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 mobile killing units and regional Gestapo, Security Police and SD offices connected central policy with 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 BischoffOccupation administration, 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, inventory, forced labour, expert selection and transport turned theft from persecuted people and occupied institutions into an administrative system.
Profiles include Franz Konrad, Gustav Abb, Werner Ventzki