Warsaw: administration, deportation and plunder

The Warsaw profiles connect several institutional layers without treating them as interchangeable. Heinz Auerswald’s office regulated everyday life and isolation in the ghetto. Hermann Worthoff and Georg Michalsen represent personnel who moved into deportation operations, while Franz Konrad’s apparatus registered and removed property during the destruction of the ghetto.

Gustav Abb’s library administration adds a different form of occupation violence: the systematic seizure, selection and movement of Polish and Jewish collections. Read together, these profiles show how persecution continued through files, transport coordination, forced labour, warehouses and the absorption or destruction of cultural property.

Scope limitation: this cluster does not include every district authority, railway office, police unit or killing site connected with occupied Warsaw. It explains only the intersections documented by the five profiles below and is not a complete history of the city under occupation.