Cultural Policies and Plunder of the Third Reich in Occupied Europe Files of the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg in Kiev

Filmed from the holdings of the Central State Archive of the Supreme Bodies of Power and Government of Ukraine, Kiev

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Cultural Policies and Plunder of the Third Reich in Occupied Europe Files of the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg in Kiev Part 1: Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg fur die besetzten Ostgebiete (Reichsleiter Rosenberg’s Operational Staff for the Eastern Occupied Territories) Part 2: Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg fur die westliche besetzten Gebiete und die Niederlande (Reichsleiter Rosenberg’s Operational Staff for the Western Occupied Territories and the Netherlands) Filmed from the holdings of the Central State Archive of the Supreme Bodies of Power and Government of Ukraine, Kiev

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TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction to the Collection…………………………………….………………………v Editorial Note……………………………………………………………………………xii Acknowledgments………………………………………………………………………xiii Cultural Policies and Plunder of the Third Reich in Occupied Europe: Files of the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg in Kiev Part 1: Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg fur die besetzten Ostgebiete……………..1 (Reichsleiter Rosenberg’s Operational Staff for the Eastern Occupied Territories) Part 2: Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg fur die westliche besetzten Gebiete und die Niederlande……………….…………………………………………………………...2 (Reichsleiter Rosenberg’s Operational Staff for the Western Occupied Territories and the Netherlands)

The Archive of Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg in Kiev— Prospects for its Study Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg (ERR) was a Nazi organization that operated during World War II in the occupied territories of western and eastern Europe. ERR had broad powers in the ideological struggle against the enemies of National Socialism and the confiscation of materials belonging to ideological adversaries of Nazism. Adolf Hitler bestowed these powers upon the Nazi Party ideologist Alfred Rosenberg—the Führer’s personal representative for spiritual and ideological training, as well as the education of the members of the NSDAP (Nazi Party). The papers of the ERR are not a single ensemble of documents, rather its materials are scattered among various archival repositories around the world. The three most extensive collections of archival documents are located as follows: one in Kiev, in the Central State Archives of the Supreme Bodies of Power and Government of Ukraine (TsDAVO of Ukraine, record groups, or fonds, 3676 and 3674); the second in the Bundesarchiv in Berlin (record group NS 30); and, the third in the Russian State Military Archive in Moscow (record group 1401-K). Separate collections of documents are stored in France at the Documentary Center of Contemporary Judaica in Paris; at the Netherlands State Institute for War Documentation in Amsterdam; in Germany at the Institute of Contemporary History in Munich and in the Bundesarchiv in Coblenz; and in the U.S. at the Library of Congress in Washington, at the Institute for Jewish Research in New York, and at Stanford University in Palo Alto, CA. Also, small collections of documents are stored in various cities once occupied by the Nazis (Minsk, Riga and others). Several studies in this area reveal the fate of certain collections of documents; above all, let us mention the writings of Patricia Grimsted on war trophies and the relocation of cultural treasures.1 The present microfilm publication includes selected materials from the Kievan group of documents, stored in the TsDAVO of Ukraine in Kiev. Of the ERR archival collections that we have named, this one has the most information, and is the most comprehensive. The TsDAVO documents are assembled into record group 3676 (Reichsleiter Rosenberg’s Staff for Occupied Eastern Territories) and record group 3674 (Reichsleiter Rosenberg’s Staff for Occupied Western Territories and the Netherlands). Overall, the ERR documents from these two record groups total 351 files. Record group 3676 consists of five inventories, three of which are made up of ERR documents and contain over 100,000 documents, mostly in German. The present publication includes materials from the first two inventories of record group 3676 and inventory 1 of record group 3674. The History and Activities of the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg (ERR) The ERR was officially created on July 17, 1940, when in the course of the military campaign in France the materials of a number of Grand Masonic Lodges were confiscated, and the process of requisitioning Jewish property took shape. Later, as military operations spread, the activities of the ERR expanded significantly, both in scope

