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)

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

5.1 - Nazi trials

5.3 - Death marches / Identification of unknown dead (Allied investigations, routes, identification of unknown dead)

5.3.1 - Investigations of the Routes of Death Marches and of Burials

5.3.2 - Attempted identifications

5.3.3 - Death marches / Identification of unknown deceased individuals

5.3.5 - Grave investigation / Cemetery maps

5.3.6 - Card file of Death March locations

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

5 Death Marches, identification of unkown dead and Nazi trials / 5.3 Death marches / Identification of unknown dead (Allied investigations, routes, identification of unknown dead) /

Grave investigation / Cemetery maps

Reference Code

DE ITS 5.3.5

Creation Date

1945-01-01 - 1951-12-31

Number of documents

7469

Scope and content

The archival group "Grave investigation / Cemetery maps" is a collection of documents and work tools. It contains maps of grave sites of non-German citizens and German victims of National Socialist persecution as well as correspondence from German mayors and photos which were created by order of the Western Allies.

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