Register of the Heinrich Himmler papers
Finding aid prepared by Hoover Institution Library and Archives Staff
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Title: Heinrich Himmler papers
Date (inclusive): 1914-1945
Collection Number: XX060
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material:
German
Physical Description:
16 manuscript boxes, 5 microfilm reels, 2 photo albums, 27 sound tape reels
(8.3 Linear Feet)
Abstract: Diaries (1914-1924); photographs; photocopies and microfilm of correspondence, reports, and memoranda from the office files
of the personal staff of Heinrich Himmler (1942-1944); and recordings of speeches by Himmler (1940-1944) relating to national
socialism in Germany, and activities of the German police and Schutzstaffel during World War II. In part, photocopy and microfilm.
Digital copies of select records also available at
https://digitalcollections.hoover.org.
Creator:
Himmler, Heinrich, 1900-1945
Creator:
Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei. Reichsführer-SS.. Persönlicher Stab. Schriftgutverwaltung.
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives
Access
Box 16 and Photo albums may not be used without permission of the Archivist; there is digitized content from this collection
available. The remainder of the collection is open for research. Materials must be requested in advance via our reservation
system. If there are audiovisual or digital media material in the collection, they must be reformatted before providing access.
Use
One folder in Box 15 may not be quoted. For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Acquisition Information
Materials acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Heinrich Himmler papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Alternate Forms Available
Location of Originals
Originals in the German Bundesarchiv.
Biographical Note
Reichsführer SS und Chef der deutschen Polizei, 1934-1945.
Scope and Content
The Heinrich Himmler papers are largely comprised of a set of photostat documents of the Persönlicher Stab der Reichsführer-SS.
The originals of these papers were located in a salt mine in the Salzburg region and seized in 1945 by American forces. In
1946 they were filmed at the Berlin Document Center. These office files include internal office memoranda, correspondence,
case files, reports, telegrams, cables, copies of periodicals, remarks, statements, decrees, clippings, drawings, and press
releases relating to a variety of topics. The collection also includes speeches and writings, correspondence, diaries, photo
albums, and sound recordings.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Audiotapes
World War, 1939-1945 -- Germany
National socialism
Police -- Germany
Statesmen -- Germany
Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei
Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei. Schutzstaffel
Persönlicher Stab der Reichsführer-SS Office Files
1936-1945
box 1, folder 1
Office of Military Government for Germany
Scope and Contents note
Order forms for microfilming and photostatting.
File 51. Internal office records of the Personal Staff of the Reichsführer of the SS
1936-1944
Scope and Contents note
Contains miscellaneous personnel and non-personnel case files.
box 1, folder 3
Case #8
Scope and Contents note
Case file on W. G. L. Yeats
File 52. Internal office records of the Personal Staff of the Reichsführer of the SS
1938-1944
Scope and Contents note
Contains miscellaneous personnel and non-personnel case files.
box 1, folder 9
Cases #13-25
Scope and Contents note
Files #24-25 relate to the status of Vichy Ambassador Scapini and Vidkun Quisling's visit to Berlin.
box 1, folder 10
File 53. SS-Gruppenführer Dr. Gustav Adolf Scheel, Gauleiter and Reich Governor of Salzburg
1941 October - 1943 June
Scope and Contents note
Includes medical examination.
box 1, folder 11
File 65. Notation indicates file missing
box 2, folder 1
File 66. Correspondence between Reichsführer-SS Himmler and SS-Obergruppenführer Hauser
1941-1944
box 2, folder 2
File 67. The Grundstückgesellschaft of the Haupttreuhandlungsstelle Ost and its director Friedrich Stein
1941-1944
box 2, folder 3
File 68. SS-General Erwin Rösner
1942-1944
Scope and Contents note
Includes letters between Reichsführer-SS Himmler and Rösner.
box 2, folder 4
File 69. Notation indicates file missing
box 2, folder 5-8
File 70. Security Police Chief Reinhard Heydrich
1942-1945
Scope and Contents note
Includes materials relating to his death, funeral, and the Heydrich family. Also includes correspondence between Lina Heydrich
and Reichsführer-SS Himmler.
