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1942-04-05 / German Army in Mariampol (Lithuania): Reinforce “Jewish Graves With an Additional Covering of Earth”
Medical Services Report issued by the Ortskommandantur in Mariampol (Lithuania) on 5 April 1942. the report notes the need to
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1944-01-13 / Security Police Kovno Situation Report: “64 Laborers Deployed At Fort IX As Part Of Operation 1005 B Broke Out”
Situation report dated 13 January 1944 from the Commander of the Security Police and SD in Kovno. According to the
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Willi Lenz (1894–1945): The “Doctor” of Kulmhof
Willi Lenz, a Schutzpolizei officer born in 1894, was one of the most brutal perpetrators at the Kulmhof (Chełmno) extermination
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1943-11-11 / The Security Police in Vilna: “8,019 Jews, Jewesses, and Jewish Children Have Been Executed”
On 9 November 1943, the Commander of the Security Police and SD in Lithuania sent a telex to the Vilna
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1942-01-29 / Guidelines for the Occupied Eastern Territories: “Elimination of Jewry […] Fairly Rapid Solution of the Jewish Question”
On 29 January 1942, the office of the Reichsführer-SS forwarded to the Reich Ministry for the Occupied Eastern Territories a
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1941-09-04 / “All Jews Were liquidated” – A Lithuanian Police Report During Nazi Occupation
Report dated September 4, 1941, from the Kaišiadorys police precinct (Trakai district, Lithuania) to the head of the Trakai district.
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1942-02-09 / “138,272, of Which Women 55,556, Children 34,464” – Executions Reported By EK 3 Commander Karl Jäger
On February 6, 1942, the BdS Ostland in Riga (head of Einsatzgruppe A) telexed its Einsatzkommandos in Reval, Minsk and
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1942-04-25 / District Commissioner of Vilnius Region: “Liquidation Sites of the Jews Must Be Covered With Chlorinated Lime”
This directive on "Burial sites of the Jews", issued on 25 April 1942 by the District Commissioner of Wilna-Land (Vilnius
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1943-11-22 / Jewish Escape Report from the Security Police in Ponevezh: “Levinas was given special treatment … His death was to be expected in any case”
A report dated 22 November 1943 from the Security Police and SD field office in Ponevezh (Panevėžys) to the Security
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1941-08-31 / “Not a Single Jewish Person Remaining” – A Lithuanian District Report During Nazi Occupation
This document, dated 31 August 1941 and issued by the Trakai district administration in Lithuania, reports that “in Kaišiadorys, Žasliai,
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1944-01-21 / Secrets at Kaunas Fort IX: “Told Me About Your Kommando 1005 B, Even Giving Me Concrete Figures”
A series of wartime letters from early 1944 shows how knowledge of Sonderkommando 1005 circulated within German military and SS
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1943-11-07 / Kaunas Security Police Report: “Jewish bones are being burned” at Fort IX
A report dated November 7, 1943, written by a employee attached to the Commander of the Security Police in Kaunas
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1946-04-16 / Joint Interrogation of Otto Moll and Auschwitz Commandant Rudolf Höß
Joint interrogation of Otto Moll and Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Höß on April 16, 1946. Höss stated that it "was the
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1945-11-03 / Otto Moll’s 1945 Dachau Statement
Sworn statement of Otto Moll, taken at Dachau by U.S. investigators on November 3, 1945. At the center of
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1942-05-16 / The Becker Letter on Gas Vans: “The gassing is generally not carried out correctly … the persons being executed die of suffocation”
On May 16, 1942, SS-Untersturmführer August Becker submitted a report to the head of RSHA department II D, Walther Rauff,
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1946-04-15 / Testimony of Otto Moll, Head of Auschwitz Crematoria
Interrogation of notorious Auschwitz perpetrator Otto Moll, conducted on April 15–16, 1946. In his statements to U.S. prosecutors at Nuremberg,
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1943-03-24 / Swiss Intelligence Receives 1942 German Report on Ukraine that “Executions of Jews Have Not Improved Our Reputation”
In March 1943, the Swiss Legation in Germany forwarded a transcript of a report from Alfred Rosenberg’s Ministry for the
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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
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1941-08-26 / Telex from HSSPF South: 1269 Jews Shot by SS and Police Units
Telex from the Higher SS and Police Leader (HSSPF) Russia South, Friedrich Jeckeln, to the Kommando Stab RF-SS, dated 26
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1942-04-07 / Labor Office Report Lublin: “Of the 40,000 Jews in Lublin, all but 2,000 are being removed from the city”
A confidential report dated April 7, 1942, issued by the Lublin Labor Office, documents labor allocations for March 1942, including
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1941-08-28 / Radio Message from HSSPF South: “5,000 Jews were shot” in Kamenets-Podolsky
Radio message from the Higher SS and Police Leader (HSSPF) Russia South, Friedrich Jeckeln, to the Kommando Stab RF-SS, dated