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Central Intelligence and Police Service (usually in plain clothes) of the SS under the National Socialist regime in Germany from 1939 (to 1945)
The immediate Nazi reprisals after the May–June 1942 assassination of Reinhard Heydrich are widely reported as having been ordered at the highest levels of the Nazi regime—most sources say Adolf Hitle...
The clearest primary Nazi documents pointing to both the planning and the administrative implementation of the “Final Solution” are internal memoranda and bureaucratic reports—the Göring memorandum of...
Adolf Eichmann’s country-by-country population tables — compiled as page six of the Wannsee Protocol — translated the Nazi leadership’s genocidal intent into concrete, quantifiable targets by listing ...
Surviving Nazi security and police records relevant to the reprisals after Reinhard Heydrich’s assassination are primarily preserved among captured RSHA/Gestapo files that were taken by Allied authori...
Contemporary archival orders that precipitated mass reprisals after Reinhard Heydrich’s assassination are referenced in leading institutions’ accounts: Hitler’s directive on 9 June 1942 to carry out r...
A cluster of Nazi-era primary documents — most notably the Wannsee Conference minutes and related RSHA/SS directives, internal speeches by Heinrich Himmler and other senior officials, administrative t...
The primary documentary traces of Reichssicherheitshauptamt (RSHA) and regional Higher SS and Police Leader (HSSPF) orders from June 1942 are held in a dispersed set of institutional archives: chiefly...