Cover of the Stroop Report entitled "The Warsaw ghetto is no more," which was entered into evidence at the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg and stamped as exhibit 275.
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- Cover of the Stroop Report entitled "The Warsaw ghetto is no more," which was entered into evidence at the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg and stamped as exhibit 275.
The original signal corps caption reads, "The following pictures 64181-90 incl. are copies of the book containing the report of the German commander who was responsible for cleaning out the ghetto in Warsaw, Poland. This report, in the form of a leather bound book was presented as evidence by the U.S. prosecution at the International Military Tribunal Trials at Nuremberg, Germany." - Date
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May 1945
- Locale
- Nuremberg, [Bavaria] Germany
- Variant Locale
- Nurnberg
- Photo Credit
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Martin Forstenzer
- Event History
- The Stroop Report was an album prepared by SS Major General Juergen Stroop, commander of the German forces which liquidated the Warsaw ghetto, to document the suppression of the ghetto uprising in the spring of 1943. Commissioned by Friedrich Wilhelm Krueger, Higher SS and Police Leader in Krakow, and bound in leather, the report was intended as a souvenir album for Heinrich Himmler to celebrate the hard won victory, which took twenty days and 1,200 SS, Wehrmacht, and police troops to accomplish. The Stroop Report consists of three parts: an introduction and summary of SS operations, a collection of daily communiques, and a series of approximately 52 photographs. Three albums were prepared for Himmler, Krueger and Stroop, all of which were recovered after the war. One of them was introduced as evidence at the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg and later published under the title, "The Stroop Report." The albums --which bear slight discrepancies in the number of photos they contain-- are currently located at the National Archives (Washington), the Bundesarchiv (Koblenz), and the Institute of National Remembrance (Warsaw).
https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/warsaw-ghetto-uprising.
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- Photo Source
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial MuseumProvenance: Martin ForstenzerSource Record ID: Collections: 2005.470
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Administrative Notes
- Artifact Photographer
- Ray D'Addario
- Record last modified:
- 2007-08-09 00:00:00
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