Archival tree of the Arolsen Archives

0 - Global Finding Aids

1 - Incarceration Documents

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

2.1 - Implementation of Allied Forces’ Orders on Listing all Foreigners and German Persecutees, and Related Documents

2.1.1 - American Zone of Occupation in Germany

2.1.2 - British Zone of Occupation in Germany

2.1.3 - French Zone of Occupation in Germany

2.1.4 - Soviet Zone of Occupation in Germany

2.1.5 - Berlin, all Sectors

2.1.6 - Austria, all Zones of Occupation

2.1.7 - Other Countries

2.1.8 - Various and unknown Zones

2.2 - Documents on the Registration of Foreigners and the Employment of Forced Laborers, 1939 - 1945

2.3 - Post-war Evaluations of Various Organizations

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

2 Registration of Foreigners and German Persecutees by Public Institutions, Social Securities and Companies (1939 - 1947) / 2.1 Implementation of Allied Forces’ Orders on Listing all Foreigners and German Persecutees, and Related Documents /

American Zone of Occupation in Germany

Reference Code

DE ITS 2.1.1

Number of documents

842158

Scope and content

This sub-collection primarily consists of various types and various forms of lists of persons that had to be drawn up by local German authorities and administrative offices after the end of the war.
The lists were drawn up in connection with the so-called Allied Forces' Orders, whose purpose was to obtain as much information as possible on the fate of prisoners of war, forced laborers and refugees.

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