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

Author: Odilo Globocnik

Date: 5/1/1944

Countries: Germany

Topics: Holocaust, Aktion Reinhard

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.

Source: NMT Prosecution (Nuremberg Military Trials). Letter to Heinrich Himmler concerning the financial accounts of the Reinhardt Action, January 5, 1944. Harvard Law School Library. Nuremberg Trials Project. https://nuremberg.law.harvard.edu/documents/5358-letter-to-heinrich-himmler. June 15, 2025.

Link:

https://nuremberg.law.harvard.edu/documents/5358-letter-to-heinrich-himmler

Source ID: 45

English Translation: https://nuremberg.law.harvard.edu/documents/451517-letter-to-himmler-and-report?mode=image&q=author:%22Odilo+Globocnik%22