Germany, Concentration Camp Records, 1937-1945

This series consists of copies of records which were created by the German Geheime Staatspolizei (Gestapo) during World War II, captured by the U.S. military, and compiled and used after the war by the International Tracing Service and later the Departmental Records Branch's Captured Records Section. They include copies of German records: camp records, transport lists, and medical data cards. The camp records include inmate cards, death lists, and strength reports. This series consists of four subseries. The first three subseries are copies of German records: camp records, transport lists, and medical data cards. The camp records include inmate cards, death lists, and strength reports. The medical data cards include those from the French Red Cross hospital at Feldkirch on the Bodensee (Lake Constance), dating from May-July 1945. The second subseries consists of records of the Jewish Agency for Palistine (Political Department) which include lists of German war criminals and reports of German military action against Jews, primarily in Poland.