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Title: Jeffrey Mausner Papers of postwar collaboration trials, 1960-1980

ID: RG-80/RG-80

Primary Creator: Jeffrey Mausner (1960's--1980's)

Extent: 1.0 Boxes

Arrangement:

The arrangement scheme for the record group was imposed during processing in the absence of an original order. Materials are arranged by subject and/or creator. Their order is based off of the Nazi war criminals as well as other various legal documents.

The record group is comprised of eighteen collections: 1. Otto Ambros; 2. Apprehending and Prosecuting Nazi War Criminals; 3. Basil Artishenko; 4. Paul Herman Bluemel; 5. Boleslavs Bogdanovs; 6. Ildefansas Bucmys; 7. General Leon Degrelle; 8. Anatoly Hrusitzky; 9. Konrad Kalejs; 10. Serhij Kowalczuk; 11. Georg Leibbrandt; 12. Karl Linnas; 13. Boleslavs Maikovskis; 14. Mausner Awards; 15. McCalden V. SWC; 16. Mermelstein; 17. Jeffrey Mausner, Speeches; 18. Otto Albrecht Von Bolschwing.

Subjects: Adolf Hitler, dictator and German Chancellor and President, air travel, American citizenship, American Jewish Committee, American newspaper, Anatoly Hrusitzky, Antisemitism, Antisemitism in the United States, Audrini (Latvia), Auschwitz (Concentration camp), Auschwitz (Concentration camp)--Complex of concentration and extermination camps, Auschwitz-Birkenau, concentration camp complex (Poland), Auxiliary police forces, non-German, Second World War, Basil Artishenko, Belgian Wallonia Legion, Berlin (Germany), Board of Immigration Appeals, United States, Boleslavs Bogdanovs, Boleslavs Maikovskis, Bonn (Germany), Breslau (Poland), Bucharest (Romania), California Library Association (CLA), Caracas (Venezuela), Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Collaboration with Nazi Germany in the Second World War, Concentration Camp Guards, Concentration camps, German, Confiscation of Jewish property--Germany, Confiscation of Jewish property without German authorization, Confiscation of personal belongings and property, Correspondence in English language, Counterintelligence Corps (CIC), David McCalden (Truth Missions), death of family members, Department Office of Special Investigations (OSI), Deportation from the United States, Displaced Persons Act, Displaced Persons Act of 1948 (United States), Displaced persons camps, Documents in English language, Documents in German language, Documents in Persian language, Eichmann, Adolf, Eiklor Report, Einsatzgruppen (Nazi police intelligence units "action-groups"), Einsatzkommando, Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany, English, language, Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Estonia, evidences of the crimes of National Socialist regime, Execution of Jews, Executions, firing squad, Exemptions from deportations, Extermination of Jews, Fifteenth SS Grenadier Battalion, Final Solution, Final Solution to the Jewish Question in Europe, 1942 -- 1945, Forced labor, Forced labor camps, Forced labor in ghettos, Gehlen Organization, General Leon Degrelle, Georg Leibbrandt, German, language, German Invasion of Czechoslovakia, March 1939, German invasion of Europe, 1939 -- 1940, German invasion of the USSR, 22 June 1941, German military and civil administration, German occupation of Poland, German occupation regime in Latvia, 1941 -- 1945, German Police and Security forces, 1939 --1945, German police and security forces, Poland, Germany (Europe), Germany invasion of Poland, September 1, 1939, Gestapo (Nazi German Secret political police), Greek Civil War, Hauptsturmführer (German Army Captain), Heinrich Himmler, leading member of Nazi Party 1929-1945, Hermann Goering, Himmler, Heinrich, Hirschberg (Germany), History, Jewish, Holocaust, history, Holocaust Denial, narratives, Holocaust denial-based publication, American, Ildefonsas Bucmys, Illegal Immigration, Immigrant Visa, Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (United States of America), Immigration and Naturalization Service, United States of America, Immigration from Nazi Germany, Immigration to the United States, postwar, Immigration to United States, Institute for Historical Review, International Refugee Organization (IRO), Israel, Jeffrey N. Mausner, Jewish forced labor in Poland, Jewish history, Jewish personal belongings, Jewish