Police Headquarters Munich Polizeidirektion München

Copyright Holder: Generaldirektion der Staatliche Archive Bayerns Case files of miscellaneous police matters and criminal investigations. includes numerous cases concerning the persecution, expulsion and registration of Jews during the Nazi period as well as relevant post-war cases, such as de-Nazification proceedings, police investigations of reported Nazi crimes, and investigations of neo-Nazi activities. Relevant examples include: police matters concerning Jews seeking to emigrate during the 1930s, including the issuance, renewal and confiscation of passports (examples: electronic folder 002, reel 02MUA 2000000142, file 11474; file 11478, and file 11479); expulsion of stateless and foreign Jews during the 1930s (example: electronic folder 003, reel 02MUA 2000000144, file 11504); police registration of mandatory name changes of Jews by the added middle name "Israel" or "Sara" (example: electronic folder 002, reel 02MUA 2000000142, file 11477); post-war investigation into missing artifacts from Adolf Hitler's former residence at the Prinzregentenplatz, including interview protocols and investigations of former employees, 1949 (electronic folder 001, reel 02MUA 2000000142, file 10021); post-war de-Nazification investigations of individual persons; postwar investigations of Nazi crimes (example: electronic folder 125, reel 02MUA 2003000979, file 15573); post-war arrests of Jewish Holocaust survivors for various infringements such as illegal border crossing (example: electronic folder 112, reel 02MUA2002000848, file 15193); arrest of anti-Nazi protestors at a march of the NPD, 1973 (electronic folder 001, reel 02MUA2000000142, file 11437); police investigative files on prominent individuals spanning the Nazi period until the later postwar years (example: police file on Werner Friedmann, journalist and chief editor of the Süddeutsche Zeitung, spanning from the 1930s through the 1960s; electronic folder 123, reel 02MUA2003000977, file 15556).