Abbreviations

BA            Bundesarchiv (German Federal Archives, documenting modern and contemporary history)

BDC         Berlin Document Center, now at BA Berlin Lichterfelde

BfV           Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz (Federal Office for the Protection of the Consitution)

BKA         Bundeskriminalamt (Federal Office for Criminal Investigations)

BND         Bundesnachrichtendienst (the federal intelligence service; replaced the Gehlen Organization in 1956)

BVerwG    Bundesverwaltungsgericht (Federal Administrative Court), Leipzig

CIC           U.S. Army Counter Intelligence Corps

DÖW        Dokumentationszentrum Österreichischer Widerstand (Documentation Center of Austrian Resistance), Vienna

ETH          Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule, home of the Archiv für Zeitgeschichte (Archives for Contemporary History), Zurich

HHStA      Hessisches Hauptstaatsarchiv (Hesse Main State Archives), Wiesbaden

HIS           Hamburger Institut für Sozialforschung (Hamburg Institute for Social Research)

IMT          International Military Tribunal; IMT numbers refer to published protocols from the Nuremberg Trials (Blue Series)

Interrogation refers to the police interrogation of Eichmann in Israel.

NA           U.S. National Archives, College Park, Md.

ÖStA        Österreichisches Staatsarchiv (Austrian State Archives), Vienna

PA AA      Politisches Archiv des Auswärtigen Amtes (German Federal Foreign Office Political Archive), Berlin

RSHA       Reichssicherheitshauptamt (Main Office for Reich Security), under National Socialism

RuSHA     Rasse- und Siedlungshauptamt (Main Office for Race and Resettlement), under National Socialism

Sassen transcript refers to transcripts of the 1957 Sassen discussions, numbered according to (tape):(original pagination)

Session refers to the sessions of the Eichmann trial. Quotations have been translated from the German transcript.

SÚA         Státní ússtreédní archive (National Central Archive), Prague

T/xx refers to the numbering of prosecution documents in the Eichmann trial

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