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91.	Excerpt from Himmler’s Speech to the SS-Gruppenführer at Posen (October 4, 1943) Himmler’s three-hour speech to high-ranking SS functionaries is notorious for its elaborations on the....
92.	Decoded Radio Messages between Ernst Kaltenbrunner (Berlin) and Herbert Kappler (Rome) (October 11, 1943) Until 1943, Italy’s approximately 51,000 Jews were relatively safe. Although the Fascist regime under dictator Benito....
93.	SD Report to the Party Chancellery on "Basic Questions Regarding the Mood and Attitude of the German People" (November 29, 1943) Since the Nazi regime regarded the civilian population’s will to war as the crucial precondition for a final victory, various party and police authorities were involved in monitoring the general....
94.	Reich Ministry of Justice Report on the Emergence of "Youth Cliques and Gangs" and the Struggle against Them (early 1944) The monopolistic and coercive nature of the Hitler Youth after 1933 was supposed to ensure that all children and young people conformed to National Socialism and were educated according to its principles.....
95.	Martin Bormann’s Note on "Safeguarding the Future of the German People" (January 29, 1944) Even after he had consolidated his dictatorial rule, Hitler was always concerned with maintaining the loyalty and support of the German people. Thus, the most radical aspects of his population....
96.	Report by Alfred Wetzler and Rudolf Vrba, two Escapees from Auschwitz (Late April 1944) On April 7, 1944, the Slovak inmates Alfred Wetzler and Rudolf Vrba managed to escape from Auschwitz,....
97.	Hans-Heinrich Lammers's Protocol of a Meeting during which Hitler, Bormann, and Others Rejected Equal Pay for Women (April 25, 1944) The outbreak of war dramatically exacerbated the labor shortage that had already existed since the mid-thirties. Still, it was only in January of 1943 that German women were called upon to mobilize....
98.	Telex Message by the Conspiratorial Stauffenberg Group to the Holders of Executive Power (July 20, 1944) What is probably the best known and broadest conspiracy against the Nazi regime was headed by Claus Graf....
99.	Eyewitness Götz Bergander Recalls the Bombing of Dresden (Retrospective Account) From February 13-15, 1945, British and American warplanes bombed the city of Dresden. This aerial campaign....
100.	Hitler's "Scorched Earth" Decree (Nero Decree) (March 19, 1945) and Albert Speer's Response (March 29, 1945) On March 19, 1945, the hopeless state of the war effort prompted Hitler to issue the “Nero Decree,” which called for the complete destruction of Germany’s infrastructure. The approaching enemy would....
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