SD-Hauptamt Sachkartei- und Sachaktenordnung Organisationsschema und Auswertungsrichtlinien (Irving File 3B)

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This document outlines the SD-Hauptamt’s internal system for organizing, coding, and analyzing political and social intelligence using a structured index-card (Sachkartei) and subject-file (Sachakte) framework. It provides detailed guidelines for categorization, documentation, and reporting of surveillance information across ideological enemies and societal domains.

Categories: Archives, Documents, Internal Communications, Microfilms, Records, Report Tags: Archival, Documents, Dossiers, government records, historical, K.G.B., Manual, Microfilm, The Third Reich Brand: Irving Collection

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This document is an extensive administrative manual issued by the SD-Hauptamt (the main office of the Sicherheitsdienst, the Nazi security and intelligence service). It sets out:

The organization, structure, and processing rules for:
- Sachkarteien (subject card indexes)
- Sachakten (subject files / dossiers)
Guidelines for how information gathered on various organizations, political opponents, and societal sectors should be systematically categorized and filed.

It essentially outlines the bureaucratic backbone for intelligence collection and analysis by the SD, ensuring consistent procedures across different departments and subjects.

This is an extensive blueprint for bureaucratic intelligence processing by the Nazi SD, specifying exactly how to document, categorize, and analyze perceived political, cultural, and ideological adversaries.

It ensured standardized documentation across Germany, enabling broad and deep surveillance and facilitating coordinated action against targets.
It also reflects the obsessive categorization typical of Nazi bureaucratic systems, breaking down entire societal structures into manageable components for control.

⚠️ Disclaimer

This document is a historical artifact originating from the Sicherheitsdienst (SD) of Nazi Germany. It was created as part of the administrative and surveillance operations of the SS during the Third Reich. The contents reflect the ideological, political, and discriminatory framework of a totalitarian regime responsible for crimes against humanity, including the Holocaust.

The inclusion or study of this material does not imply endorsement or acceptance of its views, terminology, or classifications. The language and categorizations used within this document are often offensive, pseudoscientific, and intentionally dehumanizing. They were part of a broader system of repression, propaganda, and violence directed at political, racial, religious, and social groups.

This material is presented solely for the purpose of historical research, documentation, and education, particularly to support understanding of:

The bureaucratic mechanisms of totalitarian surveillance and repression.
The structure and ideology of the SD and its operational methods.
The extent of Nazi targeting of various societal groups.

Users are urged to approach the material with critical awareness and scholarly caution. It is essential to maintain sensitivity to the victims and communities affected by the actions and ideologies described within.

Condition Note:
This document is a typewritten administrative manual in German, preserved as a PDF facsimile. The text is legible throughout with minimal typographic degradation. Pages show consistent formatting and margins, indicating reproduction from an original carbon copy or stencil-duplicated source. There are no handwritten annotations, marginalia, or damage visible in the digital copy. Overall, the document appears stable and complete, with all structural and contextual elements intact.