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and in territory. It spread to the occupied territories of other Western European countries (Belgium and the Netherlands), Southeastern Europe (the Balkan countries), and Eastern Europe (Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, and the Baltic countries). As the war intensified, the process of requisitioning turned into massive looting of the occupied countries’ cultural and scholarly treasures, and their removal to Germany. The struggle against the ideological foes of National Socialism (Bolshevism, Freemasonry and Judaism), proclaimed in Hitler’s order of March 1, 1942, was designed to justify the blatant looting of cultural and scholarly treasures. In the name of that struggle the ERR was given full authority to search for, confiscate and inventory political, ideological, propaganda and scholarly materials for the needs of the Third Reich’s scholarly and educational institutions. The ERR very quickly became an influential and broadly ramified ideological, scholarly-culturological and semi-military organization. It operated in all of occupied Europe and devoted itself especially to the following tasks: The scholarly study of the occupied territories. Among the proposed study topics were: the history of the occupied countries; the state of their governmental bodies; their foreign and domestic policies; their material resources; their economies; their “propaganda”; their ethnic and social composition; their educational systems; and their medicine, science and culture (in their positive and negative aspects). The aims of this study were to formulate a policy for the “swallowing” of these territories by the Reich and to evaluate the possibility of exploiting these territories in the interests of the Third Reich. The refutation and critique of the ideology of adversaries of National Socialism. These were deemed to include Freemasons, Bolsheviks and other adherents of Communist or other revolutionary movements. The confiscation of scholarly and cultural treasures from ideological adversaries, and the organization of this material at the College (Hohe Schule) of Germany, which was to be founded after the war for the comprehensive study of the ideological adversaries of National Socialism. The confiscation policy also envisioned the creation of a College Library; a Rosenberg Eastern Library (Ostbücherei Rosenberg); other libraries, archives, museums and scholarly institutions for the comprehensive study of the occupied territories; and the replenishment of the private collections of individual Germans. This evolved into the plundering of cultural treasures and scholarly resources. The destruction of the social base of spiritual and ideological resistance, and the establishment and development of ideological and spiritual control over the populations of occupied territories; the annihilation of spiritual values and traditional bonds, by (among other means) the destruction of national memory, i.e. archival documents, museums, libraries, scholarly and educational resources, all of which were destined for destruction. On September 1, 1940, the ERR began its work in Belgium and Northern France. On September 15 of the same year, work in the Netherlands began. The ERR in the West

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(Einsatzstab Westen) was reorganized to form three independent Major Work Groups (MWG): MWG France, MWG Belgium and Northern France (Brussels), and MWG Netherlands (Amsterdam). MWG Ostland, MWG Ukraine and MWG Center operated in the Eastern occupied areas. MWG Ostland operated in the territory of present-day Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Belarus and the western parts of Russia. There was also MWG Southeast, based in Belgrade. The MWGs contained Work Groups (WG), which operated on the state level or on the level of major cities in the occupied lands. Thus, for instance, MWG Ostland consisted of WG Estonia, WG Latvia, WG Lithuania and WG Belarus. Where there was a substantial volume of work, work groups were formed in individual cities, e.g. WG Dorpat (Tartu), WG Reval (Tallinn), WG Wilno (Vilnius), WG Kovno (Kaunas), WG Dnipropetrovsk, WG Crimea, WG Kherson and WG Paris. In May 1943 MWG Center based in Minsk, was separated from MWG Ostland. Work groups were also formed for operational tasks for unoccupied territories as well, e.g. WG Italy. Temporary special services were also formed to facilitate the activity of the ERR in various European cities, e.g. Belgrade, Verona, Copenhagen, Paris, Poznan, Ratibor and Saloniki. During the war, more than 15 Special Staffs (Sonderstab), which worked together with the work groups, were formed. Among them were staffs for ancient history, science, folklore, world outlook, genealogy, theater, music, religion, fine art, libraries and archives. Operational Special Units (Sonderkommando) were also active in various cities. A significant number of documents came from the Special Staffs of the College Library and the Institute for the Study of the Jewish Question. The materials of the work groups include numerous reports on confiscated objects. From libraries came precious manuscripts; books on the subject of Bolshevism; rare books on various subjects; unique artifacts; and journals. From archives came manuscripts and archival finding aids. From churches, museums and private collections came works of art. The ERR materials provide detailed information on the cataloguing and removal of material from various state archives. Another source of material for the ERR was universities, scientific research institutes, and various societies, clubs, associations, cultural and educational centers, religious centers, monasteries, churches and other places of worship. The confiscation of Jewish property and the attempted destruction of the Jewish spiritual heritage were of special significance, and took special priority. The principal effort unfolded in Western Europe, especially in Belgium, France and the Netherlands, where lists were drawn up for confiscation of the property of Jews and the premises of Jewish organizations, newspaper offices, bookstores, warehouses, etc. Significant confiscation of Jewish property took place in the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. Before the war, many Jews lived in the Lithuanian city of Wilno (Vilnius), where there were many functioning synagogues and cultural centers, such as the library of the Institute for Jewish Research (YIVO) and the so-called Strashun Library (Straschun-Bibliothek), named after its founder.2 As a result of confiscation by the Bolsheviks at the time of the 1917 revolution, there were no significant private collections from the territory of Russia, Ukraine and Belarus. However, huge library collections of Judaica and Hebraica were

