Nazi Police File - Jews Oppenheimer

NAZI POLICE FILE JEWS OPPENHEIMER

Reichsführer-SS und Chef der deutschen Polizei Reichsministerium des Innern

THE NAZI POLICE FILE
OF A JEWISH MISCHLING
1st DEGREE WHO
REQUESTED A VISA
TO LEAVE GERMANY -
DENIED BY HIMMLER

This historic Nazi Police grouping shows that the system put in place by the Nazis to deny any sort of free travel to Jews was not infallible. People were even able to circumvent the most stringent regulations sent down by the highest authorities. This grouping is unique in that it shows how a Jew, denied a travel visa by the Gestapo, traveled to a small town northeast of Salzburg and was able to leave Germany.

This Nazi grouping handles the request of a Jewish woman, Sophie Oppenheimer of Prinz-Eugenstrasse 34 in Wien (Vienna), to obtain an official travel visa for her half-Jewish (Mischling 1st degree) son Felix. In October 1940, the Gestapo denied Felix Oppenheimer an exit visa for travel to Italy. Felix Oppenheimer then quickly went to a rural Nazi office in Vöcklabruck (bypassing the Gestapo), obtained a visa in 10 days, and left immediately for San Remo, Italy, where he was still residing at the time of this correspondence.

This grouping contains the original letter from Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler’s office in Berlin dated 9 December 1940, denying the exit visa request that Sophie Oppenheimer made for her son in October 1940. The Reichsführer-SS letter was typed on a SS typewriter and bears the Reichsführer-SS und Chef der deutschen Polizei Reichsministerium des Innern rubber stamp Number 1 which means the letter originated in Himmler’s office in Gestapo headquarters on Prinz Albrecht Straße 8 in Berlin (No. 1 stamp). It was signed by Himmler’s secretary.

The second piece of correspondence in this grouping is the official Wien police archive copy of a letter dated 2 January 1941, from the Reichsstatthalter (the highest Nazi government authority) in Wien to the President of Police in Wien regarding the Oppenheimer matter. It was sent to the Polizeipräsident to notify him the request Sophie Oppenheimer made for her son was denied by the Reichsführer-SS.

The third piece of this Oppenheimer grouping is dated 15 January 1941. It is a reply from the Polizeipräsident’s office to the Reichsstatthalter recapping the Felix Oppenheimer visa matter. This letter was also typed on a SS typewriter and shows an official receiving stamp of Baldur von Schirach’s office of 17 January 1941 and that it reached the Gauleiter and Reichsstatthalter’s desk on 21 January.

These official Nazi letters were filed in an Ordner and each have two punch holes. They are absolutely 100% original to the Third Reich period. To see additional police file material of this kind, click HERE.

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