (Referate): RSHA, Amt I (RSHA/I) , Personnel; RSHA, Amt
reproduction of records and the preparation of guides. II (RSHA/II) , Organization, Administration, and Law; RSHA, Amt III
(RSHA/III), German Spheres of Life (SD-Deutsche Lebensgebiete)
Guide No. 81 is the fourth in a sequence describing records and Domestic Security Service (SD-Inland); RSHA, Amt IV (RSHA/IV),
reproduced on Microfilm Publication T175, Records of the Reich Investigating and Combatting Opposition (Gegner Erforschung und
Leader of the SS and Chief of the German Police (Reichsfuehrer-SS Bekaempfung), the Gestapo; RSHA, Amt V (RSHA/V), Suppression of
und Chef der Deutschen Polizei--RFSS) . Parts I-III are in Guide Crime, Criminal Police (Verbrechens Bekaempfung, Kriminalpolizei),
Nos. 32, 33, and 39. Other microfilmed SS records are described the Kripo; RSHA, Amt VI (RSHA/VI), Foreign Security Service
in Guide Nos. 72 and 79, Records of the Waffen-SS, Parts I-II, (SD-Ausland); RSHA, Amt VII (RSHA/VII), Ideological Research and
T354, and Guide No. 27, Miscellaneous SS Records: Einwanderer- (its) Exploitation (Weltanschauliche Forschung und Auswertung).
zentralstelle, Waffen-SS, and SS-Oberabschnitte, T354. Also included are random records from a number of regional Geheime
Complementary records are described in Guide No. 2, Records of Staatspolizei and Kriminalpolizei(leit)stellen and local Aussen-
the Office of the Reich Commissioner for the Strengthening of dienststellen, and interspersed therein are files of city, town,
Germandom (Reichskommissar fuer die Festigung deutschen and rural police forces that functioned as local auxilliaries in
Volksturns--RKFDV), T74; Guide Nos. 16 and 21, Records of the handling political and criminal cases. Also included in the
German Foreign Institute (Deutsches Auslandsinstitut, Gestapo files are records of border and customs posts that came
Stuttgart--DAI), Part I: Records on Resettlement and Part II: under Gestapo jurisdiction during the war.
The General Records, T81; Guide No. 28, Records of the Reich
Ministry for the Occupied Eastern Territories (Reichs- A second grouping consists of SS-originated records found among
ministerium fuer die besetzten Ostgebiete--RMfdbO), T454. NARS RG 226, Records of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS),
including records of the Deutsche GesandtschaffBukarest (German
This guide describes records reproduced on 105 rolls of Embassy in Bucharest). These records were captured in 1945 in
Microfilm Publication T175 (rolls 574-605, "R606-607," 608-614, Bucharest and were inadvertently incorporated into the records
"R615-639," 640, "R641-655," and 656-678). This assemblage of the Office of Strategic Sendees (OSS), Research and Analysis
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Branch, Central Information Division. The original designation index to this descriptive finding aid only. The index terms
"OSS" was converted to "DGesBukarest" for computer purposes and were derived from the descriptive material and have been
provenance identification, but the "XL" number is retained for supplemented with references, cross-references, and explanatory
reference to the original NARS OSS records collection. subheadings by means of computer techniques.
A third grouping consists of SS-originated records found among The CONTENTS column contains the provenance and a general
NARS RG 238, National Archives Collection of World War II War description of the content of the record item. The inclusive
Crimes Records. These records are from the Office of the Chief dates of the record item are given under the DATE column. The
Counsel for War Crimes (OCC) and were assembled for evidentiary ITEM NO. is an artificial identification symbol assigned to the
use in the Nuernberg War Crimes Trials. The records were filmed folder at German Military Document Section (GMDS) in Alexandria,
on T175 and are described here, retaining the "OCC" number Va.; the ROLL refers to the sequence of the film in Microfilm
assigned in RG 238. The material consists of "Das Ahnenerbe" Publication T175; and the 1ST FRAME gives the frame number of
(Ancestral Heritage Society) diaries and of security police the first page of the file item.
records concerning Jews and other racial matters.
