What can be researched?
With the documents at its disposal, ITS is happy to help with a wide range of research work.
Files can be reviewed and used for any type of research project (from undergraduate to doctoral theses, educational handouts, biographical and regional-historical work, to students’ projects). The ITS archives can be extremely useful for work on publications of every kind, as well as exhibitions.
Alongside the usually individual-related documentation of prisoners at the various extermination and concentration camps, labour camps, prisons and ghettos, there are files on slave labourers and a large set of documents regarding displaced persons. The child tracing archive and correspondence between requesters and ITS (older than 25 years) are also available for historical research purposes.
Additional documents round off the inventory. Included here are:
- Maps
- Witness testimonies
- Court case files
- Legal gazettes from the "Third Reich"
- Court orders
- Written correspondence between SS offices etc.
Scholars who would like to access the archive inventory must file a
and accept the
ITS decided to adopt the regulations and guidelines for safeguarding good scientific practice that had been compiled by the German Research Foundation (DFG).