Medical Services Report issued by the Ortskommandantur in Mariampol (Lithuania) on 5 April 1942. the report notes the need to

Situation report dated 13 January 1944 from the Commander of the Security Police and SD in Kovno. According to the

Willi Lenz, a Schutzpolizei officer born in 1894, was one of the most brutal perpetrators at the Kulmhof (Chełmno) extermination

On 9 November 1943, the Commander of the Security Police and SD in Lithuania sent a telex to the Vilna

On 29 January 1942, the office of the Reichsführer-SS forwarded to the Reich Ministry for the Occupied Eastern Territories a

Report dated September 4, 1941, from the Kaišiadorys police precinct (Trakai district, Lithuania) to the head of the Trakai district.

On February 6, 1942, the BdS Ostland in Riga (head of Einsatzgruppe A) telexed its Einsatzkommandos in Reval, Minsk and

This directive on "Burial sites of the Jews", issued on 25 April 1942 by the District Commissioner of Wilna-Land (Vilnius

A report dated 22 November 1943 from the Security Police and SD field office in Ponevezh (Panevėžys) to the Security

This document, dated 31 August 1941 and issued by the Trakai district administration in Lithuania, reports that “in Kaišiadorys, Žasliai,

A series of wartime letters from early 1944 shows how knowledge of Sonderkommando 1005 circulated within German military and SS

A report dated November 7, 1943, written by a employee attached to the Commander of the Security Police in Kaunas

Joint interrogation of Otto Moll and Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Höß on April 16, 1946. Höss stated that it "was the

Sworn statement of Otto Moll, taken at Dachau by U.S. investigators on November 3, 1945. At the center of

On May 16, 1942, SS-Untersturmführer August Becker submitted a report to the head of RSHA department II D, Walther Rauff,

Interrogation of notorious Auschwitz perpetrator Otto Moll, conducted on April 15–16, 1946. In his statements to U.S. prosecutors at Nuremberg,

In March 1943, the Swiss Legation in Germany forwarded a transcript of a report from Alfred Rosenberg’s Ministry for the

Einsatzgruppen Report No. 88, dated 19 September 1941, constitutes contemporaneous evidence of systematic Nazi mass murder in the occuopied Soviet

Telex from the Higher SS and Police Leader (HSSPF) Russia South, Friedrich Jeckeln, to the Kommando Stab RF-SS, dated 26

A confidential report dated April 7, 1942, issued by the Lublin Labor Office, documents labor allocations for March 1942, including

Radio message from the Higher SS and Police Leader (HSSPF) Russia South, Friedrich Jeckeln, to the Kommando Stab RF-SS, dated

Interrogation of former SS-Untersturmführer Hans Stark of the Auschwitz Political Department, dated April 28, 1959, on atrocities committed at the

Report by SS-Obergruppenführer Oswald Pohl, head of the SS Main Economic and Administrative Office (SS-WVHA), to Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler, dated

Cover letter dated 13 November 1941 and situation report dated 10 November 1941 from the Wehrmacht Commander in White Ruthenia

Dated 10 November 1941 and issued by the Wehrmacht commander in occupied Belarus, this monthly report records that of 10,940

In an interrogation conducted by West German authorities on November 2, 1960, former SS driver Richard Böck gave further testimony

Telex from the Higher SS and Police Leader (HSSPF) Russia South, Friedrich Jeckeln, to the Command Staff RF-SS, dated 25

Telex (copy) from the Higher SS and Police Leader (HSSPF) Russia South, Friedrich Jeckeln, to the Kommando Stab RF-SS, dated

Radio message (copy) from the Higher SS and Police Leader (HSSPF) Mitte, Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski, to the Kommando Stab

On 4 May 1945, Kurt Gerstein completed a report describing his curriculum vitae and his inspection trip as SS-to the

A report submitted by the Wehrmacht’s Local Headquarters in Kerch, Crimea on 7 December 1941 recorded the extermination of the

This detachment order from SS Cavalry Regiment 1, issued on 1 August 1942, illustrates how Himmler’s earlier order that "all

An explicit directive issued by Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler transmitted via radio signal to SS Cavalry Regiment 2 on August 1,

On June 30, 1943, the SS and Police Leader of Galicia in Lemberg (Lwiw) SS-Gruppenführer Fritz Katzmann submitted to the

