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Records of the Foreign Service Posts of the Department of State (RG 84)

Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

On June 22, 1941, the German Army invaded the Soviet Union and immediately Jews, political leaders, Communists, and Gypsies were killed in mass executions. These murders were carried out by members of mobile killing squads (Einsatzgruppen), who followed in the wake of the invading soldiers. (Note 7)  At Babi Yar, near Kiev, some 33,000 persons, mostly Jews, were murdered. Estimated that over 1.2 Russian Jews, mostly from the Ukraine, were exterminated in the Final Solution.

By the time the Russians were able to force the German Army out of their territory, the Soviet Union had suffered tremendously, suffering 20-25 million people killed.  In addition 2.4 million Russians, including 500,000 Russian POWs, were sent to Germany as forced labor and much Russian wealth and property were seized by the Germans, ranging from industrial plants to cultural treasures.  About 30 percent of the national wealth was destroyed. (Note 8)

Records of the Moscow Embassy Confidential Records 1941-1955 (Entry 3313A)
Boxes 1-214

1944

Box #	File #	File Title or Subject
43	711.3	Swedish Trade with Germany
	711.3	Trading With Enemy-General
45	711.6	Katyn Forest Affair
	711.6	Investigation of Atrocities in Bulgaria
	711.6	Atrocities
49	820.03	War Criminals
	840.1	People [Jews]
51	851.5	Gold Looted by Axis
	851.6	Freezing of Yugoslav National Bank Funds

1945

Box #	File #	File Title or Subject
72	711.3	Trading With Enemy
	711.3	Proclaimed List
73	711.6	Trials of War Criminals-Finland
	711.6	Trials of War Criminals-Bulgaria
	711.6	Trials of War Criminals-Rumania
	711.6	Trials of War Criminals-Hungary
74	711.6	Trials of War Criminals-General
	711.6	War Crimes
	711.6	United Nations War Crimes Commission
	711.6	War Criminals
75	711.9	Germany-Reparations and Restitution
	711.9	Reparations-General
	711.9	Inter-Allied Commission on Reparations
	711.9	Reparations Commission (2 files)
84	840.1	Massacre of Jews
87	851	Safehaven Project
88	851.6	Banks and Banking

1946

Box #	File #	File Title or Subject
108	711.3	Proclaimed List
	711.6	War Criminals
	711.6	Trial of Swedish War Criminals
	711.6	Trial of War Criminals-German
	711.9	Inter-Allied Reparation Agency
120	851	Safehaven

Top Secret Records 1941-1948 (Entry 3314)
Boxes 1-3

Top Secret Records From the Office of the Ambassador 1943-1948 (Entry 3315)
Boxes 1-4

Telegrams Maintained by Ambassador W. Averell Harriman 1944-1945 (Entry 3316)
Boxes 1-8