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)
None/None/1963
Author: United States Social Security Administration
Description: Lee Harvey Oswald's Social Security Card
Tags: JFK Assassination
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
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
28/3/1945
Author: Winston Churchill
Description: A draft of a memorandum from Churchill condemning the firebombing of Dresden
Tags: WW2, Strategic Bombing
None/None/1937
Author: Hugo Ermanis
Description: A map of the Latvian Railways in 1937.
Tags: Railroads
None/6/1942
Author: Dr. Konrad Meyer-Hetling
Description: Konrad Meyer-Hetling's Generalplan Ost document
Tags: WW2, Lebensraum, Generalplan Ost
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
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
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
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)
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
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
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
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)
11/11/1945
Author: A. D. Caplan
Description: The War History of the U.S.S. Gyatt
Tags: WW2, Pacific War
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
None/None/1939
Author: None
Description: A map showing Poland's railroads as they were in 1939, as sorted by gauge
Tags: WW2, Railroads
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
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
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
6/4/1944
Author: Klaus Barbie
Description: This document is a telex message from the "Befehlshaber der Sicherheitspolizei und des SD" (Commander of the Security Police and the SD) Klaus Barbie about the raid on a Jewish children’s home in Izieu-Ain, called "Colonie Enfant." 41 Jewish children between the ages of 3 and 13 were arrested. The entire Jewish staff (10 people, including 5 women) were also arrested. Money or other valuables could not be secured. The transport to Drancy would take place on April 7, 1944. Drancy was a transit camp near Paris, where Jews were held before being deported to extermination camps like Auschwitz.
Tags: Holocaust, Auschwitz
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
10/12/1942
Author: 2nd Polish Republic
Description: A pamphlet from the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs on the Holocaust
Tags: Holocaust, WW2
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
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
19/4/1943
Author: Richard Korherr
Description: Korherr's cover letter for his short report
Tags: Holocaust, Aktion Reinhard, WW2, SS
7/11/1973
Author: United States Congress
Description: The War Powers Resolution passed by the U.S. Congress
Tags: Legislation, U.S. Constitution
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
1/4/1945
Author: Winston Churchill
Description: A memorandum from Churchill condemning the firebombing of Dresden
Tags: WW2, Strategic Bombing
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.
Tags:
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
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
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
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
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