box 3, folder 1
File 251. The Ethnic German Office (Volksdeutsche Mittelstelle) under SS-Obergruppenführer Werner Lorenz and resettlement
camps (Umsiedlerlagern)
1942-1943
box 3, folder 2
File 252. Partisan activities in German occupied countries
1943
box 3, folder 3
File 253. Transfer of a few Ordnungspolizei and Sicherheitspolizei to the SS
1940-1942
box 3, folder 4
File 254. Replacement and conscription of physicians in the Waffen-SS
1941-1943
box 3, folder 5
File 255. The SS-School Haus Wewelsburg
1942
box 3, folder 6
File 256. Deployment of a flotilla to the Ijsselmeer for defensive purposes
1942-1943
box 3, folder 7
File 257. The Office of Environmental Planning (Reischsstelle Raumordnung)
1936-1944
box 3, folder 8
File 258. Jacques le Conte and the Villmorin Company
1944
box 3, folder 9
File 259. Miscellaneous internal office memoranda
1943
box 3, folder 10
File 260. Deployment of the Germanische SS-Division
1943-1944
box 3, folder 11
File 261. The Germanic Regional Headquarters (Germanische Leitstelle)
1941-1944
Scope and Contents note
Includes correspondence between Martin Borman and Reichsführer Himmler.
box 3, folder 12
File 262. Search for natural resources in occupied Ukraine
1942-1943
box 3, folder 13
File 263. The Ukraine SS-Schützen-Division Galizien Nr. 1
1943-1944
box 4, folder 1
File 264. Governor Renteln of Lithuania and the formation of the Lithuanian volunteer units
1943-1944
box 4, folder 2
File 265. The upbringing of orphaned SS-children
1943
box 4, folder 3-4
File 266. Resettlement of evacuated Germans in Zamość district, Poland
1942-1944
box 4, folder 5
File 268. The military and political situation in the Allied armies
1943-1945
box 4, folder 6
File 269. Memorandum by Reichsführer-SS Himmler addressing the morale of the SS men
1942
box 4, folder 7
File 270. SS-translators
1942-1944
box 4, folder 8
File 271. Notation indicates file missing
box 4, folder 9
File 272. Employment of White Russian émigrés in the German police service in Serbia
1942-1944
box 4, folder 10
File 273. Indexes to maps on important geological deposits in European Russia (Wehrgeologische Karten des Europäischen Russland)
1943
box 4, folder 11-13
File 274-276. Recruitment of German volunteers in Hungary
1942-1943
box 5, folder 1
File 277. The Katyn Massacre
1943
box 5, folder 2
File 278. Recruitment of SA men, foreign workers and citizens of occupied countries for the Waffen-SS
1939-1943
box 5, folder 3
File 279. Sabotage and occupation of St. Mihiel and Avignon
1943
box 5, folder 4
File 280. Miscellaneous internal office memoranda
1943-1944
Scope and Contents note
Includes correspondence to and from Martin Borman and a memorandum relating to the Ostarbeiter.
box 5, folder 5-7
File 281. The Croatian SS-Division
1943-1944
box 5, folder 8
File 282. The Army's medical service
1943-1944
box 5, folder 9
File A. Correspondence relating to Bishop Joachim Hossenfelder's memorandum to Goebbels and Himmler concerning the "reform
of Christianity,"
1943
box 5, folder 10
File B. Medical affairs in the SS
1944
box 5, folder 11
File 284. German minorities in Denmark, Norway, Belgium and the Netherlands
1942-1944
Scope and Contents note
Includes correspondence to and from Reichskommissar Seyss-Inquart.
box 6, folder 1
File 285. Report relating to the periodical
De Vlag,
1943
Scope and Contents note
Includes copy of
De Vlag.
box 6, folder 2-3
File 286. Copies of photographs and internal office memoranda relating to the publication of
Der Untermensch,
1943
Scope and Contents note
Includes a copy of
Das 12 Uhr Blatt.
box 6, folder 4
File 287. The Ordnungspolizei
1943
box 6, folder 5-6
File 288. Construction of the Weimar-Buchenwald rail-line
1942-1943
box 6, folder 7
File 289. SS cooperation in the struggle against the "black market,"
1942-1943
box 6, folder 8
File 290. "Aktion Wieland," the search for new natural resources in Galicia, Poland and the Ukraine [see also: File 360]
1943-1944
box 7, folder 1-2
File 290. "Aktion Wieland,"
1942-1945
box 7, folder 3
File 291. German employers' treatment of workers from occupied Eastern countries (Ostarbeiter)
box 7, folder 4
File 292. Medical experiments (lead poisoning) on concentration camp inmates
1942-1943
box 7, folder 5
File 293. The Technical High School in Lina
1943
box 7, folder 6
File 294. The problem of recompensing expropriated Poles in the General Government
1942
box 7, folder 7
File 295. Improvements in the camouflaging of military object
1939-1943
box 7, folder 8
File 296. Regulations permitting SS marriages and divorces
1944
box 7, folder 9
File 297. Miscellaneous internal office memoranda
1943
box 7, folder 10
File 298. Correspondence by Albert Speer, Minister of Weapons and Munitions, to the Reichsführer for German Arms Industry
1943
box 7, folder 11
File 299. Military training of ethnic Germans in Scandinavia
1942-1943
box 8, folder 1
File 300. Occupation of Serbia and its administration by the Germans
1941-1945
box 8, folder 2
File 301. Military postal service
1943-1944
box 8, folder 3
File 302. Evacuation of women and children from Berlin
1943
box 8, folder 4
File 303. Correspondence between the National Socialist Movement in the Netherlands (signed by Mussert) and Reichsminister
Seyss-Inquart
1943
box 8, folder 5
File 304. Re-Germanization of the Poles (Wiedereindeutschungsfähige Polen)
1942-1943
box 8, folder 6
File 305. Typescript miscellaneous news reports by the German media
1943
box 8, folder 7
File 306. The bombing and destruction of Hamburg
1943
box 8, folder 8
File 307. The German minority in Poland and the re-Germanization of Poles
1943-1944
Scope and Contents note
Includes the pamphlet
Verpolte deutsche Familiennamen.