Daily construction report from the firm W. Riedel & Sohn, dated 2 March 1943, detailing the work carried out on

War Diary no. 1 of the Operation Staff Minsk, compiled by SS-Obersturmführer Fritz Biermeier for the Higher SS and Police

A report dated 1 August 1941 by Higher SS and Police Leader SS-Obergruppenführer Friedrich Jeckeln describes a three-day “cleansing operation”

In this secret directive (telex dated 25 October 1942), SS-Obersturmbannführer Arthur Liebehenschel instructed SS-Hauptsturmführer Hans Aumeier that any inspection of

On April 19, 1943, SS statistician Richard Korherr submitted a shortened version of his Korherr Report – the SS’s

On July 20, 1943, SS-Obersturmbannführer Eduard Strauch, Commander of the Security Police and the SD in White Ruthenia, issued a

In April 1943, Heinrich Himmler ordered changes to the Korherr Report, the SS’s statistical account of the “Final Solution" he

A brief letter written by Heinrich Himmler, Reichsführer-SS, on April 9, 1943, to Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Chief of the Security Police

On January 29, 1943, the Central Construction Office of the Waffen-SS at Auschwitz reported to SS-Brigadeführer Hans Kammler on the

On December 7, 1942, a German city medical officer named Dr. Wilhelm Hagen wrote an extraordinary letter addressed directly to

In February 1944, Swiss intelligence received one 106-page report by a defector (agent code D 143) from Nazi Germany’s Sicherheitsdienst

Copy of a report dated 5 July 1945 by Wilhelm Boger, given while in U.S. custody, on his personal background,

Report by German Journalist Hans-Joachim Kausch dated June 26, 1943 on a tour through occupied Ukraine and Crimea organised by

In correspondence dated September 5, 1944 SS-Standartenführer Wolfram Sievers discusses the fate of Nazi's "Jewish skeleton collection" housed in Strasbourg’s anatomy

This post reproduces the so called Korherr Report, a statistical report on the "Final Solution of the European Jewish Question"

In June 1943, SS officials completed a selection process at Auschwitz and choose 115 prisoners – mostly Jews – for

A classified Nazi Party circular dated July 11, 1943, on the "Handling the Jewish Question" issued by Martin Bormann and

In 1942, the Reichsführer-SS, Heinrich Himmler, authorized the killing of 150 prisoners – primarily Jews – from Auschwitz to create

In February 1943, RSHA chief Ernst Kaltenbrunner reported to Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler on the recent deportation of 5,000 able-bodied Jews

Carbon copy of letter issued by the Central Construction Office at Auschwitz, dated March 31, 1943, mentions "three gas-tight doors"

On October 27, 1942, Heinrich Himmler issued an order to Hans-Adolf Prützmann, the Higher SS and Police Leader in Ukraine,

A radio message from the SS Economic and Administrative Main Office (SS-WVHA) to the Auschwitz concentration camp, dated 26 August

This post presents the testimony of SS-Unterscharführer Richard Böck, recorded on February, 5 1959 by the Baden-Württemberg State Criminal Police.

In October 1958, Wilhelm Boger, a former SS officer known for his role at Auschwitz, was arrested and interrogated by

German military report from March 19, 1942 on the mood and conditions of the civilian population in Lemberg (now

On September 16, 1942, SS-Obergruppenführer Oswald Pohl, head of the SS Economic and Administrative Main Office, sent a letter to

Transcript from June 8, 1943, of a meeting between Adolf Hitler and Wilhelm Keitel, Chief of the Wehrmacht High Command.

In a report dated 6 March 1942, Oberregierungsrat Paul Haensel presented findings from his inspection trip to Minsk. According to

A telex dated February 20, 1943 from SS-Obersturmführer Heinrich Schwarz, head of labour deployment in Auschwitz, to the SS Main

The Stahlecker Report, submitted after October 15, 1941, offers an account of how Einsatzgruppe A, under the command of

On January 24, 1961, West German prosecutors interrogated Georg Michalsen, a former SS officer involved in Ghetto liquidations in the

A letter dated February 11, 1945, written by SS-Gruppenführer Odilo Globocnik—then Higher SS and Police Leader in the Adriatic Littoral—to

A decree dated February 24, 1943 issued by Walter Springorum, President of the Government District of Kattowitz, reports a incident

Manuscript of a speech delivered on November 18, 1941, by Alfred Rosenberg at his Reich Ministry for the Occupied Eastern

