Central verification office
The central verification office (ZNS) was a facility of the federal archive .
history
The personnel files of the former Reichswehr and Wehrmacht , which were still preserved on the territory of the Federal Republic after the end of the Second World War , were initially collected in Dortmund and later in the civil status archive II of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia in Aachen-Kornelimünster .
In 1955, the personal documents received from former members of the German Army and Air Force, the Waffen SS , the Reich Labor Service and other organizations (e.g. Organization Todt , intelligence helpers) as well as the surviving Wehrmacht court documents from all parts of the Wehrmacht were transferred to the Federal Archives, which with it however only had a "subset" of personal documents of military provenance.
function
The Central Evidence Office was responsible for a significant part of the transmission of personal documents in a military context. The CNS describes its original task as follows:
- To create employment and insurance certificates for members of the Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS, but also for the Reichsarbeitsdienst and Organization Todt (or their surviving dependents) and, if necessary, to provide expert opinions on this; In addition to this task of securing individual legal claims, the CNS provided information for the prosecution of Nazi criminals.
Due to its special tasks, the CNS was organizationally part of the central administration department (Z) of the Federal Archives. However, it was subject to the technical supervision of the Department of Military Archives (MA) .
Web links
- Edgar Büttner: Personal documents of military provenance in the Federal Archives . 2006 (from the time up to 1945, PDF file; 114.39 kB).
- Personal documents of military origin up to 1945. Here you will find information on documents that were previously kept in the former Central Record Office (ZNS). at www.bundesarchiv.de of the federal archive
- New responsibilities for the documents of the former Central Record Office (ZNS) in Aachen ( Memento from April 28, 2009 in the Internet Archive )