Official documentation of the German occupation authorities in Latvia, from the Westermann Collection in Riga

Official documentation of the German occupation authorities in Latvia, from the Westermann Collection in Riga
 
 The Westermann Collection includes official documentation of the municipal administration of the Rigas Prefekturas (Riga Prefecture) Police; official documentation of Einsatzgruppe A active in Latvia in 1941; orders and instructions by the Sicherheitspolizei to the SD and SS in Latvia; instructions of the Generalkommissar and Giebitskommissar of Riga; Latvian antisemitic newspapers, from 1939-1940 and from the German occupation period; lists of Jews who were deported from Hamburg, Dessau and Hannover to the Riga Ghetto, 1941-1942; statistical reports regarding Jews from France who were deported to Drancy camp;
 
 Outstanding documents in the Westermann Collection:
 
 - German registration form published in Riga, regarding Jewish property designated for confiscation;
 
 - Kriegstagebuch (War Diary) regarding the ban on the Latvian Security Policemen against opposition to participation in the murder of the Rezekne Jews, 08/1941;
 
 - Documentation of officer Richard Frank, who received a medal of excellence for implementation of an "Aktion" against Jews in 1941;
 
 - Correspondence between H. Goering and R. Heydrich, regarding the Final Solution;
 
 - Correspondence between the Security Police and Einsatzgruppe A offices regarding the Jews (Jewish physicians, patients and property) in Riga and Latvia;
 
 - Order given by the Gebietskomissar of Riga to specific Police stations in various places in Latvia;
 
 - Comments by the Einsatzgruppe A headquarters in Riga to Einsatzkommando 1A, 1B, 2 and 3, regarding the temporary directives given by the Reichskommissar of Ostland concerning the Jews residing in the Reichskommissariat Ostland areas;
 
 - Order given by Himmler, regarding giving a rest period to SS men who participated in the murder of the Jews of Latvia, 12/1941;
 
 - Antisemitic excerpts from the "Tevija" newspaper, 1939-1941.