pogroms in Poland, 1918 --1923, Jewish refugees, Jews of Europe, history, John Avdzej, Karl Linnas, Konrad Kalejs, Latvia, Latvian Legion, Latvian Security Auxiliary Police, Lawyers and notary publics, legal correspondence, Legal defense, Legal deposition, Legal document, Legal practices, Legal subpoena, Liquidation of ghettos, Lithuania, Lithuanian Military Battalion (Schutzmannschaft), Los Angeles (California, United States), Lyuboml (Poland), Madrid (Spain), magazine, Marvin Hier, Mass executions, mass graves, Mass murders, Serbians, Mel Mermelstein, Military and Civil decorations, medals and insignias, Military Uniforms (Nazi-German), Munich (Germany), National Socialist German Workers' Party, National Socialist Ideology, Naturalization documents, Naturalization in the United States, Nazi-German decorations, medals and awards, Nazi-perpetrated massacres, Nazi-perpetuated mass shootings, Nazi concentration camps in the Baltic, Nazi crimes against humanity, peace, and war crimes, Nazi gas chambers, Nazi Germany, Central Government, Nazi Government Officials, Nazi party, Nazi Party, membership, Nazi persecution of Jews, Nazi persecution of Jews as presented in US media, Nazi Police Officials, Nazi War Criminals, New Jersey (USA: State), Newspaper Article, newspaper clippings, NSDAP and Nazi Germany, party and government officials, Nuremberg (Germany), official correspondence, Official Document, Otto Albrecht von Bolschwing, Otto Alfred von Bolschwing, Paul Herman Bluemel, periodicals, American, Persian, language, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States), Poland (Europe), Polish ghettos, Polish refugees, Political prisoners of Nazi German prisons, postwar correspondence, Postwar Jewish immigration from Germany, postwar publication, Prisoners of War, Refugees in United States, Registration of alien residents, Reichkommissariat Ukraine, Reichskommissariat Niederlande, Reichskommissariat Ostland, Nazi-German occupied Baltic states, Reinhard Heydrich, Rezekne (Latvia), Riga (Latvia), Riga (Latvia: ghetto), Riga-Strasdenhof (Labor camp), Romania (Europe), Salaspils (Latvia: Concentration Camp), Schutzstaffel (SS), SD, Sicherheitsdienst, Security and police forces, Latvia, Serbian Jewish Friendship Society, Serbian prisoners, Serge Kowalchuk (Serhij Kowalczuk), Siberia (Russia), Slutsk (Belarus), Soviet invasion of Poland, 17 September 1939, Soviet Red Army, armed forces, Soviet, Soviet Union, SS and administrative personnel, German, Stirnience (Latvia), Sturmbannführer, Stuttgart (Germany), Supreme Court of the United States, survivors of concentration camps, Survivor testimonies given at war crimes trials, Synagogues, Synagogues, religious temples, Szczurkowo (Poland), Tartu concentration camp (Estonia), The Holocaust in Estonia, The Holocaust in Romania, 1941 -- 1945, The Iron Guard, The Simon Wiesenthal Center, Travel visas, Treblinka (Poland: extermination camp), U.S. Naturalization, Ukraine (Europe), Ukrainian Auxiliary Police, Ukrainian military formations in the Second World War, 1939 -- 1945, Ukrainian military personnel, Ukrainian National Police Force, Undercover Agent, Undercover Spy, United States (1960--2000), United States court proceedings, United States District Court, United States High Military Command, US badges, awards, and memorabilia, US Department of Justice, US Department of State, US naturalization documents, 1900 -- 1960, US Passports, Victims of Nazi persecutions, 1933 -- 1945, Vienna (Austria), Waffen SS, Wannsee Conference, war crimes trials, War crimes trials--Post-WWII, Washington D.C. (United States), Westin Hotel (Los Angeles, California), Willis Carto, Wilno (Poland)

Forms of Material: Personal testimonies

Languages: English, German

Abstract

The documents reflect an attempt to denaturalize, deport, and/or extradite Nazi war criminals in the United States to European countries or the Soviet Union, to be prosecuted for crimes against humanity. The collection of documents is comprised of legal briefs and other documents used in court proceedings, depositions, witness statements, original Nazi documents used as evidence in court, court rulings and orders, newspaper articles, and other documents relating to prosecution of Nazi war criminals in the United States.

