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RG-14.009 --- Adolf Hitler‘s Political and Private Testaments<br />

USHMM, <strong>Center</strong> <strong>for</strong> <strong>Advanced</strong> <strong>Holocaust</strong> <strong>Studies</strong> � 47<br />

This collection contains pho<strong>to</strong>graphic copies of documents relating <strong>to</strong> Adolf Hitler‘s final<br />

thoughts be<strong>for</strong>e his suicide. In the documents, Hitler denies guilt in causing World War<br />

II, ascribes the entire tragedy <strong>to</strong> international Jewry, describes removing Göring and<br />

Himmler from their offices <strong>for</strong> disloyalty, discusses choosing Admiral Dönitz and a slate<br />

of cabinet members <strong>to</strong> carry on the struggle, and describes his marriage <strong>to</strong> Eva Braun.<br />

Included is a note from Martin Bormann <strong>to</strong> Admiral Dönitz, which served as a cover<br />

letter <strong>to</strong> Hitler‘s political testament.<br />

Provenance: According <strong>to</strong> Walter Jessel, Henry Heckscher (a fellow U.S. Army<br />

interroga<strong>to</strong>r at the Freising prisoner of war facility) obtained carbon copies of the<br />

originals from ―one of his sources‖ shortly after the close of World War II. Heckscher<br />

made pho<strong>to</strong>graphs of the carbons, and gave one set <strong>to</strong> Jessel.<br />

<strong>Language</strong>s: German, <strong>English</strong> 1945<br />

1 folder<br />

Source of Acquisition: Walter Jessel<br />

Finding aid: <strong>English</strong>-language translations<br />

Accession 1999.211 --- The Irene Kane Collection<br />

This collection includes documentation of Maximilian Landau‘s work as the manager of<br />

the sports department of the Central Committee of Liberated Jews in the U.S. Zone of<br />

Occupation. Also included are more than 200 pho<strong>to</strong>graphs of life in the Föhrenwald<br />

displaced persons camp in Germany.<br />

<strong>Language</strong>s: <strong>English</strong>, French, Yiddish 1945–1948<br />

249 items, 232 pho<strong>to</strong>s<br />

Source of Acquisition: Irene Kane<br />

Finding Aid: Item-level list<br />

Accession 1999.46 --- The Bella Zucker Collection<br />

The items in this collection concern the internment of Hermann and Bella Zucker in the<br />

Warsaw and Lublin ghet<strong>to</strong>s during the war, their experiences as displaced persons in<br />

Berlin and Vienna thereafter, and their subsequent move <strong>to</strong> Stuttgart, as well as their<br />

application <strong>for</strong> reparations.<br />

<strong>Language</strong>s: German, <strong>English</strong>, Polish, Hebrew, Yiddish 1943–1962<br />

53 items<br />

Source of Acquisition: Bella Zucker<br />

Finding Aid: Item-level list

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