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71.	Lily Offenbacher Shares Her Knowledge of the "Euthanasia" Program with the U.S. Coordinator of Information (September 1941) In the fall of 1939, Hitler’s authorized agents Phillip Bouhler (1899-1945), head of his Chancellery, and Dr.....
72.	The Führer’s Decree on Preserving the Purity of the SS and the Police (November 15, 1941) In Himmler’s eyes, homosexuality was a “plague” that harmed the race and cheated the German Volk out of valuable offspring. Starting in 1936, he pursued its eradication through his Reich Central....
73.	Note on the Conversations between Adam von Trott zu Solz and "Mr. Eliot" (December 1941) The jurist and diplomat Adam von Trott zu Solz (1909-1944) was an important resistance fighter who tried,....
74.	The Wannsee Protocol (January 20, 1942) On July 31, 1941, Hermann Göring (1893-1946), acting on Hitler’s instructions, ordered Reinhard....
75.	Fritz Sauckel's Labor Mobilization Program (April 20, 1942) To remedy Germany’s labor shortage, foreign workers were recruited for German industry and agriculture....
76.	Heinrich Himmler on Christianity and Religion (June 9, 1942) Although the Hitler regime largely limited itself to the subjugation and suppression of the Christian churches and postponed a “final solution of the church question” to the end of the war, there....
77.	Thomas Mann, "German Listeners!" (July 1942) Thomas Mann (1875-1955), winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1929, was one of the most....
78.	Pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer, "Who Can Resist Temptation?" (December 1942) The traditional split within the Protestant Church deepened in 1932 with the founding of the German Christian movement [Glaubensbewegung Deutsche Christen], which was organized in accordance....
79.	Mathilde Wolff-Mönckeberg’s Letter Describing the Aftermath of the Hamburg Firestorm (August 24, 1943) In addition to thousands of dead, the Allied air attacks on German cities caused catastrophic supply shortages and created panic among survivors. The following account of the Hamburg....
80.	Himmler’s Secret Speech to High Officials of the Reich Security Main Office [Reichssicherheitshauptamt or RSHA] (January 30, 1943) In the end, the enormous SS-apparatus that evolved under Himmler’s leadership had little in common with....
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