Слідча частина МГБ і Слідчий відділ КГБ УРСР

The following cases contain information about the history of the Jews, the occupation regime and the Holocaust: • Documents on the identification of witnesses for the Nuremberg International Trial against the Nazi war criminals (1945); • documents on the preparation and conduct of an public trial in Kiev over Nazi war criminals (1946); • documents on the activities of the OUN and the UPA in the western regions of Ukraine (informations on the arrested persons, minutes of interrogations, memorandums on the conduct of trials) (1946-1949); • Correspondence of state security bodies with party and government bodies, departments and non-governmental organizations in relation to Nazi war criminals (1966-1970); • Lists of German military and Nazi criminals living in the Federal Republic of Germany (compiled on the basis of the "Brown Book" published in GDR in 1965) • card index for Nazi war criminals compiled by the KGB investigators; • Copies of documentation of mass destruction of Soviet citizens by German invaders in Babyn Yar in Kyiv in 1941-1943 (1980); • correspondence on criminal cases concerning military criminals, state property thefts, smuggling, etc. (1985-1986). Since 1921, within VUChK-GPU-NKVD-NKGB-MGB an Investigative section for conducting preliminary investigation in especially important cases was functioning as an independent unit. In 1954, KGB Investigation Department the was created.