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Warsaw Ghetto Uprising: Stroop Telegram of May 24, 1943

24/5/1943

Author: Jürgen Stroop

Description: This document is a report from Jürgen Stroop, the SS and Police Leader in the Warsaw District, to the Higher SS and Police Leader East, Krüger, in Kraków. The date is May 24, 1943. It is a report about the “Ghetto-Großaktion” (Great Ghetto Action) - the suppression of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. It details the number of Jews killed, the number of bunkers destroyed, and the amount of weapons and other materials seized during the operation. This document also explicitly refers to Jews who were "annihilated" (vernichtet) after being sent to T II (Treblinka II).

Tags: Holocaust, Aktion Reinhard, Treblinka, Warsaw Ghetto Uprising


Presidential Proclamation 80

15/4/1861

Author: Abraham Lincoln

Description: The final version of Abraham Lincoln's Presidential Proclamation 80, calling up 75,000 militiamen for 3 month's service and calling Congress into an emergency session

Tags: Secession Crisis, American Civil War


Planungsgrundlagen für den Aufbau der Ostgebiete.- Bericht der Planungshauptabteilung des RKFV

None/None/1942

Author: None

Description: A report on the status of Generalplan Ost planning and execution, among other things

Tags: WW2, Lebensraum, Generalplan Ost


Map of Lithuanian Railroads, circa 1939

17/3/1943

Author: Office of Strategic Services

Description: A map showing Lithuania's railroads as they were in 1939, as sorted by gauge

Tags: WW2, Railroads, OSS, OSS Branch of Research and Analysis


Map of Latvian Railways in 1937

None/None/1937

Author: Hugo Ermanis

Description: A map of the Latvian Railways in 1937.

Tags: Railroads


1942 Letter from Reinhard Heydrich to Martin Luther, which was attached to the minutes of the Wannsee Protocol

26/2/1942

Author: Reinhard Heydrich

Description: A 1942 Letter from Reinhard Heydrich to Martin Luther, which was attached to the minutes of the Wannsee Protocol

Tags: Holocaust, WW2, SS, Wannsee Conference