US Department of Justice
Criminal Division
In the Matter of Josef Mengele
Report to the Attorney General of the United States October 1992
Exhibits Prepared by :
Office of Special Investigations Criminal Division
Neal M. Sher Director
Eli M. Rosenbaum Principal Deputy Director
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May
23
2009
A tyrant’s death at patriots’ hands revealed as Operation Salmon of Czech Intelligence in exile.
ASSASSINATION REINHARD HEYDRICH (R. C. Jaggers)
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May
22
2009
Category : Italy, Northern Part
Memoranda for the President : Sunrise
OFFICIAL USE ONLY
Intelligence cables covering the capitulation of the Nazi armies in northern Italy.
Among the William J. Donovan papers are five volumes entitled OSS Reports to the White House containing carbons of memorandum predominantly transmitting or paraphrasing intelligence reports for the President’s personal attention. They are characteristically introduced by a note to the President’s secretary, Miss Grace Tully :
“Dear Grace : Will you please hand the attached memorandum to the President ? I believe it will be of interest to him”.
They begin in modest quantity, the first volume covering a full two years and including some administrative matters such as requests for draft deferment; but those for the nine months beginning with July 1944 occupy three volumes, almost exclusively intelligence.
After President Roosevelt’s death and the end of the war in Europe they taper off in the fifth volume-bound, curiously, in reverse chronology-and again include non substantive material, particularly concerning the formation of a peacetime central intelligence agency.
The reports are for the most part not the finished intelligence that the President might now be expected to examine personally. They do include summaries of some Research and Analysis Branch estimates-of the age distribution of German casualties, for example, or the Soviet Union’s population in 1970 – but the bulk of them are unedited reporting from individual case officers on subjects of particular importance or of particular interest to President Roosevelt. For the historian this minute but choice fraction of the total of OSS raw reporting constitutes a pre-selected documentary source of considerable value.
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May
02
2009
Comme je viens à l’instant de l’écrire dans la première partie des dossiers Hitler, j’ai pris la décision d’enlever les textes que j’avais déjà mis en page pour les remplacer par la totalité du dossier – Mein Kampf – par un fichier Adobe.
Pour dire la vérité, je dirais que si Hitler avait été un sombre idiot ou un type complètement taré, je pense que j’aurais poursuivis ce travail jusqu’à la fin. Hélas, lors de l’écriture de ce livre, Hitler est en prison, il est un individu particulièrement intelligent, il est observateur et fait preuve d’une grande méfiance à l’égard de ce qu’il ne connait pas. Il n’est donc pas question ici du Hitler Nazi du 3em Reich, mais de Hitler, artiste peintre qui n’éprouve aucune difficulté à appliquer sur la toile – et de très belle manière – ce qu’il a devant les yeux. Il s’agit aussi d’un individu qui se trouve dans une des mégapoles du continent à l’époque.
La lecture du chapitre 2 et du début du 3em vous permettra de vous rendre compte que si vous enlevez la date et remplacez Adolf Hitler par Albert Martin, vous aurez presque immédiatement l’impression que l’auteur de ce livre habite à l’étage au dessus du vôtre et qu’il décrit ce que vous pouvez voir vous même par la fenêtre.
En fait, lire Mein Kampf en le mettant en page m’a fait peur et je me suis dit que nous sommes mûres pour remettre le couvert, ce qui ne m’enchante pas du tout.
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Feb
20
2009
Category : Kristallnacht, Shoah & Holocaust
The term Kristallnacht [Night of Broken Glass] refers to the organized anti-Jewish riots in Germany and Austria, on Nov 9 – Nov 10, 1938. These riots marked a major transition in Nazi policy, and were, in many ways, a harbinger of the Final Solution.
Nazi antisemitic policy began with the systematic legal, economic, and social disenfranchisement of the Jews. This was accomplished in various stages (e.g. The Nuremberg Laws of 1935, which, among other things, stripped German Jews of their citizenship). One of these steps involved the deportation of Polish Jews who were residing in Germany (est. 56.500).
On the night of Oct 27, 1938, 18000 Polish Jews were deported, but were initially refused entry into Poland by the Polish authorities. Caught in between, the Jews were forced to camp out in makeshift shelters. Upon hearing that his family was so trapped, 17 year-old Herschel Grynszpan, a student in Paris, shot the third secretary of the German Embassy, Ernst vom Rath, whom he mistook for the ambassador. This assassination served as a welcome pretext for the German initiation of Kristallnacht. Reinhard Heydrich (the head of the Reich Main Security Office which oversaw the Gestapo, police and SD operations) sent a secret telegram at 0120-H, Nov 10, 1938 to all headquarters and stations of the State Police; all districts and sub-districts of the SD. He gave instructions for the immediate coordination of police and political activities in inciting the riots throughout Germany and Austria.
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