box 8, folder 9
File 308. War-disabled
1942-1944
box 8, folder 10
File 309. Notation indicates file missing
box 9, folder 1-2
File 310. "Planned vacations" and Himmler's action to prevent childlessness in the families of SS-personnel
1943-1945
Scope and Contents note
Includes items from File 977.
box 9, folder 3
File 311. The Flemish National Association (Flämish National-Verband)
1943-1944
box 9, folder 4
File 312. Teacher training
1942
box 9, folder 5
File 313. Building materials used for insulation and thatching roofs
1943-1944
box 9, folder 6
File 314. The SS-Division composed of German-Hungarians
1943-1945
Scope and Contents note
Includes biographical profile of Count Johann Joseph Wenzel Anton Franz Karl Radetsky, Fieldmarshall of Austria.
box 9, folder 7
File 315. Miscellaneous files
undated
box 9, folder 8
File 316. Improvement in the diets of children borne by women workers from the Eastern occupied countries (Ostarbeiter)
1942-1943
box 9, folder 9
File 317. Employment of Soviet war prisoners of German ancestry in the German war industry
1942-1943
box 10, folder 1
File 318. The Lettisch SS-Division
1943
box 10, folder 2-4
File 319. Resettlement of Germans from Russia and Bessarabia
1942-1944
box 10, folder 5
File 320. Notation indicates file missing
box 10, folder 6
File 321. The Party's sphere of influence and the Germanic regional headquarters
1943
box 10, folder 7
File 322. List of field post addresses of the SS units
1941-1942
box 10, folder 8-9
File 323. Miscellaneous news reports from the German Information Office; materials relating to the labor organization of youth
in occupied Ukraine; and two volumes of Alfred Fielder's
Werkdienst des Reichskommissars fur die Ukraine
1943
box 11, folder 1
File 324. Nazi Party members' parliamentary seats
1943
box 11, folder 2
File 325. Changes in political attitudes and spirits in Lower Styria (Slovenia)
1942-1944
Scope and Contents note
Includes material relating to partisan activities and reprisals.
box 11, folder 3
File 326. The illegal cumulation of a "Black account" by SS-Obergruppenführer Schmauser
1942-1944
box 11, folder 4
File 327. Miscellaneous
undated
box 11, folder 5
File 328. The SS-Freiwilligen-Panzergrenadier-Division "Horst Wessel,"
1944
box 11, folder 6
File 329. Security regulations for SS offices
1940-1944
box 11, folder 7
File 330. The removal from important posts of SS members "with international relations,"
1943-1945
box 11, folder 8
File 331. Underground mining of lime in Greater Strelitz, Upper Silesia
1944
box 11, folder 9
Folder 1. The SS-Tibet-Expedition
1939
Folder 2. Mining in Galicia for oil substitutes
1944
Folder 3. Military obligation for those Germans from the various ethnic groups
1944-1945
Folder 4. Military waiver for the farming community
1944
Folder 5. The Muslim national community in Sandjak (a district of the former Turkish Empire), Serbia
1944
Folder 6. Rabam-Werk Georg Bertram and Son
1944
Folder 7. Courier report on SS-J.R. 4
1942
Folder 8. SS men killed in action
1936-1938
box 11, folder 10
Folder 10. Disposal of loot from exterminated Jews ("Sonderaktion Reinhard")
1943-1945
Folder 11. Himmler's speech given at the Convention of City Mayors in Posen
1944 February 13
Folder 12. Cancellation of Reich inspection in Denmark, Slovakia and Romania
1944
Folder 13. Dr. Clauberg's proposal to start experiments concerning the sterilization of women and a demand for concentration
camp inmates for these experiments
1941
box 12, folder 1
Folder 14. Waffen-SS building contractors in Lublin, Poland
1942
Folder 15. Miscellaneous
1944
Folder 16. Defense against increasing agent activities inside the Reich
1944
Folder 17. Building of a bunker at Gmund on the Tegernsee
1944
Folder 18. Miscellaneous
1944
Folder 19. Miscellaneous
1944
Folder 20. Sail plane Horten II
1944
Folder 21. Suvorov Schools
1944
Folder 22. Draft of martial law ("Sicherungsstandrecht") decree
1944 July 20
Folder 23. Miscellaneous
1944
Folder 25. Himmler's order banning the use of the word "Partisan,"
1942
box 12, folder 2
File 333. New inventions submitted to Himmler for development (in alphabetical order by name of inventor)
1942-1945
box 12, folder 3
File 334. SS-Cossack Division
1938-1944
Scope and Contents note
Includes reference to Krasnov and other.
