Archival tree of the Arolsen Archives

0 - Global Finding Aids

1 - Incarceration Documents

1.1 - Camps and Ghettos

1.1.0 - General Information

1.1.1 - Amersfoort Police Transit Camp

1.1.2 - Auschwitz Concentration and Extermination Camp

1.1.3 - Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp

1.1.4 - Breendonk Transit Camp

1.1.5 - Buchenwald Concentration Camp

1.1.6 - Dachau Concentration Camp

1.1.7 - Esterwegen Concentration Camp

1.1.8 - Flossenbürg Concentration Camp

1.1.8.0 - General Information on Flossenbürg Concentration Camp

3261

Investigations by the US Army regarding the conditions in the camp before and after the liberation

165

Administration pertaining to clothing / valuables / estates / insurances (social-/ pension-/ unemployment-) of prisoners; reward of SS men for executions; report by male survivors about the conditions in the former “Häftlingsspital”

Forced labor: 'Manpower reports' for subcamps; Correspondence, reports and accounts regarding transfers of prisoners, accidents, dischargements, material requisitions, estate (1939-1942)

157

Lists 'Arbeitseinteilung' (distribution of work); Correspondence regarding transfers of prisoners; Treatment of ‘adolescent Ostarbeiter’; Registration of conscripts (1942-1943)

298

Transfers of prisoners and regulations, inquiries about prisoners, lists (division of work/strength reports), invoices, forced labor assignment Grafenreuth (1943-1945)

113

Reports on number of prisoners, work deployment, financial reports and various orders, subdivision of prisoners by age groups (1943-1945)

173

Correspondence: Prisoner transfers; Reports of skilled workers; Soviet POWs; Discharges (1942-1945)

267

Correspondence: Use of Soviet POWs; "Discharges" (Wehrmacht / SS-Division Dirlewanger); Bonus for executions; Draft concerning transport of prisoners (1943-1945)

Transfers of prisoners: CC Auschwitz, CC Lublin

Transfers of prisoners: CC Buchenwald, CC Sachsenhausen

Prisoner transfers: CC Stutthof / Ravensbrück / Neuengamme / Groß-Rosen / Mauthausen / Natzweiler-Struthof / various subcamps / Dulag Bozen-Gries

Transfers of prisoners: CC Dachau

Reports of skilled workers

Planning for the construction of a POW camp in CC Flossenbürg; Reports of strength and skilled workers for various 'work detachments'; Building projects and armament (1939-1943)

294

Investigations by the US Army on the mistreatment and shooting of female (Jewish) prisoners, in particular on the death march via the Helmbrechts subcamp to Volary (Wallern): Testimonies and lists (1945)

204

Explanatory report on the construction of a crematorium: Calculation of material quantity and costs (05/25/1940)

Proofs of claim; Reports of strength; Rations for prisoners and guards; transfer of prisoners; construction project Pottenstein; Post-war investigations UNRRA / ITS (1943-1945)

148

Proofs of claim for the use of forced laborers in the camp and its subcamps (1943 - 1944)

569

Reports, newspaper articles and correspondence on the camp and individual subcamps; Excerpts from files of the trial against Alfred Sorge, etc. (1940-1977)

317

Reports and testimonies on CC Flossenbürg (1946-1975); Reports, construction plans and strength reports on subcamps in Bohemia and Moravia; Building inspection of the subamps Pottenstein and Würzburg (1944-1945)

109

Secret decree of Heydrich concerning the 'classification of concentration camps' (01/02/1941); Report of a survivor of CC Dachau und CC Flossenbürg in the context of the investigations by the US Army (1947)

Administrative documents of CC Flossenbürg (Effektenkammer) and the subcamps Helmbrechts, Venusberg and Hersbruck (with statistics); List of about 40 subcamps: 'Gemeinschaftslager der ERLA-Maschinenwerke GmbH, Leipzig' (1941-1945)

Investigations by the US Army regarding murders and maltreatment of 'Allied Nationals' and Prisoners of War in CC Flossenbürg and Wetterfeld (1943-1947)

316

Communications concerning a prisoner, who died in KL Flossenbürg. Death date: 9.6.1944

1.1.8.1 - List Material Flossenbürg

16688

1.1.8.3 - Individual Documents male Flossenbürg

177033

1.1.8.4 - Individual Documents female Flossenbürg

26855

1.1.8.5 - Number Index Flossenbürg

68696

1.1.8.6 - Hollerith preparatory worksheet cards - Flossenbürg

16596

1.1.9 - Camps in France

1.1.10 - Labor Reformatory Camp Großbeeren

1.1.11 - Groß-Rosen Concentration Camp

1.1.12 - Herzogenbusch-Vught Concentration Camp

1.1.13 - Hinzert Special SS Camp

1.1.14 - Camps in Italy and Albania

1.1.15 - Camps in Yugoslavia

1.1.16 - Kislau Concentration Camp

1.1.17 - Klooga / Vaivara Concentration Camp

1.1.18 - Ghetto Kauen (Kaunas / Kowno)

1.1.19 - Krakau-Plaszow Concentration Camp

1.1.20 - Lichtenburg Concentration Camp

1.1.21 - Labor reformatory camp Liebenau (Internment Camp Liebenau)

1.1.22 - Litzmannstadt (Lodz) Ghetto and "Polen-Jugendverwahrlager" /Detention Camp for Polish Juveniles

1.1.23 - Lublin (Majdanek) Concentration Camp

1.1.24 - Mecheln (Malines) SS Deportation Camp

1.1.25 - Mauritius Detainment Camp

1.1.26 - Mauthausen Concentration Camp

1.1.27 - Concentration Camp Mittelbau (Dora)

