Berlin Document Center

The Berlin Document Center (BDC ) was established after the end of World War II in Berlin to centrally collect documents from the period of National Socialism, which were needed for preparation for the Nuremberg trials against war criminals. Until 1994, the BDC was under American administration and was then taken over by the German Federal Archives. Micro Filmed copies were made ​​for the National Archives and Records Administration, where access unimpeded by German privacy is possible. The BDC was at the end of the water beetles sidewalk southeast of the Krumme Lanke, mostly in underground buildings of a former listening station of the Reich Air Ministry with bunker facility.

The BDC was with a total of over 20 million records until the takeover by the Federal Archives of the largest archives persons in the Federal Republic of Germany.

  • Central member of the NSDAP index, 10.7 million index cards (90 percent)
  • 60 percent of the personnel files of the SS, 600,000 personal documents ( files and directory) SSO acts: the SS officer acts ( abbreviated SSO) to approximately 62,000 SS officers.
  • SSEM - files: ( " SS Enlisted Men" ), to approximately 380,000 SS- leaders and simple SS members.
  • And a collection of lists from different provenances to about 240,000 members of the SS.
  • Numerous including R.u.S. Staff questionnaires

It is possible to obtain under certain conditions and with proper identification, access to these documents.

Fund of the NSDAP central file

The 50 tons of maps of the NSDAP central file should be destroyed in April 1945 by the paper mill Wirth in Munich- Freimann. It never came, the index was reported to the U.S. city commander in Munich and brought in January 1946 in the Berlin Document Center.

War crime National Socialist Teachers League People's Court (Germany) Integrated Authority File
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