{"id":13769,"date":"2026-01-06T14:47:36","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T13:47:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/preserving-family-history.org\/?p=13769"},"modified":"2026-07-20T06:07:43","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T04:07:43","slug":"ii-tension-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preserving-family-history.org\/en\/ii-tension-energy\/","title":{"rendered":"method – 12 – Archives"},"content":{"rendered":"

Archives –\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Archives are treasure troves of history. The French archive, the D\u00e9p\u00f4t central des archives de la justice militaire (DCAJM) holds the file on the German SS leader Klaus Barbie. The case of the \u201cButcher of Lyon\u201d\u2014who rose through the ranks as head of the Gestapo in Lyon from 1942 to 1944 during the Vichy regime thanks to his cruelty\u2014was reopened on the basis of these files and led to a trial in France in 1987.<\/p>\n

In this archive, I found Schneider\u2019s investigation file. It concerned murders and looting in Rombach. In this file, I found photographs of SS men in uniform and leather boots. The investigators identified the SS man in this photograph as Hans Degen, the head of the factory police at the Rombacher H\u00fctte, and wrote his name by hand in blue ink on the photograph, adding an arrow pointing to him. As I later learned, he was a regular at the M\u00fcllerhaus.<\/p>\n

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Source: D\u00e9p\u00f4t central des archives de la justice militaire (DCAJM) in Le Blanc, Indre, France\u00a0 https:\/\/lannuaire.service-public.gouv.fr\/gouvernement\/9bdb4a96-76ac-4050-b044-a39f015fa9ce<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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An archival discovery is always a piece of evidence that frees you from the burden of not knowing. And you can learn in this case how propaganda works: Foto left: Germanization in eastern France\u2014 foto right: in 1943 near St. Privat\u2014\u201cHonoring the last comrade-in-arms from 1870.\u201d third from the right: Charles Schneider \/ Source: Mus\u00e9e de la M\u00e9moire de la Moselle 1939\u20131945 \u2013 ASCOMEMO http:\/\/ascomemo.chez.com\/<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Photo on the right:\u00a0 “Photo of the defendant, Charles Schneider, Ortsgruppenleiter in Rombas”. Source: The Moselle Departmental Archives – https:\/\/www.archives57.com\/<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Archives –\u00a0 Archives are treasure troves of history. The French archive, the D\u00e9p\u00f4t central des archives de la justice militaire (DCAJM) holds the file on the German SS leader Klaus Barbie. The case of the \u201cButcher of Lyon\u201d\u2014who rose through the ranks as head of the Gestapo in Lyon from 1942 to 1944 during the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12371,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-method"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preserving-family-history.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preserving-family-history.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preserving-family-history.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preserving-family-history.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preserving-family-history.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13769"}],"version-history":[{"count":41,"href":"https:\/\/preserving-family-history.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16992,"href":"https:\/\/preserving-family-history.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13769\/revisions\/16992"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preserving-family-history.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preserving-family-history.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preserving-family-history.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preserving-family-history.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}