Summary[edit]

Title German: Askaris, die mit eingesetzt waren
Askaris used during the operation
Description
Deutsch: Zwei Askaris oder Trawnikis als Vertreter sog. „fremdvölkischer Hilfseinheiten“ der SS stehen vor den Leichen getöteter Juden in einem Hauseingang im Warschauer Ghetto.
English: Two "askaris" or "herbalists" as representatives of the so-called "foreign subsidiary ethnic divisions" SS before the corpses of Jews in the doorway of the Warsaw Ghetto. The unit trained in village of Trawniki was made up of Ukrainians, Russians, Belorussians, Poles, Estonians, Lithuanians, Latvians, ethnic Germans, Kazakhs and Tartars.
Date between and
Photographer Unknown (Franz Konrad confessed to taking some of the photographs, the rest was probably taken by photographers from Propaganda Kompanie nr 689.[1][2])
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References
Source http://research.archives.gov/description/6003996


Book[edit]

Author

Jürgen Stroop

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Title

German: Es gibt keinen jüdischen Wohnbezirk in Warschau mehr!
The Jewish Quarter of Warsaw is No More!
Language

German
Description
Deutsch: Niederschlagung des Aufstandes im Warschauer Ghetto. Foto von Jürgen Stroop in einem Bericht an Heinrich Himmler vom Mai 1943.
English: Stroop Report: a report written by Jürgen Stroop for Heinrich Himmler about liquidation of Warsaw Ghetto in May 1943.
Polski: Raport Stroopa: raport z maja 1943, napisany przez Jürgena Stroopa do Heinricha Himmlera na temat likwidacji getta warszawskiego.
NARA copy:
Warsaw copy:
Date
Object history
  • 1943: Three leather bound albums were created for Heinrich Himmler, Friedrich Krueger and Jürgen Stroop, and one unbound file copy of the report (das Konzept) remained in Warsaw, in the care of Chief of Staff Jesuiter.[4]
  • 1945: According to statement given in 1945 by Stroop's adjutant Karl Kaleshke, to US authorities in Wiesbaden, he ordered Stroops copy of the report burnt with other secret documents in Burg Kranzberg.[1]
  • 1945: After the war only two of the four copies were discovered, those belonging to Himler and Jesuiter[2]. Himler's copy went to Seventh Army Intelligence Center (SAIC) and Jesuiter's to Military Intelligence Research Section (MIRS) in London.[1]Several sources stated that German Bundesarchiv also had a copy in Koblenz[5][6][2]; however, in reply to several inquiries by Richard Raskin, Bundesarchiv stated that third copy of report was never in their possession[4].
  • : Both copies were exhibited at the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg in November 1945, sharing the document number 1061-PS, and used in the trial as “US Exhibit 275”.[4]
  • 1947: Both copies were used at International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg in the trial of Oswald Pohl as exhibit 503.
  • : Himler/SAIC copy of the Stroop report and Katzmann Report were handed over by Fred Niebergal, head of Office of Chief of Counsel for War Crimes – OCCWC, to Bernard Acht, head of Polish Military Mission in Nuremberg[1]
  • 1948: Jesuiter/MIRS copy of the report went to National Archives (NARA) in Washington, D.C., where it remains[4]
  • : The Warsaw (Himler/SAIC) copy of the report was used in Jürgen Stroop trial at Warsaw Criminal District Court[2] and transferred afterwards to KC PZPR archive.[1]
  • 1952: The Warsaw copy is transferred to "Główna Komisja Badania Zbrodni Hitlerowskich w Polsce" and it successor Instytut Pamięci Narodowej – Komisja Ścigania Zbrodni przeciwko Narodowi Polskiemu where it remains. [1]
References

Text of the report and the photographs can be found at:

References
  1. ↑ a b c d e f Tomasz Stempowski (2013-03-17). Zdjęcia z powstania w getcie. fototekst.pl. Retrieved on 2013-10-08.
  2. ↑ a b c d Jürgen Stroop () Andrzej Żbikowski , ed. Żydowska dzielnica mieszkaniowa w Warszawie już nie istnieje!
    Es gibt keinen jüdischen Wohnbezirk in Warschau mehr!    , Warsaw: Instytut Pamięci Narodowej, Żydowski Instytut Historyczny, pp. 10-18
  3. ↑ a b Stroop Report, 04/1943. NARA.
  4. ↑ a b c d Richard Raskin () A Child at Gunpoint: A Case Study in the Life of a Photo, Aarhus University Press (excerpts)
  5. ↑ Yad Vashem Photo Archive
  6. ↑ United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Licensing[edit]

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