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removed from the state libraries (e.g. the Library of the Academy of Sciences and the Vinchevskyi Library in Kiev) of these areas. The documents reveal the vast amount of art looted from world-famous museums, above all the Louvre. A special Work Group Louvre was created within the ERR Special Staff “Fine Art”; the Führer alone had the right to borrow works of art from the Louvre for his own use. Gradually all private, national and state art museums in the occupied territories were surveyed, as well as museums specializing in history, specific regions, ethnography, natural history, the military, and other subjects. Great attention was paid to Russian museums associated with the tsarist dynasty, above all those in Tsarskoe Selo (Peterhof), Pavlovsk and Gatchina, and the Vorontsov Palace in Crimea. Other targets included the Antwerp Museum, the Military Museum in Prague, the Kyievo-Pecherskyi Museum and Reserve in Kiev, the State Art Museum in Riga, the Dorpat (Tallinn) Art Museum, the museums of Belgrade, the Ghent Museum and many more. The documents contain information on the confiscation, transfer and shipment to the Third Reich of Masonic archives and libraries, literature and documents on Freemasonry, and other cultural treasures of various Masonic lodges of Belgium, France, the Netherlands, Yugoslavia, Italy and other countries. The documents of WG Italy include analyses of anti-Nazi propaganda and documents on Freemasonry in Italy. The Special Staff “Genealogy” studied documents about ethnic Germans living in the occupied territories, in particular the Baltic countries and Ukraine, where archives had preserved birth records from German communities, other documents on German colonization and evidence of a constant German presence from ancient times. Reports and accounts of numerous journeys and investigations undertaken by members of the “Genealogy” staff in this field comprise a significant number of documents. The Special Staff “Ancient History” searched for archeological and written sources to prove a German presence, and worked on other questions as well. Among the documents concerning the occupied territories from the Special Staff “Study of Religion” is information on the libraries of church and theological organizations, publishing houses and associations. The Special Staff “Science” studied scholarly institutions to determine their usefulness for the Reich. It played a significant role not only in matters of expropriation, but also by studying various aspects of the occupied territories, chiefly their natural resources. Significant information is contained in documents on ideological censorship. Their focus was the destruction of books by Jewish authors; books whose authors were members of various Masonic organizations; books of anti-Nazi content; and a mass of Communist literature, which was judged “harmful” by the Nazis. The documents definitively reflect both ERR interaction with the local civil administration, especially Reichskomissariats and Generalkomissariats, and competition concerning the spreading of ideological influence and the description and confiscation of cultural treasures. Local authorities were required to help in the inventory and export of libraries, archives and museums, and to organize the cataloguing of the selected literature, museum objects, etc. Several documents reveal the existence of Rosenberg’s Eastern Library.