box 12, folder 4
File 335. Adriatic affairs
1944
box 12, folder 5
File 336. Distribution of chocolate to the Hitler Jugend
1945
box 12, folder 6
File 337. Notation indicates file missing
box 12, folder 7
File 339. Agriculture and the Ministry for Agriculture
1940-1945
box 12, folder 8
File 340. Aid for German war prisoners in Allied countries
1944
Scope and Contents note
Incudes copies of photographs.
box 12, folder 9
File 341. Notation indicates file missing
box 12, folder 10
File A. SS organization for construction ("Baudienststellen der Waffen-SS und Polizei") which built primarily concentration
camps
1943-1944
box 12, folder 11
File B. Conference of Reichsleiter and Gauleiter in Posen and Hitler's headquarters
1943 October 6-7
box 12, folder 12
File A. Liquidation of the Warsaw Ghetto
1943
Scope and Contents note
Includes a copy of Himmler's order for the destruction of the ghetto.
box 12, folder 13
File B. The Warsaw Uprising
1944
box 12, folder 14
File 344. Evacuation of refugees from East Prussia and Danzig, 1945 and the deterioration of morale among retreating troops
1944-1945
box 13, folder 1-3
File 351. SS-Oberführer W. Traupel
1939-1944
box 13, folder 4
File 352. SS-Oberführer Dr. Richard Donnevert
1939-1944
box 13, folder 5
File 353. SS-Gruppenführer and Generalleutnant of the Police Dr. Max Thomas
1941-1944
box 13, folder 6
File 354. Gauleiter Weinrich
1944
box 13, folder 7
File 355. Notation indicates file missing
box 13, folder 8
File 356. Professor Ernst Wagemann, President of the Institute for Economic Studies
1943-1944
box 13, folder 9-10
File 357. Reorganization of the administration of all armed forces in Germany
1944
Scope and Contents note
Includes copy of Hitler's orders of 1944 July 20 and August 2.
box 14, folder 1
File 358. Johann (Hans) Loritz, Commander of Dachau and Sachsenhausen concentration camps
1937-1945
box 14, folder 2
File 359. Copy of "Der rechte Mann an dem richtigen Platz! Menschenführung nach nationalsozialistischen Grundsätzen,"
1940
box 14, folder 3
File 360. Paul Ortel of "Aktion Wieland" [see also: File 290]
1944-1945
box 14, folder 4
File 361. SS-Unterstrumführer Friedrich Schmidt
1944-1945
box 14, folder 5
File 362. The Romanian "Iron Guard" - refugees in Germany
1944-1945
Scope and Contents note
Includes reference to Romanian Foreign Minister Prince Sturdza.
box 14, folder 6
File 365. The internal organization of the SS
1944-1945
box 14, folder 7
File 370. General "Bor" Komarowski in Prisoner of War Camp Oflag IVC - Colditz, Germany
1945
Speeches and Writings
1939-1940
box 14, folder 9
"Gemeindepolizei," typescript
1939
box 14, folder 10
"Kreisleitertagung," typescript
1940 November 28
box 14, folder 12
1917 January - 1920 December
box 15, folder 1
1921 February - 1923 September
box 15, folder 2
Typescript of diaries
1919 September 4 - 1920 February 2
Access
May not be quoted.
