Kdf (Kraft durch Freude) stadt and Rühen, Germany. (ID: 33341)
Authorship or Source:
United States. Army. War Crimes Group.
Year:
1945-1947
Title or Main Description:
Kdf (Kraft durch Freude) stadt and Rühen, Germany.
Type of Work:
Archival material
Alternate or Series Title:
KdF-Stadt and Rühen, Germany.
Museum or Other Institution Holdings:
- In National Archives and Records Administration (College Park, MD) Collection: NARA*RG-338.T2*000-12-396 000-12-396 Kdf (Kraft Durch Freude) stadt and Rühen, Germany
- Location of original: NARA - National Archives and Records Administration.
Provenance:
Agency Description: In late 1945, administration of the US war crimes program was centralized in a War Crimes Section (later Branch) set up in the Office of the Theater Judge Advocate, US Forces European Theater (USFET). In the fall of 1946, this operation became the 7708 War Crimes Group, headed by the Deputy Judge Advocate for War Crimes, which continued to function through the investigation, trial, and review phases until it was deactivated on 30 Jun 1948.
Keywords:
- United States. Army. War Crimes Group. --Sources.
- United States. Army. 7708 War Crimes Group. --Sources.
- World War, 1939-1945 --Registers of dead --Conscript labor --Germany --Wolfsburg.
- World War, 1939-1945 --Registers of dead --Conscript labor --Germany --Rühen.
- Forced labor --Germany --Wolfsburg --Registers.
- Forced labor --Germany --Rühen --Registers.
- Forced labor --Germany --Wolfsburg --Sources.
- Forced labor --Germany --Rühen --Sources.
- Personal name(s):
- Conti, Leonardo (1900 - 1945)
- Ley, Robert (1890 - 1945)
- Korbel, Hans
- Ohl, Willi
- Mayr, Hans
- Tyrolt, Georg
- Corporate name(s):
- SA - Sturmabteilung
- SS - Schutzstaffel
- Gestapo
- Reich Health Administration
- Volkswagen GmbH
- Work Ministry (German)
- Kreis Gifhorn Maternity Hospital and Day Nursery
- Geographic name(s):
- Germany
- Lódz (Poland)
- Kdf (Kraft Durch Freude) stadt (Germany)
- Rühen (Germany)
- Subject heading(s):
- War crimes
- War crimes - perpetrators and suspects
- Atrocities
- Killing
- Ghettos
- Labor - slave
- Health conditions - epidemics
- Persecution of Jews
- Persecution of Poles
- Persecution of Russians
- Women
- Children
- Laws - racial
- Racial policy
- Racism
- Killing - starvation
- Health conditions - hospitals & medical institutions
- Health conditions - disease
- Killing - massacres
- Burials - mass
- Medical experiments
- Sterilization
- Labor - compulsory
- Industry - armaments
- [Additional Geographic Keywords: Kraft-durch-Freude Stadt, KdF-Stadt, KdFStadt, Stadt des KdF-Wagens, Fallersleben, Ruehen]
Abstract:
- Contains witness statements, photographs, death register, etc.
- Subject summary: This investigation was based on witness statements and other evidence alleging atrocities committed by German nationals against Soviet and Polish women and infants at a factory, hospital, and nursery located in Kdf-Stadt (currently known as Wolfsburg) and in Rühen, Germany, between 1942 and 1944. Case was referred to Polish and Soviet war crimes officials.
Language and Other Notes:
Cataloging information derived from USHMM Archives' ICIS (International Cooperative Information System), a cataloging database which held the results of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum Archive staff's extensive surveys of other institutions' Holocaust-related holdings carried out from ca.1988 through ca.1992, when the system was discontinued. The institutions surveyed included the Leo Baeck Institution Archives, National Archives, American Jewish Archives, YIVO Archives and Yad Vashem Archives.