Special wanted list

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Special Wanted Book Poland (1939)
Special wanted list GB, p. 231 with the names of August Zaleski , Carl Zuckmayer , Stefan Zweig and others.

Special wanted lists and the special wanted book for Poland with the names and dates of the people to be arrested in the occupied territories were compiled by the Reich Criminal Police Office (RKPA) (merged with the Reich Security Main Office (RSHA) in September 1939 ) before the start of the war and at the beginning of the Second World War . The lists contain thousands of names of opponents of National Socialism and are therefore a widely used source of personal history on this group of people today.

Are known z. B.

  • the special wanted book of Poland with 61,000 names
  • the special wanted list of the USSR
  • the special wanted list west (Belgium, France and Luxembourg)
  • the special wanted list GB (Great Britain)
  • the special wanted list of Yugoslavia

Special Wanted Book Poland

From May 1939 onwards, the special wanted book for Poland was drawn up by Amt II of the Security Service of the Reichsführer SS (SD) together with members of the German minority in Poland ; it contained about 61,000 names. The people named in the book were either to be arrested or shot after the occupation of Poland .

The task force of Reinhard Heydrich set up the task force of the security police and the SD were given the task of carrying out the " Tannenberg company " to destroy the Polish Inteligencja . Heydrich expanded the task area of ​​the Einsatzgruppen to include all persons who were hostile according to the Nazi ideology .

expenditure

  • Werner Röder (Ed.): Sonderfahndungsliste USSR , Erlangen, Publishing House for Contemporary History Documents and Curiosa, 1976.
  • Imperial War Museum : The Black Book (special wanted list GB) , (= Facsimile Reprint Series Vol. 2), London 1989.

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Individual evidence

  1. Werner Röder (Ed.): Sonderfahndungsliste USSR , Erlangen: D and C Verlag, 1977
  2. ^ Paul Glass: Saarländer in the "Special wanted list West" of the Reich Security Main Office (1939) . In: Saarländische Familienkunde , Volume 10/2, Vol. 38, Saarbrücken 2005, pp. 260–266.
  3. ^ David Lampe: The Last Ditch: Britain's Secret Resistance and the Nazi Invasion Plan , MBI Publishing Company, 2007, p. 55. Online
  4. Milan Koljanin: Struktura i delovanje policije nacističke Nemačke u okupiranoj Srbiji 1941-1944 . In: Istorija 20. veka 2011, vol. 29, br. 3, str. 143-156.
  5. Fritz Arlt : Poland-Ukrainer-Judenpolitik in the Generalgouvernement for the occupied Polish territories 1939 to 1940 in Upper Silesia 1941 to 1943 and in the freedom struggle of the oppressed Eastern peoples , Scientific Book Service Taege, Lindhorst 1995. According to DNB, the publisher only appeared once; its owner Herbert Taege has emerged as a right-wing, historical revisionist journalist, in Munin-Verlag , Leopold Stocker Verlag and Askania-Verlag, this also in Lindhorst near Stadthagen. The Askania publishing house was taken over in 1994 by Richard Bohlinger, another right-wing publisher.
  6. ^ Wacław Długoborski : Second World War and Social Change , Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht , Göttingen 1981, p. 309.