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Letter sent by Dr. Wetzel, from the Reichsministerium fuer die besetzten Ostgebiete (Reichs Ministry for the Occupied Territories in the East), to the Reichskommissar Ostland (Reichs commissioner in Ostland), regarding the production of gas vans for the purpose of the murder of Jews, 1941 Report by Wetzel regarding a discussion held with Brack, a representative of Hitler's bureau, including an agreement to act for the production of gas vans and the accompanying gas equipment; it is Brack's intention to send chemist Kallmeyer to Riga for the purpose of organizing the production and to request auxiliary forces...

File Number : 201

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : German

Trial against employees of the Berlin Gestapo: Correspondence between Nazi authorities regarding the deportation of Jews and Gypsies from the German Reich and the Reichsprotektorat to the Lodz, Riga and Minsk Ghettos, 10-12/1941; Documentation by the Wuerzburg Gestapo regarding the transport from Nuremberg to Riga in 27-29/11/1941; Reports regarding the executions by the Einsatzkommando 3 in Lithuania, 7-12/1941

Trial against employees of the Gestapoleitstelle (Central Office) Berlin: Correspondence between Nazi authorities regarding the deportation of Jews and Gypsies from the German Reich and the Reichsprotektorat to the Lodz, Riga and Minsk Ghettos in October - December 1941; Documentation by the Wuerzburg Gestapo regarding the transport from Nuremberg to Riga in 27-29/11/1941; Reports regarding the executions by the Einsatzkommando 3 in Lithuania in July - December 1941 Trial against employees of the Berlin Gestapo: Correspondence between Nazi authorities regarding the deportation of Jews and Gypsies from...

File Number : 123

Language : German

Letter sent to the Reichskommissar Ostland (Reichs commissioner in Ostland) by the Reichsministerium fuer die besetzten Ostgebiete (Reichs Ministry for the Occupied Territories in the East), regarding the deportation of Jews from Germany to Minsk, 1942 The letter is signed by Wetzel; the letter relates to the planned deportation of 25,000 Jews from Germany to the Minsk Ghetto; the letter relates to a letter written by Stadtkommissar Janetzke (the City commissioner) of Minsk, including opposition to the transfer of Jews to Minsk; some of the Jews were transferred to Minsk until now and the deportation of the...

File Number : 169

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : German

Documentation regarding the extermination of Jews using gas vans, and experiments in mass sterilization using X-rays

Documentation regarding the extermination of Jews using gas vans, and experiments in mass sterilization using X-rays Draft of a report prepared by Erhard Wetzel, the expert for Jewish affairs in the office of occupation in the East, for Reichskommissariat Ostland, the Reich commissioner of the East, regarding the extermination of Jews by the method developed by Viktor Brack, using gas vans; attached letter with a report regarding experiments developed by Horst Schumann for mass sterilization using X-rays.

File Number : 350

Type of Material : Letter

Language : English, German