Scope and Contents of the Materials

The record group is comprised of postwar legal documents and newspaper articles from the United States depicting the attempts to denaturalize, deport, and/or extradite Nazi war criminals from the United States to European countries or the Soviet Union, to be prosecuted for crimes against humanity. The legal documents present the legal proceedings of the prosecution as they argued to have the war criminals denaturalized, deported, or extradited. Some of the legal documents provide a brief history of the crimes committed by the defendants, and how these war criminals came to the United States and evaded prosecution for many years. Multiple court appearances were made concerning each accused Nazi war criminal. The alleged Nazi war criminals include Otto Ambros, Basil Artishenko, Paul Herman Bluemel, Boleslavs Bogdanovs, Ildefansas Bucmys, General Leon Degrelle, Anatoly Hrusitzky, Konrad Kalejs, Serge Kowlachuk (Serhij Kowalczuk), Georg Leibbrandt, Karl Linnas, Boleslavs Maikovskis, and Otto Albrecht Alfred von Bolschwing. The newspaper articles included follow the progress of these various legal proceedings of each accused Nazi war criminal.

Materials within the record group include briefs and other legal documents used in court proceedings, depositions, witness statements, original Nazi documents used as evidence in court, court rulings and orders, newspaper articles, and other documents relating to prosecution of Nazi war criminals in the United States. Materials are digitized.

Collection Historical Note

When World War II ended, there were millions of refugees in Europe. Many of them had been victims of the Nazis, survivors of Nazi concentration camps, or persons who had been forced to leave their homes. Among this large mass of people were also some of the Nazi officials who had assisted in mass murder and persecution.

In order to help the millions of true refugees, the United States enacted special immigration laws in 1948 and 1953 which allowed large numbers of refugees to come to the United States without regard to traditional immigration quota restrictions. These special immigration laws specifically excluded any person who had assisted the Nazis in persecuting civilians. However, Nazi criminals were able to enter the United States under these special immigration laws by lying about their activities during the period from 1933 to 1945.

Among the Nazi war criminals who entered the United States by misrepresentation or concealing their wartime activities were concentration camp guards, Nazi police officials, and Nazi government officials.

Jeffrey Mausner worked as a Trial Attorney for the United States Justice Department.

Biographical Note

Jeffrey Mausner worked for the United States Justice Department.

