The Stroop Report on the Destruction of the Warsaw Ghetto - Documents and Photographs - album edition of the documents and photographs that were found in the possession of Jurgen Stroop - a senior SS officer and Nazi war criminal who commanded the suppression of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, and were presented at the Nuremberg Trials in 1946. The original documents were sent to Stroop's commanders During the suppression of the rebellion. At the end of the war, the documents were found by the soldiers of the American Seventh Army. Special photocopy edition of the documents and photographs, Warsaw, 1960. An interesting dedication on the protective page from from 1961.
The page that opens the report is the famous document in which Stroop stated that "there is no longer a Jewish residential quarter in Warsaw" after the suppression of the rebellion. In the report are photographs of many documents - detailed reports that Stroop delivered daily during the suppression of the rebellion to Krueger - the Supreme Commander of the SS in Krakow, these reports were written on office paper between April 20 and May 16, 1943. In the second part of the report, there are 54 photographs from the time of the suppression of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. In the trials held after the war, Stroop himself explained and described in detail the occurrence surrounding each and every photograph that appeared. Back during the war, Stroop himself compiled the documents and even made three copies of them, one was sent to Himmler, the second to Kruger, and the third was kept by Stroop himself. According to Stroop after the war, the report found by the Allies after the war was the first copy that sent to Himmler. In the trials held after the war, he tried to downplay his importance.
Stroop was prosecuted as part of the Dachau Trials. He was found guilty of war crimes, for executing a prisoner of war, and sentenced to death. After the end of his trial he was extradited to Poland to stand trial for his part in the liquidation of the Warsaw Ghetto and was sentenced to death in the Warsaw District Court on July 23, 1951. He was executed at the place of his crimes in Warsaw on March 6, 1952.
[128] p. 26 cm. Hard cover. Very good condition.
