Documents
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
1942-09-30 Poison and Human Soap – SS Investigator Interrogates Member of Sonderkommando Dirlewanger
Interrogation report dated September 30, 1942, documenting the questioning of SS-Oberscharführer Heinrich Feiertag by an SS court officer regarding allegations
In May 1943, Walter Schellenberg, head of RSHA Office VI (Ausland – SD-Ausland), informed the German Foreign Office of Britain’s
The Feldscher Aktion, named after Swiss diplomat Peter Anton Feldscher, represented a significant diplomatic effort by the British government during
Between 20 and 29 September 1942, an Italian delegation led by Fascist Party secretary Aldo Vidussoni traveled from Milan through
On 8 July 1942, Albert Plate from the Sonderkommando Kulmhof discussed with the Ghetto Lodz Administration regarding the supply of
Memo by SS-Sturmbannführer Herbert Strickner, head of RSHA Department III (Volkstum, or Ethnicity), analyzing occupation policy from 1939 to 1944
Operation Reinhardt (also Reinhard), a Nazi campaign to exterminate Jews in the Generalgouvernement region of occupied Poland, systematically seized the
On December 29, 1942, SS-Reichsführer Heinrich Himmler delivered a report to Adolf Hitler, mentioning the execution of 363,211 Jews within
On April 16, 1943, Hans Biebow, head of the Nazi's Łódź (Litzmannstadt) Ghetto Administration, penned a letter to Friedrich Ribbe
On 15 July 1942, SS-Obersturmbannführer Ernst Fick, commander of the Sennheim training camp, requested a portable flamethrower unit from the
According to a radio message from September 15, 1942 and a trip report dated September 17, 1942, on 16 September
Between 1940 and 1942, Franz Heinrich Bock served as Mayor and Official Commissioner of the Polish village of Poddębice. During
On June 28, 1943, the Central Construction Office Auschwitz wrote a report addressed to the SS-WVHA on the completion of
Wilm Hosenfeld, a German officer stationed in Warsaw during World War II, recounts in a diary entry of 23 July
In June and July 1942, the Ghetto Łódź Administration delivered large quantities of chlorinated lime and cement to the
In March 1942, the Inspector of the Health Service under the Reich Commissary for the Consolidation of German Folk ordered
Report by Topf & Söhne engineer Fritz Sander, dated September 14, 1942, on the new construction of incineration ovens for
Memo by Topf & Söhne engineer Kurt Prüfer regarding a phone call with the SS-Wirtschafts-Verwaltungshauptamt (SS Economic and Administrative Main
Report of SS-Untersturmführer Fritz Ertl, dated August 21, 1942 about a meeting with engineers Kurt Prüfer and Robert Köhler in
The Franke-Gricksch Report was written by SS officer Alfred Franke-Gricksch following his visit to the Auschwitz concentration camp in May
The letter dated 28 August 1942 discusses the transfer of furs confiscated from those murdered in Kulmhof (Chelmno) to the
1942-08-13 Letter from Wolff to Ganzenmüller on Deportations of Jews to Treblinka Extermination Camp
The following document, dated August 13, 1942, is SS-Obergruppenführer Karl Wolff's response to an earlier letter from Albert Ganzenmüller, Deputy
Odilo Globocnik's report, enclosed in his January 5, 1944 letter to Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler, details the "administrative processing of Operation
Deposition in Yiddish in February 1942 in the Warszaw Ghetto by Szlama Winer aka Jakub Grojnowski. In his account titled
Report by Odilo Globocnik on the "economic part of Operation Reinhardt" enclosed in his letter of January 5, 1944 to
In a letter dated January 5, 1944, the Higher SS and Police Leader Odilo Globocnik, addressed Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler regarding
In this letter dated 30 November 1943, Heinrich Himmler replied to Odilo Globocnik letter of 4 November 1943 and acknowleged
On 4 November 1943, Odilo Globocnik reported to Heinrich Himmler the completion of "Operation Reinhardt, which I led in the
In a report titled "The Incidents in Kulmhof," Hersz Wasser, the secretary of the Warsaw Ghetto underground organisation Oneg Shabbbat,
On 8 March 1942, the F. Reichelt Aktiengesellschaft Litzmannstadt, a Pharmaceutical Company, issued an invoice to the Ghetto Administration in
Albert Plate, deputy commander of Kulmhof extermination camp, confirmed the correctness of the claim by Walter Becht, Disctrict Administrator of
