The Strop report is the official report of Jürgen Strop , the commander of the German formations who were tasked with eliminating the Warsaw Ghetto . Originally called “The Jewish Quarter in Warsaw no longer exists!”. Today it is commonly called the “Strop Report”. Along with the report, Katzmann is one of the most important documented evidence of the extermination of Polish Jews during World War II .
Content
History
The report was written in May 1943 and is a 75-page document describing the German version of events during the ghetto uprising . The report was initiated by Friedrich Krueger and was conceived as a gift album for Heinrich Himmler . The document was printed on a typewriter and embedded in a standard leather stationery folder. The report is accompanied by 52 black and white photographs signed in handwritten Gothic.
The report consists of three main sections:
- Introduction and list of operations;
- Daily messages sent to Friedrich Krueger;
- 52 photos.
The report was made in triplicate and transferred to Heinrich Himmler, Jürgen Strop and Friedrich Krueger . Copies contain some discrepancies in the text and in the captions for photographs. One of the copies was presented as one of the evidence during the Nuremberg trials by US prosecutor Robert Jackson .
All three copies have been preserved and are currently stored at the Institute of National Remembrance in Warsaw , the US National Archives in Washington and the Bundesarchive in Koblenz , Germany .
Wiesbaden Report (1946)
At the end of the war, Stroop was captured by American forces in West Germany. After he was identified, he was ordered to write a report on the destruction of the Warsaw ghetto. The report was submitted by Stroop in Wiesbaden on May 1, 1946 [1] .
Photos
Some photos from the Strop Report are presented below:
Nr.1 "The building in which the Judenrat was located"
Nr.4 "Brauer Firm"
"The Jews Heading the Branches of the Brouwer Firm"
Nr.6 "Pulled from the Snouts by Force"
"Pulled out of the snouts by force"
Nr.7 "To the transshipment point"
Nr.8 "Search and interrogation"
Nr.9 "Jewish rabbis"
Nr. 11
"Assault Group"Nr.12 "Pulled out from the Snouts by force" [2]
Nr.13 "These bandits resisted with weapons"
"These gangsters resisted with weapons."
Nr.14 "Jews are pulled out of the bunker"
Nr.15 "Bandits"
Nr.19 "Smoking of Jews and Bandits"
Nr.21 "Destruction of a residential building"
"Fighting the hotbed of resistance"
Nr.24 "Destruction of a residential building"
Nr. 26 without inscription
"A woman hangs from the balcony, getting ready to fall onto the street to the waiting SS."
Nr.28 " Watching the street"
Nr.31 "Bandits jump to avoid arrest"
Nr.31a "Bandits after having jumped down"
"Jewish traitors"
" Askari during the operation"
See also
- Nussbaum, Zvi
Notes
- ↑ Moshe Arens . Appendix 4 Wiesbaden Report // Flags Over the Warsaw Ghetto: The Untold Story of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising . - Gefen Publishing House, 2011 .-- P. 5, 379-384. - 406 p. - ISBN 9652295272 , 9789652295279.
- ↑ A soldier with a rifle on the right was identified as Joseph Blocher.