On July 16, 1941, authorities in the Reichsgau Wartheland convened to deliberate on what was euphemistically termed the "solution of
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,
A report dated 1 August 1941 by Higher SS and Police Leader SS-Obergruppenführer Friedrich Jeckeln describes a three-day “cleansing operation”
On August 1, 1941, Reich Minister Alfred Rosenberg led a high-level meeting to discuss the governance of Nazi-occupied territories in
Radio message (copy) from the Higher SS and Police Leader (HSSPF) Mitte, Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski, to the Kommando Stab
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
Telex (copy) from the Higher SS and Police Leader (HSSPF) Russia South, Friedrich Jeckeln, to the Kommando Stab RF-SS, dated
Telex from the Higher SS and Police Leader (HSSPF) Russia South, Friedrich Jeckeln, to the Command Staff RF-SS, dated 25
Telex from the Higher SS and Police Leader (HSSPF) Russia South, Friedrich Jeckeln, to the Kommando Stab RF-SS, dated 26
Radio message from the Higher SS and Police Leader (HSSPF) Russia South, Friedrich Jeckeln, to the Kommando Stab RF-SS, dated
This document, dated 31 August 1941 and issued by the Trakai district administration in Lithuania, reports that “in Kaišiadorys, Žasliai,
On September 2, 1941, Rolf-Heinz Höppner, head of the Central Migration Office in Posen, outlined plans for reorganizing the office
Report dated September 4, 1941, from the Kaišiadorys police precinct (Trakai district, Lithuania) to the head of the Trakai district.
On September 18, 1941, Heinrich Himmler sent a letter to Arthur Greiser, Gauleiter of the Warthegau, conveying Hitler's request that
1941-09-19 / Einsatzgruppen Event Report USSR No. 88: “Total number of executions amounts to 85,000”
Einsatzgruppen Report No. 88, dated 19 September 1941, constitutes contemporaneous evidence of systematic Nazi mass murder in the occuopied Soviet
The Stahlecker Report, submitted after October 15, 1941, offers an account of how Einsatzgruppe A, under the command of
On October 2, 1941, Office IV of the Reich Security Main Office (RSHA) issued Event Report USSR No. 101 (Ereignismeldung
In this radio communication dated 3 October 1941, intercepted by British intelligence, the Higher SS and Police Leader Posen, Wilhelm
In this intercepted radio communication dated 4 October 1941, Heinrich Himmler replied to Wilhelm Koppe that "the Sonderkommando is to
On October 4, 1941, the Government President of Litzmannstadt, Friedrich Uebelhoer, wrote to Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler, addressing the planned transfer
Paul Wurm, the Foreign Editor of the Nazi propaganda newspaper Der Stürmer and head of the so-called "Anti-Jewish World League,"
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
Manuscript of a speech delivered on November 18, 1941, by Alfred Rosenberg at his Reich Ministry for the Occupied Eastern
This document of November 22, 1941 was written by Hauptmann Speckmann from the regular police in Kalisch (Kalisz) and describes
The document describes the fate of 127 individuals identified as "Jews with children under 14 years," deported from Kalisch by
A report submitted by the Wehrmacht’s Local Headquarters in Kerch, Crimea on 7 December 1941 recorded the extermination of the
The telex, dated December 9, 1941, was sent from Forschungsstelle A Litzmannstadt to Forschungsamt 5 A 3, both of which
On December 18, 1941, Heinrich Himmler recorded a meeting with Adolf Hitler at the Führerhauptquartier (Wolfsschanze) in his Diensttagebuch (service
On December 18, 1941, Ernst Damzog, the Inspector of the Security Police and SD in Posen, wrote to Hermann Krumey,
The Event Report USSR No. 101 was issued by the Secret State Police on December 19, 1941. According to the
As Wilhelm Rediess declined to pay 10 Reichsmarks for each institutional inmate killed by the Sonderkommando Lange in Soldau and