The extremely wide spectrum which the Commission's work will have to cover requires very different approaches to each of the fields to be examined. The farther away one moves from the sphere of government, the more difficult do the avenues of access become.

The following is a list of institutions - which does not claim to be complete - that should be used for the work of the planned research teams:

Austrian State Archives including their General Administrative Archive and Archive of the Republic, plus the holdings of the Ministries

The archives of each of the nine constituent states (sometimes called "Provinces") of Austria and the materials still in the files of various regional government departments

Municipal and local archives

The archives of the national Parliament and of the regional parliaments (including documents held by party caucuses)

Courts of justice

Regional internal revenue directorates

Regional security directorates

Regional employment services

Public registry offices

Pharmaceutical salary handling departments

Social security bodies

Insurance archives

Jewish Community ("Kultusgemeinde")

Ecclesiastical and monastic archives

Archives of the Council ("Oberkirchenrat") of Protestant Churches (Lutheran and Reformed)

Jehovah's Witnesses

Archives (if any) of other religious communities

University and college archives

Archives of trade unions and "Chambers"

Archives of banks, savings banks and cooperatives

Archives of political parties

Archives of publishers

Archives of ethnic groups

Archives of business concerns

Mauthausen concentration camp memorial site

Files and papers (including those left by deceased persons) kept in the Military History Museum

Archives and collections of private individuals