Interrogation transcript of former Treblinka extermination camp guard SS-Unterscharführer Gustav Münzberger, dated March 31 and April 1, 1960. In his

Memo dated June 5, 1942, authored by SS-Hauptsturmführer Willy Just of RSHA office II D 3 a (Motor Vehicle Department

Interrogation protocol of Kurt Franz, a former member of Sonderkommando Reinhard and deputy commander and later commander of the Treblinka

The Swiss cardiologist and medical captain Robert Hegglin participated in the so-called third medical mission of the Swiss Red Cross,

On March 16, 1946, Rudolf Höss, the former commandant of Auschwitz concentration camp, gave a statement while in British capture.

Copy of a letter dated October 27, 1943, from SS-Gruppenführer Odilo Globocnik to SS-Gruppenführer von Herff of the SS Personnel

On September 1, 1944, Swiss envoy Hans Frölicher sent a letter to Swiss Foreign Minister Marcel Pilet-Golaz reporting on news

On July 5, 1944, Horst Wagner, head of Jewish affairs at the German Foreign Office, sent critical information in a

The Event Report USSR No. 101 was issued by the Secret State Police on December 19, 1941. According to the

In late 1942, several thousand Poles were deported from Zamosc, Poland, following Nazi racial classifications that determined their fate. This

Radio message from the Gendarmerie District Ostrowo to the Gendarmerie post in Adelnau, dated May 16, 1942. The message reported

Memo on a telephone call on 17 February 1943 between Topf engineers Karl Schultze and Fritz Sander, in which Sander

On February 3, 1944, Eichmann's office dispatched a letter, signed by the head of the RSHA, Ernst Kaltenbrunner, to Reichsführer-SS

The memo dated April 5, 1943, from Adolf Windecker (Representative of the Foreign Office to the Reich Commissioner for the

On October 2, 1941, Office IV of the Reich Security Main Office (RSHA) issued Event Report USSR No. 101 (Ereignismeldung

On 11 January 1943, SS-Sturmbannführer Hermann Höfle, coordinator of Operation Reinhard(t), sent top-secret telegrams on its death toll to SS

On June 22, 1943, the Forschungsstelle A Litzmannstadt – a local intelligence branch under Hermann Göring's Secret Service –

On September 22, 1943, the Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler issued a directive on the accounting of the "Reinhard 1" account due

A form sheet by SS-Sturmbannführer Hermann Höfle dated July 18, 1942, on the individual's responsibilities and strict secrecy surrounding their

In 1942, the SS Main Office pursued an investigation into Oskar Dirlewanger, commander of the notorious penal unit, Sonderkommando Dirlewanger.

In this letter dated March 4, 1942, the Reichsarzt SS Ernst-Robert Grawitz describes the medical condition and recovery process of

On February 13, 1942, Reinhard Heydrich's adjutant, SS-Hauptsturmführer Hans-Achim Ploetz, forwarded a report from Einsatzgruppe A to the staff of

Letter dated February 14, 1944, regarding the Nazi administration's plans for the liquidation of the Litzmannstadt (Łódź) ghetto, one of

Paul Wurm, the Foreign Editor of the Nazi propaganda newspaper Der Stürmer and head of the so-called "Anti-Jewish World League,"

After the shooting of Generalleutnant Fritz von Brodowski while in Allied captivity on 28 October 1944, the Nazis retaliated by

On September 18, 1941, Heinrich Himmler sent a letter to Arthur Greiser, Gauleiter of the Warthegau, conveying Hitler's request that

On July 19, 1942, Heinrich Himmler, the Reichsführer of the SS, issued a directive ordering the complete "resettlement of the

In a directive dated January 26, 1945, SS-Standartenführer Walter Albath, Inspector of the Security Police and SD in Düsseldorf,

On December 18, 1941, Heinrich Himmler recorded a meeting with Adolf Hitler at the Führerhauptquartier (Wolfsschanze) in his Diensttagebuch (service

Proposal for the Award of the War Merit Cross II Class with Swords by the Gestapo Headquarters in Posen, dated

On August 1, 1941, Reich Minister Alfred Rosenberg led a high-level meeting to discuss the governance of Nazi-occupied territories in

Interrogation report dated September 30, 1942, documenting the questioning of SS-Oberscharführer Heinrich Feiertag by an SS court officer regarding allegations