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An Ordinance to dissolve the Union between the State of South Carolina and other States, or the South Carolina Ordinance of Secession

20/12/1860

Author: South Carolina

Description: This is South Carolina's Orinance of Secession, which theoretically split all ties between it and the United States of America

Tags: Secession Crisis, American Civil War


Final Report: Japanese Evacuation from the West Coast, Chapters 1 and 2

None/None/1942

Author: Lieutenant General J.L. De Wit

Description: A report on the execution of Japanese Internment. Provides a favorable overview of internment and explains army rationale and logistics. Used as Exhibit B in United States v. Korematsu.

Tags: WW2, Japanese Internment


The Jäger Report

1/12/1941

Author: Karl Jäger

Description: The infamous Jäger Report, which details the killings by Einsatzkommando 3 under Karl Jäger up to November, 1941.

Tags: Holocaust, Einsatzgruppen, WW2, Genocide, SS


The Franke-Gricksch Report

None/5/1943

Author: Alfred Franke-Gricksch

Description: The Franke-Gricksch Report is a detailed Nazi document describing the "Resettlement Action of the Jews" at Auschwitz. It outlines the process of mass extermination and is one of the most explicit documents on the Holocaust, aside from the Einsatzgruppen Reports and the Wansee Protocol. © Copyright, Holocaust Controversies, 2019. Check with them under the linked blog post for permission to use this document outside of fair use.

Tags: Holocaust, Auschwitz, WW2, Genocide


Letter from January 1943 discussing the construction of the "Vergasungskeller"

29/1/1943

Author: SS-Sturmbahnführer Karl Bischoff

Description: A Letter from January, 1943 from SS Major Bischoff, head of the Bauleitung (Auschwitz Waffen SS and Police Central Construction Management), addressed to SS Major-General Kammler in Berlin, about the progress of work at Krematorium II, in which the word “Vergasungskeller” is used.

Tags: Holocaust, Auschwitz


Interim Policy Changes Regarding Charging, Sentencing, And Immigration Enforcement

21/1/2025

Author: Emil Bove

Description: A memorandum to all DoJ employees rescinding multiple prior DoJ policies pertaining to immigration enforcement and reinstating as interim policy a 2017 memo that orders U.S. Attorney's Offices to pursue “the most serious, readily provable offenses.”

Tags: 2nd Donald Trump Presidency, U.S. Immigration