The Posen speeches were two speeches made by Heinrich Himmler, the head of the SS of Nazi Germany, on 4 and 6 October 1943 in the town hall of Posen, in German-occupied Poland. The recordings are the
Authorised by Heinrich Himmler himself, this original page of the final edition of his speech made on 4 October 1943 bears the Reichsführer-SS's statements to his audience that the extermination of the Jews, a policy of the Nazi state, is being carried out.
Posen's town hall, where the conference took place (heavily damaged during WWII)
Stroop Report original caption: "Forcibly pulled out of dug-outs". Captured Jews are led by German troops to the assembly point for deportation after the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, 1943
Albert Speer awarded an Organisation Todt ring by Adolf Hitler – May 1943
The Białystok Ghetto uprising was an insurrection in the Jewish Białystok Ghetto against the Nazi German occupation authorities during World War II. The uprising was launched on the night of August 16
Liquidation of the Białystok Ghetto, 15–20 August 1943. Jewish men with their hands up, watched by a German military unit.