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Letter Received From General Thomas T. Handy To General Carl Spaatz Authorizing The Dropping Of The First Atomic Bomb

25/6/1945

Author: Thomas T. Handy

Description: This the order authorizing the dropping of the atomic bomb Little Boy on Japan after August 3rd. Little Boy was a nuclear fission-based weapon.

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A Memorandum from Winston Churchill Regarding the Dresden Bombing

1/4/1945

Author: Winston Churchill

Description: A memorandum from Churchill condemning the firebombing of Dresden

Tags: WW2, Strategic Bombing


War History of the U.S.S. Gyatt

11/11/1945

Author: A. D. Caplan

Description: The War History of the U.S.S. Gyatt

Tags: WW2, Pacific War


Himmler's Speech to the SS-Gruppenführer of October 4th, 1943

4/10/1943

Author: Heinrich Himmler

Description: A full and original transcript of Himmler's 2nd Posen speech from October 4th, 1943 (it starts from Document Page 33 in the link)

Tags: Holocaust, WW2, SS


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


Abgrenzung der Siedlungsgebiete im ehemals sowjetischen Raum

7/5/1942

Author: None

Description: A May 7, 1942 letter from Berlin's "Hauptabteilung II" regarding the demarcation of settlement areas in former Soviet territories, outlining concerns about future design and requesting approval from Himmler.

Tags: WW2, Lebensraum, Generalplan Ost


Cover Letter for the Short Korherr Report

19/4/1943

Author: Richard Korherr

Description: Korherr's cover letter for his short report

Tags: Holocaust, Aktion Reinhard, WW2, 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


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


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


Telegram 7459 From the Embassy in India to the Department of State, on "The Indian Emergency: After One Year"

19/5/1976

Author: None

Description: A telegram from the U.S. Embassy in India describing the state of affairs one year after the proclamation of the 1975-1977 Emergency by President Fakkhruddin Ali Ahmed on the advice of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.

Tags: Emergency (India)


Map of Polish Railroads, circa 1939

None/None/1939

Author: None

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

Tags: WW2, 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


Generalplan Ost

None/6/1942

Author: Dr. Konrad Meyer-Hetling

Description: Konrad Meyer-Hetling's Generalplan Ost document

Tags: WW2, Lebensraum, Generalplan Ost


John Brown's Last Words

2/12/1859

Author: John Brown

Description: John Brown's last words, as written by him on a slip of paper

Tags: Secession Crisis, American Civil War, Abolitionism


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 Captain 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


Long Korherr Report

23/3/1943

Author: Richard Korherr

Description: The long version of Richard Korherr's 1943 report detailing the progress of Aktion Reinhard

Tags: Holocaust, Aktion Reinhard, WW2, SS


Short Korherr Report

19/4/1943

Author: Richard Korherr

Description: The short version of Korherr's Aktion Reinhard Report, meant for Adolf Hitler himself to read.

Tags: Holocaust, Aktion Reinhard, WW2, SS


The War Powers Resolution

7/11/1973

Author: United States Congress

Description: The War Powers Resolution passed by the U.S. Congress

Tags: Legislation, U.S. Constitution


Map of Latvian Railways in 1937

None/None/1937

Author: Hugo Ermanis

Description: A map of the Latvian Railways in 1937.

Tags: Railroads


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


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


Lee Harvey Oswald's Social Security Card

None/None/1963

Author: United States Social Security Administration

Description: Lee Harvey Oswald's Social Security Card

Tags: JFK Assassination


Memorandum for the President - Preliminary Draft - The Berlin Crisis

28/6/1961

Author: Dean Achenson

Description: This is a preliminary version of a memorandum for President John F. Kennedy on the Berlin Crisis, which culminated in the construction of the Berlin Wall.

Tags: Berlin Crisis (1958-1961), Cold War


Höfle Telegram

11/1/1943

Author: SS Sturmbahnführer Hermann Höfle

Description: A Telegram from Höfle tabulating the total number of deportees to the Aktion Reinhard Camps

Tags: Holocaust, Aktion Reinhard, Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka, WW2


The Mass Extermination of Jews in German Occupied Poland

10/12/1942

Author: 2nd Polish Republic

Description: A pamphlet from the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs on the Holocaust

Tags: Holocaust, WW2


A Draft of Presidential Proclamation 80

15/4/1861

Author: Abraham Lincoln

Description: A draft 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


Imperial Rescript on the Termination of the War

15/8/1945

Author: Emperor Shōwa

Description: The rescript issued by Hirohito which ended the fighting of the Pacific War. This did not officially conclude the War (that was accomplished by the Surrender Rescript (Source ID: 30)). This rescript was transmitted over the radio, and that broadcast was known as the Jewel-Voice broadcast.

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


A Drafted Memorandum from Winston Churchill Regarding the Dresden Bombing

28/3/1945

Author: Winston Churchill

Description: A draft of a memorandum from Churchill condemning the firebombing of Dresden

Tags: WW2, Strategic Bombing


Wannsee Protocol

20/1/1942

Author: Adolf Eichmann

Description: The minutes for the 1942 Wannsee Conference at which the extermination of European Jewry was officially set as state policy

Tags: Holocaust, WW2, SS, Wannsee Conference


Declaration of the Immediate Causes which Induce and Justify the Secession of South Carolina from the Federal Union and the Ordinance of Secession

None/None/1860

Author: South Carolina

Description: A pamphlet entitled Declaration of the Immediate Causes which Induce and Justify the Secession of South Carolina from the Federal Union and the Ordinance of Secession.

Tags: Secession Crisis, American Civil War


Official munitions production of the United States by months, July 1, 1940 - August 31, 1945.

1/5/1947

Author: Civilian Production Administration

Description: Contains data on actual production by months from July 1, 1940 at the beginning of the War Program, through August 31, 1945, the last month of actual fighting against Japan. Covers basically every major category of war production.

Tags: WW2, War Production


Himmler's Instructions to Korherr

10/4/1943

Author: Heinrich Himmler

Description: A letter from Himmler to Korherr ordering him to remove all references to 'Sonderbehandlung' (i.e. 'special treatment') from his report.

Tags: Holocaust, Aktion Reinhard, WW2, SS


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


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


Another Jäger Report

9/2/1942

Author: Karl Jäger

Description: Another report from Karl Jäger, updating the figures of murdered civilians given in his first report

Tags: Holocaust, Einsatzgruppen, WW2


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


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)


The Militia Act of 1795

3/11/1794

Author: United States Congress

Description: An Act to provide for calling forth the militia to execute the laws of the Union, suppress insurrections, and repel invasions and to repeal the Militia Act of 1792

Tags: Legislation


Declaration of the causes which impel the state of Texas to secede from the Federal Union : also the ordinance of secession

1/2/1861

Author: State of Texas

Description: Texas' Ordinance of Secession, which effectively severed its ties with the USA from 1861-1865.

Tags: Secession Crisis, American Civil War


Bericht zur Innenpolitischen Lager 001

9/10/1939

Author: None

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

Tags: RSHA, WW2, SD Internal Reports


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