In February 1943, RSHA chief Ernst Kaltenbrunner reported to Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler on the recent deportation of 5,000 able-bodied Jews
On 11 January 1943, SS-Sturmbannführer Hermann Höfle, coordinator of Operation Reinhard(t), sent top-secret telegrams on its death toll to SS
On January 29, 1943, the Central Construction Office of the Waffen-SS at Auschwitz reported to SS-Brigadeführer Hans Kammler on the
Report by SS-Obergruppenführer Oswald Pohl, head of the SS Main Economic and Administrative Office (SS-WVHA), to Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler, dated
Memo on a telephone call on 17 February 1943 between Topf engineers Karl Schultze and Fritz Sander, in which Sander
A telex dated February 20, 1943 from SS-Obersturmführer Heinrich Schwarz, head of labour deployment in Auschwitz, to the SS Main
A decree dated February 24, 1943 issued by Walter Springorum, President of the Government District of Kattowitz, reports a incident
Daily construction report from the firm W. Riedel & Sohn, dated 2 March 1943, detailing the work carried out on
In March 1943, the Swiss Legation in Germany forwarded a transcript of a report from Alfred Rosenberg’s Ministry for the
Carbon copy of letter issued by the Central Construction Office at Auschwitz, dated March 31, 1943, mentions "three gas-tight doors"
The memo dated April 5, 1943, from Adolf Windecker (Representative of the Foreign Office to the Reich Commissioner for the
A brief letter written by Heinrich Himmler, Reichsführer-SS, on April 9, 1943, to Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Chief of the Security Police
In April 1943, Heinrich Himmler ordered changes to the Korherr Report, the SS’s statistical account of the “Final Solution" he
On April 16, 1943, Hans Biebow, head of the Nazi's Łódź (Litzmannstadt) Ghetto Administration, penned a letter to Friedrich Ribbe
On April 19, 1943, SS statistician Richard Korherr submitted a shortened version of his Korherr Report – the SS’s
This post reproduces the so called Korherr Report, a statistical report on the "Final Solution of the European Jewish Question"
The Franke-Gricksch Report was written by SS officer Alfred Franke-Gricksch following his visit to the Auschwitz concentration camp in May
In May 1943, Walter Schellenberg, head of RSHA Office VI (Ausland – SD-Ausland), informed the German Foreign Office of Britain’s
Between 20 and 29 September 1942, an Italian delegation led by Fascist Party secretary Aldo Vidussoni traveled from Milan through
Transcript from June 8, 1943, of a meeting between Adolf Hitler and Wilhelm Keitel, Chief of the Wehrmacht High Command.
In June 1943, SS officials completed a selection process at Auschwitz and choose 115 prisoners – mostly Jews – for
On June 22, 1943, the Forschungsstelle A Litzmannstadt – a local intelligence branch under Hermann Göring's Secret Service –
The letter dated June 24, 1943 was sent from Walter Becht, Disctrict Administrator of Warthbrücken (Kolo) to the State
Report by German Journalist Hans-Joachim Kausch dated June 26, 1943 on a tour through occupied Ukraine and Crimea organised by
On June 28, 1943, the Central Construction Office Auschwitz wrote a report addressed to the SS-WVHA on the completion of
On June 30, 1943, the SS and Police Leader of Galicia in Lemberg (Lwiw) SS-Gruppenführer Fritz Katzmann submitted to the
A classified Nazi Party circular dated July 11, 1943, on the "Handling the Jewish Question" issued by Martin Bormann and
On July 20, 1943, SS-Obersturmbannführer Eduard Strauch, Commander of the Security Police and the SD in White Ruthenia, issued a
Albert Plate, deputy commander of Kulmhof extermination camp, confirmed the correctness of the claim by Walter Becht, Disctrict Administrator of
On September 22, 1943, the Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler issued a directive on the accounting of the "Reinhard 1" account due
Copy of a letter dated October 27, 1943, from SS-Gruppenführer Odilo Globocnik to SS-Gruppenführer von Herff of the SS Personnel
On 4 November 1943, Odilo Globocnik reported to Heinrich Himmler the completion of "Operation Reinhardt, which I led in the
A report dated November 7, 1943, written by a employee attached to the Commander of the Security Police in Kaunas
On 9 November 1943, the Commander of the Security Police and SD in Lithuania sent a telex to the Vilna
A report dated 22 November 1943 from the Security Police and SD field office in Ponevezh (Panevėžys) to the Security
In this letter dated 30 November 1943, Heinrich Himmler replied to Odilo Globocnik letter of 4 November 1943 and acknowleged
In a letter dated January 5, 1944, the Higher SS and Police Leader Odilo Globocnik, addressed Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler regarding
Report by Odilo Globocnik on the "economic part of Operation Reinhardt" enclosed in his letter of January 5, 1944 to
Operation Reinhardt (also Reinhard), a Nazi campaign to exterminate Jews in the Generalgouvernement region of occupied Poland, systematically seized the
Situation report dated 13 January 1944 from the Commander of the Security Police and SD in Kovno. According to the
A series of wartime letters from early 1944 shows how knowledge of Sonderkommando 1005 circulated within German military and SS
On February 3, 1944, Eichmann's office dispatched a letter, signed by the head of the RSHA, Ernst Kaltenbrunner, to Reichsführer-SS
In February 1944, Swiss intelligence received one 106-page report by a defector (agent code D 143) from Nazi Germany’s Sicherheitsdienst
Letter dated February 14, 1944, regarding the Nazi administration's plans for the liquidation of the Litzmannstadt (Łódź) ghetto, one of
Odilo Globocnik's report, enclosed in his January 5, 1944 letter to Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler, details the "administrative processing of Operation
The Feldscher Aktion, named after Swiss diplomat Peter Anton Feldscher, represented a significant diplomatic effort by the British government during
On July 5, 1944, Horst Wagner, head of Jewish affairs at the German Foreign Office, sent critical information in a
On September 1, 1944, Swiss envoy Hans Frölicher sent a letter to Swiss Foreign Minister Marcel Pilet-Golaz reporting on news
In correspondence dated September 5, 1944 SS-Standartenführer Wolfram Sievers discusses the fate of Nazi's "Jewish skeleton collection" housed in Strasbourg’s anatomy
Memo by SS-Sturmbannführer Herbert Strickner, head of RSHA Department III (Volkstum, or Ethnicity), analyzing occupation policy from 1939 to 1944
After the shooting of Generalleutnant Fritz von Brodowski while in Allied captivity on 28 October 1944, the Nazis retaliated by
In a directive dated January 26, 1945, SS-Standartenführer Walter Albath, Inspector of the Security Police and SD in Düsseldorf,
The following report, dated February 1945, was authored by Heinrich May, detailing his experience and knowledge of the Kulmhof (Chelmno)
A letter dated February 11, 1945, written by SS-Gruppenführer Odilo Globocnik—then Higher SS and Police Leader in the Adriatic Littoral—to
On 4 May 1945, Kurt Gerstein completed a report describing his curriculum vitae and his inspection trip as SS-to the