On October 4, 1941, the Government President of Litzmannstadt, Friedrich Uebelhoer, wrote to Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler, addressing the planned transfer
The letter dated June 24, 1943 was sent from Walter Becht, Disctrict Administrator of Warthbrücken (Kolo) to the State
On July 28, 1942, Albert Ganzenmüller, State Secretary in the Reich Ministry of Transport and Deputy Director General of the
In this intercepted radio communication dated 4 October 1941, Heinrich Himmler replied to Wilhelm Koppe that "the Sonderkommando is to
The following set of documents was provided on 3 March 1943 by the SS- and police leader of Lublin Odilo
In this radio communication dated 3 October 1941, intercepted by British intelligence, the Higher SS and Police Leader Posen, Wilhelm
On 23 June, 1942, SS-Oberführer Viktor Brack from Hitler's Chancellory wrote to Heinrich Himmler on the matter of mass sterilisation
On 16 August, 1941, the British intelligence intercepted a radio message from the Higher SS and Police Leader Center, Erich
Two days after Bach-Zelewski requested Sonderkommando Lange to come to Baranowicze, on August 18, 1941, the British intelligence intercepted another
On October 22, 1940, the Higher SS and Police Leader of East Prussia, SS-Gruppenführer Wilhelm Rediess, forwarded a letter from
As Wilhelm Rediess declined to pay 10 Reichsmarks for each institutional inmate killed by the Sonderkommando Lange in Soldau and
This document, dated November 7, 1940, is a response to the letter from Wilhelm Koppe to Jakob Sporrenberg. The former
In the letter of 19 October, 1940, the Higher SS and Police Leader of the Warthegau, Wilhelm Koppe, disclosed to
The document details a list of transports carrying 16,748 Jews from Radegast Station in the Łódź Ghetto to Przybyłów near
The document provides a list of transports with 10,348 Jews deported between March 1 and 15, 1942 from Radegast Station
The document is dated April 22, 1942 and was written by Forschungsstelle A Litzmannstadt (Łódź), a local branch of
The document, dated January 16, 1941, was addressed from Forschungsstelle A in Litzmannstadt to Forschungsamt 5 A 3. Both offices
The telex, dated December 9, 1941, was sent from Forschungsstelle A Litzmannstadt to Forschungsamt 5 A 3, both of which
The letter, dated December 3, 1942, from Himmler to SS-Obergruppenführer Greiser, acknowledges Dr. Blome's concerns regarding the proposed plan to
The letter, dated November 21, 1942, from the Reich Governor of the Reichsgau Wartheland Posen to Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler, discusses
While the Nazi authorities in the Warthegau were already planning the killing of Polish individuals incurably afflicted with tuberculosis, concerns
After receiving the request from the government of the Warthegau to kill Polish nationals suffering from incurable tuberculosis through the
On May 3, 1942, in a coordinated action with the Reich Governor Arthur Greiser of the Reichsgau Wartheland, Wilhelm Koppe,
On May 1, 1942, Arthur Greiser, the Reich Governor in the Reichsgau Wartheland, relayed to Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler that "The
On February 6, 1942, Martin Luther of the German Foreign Office forwarded an anonymous letter to Gestapo chief Heinrich Müller.
The letter, dated September 18, 1940, is addressed from SS-Oberscharführer Wendelin Seith to the Higher SS and Police Leader of
The document describes the fate of 127 individuals identified as "Jews with children under 14 years," deported from Kalisch by
This document of November 22, 1941 was written by Hauptmann Speckmann from the regular police in Kalisch (Kalisz) and describes
In January 1942, authorities in the Warthegau region grappled with the spread of typhus originating from Sinti and Roma victims,
On September 2, 1941, Rolf-Heinz Höppner, head of the Central Migration Office in Posen, outlined plans for reorganizing the office
On January 6, 1942, Herman Krumey, the head of the Migration Central Office in Litzmannstadt, recorded the names of three
On December 18, 1941, Ernst Damzog, the Inspector of the Security Police and SD in Posen, wrote to Hermann Krumey,
On July 16, 1941, authorities in the Reichsgau Wartheland convened to deliberate on what was euphemistically termed the "solution of
The following report, dated February 1945, was authored by Heinrich May, detailing his experience and knowledge of the Kulmhof (Chelmno)