✅ This post was reviewed and corrected as part of the 2025 Historical Accuracy Update.Reviewed by Doc Snafu on August 10, 2025. Images Sources: (1) United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Provenance: Paul Hartman, Source Record ID: Collections: 2006. Hartman; (2) Gunter Gillot own archives; (3) AI generated images for EUCMH Document Source: Report to Brig Gen R. McClure, Chief, PWD, SHAEF (Main) (for Mr. C. D. Jackson). From: Brig Gen A. G. Neville, BGS (P & PW) Main HQ, 21st Army Group. April 30, 1945, Report on Atrocities committed by the Germans against the Civilian Population of Belgium (February 1945). FOREWORD Those who...

#Warcrimes, #Holocaust, #Genocide, #Crimesagainsthumanity, #Naziatrocities, #Concentrationcamps, #Einsatzgruppen, #WannseeConference, #FinalSolution, #Auschwitz, #Birkenau, #Orianenburg, #Massshootings, #Warcriminals, #WaffenSS, #Ghettos, #Einsatzkommandos, #Persecution, #Ethniccleansing, #Waratrocities, #Warcrimeinvestigations Document Source: (Official translation of) Interrogation of SS-Unterscharführer Franz Xaver Sommerhof, born November 26, 1920, in Kosln-Kalk, AOK 11, by 2/Lt William S. Peal, 0555149, May 6, 1945. STATEMENT I admit to having personally shot about 1427 people. I participated in extermination actions in which a total of about 20.000 people were shot. In detail, I wish to state that I joined the Waffen-SS on April 1, 1940, volunteering from the RAD (Reich Arbeitsdienst). After a training period of about ten...

Document Source: An enlarged version of a paper read at the 47th Congress of Americanists in New Orleans (July 1991) - is an abstract of my dissertation: Holger M. Meding, Die Deutsche Einwanderung in Argentinien, 1945-1955, Cologne (Manuscript) May 1991. The publication is set for summer 1992 (Lateinamerikanische Forschungen. Beihefte zum Jahrbuch für Geschichte von Staat, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft Lateinamerikas, vol. 20). With this article, I intend to present some of the results of my dissertation to a wider audience. (Doc Snafu: Final Check on September 12, 2022) German Emigration to Argentina and the Illegal Brain Drain to the Plate,...

(Document Source: Reproduction of the Original Papers by EUCMH) EUROPEAN CENTER OF MILITARY HISTORY - 2022 UNITED STATES ARMY - FIRST UNITED STATES ARMY EUROPEAN COMMAND APO 407 - April 20 1945 Office of the Staff Judge Advocate Classification Cancelled by authority of Ltr. Hq. USFET file AG C00.5 GBI AGO, June 27, 1946 - Maj Joseph V. Crocked, Major, AC A0234592 Chief Records Center - 7708 War Crimes Group - March 1, 1948. United States v. Hauptmann Curt Bruns Review of SJA US v. Bruns April 20, 1945. SUBJECT: Review of proceedings of Military Commission in the case of United States v. Hauptmann (Captain) Curt Bruns, 2.Battalion, 293.Regiment, 18.Volksgrenadier-Division, German Army. TO: Commanding...

(Document Source): Memorandum to Maj J. C. Duvall, Acting Chief Prosecution Section 1. FACTS On or About December 20, 1944, in the neighborhood of Bleialf, Germany, (GSGS 42, Sheet 6, Coordinates P-98), between six and seven hundred American soldiers of the 106th Infantry Division were captured by the 2nd Battalion of the 293.Volksgrenadier-Regiment (18.Volksgrenadier-Division); Hauptmann Kurt Bruns was in command. Among the Americans were 23 German-speaking enlisted men apparently of German Jewish descent and who were members of the IPW Team 154. Bruns made the statement that there is no room for Jews in Germany and they were taken down the...

✅ This post was reviewed and corrected as part of the 2025 Historical Accuracy Update.Reviewed by Doc Snafu on December 23, 2025. ⚠️ This post is pending historical accuracy review.Flagged by Doc Snafu on December 23, 2025. Document Sources: G-2 Periodic Report 1 - More about your enemy. (Warning graphic content) Edited on 28-12-2021 (correction) Incl 2 to VII Corps G-2 Periodic Report #1 The following information was obtained on December 25, 1944, as a result of personal observation and interrogation by 1/Lt Frank B. Craig, IPW Team #93, attached to the 30th Infantry Division. Ten or twelve completely burned bodies which were charred black were...

Document Source: (Note) Photos are for illustration purposes and all original. The original title of this archive is ‘From Forced Workers Camp to Yankee Division’, War Memories of Boleslaw Piatkowski. This archive, presented as a small booklet, was written down by Jacek Okon (Poland). The iconography is made of private photos from the author, Boleslaw Piatkowski, Internet images, photos archives from the European Center of Military History as well as photos from the James ‘Jim’ Haahr archives, a veteran of the Yankee Division (101st Infantry Regiment, 26th Infantry Division). It is with great pride that I bring attention to...

1.SS-Panzer-Division (LSSAH) War Crimes (Memorandum) Compiled by Doc Snafu I have worked several months to research, find and compile this huge archive then publish it in a way that it becomes readable without too much trouble. The relevant sources are so diversified that it was not an easy task. Being patient like I am and without getting help from anyone (as usual) – many want to join but no one ever found the departure line - I could have used files from well-known historians available online. After reading many of these files I found out that it was not possible to...

✅ This post was reviewed and corrected as part of the 2025 Historical Accuracy Update.Reviewed by Doc Snafu on November 5, 2025. Headquarters First United States Army Office of the Staff Judge Advocate, April 20, 1945 Subject: Review of proceeding of Military Commission in the case of the United States v. Hauptmann Kurt Bruns, (Captain), 2nd Battalion, 293.Regiment, 18.Volksgrenadier-Division, German Army. To: Commanding General, First United States Army (1). Charge & Specification The accused was tried at Düren (Germany), on April 7, 1945, before a Military Commission on the following charge and specification: Violation of the Laws of War. Specification: On or about December 20,...

Source Document: Forced March Major John P. Mohn, HQ Co, 1st Battalion, 422nd Infantry Regiment, 106th Infantry Division Forced March, from Schoenberg - St Vith (Battle of the Bulge, Belgium) to Berchtesgaden in Germany, is the Prisoner of War memoir of the 1200-mile forced march done by Maj John J. Mohn, Hq Co, 1st Battalion, 442nd Infantry Regiment, 106th Infantry Division, Golden Lion and has been extracted from a book published in Canton, Ohio, USA and printed by PPi Graphics, also in Canton Ohio, (ISBN-13:978-08-9863465-5-2). Being a friend of Mandy Altimus Pond, Maj John J. Mohn's granddaughter, we talked about the...