Subject/Index Terms

Adolf Hitler, dictator and German Chancellor and President
air travel
American citizenship
American Jewish Committee
American newspaper
Anatoly Hrusitzky
Antisemitism
Antisemitism in the United States
Audrini (Latvia)
Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
Auschwitz (Concentration camp)--Complex of concentration and extermination camps
Auschwitz-Birkenau, concentration camp complex (Poland)
Auxiliary police forces, non-German, Second World War
Basil Artishenko
Belgian Wallonia Legion
Berlin (Germany)
Board of Immigration Appeals, United States
Boleslavs Bogdanovs
Boleslavs Maikovskis
Bonn (Germany)
Breslau (Poland)
Bucharest (Romania)
California Library Association (CLA)
Caracas (Venezuela)
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
Collaboration with Nazi Germany in the Second World War
Concentration Camp Guards
Concentration camps, German
Confiscation of Jewish property--Germany
Confiscation of Jewish property without German authorization
Confiscation of personal belongings and property
Correspondence in English language
Counterintelligence Corps (CIC)
David McCalden (Truth Missions)
death of family members
Department Office of Special Investigations (OSI)
Deportation from the United States
Displaced Persons Act
Displaced Persons Act of 1948 (United States)
Displaced persons camps
Documents in English language
Documents in German language
Documents in Persian language
Eichmann, Adolf
Eiklor Report
Einsatzgruppen (Nazi police intelligence units "action-groups")
Einsatzkommando
Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany
English, language
Ernst Kaltenbrunner
Estonia
evidences of the crimes of National Socialist regime
Execution of Jews
Executions, firing squad
Exemptions from deportations
Extermination of Jews
Fifteenth SS Grenadier Battalion
Final Solution
Final Solution to the Jewish Question in Europe, 1942 -- 1945
Forced labor
Forced labor camps
Forced labor in ghettos
Gehlen Organization
General Leon Degrelle
Georg Leibbrandt
German, language
German Invasion of Czechoslovakia, March 1939
German invasion of Europe, 1939 -- 1940
German invasion of the USSR, 22 June 1941
German military and civil administration
German occupation of Poland
German occupation regime in Latvia, 1941 -- 1945
German Police and Security forces, 1939 --1945
German police and security forces, Poland
Germany (Europe)
Germany invasion of Poland, September 1, 1939
Gestapo (Nazi German Secret political police)
Greek Civil War
Hauptsturmführer (German Army Captain)
Heinrich Himmler, leading member of Nazi Party 1929-1945
Hermann Goering
Himmler, Heinrich
Hirschberg (Germany)
History, Jewish
Holocaust, history
Holocaust Denial, narratives
Holocaust denial-based publication, American
Ildefonsas Bucmys
Illegal Immigration
Immigrant Visa
Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (United States of America)
Immigration and Naturalization Service, United States of America
Immigration from Nazi Germany
Immigration to the United States, postwar
Immigration to United States
Institute for Historical Review
International Refugee Organization (IRO)
Israel
Jeffrey N. Mausner
Jewish forced labor in Poland
Jewish history
Jewish personal belongings
Jewish pogroms in Poland, 1918 --1923
Jewish refugees
Jews of Europe, history
John Avdzej
Karl Linnas
Konrad Kalejs
Latvia
Latvian Legion
Latvian Security Auxiliary Police
Lawyers and notary publics
legal correspondence
Legal defense
Legal deposition
Legal document
Legal practices
Legal subpoena
Liquidation of ghettos
Lithuania
Lithuanian Military Battalion (Schutzmannschaft)
Los Angeles (California, United States)
Lyuboml (Poland)
Madrid (Spain)
magazine
Marvin Hier
Mass executions
mass graves
Mass murders, Serbians
Mel Mermelstein
Military and Civil decorations, medals and insignias
Military Uniforms (Nazi-German)
Munich (Germany)
National Socialist German Workers' Party
National Socialist Ideology
Naturalization documents
Naturalization in the United States
Nazi-German decorations, medals and awards
Nazi-perpetrated massacres
Nazi-perpetuated mass shootings
Nazi concentration camps in the Baltic
Nazi crimes against humanity, peace, and war crimes
Nazi gas chambers
Nazi Germany, Central Government
Nazi Government Officials
Nazi party
Nazi Party, membership
Nazi persecution of Jews
Nazi persecution of Jews as presented in US media
Nazi Police Officials
Nazi War Criminals
New Jersey (USA: State)
Newspaper Article
newspaper clippings
NSDAP and Nazi Germany, party and government officials
Nuremberg (Germany)
official correspondence
Official Document
Otto Albrecht von Bolschwing
Otto Alfred von Bolschwing
Paul Herman Bluemel
periodicals, American
Persian, language
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)
Poland (Europe)
Polish ghettos
Polish refugees
Political prisoners of Nazi German prisons
postwar correspondence
Postwar Jewish immigration from Germany
postwar publication
Prisoners of War
Refugees in United States
Registration of alien residents
Reichkommissariat Ukraine
Reichskommissariat Niederlande
Reichskommissariat Ostland, Nazi-German occupied Baltic states
Reinhard Heydrich
Rezekne (Latvia)
Riga (Latvia)
Riga (Latvia: ghetto)
Riga-Strasdenhof (Labor camp)
Romania (Europe)
Salaspils (Latvia: Concentration Camp)
Schutzstaffel (SS)
SD, Sicherheitsdienst
Security and police forces, Latvia
Serbian Jewish Friendship Society
Serbian prisoners
Serge Kowalchuk (Serhij Kowalczuk)
Siberia (Russia)
Slutsk (Belarus)
Soviet invasion of Poland, 17 September 1939
Soviet Red Army, armed forces, Soviet
Soviet Union
SS and administrative personnel, German
Stirnience (Latvia)
Sturmbannführer
Stuttgart (Germany)
Supreme Court of the United States
survivors of concentration camps
Survivor testimonies given at war crimes trials
Synagogues
Synagogues, religious temples
Szczurkowo (Poland)
Tartu concentration camp (Estonia)
The Holocaust in Estonia
The Holocaust in Romania, 1941 -- 1945
The Iron Guard
The Simon Wiesenthal Center
Travel visas
Treblinka (Poland: extermination camp)
U.S. Naturalization
Ukraine (Europe)
Ukrainian Auxiliary Police
Ukrainian military formations in the Second World War, 1939 -- 1945
Ukrainian military personnel
Ukrainian National Police Force
Undercover Agent
Undercover Spy
United States (1960--2000)
United States court proceedings
United States District Court
United States High Military Command
US badges, awards, and memorabilia
US Department of Justice
US Department of State
US naturalization documents, 1900 -- 1960
US Passports
Victims of Nazi persecutions, 1933 -- 1945
Vienna (Austria)
Waffen SS
Wannsee Conference
war crimes trials
War crimes trials--Post-WWII
Washington D.C. (United States)
Westin Hotel (Los Angeles, California)
Willis Carto
Wilno (Poland)