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A significant part of the work of the ERR was its role in supporting various German services and organizations during the war. It served the headquarters and various units of both the Wehrmacht (the combined armed forces of Germany) and the Sicherheitsdienst (the intelligence service of the SS), as well as numerous civilian organizations in Germany. In this capacity the ERR supplied materials from libraries, museums and archives. It also facilitated scholarly studies, the execution of ideological tasks by the Nazi Party, and the scholarly research work of the future College. Among its most significant partners were the Anticomintern Institute, the Institute of East European Law in Königsberg, the Institute of Economics of Eastern Countries in Königsberg, the Reichsleiter Rosenberg Institute of Research on Continental Europe in Berlin and the Institute for the Study of Magdeburg Urban Law in Magdeburg. Some partner institutions belonged to the College: the College’s Institute of German Ethnography (Rhine near Graz), the Institute for the Study of German Folklore, the Institute for the Study of Religion and the Institute of Biology and Racial Theory in Stuttgart. The Institute for the Study of the Jewish Question (Frankfurt/Main), which officially opened in March 1941, occupies a special place in the story of the ERR. For this institute, Judaica and Hebraica were confiscated on a massive scale in the occupied regions. A unique role in this process belongs to the well-known scholar J. Pohl. Archive of Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg in Kiev As described above, the activity of the ERR was highly varied. This diversity is fully represented in the Kievan collection of ERR documents. The ERR archive offers a great potential for scholarly and general cultural research — not only for studying the transfer of cultural treasures out of museums, libraries and archival collections (governmental and private), but also for researching other topics, such as the history of the Occupation of Europe during World War II; the ideology and culture of Nazi Germany; the fortunes of many specific individuals in the warring parties; and the activity of scholarly and cultural institutions, publishing houses, religious and political organizations in Europe. The archive brings together official documents concerning the ERR’s daily activity; analytical and scholarly materials; volumes of newspapers and scholarly articles; photographs; and the huge correspondence of the ERR with various departments and organizations of the Third Reich, and with separate individuals. The archive contains documents of the Staff Directorate (Stabsführung) of the ERR and its sections and other sub-units, which worked in close contact with other Nazi Party departments and German governmental institutions. It also offers numerous documents of the EER’s Main Work Groups (MWG), which operated directly in occupied territory: MWG Ukraine, MWG Ostland and MWG Center as well as the MWG for Belgium and Northern France. Work groups were assigned to carry out the registration, confiscation and removal of cultural treasures. A significant number of documents reveal the activity of special staffs, commands and services of the ERR; their assignments included the thorough study of the occupied territories as described above, the preparation of analytical materials, and the execution of the instructions of the ERR Staff Directorate.

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The documents of the Kiev archive cast light on various topics, including the organization of various research projects and the preparation of informational-analytical and survey studies, reports, memoranda and other materials on all questions that interested the ERR. These questions concerned history, politics, propaganda, administration, economics and public figures who were National Socialism’s ideological foes. An important place was assigned to the study of the national psychology of various peoples, their traditions, religious beliefs and cultural values; and using that information to construct new ideological (anti-Jewish, anti-Communist or anti-Masonic) postulates. At the same time the ERR gathered information on the natural resources and the demographic, economic, social and cultural peculiarities of the occupied territories, especially the Eastern regions and the Balkans. Not only Nazi scholars, but also local scholars and intellectuals took part in this work; their names are indicated in the documents of the archive. Research projects form a significant part of the material in the ERR archive and are of historical and scholarly interest for understanding not only the methods of Nazi ideology and propaganda, but also many other aspects of the activity of the ERR. A certain group of documents reveal the inner workings of the ERR itself, both its Staff Directorate and its departments. There are orders and decrees of the Directorate, methodological materials, correspondence, plans and reports, instructions to work groups, minutes of meetings, etc. There are also documents seeking to ensure compliance with legal norms; official instructions and rules of conduct for workers; information on staffing and changes therein; efforts to foster a favorable psychological climate within the workforce; the provision of needed material resources, etc. The personal files of ERR workers, both permanent and temporary (hired as needed), are very rich in content for biographical research. The archive contains information on well-known figures and German scholars in various fields of knowledge. Among these are such noted archivists as Georg Winter, Wolfgang Mommsen and Martin Granzin; bibliologists and librarians Johannes Pohl and Josef Benzing; musicologist Herbert Gerigk; and many others. Summary To sum up, the primary function of the ERR was the ideological struggle against the enemies of National Socialism; and that a major consequence of this struggle was the massive looting of a many cultural treasures from various countries, depriving people of their historical past, and thus also of their future. The struggle assumed diverse and at times unexpected forms, which are reflected in the diversity of the sources and content of the archive. These facts make possible the in-depth analysis of various aspects of Nazi ideology both in theory and in practice, as it played out in the occupied territories. In addition, the documents contain important information on the very flow of everyday life under the Occupation, both for the local population and for the German employees of the ERR and their direct correspondents. This enables us to conduct biographical research, and to study the psychology of war and occupation as well as many other questions directly linked to those two fateful concepts.

