Nazi Security Police Administrative and Organizational Records, 1944 (Irving file T175-432)

This file contains administrative, procedural, and organizational documentation relating to the Nazi security police in 1944. The material includes internal directives, instructions for police procedure, filing and record-keeping systems, organizational charts, reporting requirements, and communications between central and regional offices.

The documents emphasize standardized bureaucratic practice, including the handling of reports, complaints, investigations, arrests, preventive measures, and inter-office coordination. Several items reflect late-war administrative continuity, demonstrating how established security procedures were maintained and adapted under deteriorating wartime conditions.

The file is a composite reference compilation rather than a single originating dossier and reflects the structure of U.S. National Archives microfilm preservation rather than original German filing order.

Disclaimer

This file contains historical documents produced by agencies of the Nazi state security apparatus, including the Reich Security Main Office (RSHA) and its subordinate police and intelligence offices. The materials reflect the administrative language, procedures, and institutional practices of a totalitarian regime responsible for widespread repression, persecution, and mass crimes.

These records are preserved and made accessible solely for the purposes of historical research, documentation, and critical study. Their inclusion in this archive does not constitute endorsement, approval, or legitimization of the ideology, policies, or actions of the organizations that created them.

Users are advised that the documents may contain language, classifications, and perspectives that are offensive, dehumanizing, or disturbing. Such content is presented in its original historical form to allow accurate analysis of the bureaucratic and institutional mechanisms of the Nazi security state.

Researchers are encouraged to interpret these materials within their full historical context and in conjunction with independent scholarship and survivor testimony.

Condition note

Digitally reproduced from U.S. National Archives microfilm; image quality varies across the file. Some pages show reduced contrast, blurred text, cropping, and minor loss of legibility consistent with wartime originals and microfilm reproduction, though the majority of the material remains readable and suitable for research use.

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