Report from Himmler to Hitler

Report from Himmler to Hitler

Image:Himmler report.jpg

The text of this document reads:

 Report No. 51 of Reichsfuehrer-SS Himmler to Hitler about mass 
 executions in the east, 1942

 -------------------------------------------------------------------
                               August  September  October  November

 Prisoners executed
 after interrogation            2,100    1,400     1,596     2,731    
  .
  .
 Accomplices of guerrilla and
 guerrilla suspects executed    1,198    3,020     6,333     3,706    
  .
  .
 Jews executed                 31,246   165,282    95,735   70,948

Source: Trials of War Criminals Before the Nuernberg Military Tribunals - Washington, U.S Govt. Print. Off., 1949-1953, Vol. XIII, p. 269-272. See also: Hitler and the Final Solution, G. Fleming, University of California Press, Berkeley, 1984, pp.92-93.

This document is presented as evidence of the complicity and approval of Adolf Hitler, regarding the murders that took place during the Holocaust.