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In conjunction with the publication of these documents a reference guide is being offered: The Activity of Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg in Occupied Europe During World War II: A Reference-Index of Archival Documents from the Kievan Collections.3 This volume describes the archive’s documents and contains several indices concerning geography described in the documents as well as personal names, institutions and organizations mentioned in the documents. These features highlight the value and significance of the archive for a wide range of researchers. Liubov Dubrovina Director, Manuscript Institute V.I. Vernads’kyi National Library of Ukraine, Corresponding Member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine

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Grimsted Patricia K. Trophies of War and Empire: The Archival Heritage of Ukraine, World War II, and the International Politics of Restitution. Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University: Harvard Papers in Ukrainian Studies. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2001; U.S. Restitution of Nazi-Looted Cultural Treasures to the USSR, 1945-1959: Facsimile Documents from the National Archives of the United States. Compiled with an introduction by Patricia K. Grimsted. Foreword by Michael J. Kurtz. CDROM edition. Washington, DC: GPO, 2001. See also: Sebta T.M. Arkhivni dzherela pro ukrains’ki kul’turni tsinnosti, vyvezeni natsystamy v roky druhoi svitovoi viiny. Avtoref. kand. dys. Kiev, 2000; Biblioteky Kyieva v period natsysts’koi okupatsii (1941-1943). Doslidzhennia. Anotovanyi pokazhchyk. Publikatsiia dokumentiv. Kiev, 2004. S. 149-169; Iakovleva L.V., A.I. Shevchuk. Kolektsiia mikrofil’miv fashysts’koi okupatsiinoi administratsii i komanduvannia vermakhtu v TsDAZhR URSR/UIZh. Kiev, 1989. No 1. S. 155. Opys arkhivu Ainzatsshtabu reikhsliaitera Rozenberga. www.bundesarchiv.de. 2

Kirchhoff Markus. Häuser des Buches. Bilder jüdischer Bibliotheken. Leipzig, 2002. S. 44-51.

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Kashevarova N.G., N.I. Maloletova. Deiatel’nost’ Operativnogo shtaba Reikhsliaitera Rozenberga v okkupirovannoi Evrope v period Vtoroi mirovoi voiny: Spravochnik-ukazatel’ arkhivnykh dokumentov iz kievskikh sobranii. Kiev, 2006. 577 s.

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EDITORIAL NOTE Organization and Format The materials were filmed as found. The organization follows the organization of the collection in the Central State Historical Archive of Ukraine in Lviv. This guide lists materials in the order in which they appear on the reels. The date(s) listed on the record of each folder refer to the inclusive dates of materials in the folder that are included in the microfilm edition. The description of each folder is taken from the finding aid for the collection from the Central State Archive. An English translation for each folder description has been provided. This microfilm edition of Cultural Policies and Plunder of the Third Reich in Occupied Europe: Files of the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg in Kiev contains selections of the collection. Part 1 Inventory/Opis Folders/Delo Record Group/Fond 1 1-239 3676 5 40 3676 2 1-39 3676 5 41 3676 4 326, 444 3676 Part 2 Inventory/Opis Folders/Delo Record Group/Fond 1 1-4 3674 The titles in this product are organized by the following groupings: Part 1: Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg fur die besetzten Ostgebiete (reels 1-44) Part 2: Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg fur die westliche besetzten Gebiete und die Niederlande (reel 45) In conjunction with this microfilm edition, a reference guide is being offered: Deiatel’nost’ Operativnogo shtaba Reikhsliaitera Rozenberga v okkupirovannoi Evrope v period Vtoroi mirovoi voiny: Spravochnik-ukazatel’ arkhivnykh dokumentov iz kievskikh sobranii. (The Activity of Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg in Occupied Europe During World War II: A Reference-Index of Archival Documents from the Kievan Collections.)

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS This project would not have been possible without assistance from many individuals. Patricia K. Grimstead, a senior research associate at the Harvard Ukrainian Institute, was the first to suggest to Primary Source Media that the Files of the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg be published. The Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany made an irreplaceable financial contribution and shepherded the entire effort. Wesley A. Fisher, Director of Research for the Conference, generously gave his direct personal support. Primary Source Media wishes to thank Hennadii Boriak, deputy director of the State Committee for Archives of Ukraine for both his scholarly advice and his institutional support. Liubov Dubrovina of the National Library of Ukraine authored a highly informative introduction and graciously shared her editorial insights. She also oversaw the meticulous preparation of the guide and cataloging carried out by Nataliya Kashevarova and Nina Maloletova. Of course, it was the Central State Archive of the Supreme Bodies of Power and Government of Ukraine, and that institution’s director, Natalya Makovska, who stoically endured the disruption necessary to commit the files to microfilm. Finally, PSM acknowledges members of its staff: Olga Virakhovskaya, Barbara Phoenix, and Kimberly White.

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Part 1: Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg fur die besetzten Ostgebiete (Reichsleiter Rosenberg’s Operational Staff for the Eastern Occupied Territories) Fond (Record Group) 3676, Opis (Inventory) 1 Reel

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