A card index
The A-card index was a data index of people who were put under surveillance by the Gestapo . The origin of the name is unclear, but an abbreviation of "supervision" is suspected.
These people were seen as opponents of the Nazi regime in terms of the NSDAP . It is known that Reinhard Heydrich built this file while he was in Munich. On September 28, 1938, the chief of the security police issued an instruction to the state police (leit) stating that persons to be arrested should be placed in concentration camps according to the entries in the A-card index . The index was administered in the RSHA in Amt 4.
It was ordered that the arrested persons should initially be placed in police and judicial prisons. After that, these were to be sent to the Buchenwald , Sachsenhausen concentration camps or the concentration camp to be established in East Prussia as soon as possible .
The following was specifically ordered:
- The A-card index prisoners of the state police (head) offices in Königsberg , Allenstein , Elbing and Tilsit are to be sent to the concentration camp to be set up in East Prussia
- The A-card index prisoners of the police (head) offices Augsburg , Breslau , Chemnitz , Darmstadt , Dresden , Erfurt , Frankfurt am Main , Graz , Halle (Saale) , Hildesheim , Innsbruck , Karlsruhe , Klagenfurt , Leipzig , Liegnitz , Linz , Magdeburg , Munich , Neustadt an der Weinstrasse , Nuremberg , Opole , Regensburg , Saarbrücken , Salzburg , Stuttgart , Trier , Weimar , Vienna , Würzburg and Zwickau are to be transferred to the Buchenwald concentration camp.
- the A-card index prisoners of the state police (head) offices in Aachen , Berlin , Bielefeld , Braunschweig , Bremen , Dessau , Dortmund , Düsseldorf , Frankfurt (Oder) , Hamburg , Hanover , Kassel , Kiel , Koblenz , Cologne , Köslin , Lüneburg , Osnabrück , Potsdam , Schneidemühl , Schwerin , Stettin , Wesermünde and Wilhelmshaven are to be transferred to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp.
Web links
- Gestapo A-card index on tenhumbergreinhard.de
Individual evidence
- ^ Document in the Federal Archives , Potsdam Department, Film No. 15 775
- ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: Example of the arrest of people by the Gestapo according to the A file
