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Stroop Tägliche Meldung (Daily Report) No. 01

20/4/1943

Author: Jürgen Stroop

Description: The First of Jürgen Stroop's Tägliche Meldungen on the repression of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.

Tags: Holocaust, Aktion Reinhard, Warsaw Ghetto Uprising


Surrender Rescript of Emperor Hirohito

2/9/1945

Author: Emperor Shōwa

Description: The Surrender Rescript, issued by Emperor Hirohito (Shōwa) on September 2nd. This rescript officially ended the Pacific War.

Tags: WW2, Pacific War, Japanese Surrender (WW2)


Letter to Heinrich Himmler concerning the financial accounts of the Reinhardt Action

5/1/1944

Author: Odilo Globocnik

Description: Globocnik to Himmler and Pohl attaching accounts on Action Reinhardt; shows delivery of 179 million Reichsmarks of confiscated property. Globocnik also mentions that "With the entire settlement of Reinhardt, there is also the fact that their receipts must be destroyed as soon as possible, since the documents have already been destroyed [vernichtet sind] for all other work in this matter," explicitly referring to the destruction of documentation relating to the Holocaust.

Tags: Holocaust, Aktion Reinhard


US Immigration and Custom Enforcement (ICE) Application Incoming Request for FMCSA Exemption

15/9/2025

Author: Melissa B. Harper

Description: This document is a letter dated August 25, 2025, from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA). It formally requests a six-month, renewable exemption from several FMCSA hours-of-service rules for commercial carriers contracted to transport detained individuals for ICE.

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Bericht zur Innenpolitischen Lager 002

11/10/1939

Author: None

Description: The second in a series of reports from within the RSHA on the internal state of the Third Reich

Tags: RSHA, WW2, SD Internal Reports


ISCOT 399

21/10/1944

Author: None

Description: A British SIGINT intercept of a COMINTERN message regarding the gassing of Hungarian Jews in Auschwitz. This is the first published transcript of the document.

Tags: Holocaust, Auschwitz, WW2