Scope and Contents note
Typed transcript
box 16
Diary 1
1914 September-1915
Conditions Governing Access
Box 16 may not be used without permission of the Archivist.
box 16
Diary 4
1919 October-1920 February
Conditions Governing Access
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box 16
Diary 8
1921 November-December
Conditions Governing Access
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box 16
Diary 10
1922 February-March
Conditions Governing Access
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box 16
Diary 11
1922 January-February
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box 16
Diary 14
1922 May-July
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box 16
Loose diary pages
undated
Conditions Governing Access
Box 16 may not be used without permission of the Archivist.
box 16
Loose diary pages
1922 March 23-28
Conditions Governing Access
Box 16 may not be used without permission of the Archivist.
box 16
Loose diary pages
1924 February 11-25
Conditions Governing Access
Box 16 may not be used without permission of the Archivist.
Photographs
1929-1934
Access
Original photo albums closed; digital use copies available.
Scope and Contents note
Two photograph albums containing 237 prints depicting the career of Heinrich Himmler as Reichsführer SS und Chef der deutschen
Polizei.
online digital
Album (A)
1929-1934
Scope and Contents note
Contains photographs of Himmler, including both portraits and outings with troops. Includes one photograph of Adolf Hitler.
Microfilm Reels
1914-1945
Scope and Contents note
Microfilm copies of select Persönlicher Stab der Reichsführer-SS office files and diaries.
reel 1
Files 263, 283, 286, 292, 332, 334, 342, 343
reel 4-5
Positive and negative film of Himmler's diary
1914 September 23 - 1922 July 6; 1924 February 11-25
Sound Recordings
1940-1944
General Physical Description note: 27 sound tape reels
tape cabinet
Reel 1: Himmler speech (fragment) to officers of a Volksgrenadier Division 242-253
1944 July 25 - August 29
Physical Description: 1.0 sound_tape_reel
Scope and Contents note
Fragment only. May be dated 1944 August 29 only.
Access
Use copy reference number: xx060_a_0008041
tape cabinet
Reel 2: Himmler speech (fragment) to commanders of the Galician SS Volunteer Infantry Division, Neuhammer 242-246
1944 May 16
Physical Description: 1.0 sound_tape_reel
Scope and Contents note
Incomplete, last third of speech not here. Himmler plus section by section Ukrainian translation.
Access
Use copy reference number: xx060_a_0008042
tape cabinet
Reel 3-4: Disjointed British and American voices 242-231
1944 May 22
Physical Description: 2.0 sound_tape_reels
Scope and Contents note
Monitored broadcast, Stalag III-B. This may be a bugging of a meeting of British and American POWs in a German camp.
Access
Use copy reference number: xx060_a_0008045
tape cabinet
Reel 5-7: Himmler speech (fragment) to the commanders of the Ordnungspolizei and the police presidents, Posen, Hotel Ostland 242-217
1943 December 15
Physical Description: 3.0 sound_tape_reels
Access
Use copy reference number: xx060_a_0008046
tape cabinet
Reel 8-10: Himmler speech (fragment) to the commanders of an SS Panzerkorps, Charkov 242-214
1943 April 24
Physical Description: 3.0 sound_tape_reels
Access
Use copy reference number: xx060_a_0008049
Scope and Contents note
See also: Reel 19
tape cabinet
Reel 11: Himmler speech (fragment) to the commanders of the Waffen SS, Berlin, Kasino der Leibstandarte 242-213
1940 December 18
Physical Description: 1.0 sound_tape_reel
Access
Use copy reference number: xx060_a_0008050
tape cabinet
Reel 12-13: Himmler speech (fragment) to the SS Führer and officials in the General Government, Krakau 242-212
1943 November 18
Physical Description: 2.0 sound_tape_reels
Access
Use copy reference number: xx060_a_0008052
tape cabinet
Reel 14-18: Himmler speech to officers of two Volksgrenadier Divisions, Münsingen 242-195
1944 August 27
Physical Description: 5.0 sound_tape_reels
Access
Use copy reference number: xx060_a_0008053
tape cabinet
Reel 19: Himmler speech (fragment) to the commanders of an SS Panzerkorps, Charkov 242-194
1943 April 24
Physical Description: 1.0 sound_tape_reel
Access
Use copy reference number: xx060_a_0008056
Scope and Contents note
See also: Reels 8-10
tape cabinet
Reel 20-23: Himmler speech (incomplete) to two Volksgrenadier Divisions, Dorn 242-190
1944 August 13
Physical Description: 4.0 sound_tape_reels
Access
Use copy reference number: xx060_a_0008057
tape cabinet
Reel 24: Himmler speech (fragment) or "Tag der Freiheit, Warthegau," Posen 242-186
1943 October 24
Physical Description: 1.0 sound_tape_reel
Access
Use copy reference number: xx060_a_0008058
tape cabinet
Reel 25-27: Himmler speech in Posen
1943 October 4
Physical Description: 3.0 sound_tape_reels
Access
Use copy reference number: xx060_a_0008059