1.1.28 - Moringen Concentration Camp and "Jugendschutzlager"/ Protective Custody Camp for Juveniles

1.1.29 - Natzweiler (Struthof) Concentration Camp

1.1.30 - Neuengamme Concentration Camp

1.1.31 - Niederhagen (Wewelsburg) Concentration Camp

1.1.32 - Camps in Norway

1.1.33 - Oranienburg Concentration Camp

1.1.34 - Papenburg Penitentiary Camp/ Emslandlager

1.1.35 - Ravensbrück Concentration Camp

1.1.36 - Riga (Kaiserwald) Concentration Camp and Riga Ghetto

1.1.37 - Sachsenburg Concentration Camp

1.1.38 - Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp

1.1.39 - Sandbostel Absorption Camp

1.1.40 - Schirmeck-Vorbruck Concentration Camp

1.1.41 - Stutthof Concentration Camp

1.1.42 - Theresienstadt Ghetto

1.1.43 - Treblinka Labour Camp

1.1.44 - Warsaw Ghetto and Concentration Camp

1.1.45 - Welzheim Concentration Camp (Protective Custody Camp)

1.1.46 - Westerbork Assembly and Transit Camp

1.1.47 - Various Camps

1.1.48 - Concentration Camp Bad Sulza

1.1.49 - Concentration Camp Colditz

1.1.50 - Schutzhaftlager Hohnstein

1.1.51 - Concentration Camp Sonnenburg

1.1.52 - Concentration Camp Columbia-Haus Concentration Camp

1.1.53 - Concentration Camp Eutin

1.1.54 - Concentration Camp Heinersdorf

1.1.55 - Concentration Camp Heuberg

1.1.56 - Concentration Camp Kemna

1.1.57 - Concentration Camp Kuhlen

1.1.58 - Concentration Camp Osthofen

1.1.59 - Concentration Camp Roßlau

1.1.60 - Concentration Camps Wittmoor, Fuhlsbüttel and Neuengamme

1.1.61 - Juvenile Detention and Reform Camp Lebrechtsdorf

1.2 - Miscellaneous

2 - Registration of Foreigners and German Persecutees by Public Institutions, Social Securities and Companies (1939 - 1947)

3 - Registrations and Files of Displaced Persons, Children and Missing Persons

4 - Special NSDAP organizations and actions

5 - Death Marches, identification of unkown dead and Nazi trials

6 - Records of the ITS and its predecessors

7 - Archival records of microforms (new material / document acquisition)

8 - Collections of private persons and small archives

1 Incarceration Documents / 1.1 Camps and Ghettos / 1.1.8 Flossenbürg Concentration Camp /

Transfers of prisoners: CC Buchenwald, CC Sachsenhausen

Reference Code

1930003

Creation Date

1942-12-11 - 1945-02-09

Number of documents

Scope and content

Contains:
I) Correspondence on the transfer of skilled workers from CC Buchenwald to CC Flossenbürg or its subcamps and vice versa. If inquiries from the SS-WVHA to various camps regarding reports of skilled workers and the corresponding replies from CC Flossenbürg could be clearly assigned to a subsequent transfer, they can also be found in this unit (cf. Doc ID 82108250-82108252), 11.12.1942-09.02.1945, Doc ID 82108085; 82108106; 82108111-82108112; 82108155-82108157; 82108169; 82108171; 82108181; 82108186-82108187; 82108231-82108234; 82108238-82108240; 82108250-82108256; 82108258-82108260; 82108292):

- Included are (tele)letters between the SS-WVHA and various departments of CC Flossenbürg on the transfer of skilled workers (including mechanics and opticians; carpenters; skilled workers "for office and typewriter work"), with instructions, regulations and reports from both camps on transfers / arrival of prisoners. The subcamp "Leichtmetallwerke Rautenbach" is frequently mentioned (cf. Doc ID 82108171; 82108181; 82108186-82108187).
- 6 Teletype (SS-WVHA - Amtsgruppe D -, Camp commandant's offices CC Flossenbürg and CC Buchenwald) concerning the transfer of 500 Italian prisoners to CC Buchenwald, 13.10.-22.10.1943, Doc ID 82108253-82108255; 82108258-82108260.
- 1 telex to CC Flossenbürg, contains order to no longer transfer prisoners to CC Buchenwald, 09.02.1945, Doc ID 82108292.

II) Correspondence, orders and reports concerning the transfer of prisoners to the Sachsenhausen camp, between the SS-WVHA, the Flossenbürg camp and the Sachsenhausen camp. Among them are:

- Telex concerning the (delayed) transfer of a glassblower to CC Sachsenhausen. Information can be found on the age, nationality and detention period of the forced laborer concerned, 24.11.-17.12.1942, Doc ID 82108077; 82108080; 82108091.
- Telex concerning the use of 20 German prisoners as Capos in the armaments factory, 22.01.-01.02.1943, Doc ID 82108096, 82108101 and 82108102.
- A letter from the Waffen-SS Kommandantur "Arbeitseinsatz" to the SS-WVHA dated 10.08.1943 concerning the "Provision of prisoners for a transport to CC Sachsenhausen" should be emphasized. It contains a list of past transfers and information about the physical condition of the prisoners in CC Flossenbürg. The subcamps Krondorf, Schlackenwerth and Neurohlen are also mentioned. The second page of the document is not available, Doc ID 82108216.

Existence and location of originals

Bundesarchiv Koblenz (reference number: NS 4FL/ vorl. 14)
https://www.bundesarchiv.de/index.html.en

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