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Box and Folder Listing

Collection of Folder-Level 4: RG-80.04, Paul Herman Bluemel

Documents relating to alleged Nazi war criminal Paul Herman Bluemel. Bluemel admitted under questioning that he held high ranking positions in the Nazi Party, SS, and Nazi occupation goverment in the Ukraine, and that he had participated in Nazi persecution of civilians. Bluemel joined the Nazi praty in 1930, joined the SS in 1930 or 1931, became a regiment leader in the SD in 1932, became a Sturmfuehrer in the SA in 1934, served as the Senior Mayor for the city of Hirschberg from 1934 to 1938, was Gebietskommissar for Tschudnow from July 1941 to sometime in 1943, and then became the Gebietskommissar in Retschitza from 1943 until 1944. Bluemel's United States visa was cancelled, he left the United States, and withdrew his petition to become a permanent United States resident. Bluemel agreed never to apply for another visa or attempt to enter the United States again.

Subject/Index Terms:: Breslau (Poland); Department Office of Special Investigations (OSI); Documents in English language; English, language; German Police and Security forces, 1939 --1945; Gestapo (Nazi German Secret political police); Illegal Immigration; Immigration to the United States, postwar; Immigration to United States; Jewish pogroms in Poland, 1918 --1923; Legal deposition; Legal document; Legal subpoena; Munich (Germany); National Socialist German Workers' Party; National Socialist Ideology; Nazi party; Nazi Party, membership; Nazi War Criminals; NSDAP and Nazi Germany, party and government officials; Paul Herman Bluemel; Personal testimonies; SS and administrative personnel, German; Synagogues; Synagogues, religious temples; Ukraine (Europe); US Department of Justice; Vienna (Austria); Forced labor; German invasion of Europe, 1939 -- 1940; Adolf Hitler, dictator and German Chancellor and President; Mass executions; Nazi Police Officials; Siberia (Russia); Ukrainian military formations in the Second World War, 1939 -- 1945; Ukrainian military personnel; Hirschberg (Germany); Travel visas; American newspaper; Auschwitz (Concentration camp); Auschwitz (Concentration camp)--Complex of concentration and extermination camps; German invasion of the USSR, 22 June 1941; Lithuania; Lithuanian Military Battalion (Schutzmannschaft); Nazi persecution of Jews; Newspaper Article; newspaper clippings; postwar publication; Slutsk (Belarus); Soviet Red Army, armed forces, Soviet; Soviet Union; United States High Military Command; war crimes trials; War crimes trials--Post-WWII; Correspondence in English language; Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany; Nazi-perpetuated mass shootings; official correspondence; postwar correspondence; US Department of State; Washington D.C. (United States)

Creators:: Jeffrey Mausner (1960's--1980's); United States of America Department of Justice (postwar); US Department of Justice; The Office of Special Investigations (OSI); Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 1: RG-80.04.01, Bluemel Deposition Part 1, Mausner, March 19, 1985

A transcript of the first part of the deposition of Paul Herman Bluemel, as conducted by Jeffrey N. Mausner, trial attorney for the Office of Special Investigations. The file also contains the original subpoena for Paul Herman Bluemel to give a deposition to Jeffrey N. Mausner.

Subject/Index Terms:: US Department of Justice; Legal document; Legal deposition; Legal subpoena; Department Office of Special Investigations (OSI); Personal testimonies; Illegal Immigration; Immigration to United States; Immigration to the United States, postwar; Nazi War Criminals; Paul Herman Bluemel; Breslau (Poland); Munich (Germany); Nazi party; Nazi Party, membership; NSDAP and Nazi Germany, party and government officials; SS and administrative personnel, German; National Socialist German Workers' Party; National Socialist Ideology; Gestapo (Nazi German Secret political police); Synagogues; Synagogues, religious temples; Jewish pogroms in Poland, 1918 --1923; Vienna (Austria); Ukraine (Europe); German Police and Security forces, 1939 --1945; English, language; Documents in English language

Creators:: United States of America Department of Justice (postwar); US Department of Justice; Jeffrey Mausner (1960's--1980's)

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 2: RG-80.04.02, Bluemel Deposition Part 2, Mausner, March 28, 1985

The second half of the legal deposition given by Paul Herman Bluemel as interviewed by Jeffrey N. Mausner, attorney for the Department Office of Special Investigations (OSI).

