Records Relating to Concentration Camps
The National Archives at College Park, Maryland holds records pertaining to several World War II Nazi concentration camps: Buchenwald, Dachau, Flossenberg, Nordhausen, and Mauthausen. These records include textual, still picture, motion picture, and cartographic records. Among these are original camp records; records produced by U.S. Government agencies, both military and civilian; and captured German records, including evidence files assembled for war crimes proceedings. These records of both U.S. civil and military agencies include documentation developed through wartime intelligence and reconnaissance, captured during the camps’ liberation, and generated through postwar military investigations and tribunals.
Records at Presidential Libraries
- Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum
- Search for Related Photographs in the Truman Library Archives
- Search for Related Photographs in the Truman Library Archives
- Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum
- John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum
Digitized Records:
Buchenwald and Nordhausen Concentration Camps and Subcamps:
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Series Information Cards for Inmates of the Langenstein-Zwieberge Concentration Camp, ca. 1947 - ca. 1947 (Record Group 549: Records of United States Army, Europe; NAID 581059; Microfilm Publication M2121). This series consists of an index to inmates of the Langenstein-Zwieberge concentration camp. Each index file includes the inmate's name, date of birth, nationality, and prisoner number. Files of deceased inmates are marked with a cross. The index, originally created by the German authorities in charge of the camp, is in German.
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Series Index of Inmates to Whom Supplies Were Issued at Langenstein-Zwieberge Concentration Camp, ca. 1947 - ca. 1947 (Record Group 549; NAID 581060; Microfilm Publication M2121). This series consists of an index to inmates of the Langenstein-Zwieberge concentration camp. Each index file includes the inmate's name, prisoner number, and type and quantity of supplies issued to him or her. The series, originally created by the German authorities in charge of the camp, is in German.
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The following records located in the series titled War Crimes Trials Case Files (“Cases Tried”), 1947 - 1958 (Record Group 549; NAID 581096) have been digitized:
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Series titled Lists and Registers of German Concentration Camp Inmates (Record Group 242: National Archives Collection of Foreign Records Seized; NAID 596972; Microfilm Publication A3355) contains digitized inmate cards for prisoners at Buchenwald.
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The following records located in the series titled Motion Picture Films from the “Special Film Project” Program Series, ca. 1945 (Record Group 18: Records of the Army Forces; Local Identifier 18-SFP; NAID 5768) have been digitized:
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Footage of Buchenwald Concentration Camp, Germany (Local Identifier 18-SFP-9115)
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Footage of Buchenwald Concentration Camp, Germany(Local Identifier 18-SFP-9119)
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Footage of Free Prisoners; Human Remains; Buchenwald Concentration Camp, Germany (Local Identifier 18-SFP-9114)
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Footage of Buchenwald Concentration Camp; Wrecked German Aircraft; Tank Crewmen; German Civilians; Germany (Local Identifier 18-SFP-9122)
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Footage of Buchenwald Concentration Camp; American Army Officials; German Civilians; Aircraft in Flight and Taxiing; Germany (Local Identifier 18-SFP-9116)
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Footage of GSAP [Gun Sight Aiming Point] Strafing; Russian/American Dinner Party; Russian Soldiers and Officers; Major General Reinhardt; Buchenwald Concentration Camp; Germany. (Local Identifier 18-SFP-9148)
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Footage of A-26 and B-26 Aircraft in Flight; Pilots; Bombardiers in Aircraft; Crews Loading Bombs on Aircraft; Buchenwald Concentration Camp, Germany (Local Identifier 18-SFP-9113)
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Footage of Buchenwald Concentration Camp; GSAP [Gun Sight Aiming Point] Strafing; Germany (Local Identifier 18-SFP-9126)
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Footage of P-47 Aircraft in Flight; Dachau Concentration Camp; Hitler’s House and Bomb Damage in Munich; German POW Camp; Rhine River; Germany (Local Identifier 18-SFP-9188)
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