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20th Century German History Online Daily Reports
of the GestapoHeadquarters Vienna
1938-1945 Edited by Brigitte Bailer and
Wolfgang Form
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20the Century German History Online

• Online series with documents on German
  contemporary history
• First publication on the period 1933
  1945National Socialism, Holocaust, Resistance
  and Exile 1933-1945
• Second publication with previously not published
  material on the history of the NS time in
  Austria Daily Reports of the Gestapo
  Headquarters Vienna 1938-1945
• Further databases in this series are planned.
• Basis for the database series are K. G. Saur
  Research Collections (Microfiche editions, book
  editions), licensed material, previously not
  published sources

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Daily Reports of the Gestapo Headquarters Vienna
1938-1945

• Published in cooperation with the Documentation
  Centre of Austrian Resistance Vienna
  (Dokumentationsarchiv des Österreichischen
  Widerstands, DÖW)and the International
  Centre for the Research and Documentation of War
  Crimes Trials (Forschungs- und
  Dokumentationszentrum Kriegsverbrecherprozesse ,
  ICWC) at Philipps University Marburg

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Daily Reports of the Gestapo Headquarters Vienna
1938-1945

• From1934 on, the regional Gestapo headquarters
  throughout the entire German Reich had to report
  all political incidents of the previous 24 hours
  to Berlin.
• The purpose of these reports was to outline the
  mood, the political situation and security
  measures.
• This regulation was also applied to Austria,
  following its annexation in 1938
• The first daily report on record from the Gestapo
  regional headquarters in Vienna dates from
  September 2nd 1938.
• Until the demise of the Nazi regime some 820
  reports were sent from Vienna to the central
  headquarters in Berlin.

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Daily Reports of the Gestapo Headquarters Vienna
1938-1945

• The daily reports are a first rate contemporary
  history sources, barely used editorially until
  now, as they have not been widely accessible.
• They mirror in shocking complexity the focus of
  politically motivated persecution by the Gestapo
  and thus open the first chapter on the structure
  of Gestapo persecution, using the example of
  Vienna

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Content of the database

• The database contains
• 741 Daily reports of the regional Gestapo
  headquarters in Vienna (approx. 80 are missing).
• All in all ca. 6.000 digitized pages
• Information on more than 17.000 men and women
  either arrested or being kept under surveillance
  by the Gestapo

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Content of the database

• The reports give information on the following
  reasons for persecution
• Arbeiterbewegung (workers movement)
• Evangelische Kirche (protestant church)
• Grenzangelegenheiten (Borders)
• Individuelle Widerstandstätigkeit (individual
  resistance activities)
• Glaubensgemeinschaften (religious communities)
• Jüdinnen und Juden (Jews)
• Kriegsgefangene und zivile Zwangsarbeiter
  (prisoners of war and forced laborers)
• Katholisch-konservatives Lager (catholic-conservat
  ive camp)
• NSDAP und ihre Gliederungen (NSDAP and its
  divisions)
• Presse (press)
• Römisch-katholische Kirche (roman-catholic
  church)
• Russlandrückkehrer (repatriates from Russia)
• Sabotage (sabotage)
• Spanien (Spain)
• Wirtschaftsfragen (economy)

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Examples for the content
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Examples for the content
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Characteristics of the database

• The contents of the database can be searched
  separately or in combination with the contents of
  National Socialism, Holocaust, Resistance and
  Exile 1933-1945 (separate subscription
  required).
• Scientific introduction on the history of the
  Gestapo and the regional Gestapo headquarters
  Vienna.
• Links from ca. 3.900 persons named in the daily
  reports to the collection Nicht mehr anonym (No
  longer anonymous) containing photographs from the
  index of the Gestapo Vienna located on the
  documentation server of DÖW Vienna.

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Functionalities of the database

• Basic Search
• Advanced Search to combine different search
  criteria
• Fulltext search through all reports
• Index lists
• Print, E-mail delivery and saving of documents in
  PDF format
• Lists of marked documents
• SaveURL to save and share search results

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Further information
Please contact us with all questions regarding
the database Daily Reports of the Gestapo
headquarters Vienna 1938-1945 K.G. Saur
Verlag An imprint of Walter de Gruyter GmbH Co
KG Mies-van-der-Rohe-Str. 1 80807 München Tel.
089 / 76 902-0E-mail info_at_degruyter.com

• Further information on the series 20th Century
  German History Online can be found
  athttp//www.saur.de/zeitgeschichte-online