NS special registry office

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A NS-Sonderstandesamt was a registry office that was created for special purposes during the Nazi era . Usually it took care of the civil processing of deaths. They usually had the "II" (Roman two) attached to their names.

background

The jurisdiction of regular registry offices for keeping the civil register and issuance of civil status documents was a danger and burden in carrying out Nazi crimes of violence and its secrecy. The necessary notifications (mostly death certificates ) had to be sent to the place of birth, the last place of residence, the tax office and employment office as well as to relatives of the victims. Therefore, so-called special registry offices falsified places of death, causes of death and days of death in order to conceal the crimes committed.

Killing centers

A special registry office was set up at the killing centers from the outset to document the murders of the sick during the National Socialist era ( euphemistically referred to as euthanasia) . The registrars were trustworthy police officers. Through a systematic exchange of files among the institutions, attempts were made to cover up the murders to avoid clusters of places of death, birth and home. The cause of death to be stated was already specified in the medical record when the patient was assessed by the T4 expert . Since the high death numbers were noticed in the death certificates, a move was made to starting new death registers more frequently with then arbitrarily chosen, inconspicuously low numbers. A special feature was the registry office of the fictional lunatic asylum Chełm for Jewish patients. By falsifying the date of death, the T4 organizers enriched themselves with a sum of RM 350,000 at the expense of the Reich Association of Jews by settling unpaid care services for Jewish patients who had already been killed  .

Concentration and extermination camps

Death certificate, registry office Dachau II, 1944

In April 1939 the registry office “Weimar II” was set up in the Buchenwald concentration camp ; "Dachau II", "Oranienburg II" and many more followed. In the case of Russians and other Soviet citizens, civil registrations were generally waived.

Lebensborn

Each Lebensborn home had its own registry office. In April 1943, the Lebensborn founded its own "special registry office L" in Munich with the head of it Dr. Erich Schulz. In order to facilitate the forcible Germanization of foreign children, these were declared " foundlings " by the special registry office L and given new names and dates of birth. The registry office documents kept by Lebensborn were lost at the end of the war, so that many children could no longer find out anything about their birth parents.

literature

  • Siegfried Maruhn : State servants in the unjust state: The German registrars and their association under National Socialism . Publishing house for registry offices, 2002

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Siegfried Maruhn, p. 228 ff.
  2. ↑ Siegfried Maruhn, p. 230 f.
  3. ↑ Siegfried Maruhn, p. 233 f.
  4. ↑ Ines Hopfer: Robbed identity: The violent “Germanization” of Polish children during the Nazi era , Böhlau Verlag, 2010, ISBN 978-3-205-78462-3 , p. 66.
  5. ↑ What the "Lebensborn" was in reality , on traces of life Germany, accessed June 14, 2016.