Digitisation and historical research of the RSHA trials

• Applicants: Professor Dr. Uwe Schaper; Professor Dr. Michael Wildt
• Subject Area: Modern and Contemporary History
• Term: from 2020 to 2024
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 423322868

• Final Report Year: 2025

Final Report Abstract

With the completion of this project, it has been possible to fully digitise the files of the Public Prosecutor General at the Kammergericht - Working Group RSHA regarding the criminal proceedings against employees of the Reichsicherheitshauptamt for the planning and murder of European Jews, which are held at the State Archives of Berlin under signature B Rep. 057-01, and to make the digitized materials permanently available through the Archivportal D. The project is an important building block for the research into and extermination of the Jews during the Nazi era and simultaneously provides significant documents on the handling of Nazi crimes by the German federal prosecution authorities.