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APPENDIX C
Frequently Appearing Topics and Themes
Concentration Camp Related Topics
- concentration/work/prison/detention/internment/death camps
- "Jew-camps" and "Gypsy camps"
- camp plans (layout, staffing)
- "Change reports" of various camps: recording changes in condition or status of a camp
- orders to various camp administrations
- lists of prisoners/inmates of camps, often with dates (by name and/or prisoner number)
- lists of prisoners of all types (privileged, men, women, children, sick, unable to work, able to work, those who tried to escape, professional criminals, deceased, etc.)
- arrival and departure lists to/from camps (often with dates)
- dismissals from camp (due to death, transfer, or release at liberation)
- transport lists of Jews (from towns to camps; between camps)
- costs of prisoner transfers; cost of feeding prisoners; receipt catalogs
- food rations, including extra rations for special workers
- lists of personal effects of prisoners
- punishments and execution of sentences on prisoners
- laboratory examinations, medical experiments, fatalities from experiments (often gas chambers)
- deliveries of Zyklon B
- medical experiments of all kinds (vaccinations, injections, cold, altitude)
- sterilizations
- death marches
- witness statements, testimonies on camps, mistreatment, etc.
Forced Labor Topics
- names of factories, firms, plants, and their owners
- forced-labor records of specific firms (e.g., IG Farben, VW, BMW, Krupp, Siemens)
- lists of forced laborers insured with certain AOK and BKK, by town/name of insurance company/employer
- work deployments, detachments, special detachments, fatalities
- forced/slave labor lists
Displaced Persons/Emigration/Immigration Related Topics
- DP lists, camps, and hospitals
- repatriation lists
- ship and flight lists to various countries
- emigration lists to Palestine
Administrative Records/Court Records
- administrative offices and administrative titles (such as, Board of Reparations, Emigration, etc.)
- SS-appointments
- Einsatzgruppen actions, deployments
- correspondence between different institutions, heads of administrative offices
- lists of orders from different administrative offices, departments, department heads
- names of districts (e.g. Wartheland)
- names of cities, towns from which/to which persons were deported, often with dates
- lists of foreign residents (including forced laborers) of towns, by date
- registration records/books on foreigners in various towns
- arrival and departure records of persons in/from various towns
- death/birth/marriage certificates, registration, books
- court proceedings, hearings, interrogations, trials, also postwar trials
- death penalties, executions ordered by court martial, execution of death sentences
- cemetery records relating to forced and slave laborers buried in towns
Miscellaneous
- "Final Solution"
- "Jewish question"
- partisan activity
- names of newspapers (Jewish), radio reports, persons searching for relatives on radio
- prisons, detention centers, all kinds
- names of ghettos
- specific reports (e.g. Gerstein report)
- Organisation Todt
- Operation Zeppelin
- Lebensborn program, in Germany and in occupied countries (problems, complications, criticisms)
- Night and Fog prisoners
- hospital, infirmary registers (admission, discharge, sickness, death)
- Diseases; epidemics
- lists of names of prisoners who died/were executed in certain locations (infirmaries, hospitals, schools, prisons)
- mass executions/mass graves
- death books
- burial procedures (transfer of bodies from one graveyard to another)
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