Rosenberg diary found

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The article talks about ties to Hitler:

The government has recovered 400 pages from the long-lost diary of Alfred Rosenberg, a confidant of Adolf Hitler who played a central role in the extermination of millions of Jews and others during World War Two.

A preliminary U.S. government assessment reviewed by Reuters asserts the diary could offer new insight into meetings Rosenberg had with Hitler and other top Nazi leaders, including Heinrich Himmler and Herman Goering. It also includes details about the German occupation of the Soviet Union, including plans for mass killings of Jews and other Eastern Europeans.

"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."

Will be interesting to find out the "contradictory parts"---seems like it has already been "assessed" by the Holocaust Museum, as one might expect.

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reply to post by MuzzleBreak


Let's see if they release the entire document or just carefully chosen snippets, excerpted and polished for public consumption. There has to be some pretty interesting information in there - I wouldn't hesitate to read all 400 pages if I had the chance.

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There were probably 600 pages to begin with

I'm sure this will, like the Hitler diaries, turn out to be a forgery.

What's highly interesting is that the Department of Homeland Security was involved in trying to track them down.