Fascinating: US recovers 400 pages of the diary of WWII Nazi minister Alfred Rosenberg

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Apparently, more details will be announced later this week. Rosenberg was a leading player in the mass extermination policies of occupied Europe and in the looting of art and religious property during the war. From the Globe and Mail:

“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 United States 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.”

But the diary does include details about tensions within the German high-command – in particular, the crisis caused by the flight of Rudolf Hess to Britain in 1941, and the looting of art throughout Europe, according to the preliminary analysis.

The recovery is expected to be announced this week at a news conference in Delaware held jointly by officials from the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Department of Justice and Holocaust museum.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/us-recovers-lost-diary-of-hitler-confidant-alfred-rosenberg/article12442638/#dashboard/follows

It seems almost equally fascinating that this search has gone on for decades, and actually prompted a criminal investigation by the FBI in 1999!