The original records were returned after filming to the Federal
The Sicherheitsdienst (SD) began as a small internal intelligence Republic of Germany and deposited at the Bundesarchiv in Koblenz.
and counterintelligence agency within the NSDAP. Shortly after Some recently declassified records of the Allgemeine-SS have been
the Roehm affair of 30 June 1934, the SD was divided into two microfilmed for return to Germany. The master negatives of
separate organizations. One—a bodyguard force for Hitler and his Microfilm Publication T175 have been deposited with the Publica-
chief subordinates, eventually known as Reichssicherheitsdienst--was tions Sales Branch, National Archives and Records Service (GSA) ,
composed of permanent sections stationed in Berlin, Berchtesgaden, Washington, DC 20408, from which copies of specific rolls may be
and Munich and a mobile unit known as the Fuehrer-Begleitkommando. purchased, except for "R-Rolls" ("Restricted") . "R-Rolls" pertain
The other, designated Sicherheitsdienst des Reichsfuehrer-SS to privileged material; they are not available for purchase but
(SD-RFSS or simply SD), became, after 1936, the intelligence and may be reviewed within NARS research rooms. No reproductions of
counterintelligence agency for the German government as well as these record items are permitted. Reference copies of all other
for the NSDAP. The central office for the SD, between 1935 and rolls may be consulted in the Microfilm Reading Room of the
1939, was the Sicherheitsdienst-Hauptamt (SD-HA), composed of National Archives. For suggestions for citing microfilm, see
SD-HA/I for administration, SD-HA/II for domestic intelligence, page xix.
and SD-HA/III for foreign intelligence. In 1938, the SD-HA was
subordinated in certain respects to the Sicherheitshauptamt; in The descriptions of this guide were prepared by Robert Wolfe,
September 1939, both were integrated into the RSHA. The personnel National Archives, and Willard Fletcher, University of Delaware.
and administrative sections were absorbed into RSHA/I and II, Johanna M. Wagner prepared the input data for the computer-printed
domestic intelligence into RSHA/III (SD-Inland or SD-Deutsche register and index; the textual material was edited by Shelby G.
Lebensgebiete) , and foreign intelligence into RSHA/VI (SD-Ausland). Bale, NARS, Editorial Branch. The computer-input scheme, a
Counterintelligence and executive functions had already been modification of the SPIMDEX program, was devised by the undersigned,
surrendered to the Gestapo at the time of the subordination of
SD-HA to SHA in 1938.
ROBERT WOLFE
The INDEX to Guide No. 81 can be found immediately following Chief, Modern Military Headquarters Branch
the instructions for its use on page 95. It is an archival Military Archives Division
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T A B LE OF C O N T E N TS
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Introduction iii
Equivalent Ranks in the SS, German Regular Army, U.S. Army vii
Glossary of Selected Terms and Abbreviations and their English Translations . .. ix
Published Guides to German Records Microfilmed at Alexandria, Va xv
Suggestion for Citing Miciofilm xix
CHART: End Phase Organization of the German Police xxii
CHART: Organization of Das Ahnenerbe xxv
Register of Descriptions of Reichsfuehrer SS und Chef der Deutschen Polizei . .. 1
Introduction to the Index 95
Index to the Record Items Described in the Register 96
Instructions for ordering Microfilm 159

EQUIVALENT RANKS IN THE SS, GERMAN REGULAR ARMY, U.S. ARMY
SS Abbreviations Allgemeine-SS (General SS) German Regular Army U.S. Army
SS M. SS Mann Grenadier, Schuetze No equivalent
SS Strm. SS Sturmmann Obergrenadier Private
SS Rttf. SS Rottenfuehrer Gefreiter, Obergefreiter, Stabsgefreiter Private First Class
SS USchaf. SS Unterscharfuehrer Unteroffizier Corporal
SS Schaf. SS Scharfuehrer Unterfeldwebel Sergeant
SS OSchaf. SS Oberscharfuehrer Feldwebel Staff Sergeant
SS HSchaf. SS Hauptscharfuehrer Oberfeldwebel Technical Sergeant
SS Stuschaf. SS Sturmscharfuehrer Stabsfeldwebel Master Sergeant
SS UStuf. SS Untersturmfuehrer Leutnant 2d Lieutenant
SS OStuf. SS Obersturmfuehrer Oberleutnant 1st Lieutenant
SS HStuf. SS Hauptsturmfuehrer Hauptmann Captain
SS Stubaf. SS Sturmbannfuehrer Ma j or Major
SS OStubaf. SS Obersturmbannfuehrer Oberstleutnant Lieutenant Colonel
SS Staf. SS Standartenfuehrer Oberst Colonel
SS Oberf. SS Oberfuehrer No equivalent No equivalent
SS Brif. SS Brigadefuehrer Generalmajor Brigadier General
SS Gruf. SS Gruppenfuehrer Generalleutnant Major General
SS OGruf. SS Obergruppenfuehrer General der Infanterie Lieutenant General
SS ObstGruf. SS Oberstgruppenfuehrer Generaloberst General
RFSS Reichsfuehrer-SS Genera Ifeldmarscha11 General of Army
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