The long lost diary of Alfred Rosenberg, a high ranking Nazi
official with close ties to Adolf Hitler, has surfaced in an upstate New York
home.
The diary is expects to provide new insights into dealings
between top Nazi officials and specific information about the looting of
Jewish-owned art, according to media reports.
Some 400 pages from the ‘Rosenberg Diary’ could offer new
details about meetings Rosenberg had with Hitler and other Nazi leaders,
including Heinrich Himmlerand Herman Goring.
The pages also include details about the German occupation
of the Soviet Union and Nazi plans to obliterate the Jewish people. The diary
vanished after the war crimes trials, and only recently turned up in papers
held by a one-time secretary to a Nuremburg prosecutor.
"The documentation is of considerable importance for
the study of the Nazi era, including the history of the Holocaust,"
according to the assessment, prepared by the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in
Washington.
"A cursory content analysis indicates that the material sheds
new light on a number of important issues relating to the Third Reich's policy.
The diary will be an important source of information to historians that
compliments, and in part contradicts, already known documentation."
Rosenberg, a Nazi Reich minister who was convicted at
Nuremberg and hanged in 1946, hand-wrote his recollections from spring 1936 to
winter 1944, according to the museum's analysis.
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