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D25910 DE ITS 5.3.1 Ermittlungen zu Routenverläufen von Todesmärschen und zu Grablegungen Investigations of the Routes of Death Marches and of Burials Enquêtes sur les routes des marches de la mort et les ensevelissements Deutsch, Englisch / Latein German, English / Latin 11421 digital documents

The archival collection “Investigations of the Routes of Death Marches and of Burials” is a compilation of documents and working materials from the ITS program “Attempted Identification.” It contains municipal reports requested by the Western Allies about graves of unknown dead, mayors’ reports concerning the whereabouts of non-German citizens and German victims of National Socialist persecution, hospital documents, survivors’ testimonies, eyewitness reports, site plans for cemeteries and graves outside of cemeteries, inquiries, death certificates, autopsy reports and police documents as well as evaluations of these documents, reports and data collections of the ITS itself.

The documents have arranged alphabetically by the name of the municipality.

The partial collection “5.3.1 Investigations of the Routes of Death Marches and of Burials” is part of the holdings “5.3 Death Marches / Identification of Unknown Dead” that dates from 1950-51, although it contains many documents from the second half of the 1940s.