Mechanisms of occupation and persecution
Persecution became possible when political goals passed through institutions: ministry, regional authority, police office, municipal desk, prison, transport and killing site. These dossiers make that chain visible.
Regional Gestapo, Security Police and SD offices
How regional Gestapo, Security Police, SD and mobile units linked central policy to arrests, deportations and executions in occupied Poland.
Profiles include Helmut Bischoff, Max Grosskopf, Otto Bradfisch, Günter Fuchs…Ghettoisation, deportation and liquidation
The administrative and police chain that created ghettos, isolated their residents, organised deportations and connected occupied cities with killing centres.
Profiles include Friedrich Uebelhoer, Werner Ventzki, Heinz Auerswald, Otto Bradfisch…Prisons, police summary courts and executions
How detention, interrogation, a façade of legal procedure and execution operated as connected mechanisms of German occupation terror.
Profiles include Rudolf Mildner, Maximilian Grabner, Walter Pelzhausen, Helmut Bischoff…Occupation rule, racial law and displacement
How ministries, regional authorities and municipal offices translated Nazi racial policy into law, housing, confiscation, forced displacement and everyday rule.
Profiles include Franz Schlegelberger, Friedrich Uebelhoer, Werner Ventzki, Walter Braemer…Property seizure and cultural plunder
How confiscation, inventories, forced labour and transport made the plunder of persecuted people and occupied institutions systematic.
Profiles include Franz Konrad, Gustav Abb, Werner Ventzki, Georg Wippern…Warsaw police terror, prisons and the 1944 uprising
How police and prison commands, hostage reprisals and forces deployed in 1944 linked occupation terror with executions, expulsion and Warsaw’s destruction.
Profiles include Josef Meisinger, Ludwig Hahn, Max Daume, Walter Stamm…Order Police battalions and mass shootings
How Order Police commands turned directives into cordons, roundups, deportations, mass shootings and reports, with distinct levels of responsibility.
Profiles include Wilhelm Trapp, Julius Wohlauf, Hartwig Gnade, Wolfgang Hoffmann…Camp command, killing systems and evacuation
How camp administration, commandants and specialised staff linked forced labour, killing facilities, corpse disposal and evacuation while retaining distinct roles.
Profiles include Rudolf Höss, Josef Kramer, Maximilian Grabner, Paul Werner Hoppe…Military occupation and criminal orders
How OKW staffs, military commands and occupation authorities turned criminal directives into detention, forced labour, reprisals and mass killing.
Profiles include Wilhelm Keitel, Alfred Jodl, Franz Böhme, Erich von Manstein…Regional security police, deportation and detention
How regional Security Police commands, Gestapo departments, deportation staffs, railway escorts and camp offices formed connected but distinct links of repression.
Profiles include Wilhelm Altenloh, Fritz Gustav Friedel, Waldemar Macholl, Paul Werner Hoppe…Ghetto repression, deportation and forced labour
How regional SS, police and resettlement offices connected ghetto terror, displacement, deportation and forced labour in occupied Poland.
Profiles include Ferdinand von Sammern-Frankenegg, Josef Blösche, Rolf-Heinz Höppner, Erich Engels…Medical killing, T4 and prisoner selection
How reports, medical assessments and travelling selections connected the killing of disabled children and patients to T4 and Aktion 14f13.
Profiles include Paul Nitsche, Friedrich Mennecke, Richard von HegenerState bureaucracy, Germanisation and judicial terror
How population offices, the Foreign Office and the People's Court used files, approvals and judgments to enable displacement, deportation and repression.
Profiles include Heinz Brückner, Hans-Joachim Rehse, Ernst WoermannEconomic and cultural plunder and forced labour
How confiscation units, art dealers, banks, corporate boards, SS enterprises and resettlement trusts converted occupation and persecution into plunder and forced labour.
Profiles include Alfred Rosenberg, Hermann Göring, Oswald Pohl, Walther Funk…Occupation rule and reprisals in Europe
How military authorities, regional police, mobile units, camp logistics and reporting organised deportation, reprisals and mass killing in occupied Europe.
Profiles include Klaus Barbie, Friedrich Christiansen, Alexander von Falkenhausen, Günther Pancke…