This item is an English translation of a segment of the “Es gibt keinen judischen Wohnbezirk in Warschau mehr!” (There Is No Jewish Ghetto in Warsaw Anymore!), also known as the Stroop Report, which was translated by interpreter Virginia von Schon and entered into evidence as U.S.A. Exhibit 275 during the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg.
The Stroop Report in its original form consists of three parts–an introduction, daily reports and a pictorial report. The second section is entitled “Tägliche Meldung” (Daily Reports) and consists of thirty one daily reports submitted by Jürgen Stroop’s command to SS- und Polizeiführer Ost (SS and Police Leader of Poland) Friedrich-Wilhelm Krüger, one for each day during the period of April 20, 1943 to May 16, 1943 and one report for May 24, 1943. These reports detail combat and police actions during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising such as intelligence gathered, troop numbers engaged in each day’s actions including armored fighting vehicles and heavy weapons, casualties suffered in battle, seizures of weapons, equipment, and valuables, descriptions of tactics used both in combat and to locate Jews in hiding, and Stroop’s estimates of the numbers of Jews arrested, deported, or killed outright.