Subject/Index Terms:: German invasion of Europe, 1939 -- 1940; Munich (Germany); SS and administrative personnel, German; Ukrainian military formations in the Second World War, 1939 -- 1945; Ukrainian military personnel; Mass executions; Nazi Police Officials; German Police and Security forces, 1939 --1945; Forced labor; Siberia (Russia); Vienna (Austria); Adolf Hitler, dictator and German Chancellor and President; Legal document; Legal deposition; Department Office of Special Investigations (OSI); Personal testimonies; Illegal Immigration; Immigration to United States; Immigration to the United States, postwar; Nazi War Criminals; Paul Herman Bluemel; Gestapo (Nazi German Secret political police); English, language; Documents in English language

Creators:: United States of America Department of Justice (postwar); US Department of Justice; Jeffrey Mausner (1960's--1980's)

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 3: RG-80.04.03, Agreement to Leave U.S. and Visa Revocation, Mausner, March 28, 1985

A legal agreement between Paul Herman Bluemel and the United States Justice Department. In the statement, Bluemel states that he illegally entered the United States after misrepresenting his actions during the period between 1929--1945. In the agreement, Bluemel concedes to leave the United States and to not reapply for an entry visa. The agreement also contains a copy of Bluemel's visa revocation.

Subject/Index Terms:: Paul Herman Bluemel; US Department of Justice; Breslau (Poland); Department Office of Special Investigations (OSI); Nazi party; Nazi Party, membership; NSDAP and Nazi Germany, party and government officials; SS and administrative personnel, German; Hirschberg (Germany); Immigration to United States; Immigration to the United States, postwar; Travel visas; Nazi War Criminals; Nazi Police Officials; German Police and Security forces, 1939 --1945; Gestapo (Nazi German Secret political police); English, language; Documents in English language

Creators:: United States of America Department of Justice (postwar); US Department of Justice; Jeffrey Mausner (1960's--1980's)

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 4: RG-80.04.04, Press Release and News Articles, circa 1985

A press release issued by the Office of Special Investigations concerning the deportation of Paul Herman Bluemel after he admitted that he held high ranking positions in the Nazi Party, SS, and Nazi occupation government in the Ukraine, and that he had participated in Nazi persecution of civilians.

Subject/Index Terms:: Paul Herman Bluemel; Department Office of Special Investigations (OSI); Nazi party; Nazi Party, membership; NSDAP and Nazi Germany, party and government officials; Lithuania; Lithuanian Military Battalion (Schutzmannschaft); Nazi persecution of Jews; Illegal Immigration; Immigration to United States; Immigration to the United States, postwar; Nazi Police Officials; Gestapo (Nazi German Secret political police); United States High Military Command; war crimes trials; War crimes trials--Post-WWII; Nazi War Criminals; Mass executions; Slutsk (Belarus); Soviet Union; Soviet Red Army, armed forces, Soviet; Breslau (Poland); Hirschberg (Germany); German invasion of the USSR, 22 June 1941; Ukraine (Europe); Munich (Germany); Auschwitz (Concentration camp); Auschwitz (Concentration camp)--Complex of concentration and extermination camps; American newspaper; postwar publication; Newspaper Article; newspaper clippings; Legal document; English, language; Documents in English language

Creators:: The Office of Special Investigations (OSI); United States of America Department of Justice (postwar); US Department of Justice; Jeffrey Mausner (1960's--1980's)

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 5: RG-80.04.05, German Request for Assistance, circa August 1985

The file contains two letters. The first is from the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in Washington DC, requesting a copy of the interrogation in which Paul Herman Bluemel admitted to Jeffrey Mausner that he was involved in the execution of Jewish citizens. The second letter responding to the initial request and was sent attached with a copy of the interrogation transcript.

Subject/Index Terms:: Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany; US Department of State; Munich (Germany); Nazi War Criminals; Paul Herman Bluemel; US Department of Justice; Nazi persecution of Jews; Mass executions; Nazi-perpetuated mass shootings; Washington D.C. (United States); Department Office of Special Investigations (OSI); war crimes trials; War crimes trials--Post-WWII; Legal document; postwar correspondence; official correspondence; English, language; Documents in English language; Correspondence in English language

Creators:: Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany; US Department of Justice; United States of America Department of Justice (postwar); Jeffrey Mausner (1960's--1980's)