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On April 19, 1943, SS statistician Richard Korherr submitted a shortened version of his Korherr Report – the SS’s
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 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
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
Transcript from June 8, 1943, of a meeting between Adolf Hitler and Wilhelm Keitel, Chief of the Wehrmacht High Command.
Manuscript of a speech delivered on November 18, 1941, by Alfred Rosenberg at his Reich Ministry for the Occupied Eastern
On September 1, 1944, Swiss envoy Hans Frölicher sent a letter to Swiss Foreign Minister Marcel Pilet-Golaz reporting on news
Paul Wurm, the Foreign Editor of the Nazi propaganda newspaper Der Stürmer and head of the so-called "Anti-Jewish World League,"
On September 18, 1941, Heinrich Himmler sent a letter to Arthur Greiser, Gauleiter of the Warthegau, conveying Hitler's request that
On December 18, 1941, Heinrich Himmler recorded a meeting with Adolf Hitler at the Führerhauptquartier (Wolfsschanze) in his Diensttagebuch (service
On August 1, 1941, Reich Minister Alfred Rosenberg led a high-level meeting to discuss the governance of Nazi-occupied territories in
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
Memo by SS-Sturmbannführer Herbert Strickner, head of RSHA Department III (Volkstum, or Ethnicity), analyzing occupation policy from 1939 to 1944