The Rosenberg Diary, kept by a confidant of Adolf Hitler whose racist theories underpinned Nazi Germany’s annihilation of six million Jews and five million others, had been missing since the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials ended in 1946.
For years the museum had been working with US judicial officials and law enforcement agents to recover Alfred Rosenberg’s writings, most recently in the hands of an upstate New York publisher.
“Today that search ends,” said museum director Sara Bloomfield at a ceremony where the US government formally transferred possession of the 425 pages of typed and handwritten papers.
Juergen Matthaeus of the museum’s Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies noted that a chunk of 1942 is missing from the diary and said that the diary on its own contains no stunning revelations. Rather, its real value comes when it is put into the context of Holocaust documentation.
The US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency says it was first taken in the late 1940s by a Nuremberg prosecutor, Robert Kempner, “contrary to law and proper procedure.”
Kempner, a German-Jewish lawyer who escaped to the United States during World War II and settled in Pennsylvania, held on to the diary until his death in 1993.
The diary was ultimately traced to the home of academic publisher Herbert Warren Richardson outside Buffalo, New York; he had apparently received it from one of Kempner’s assistants.
Rosenberg was executed with several other convicted Nazi leaders on October 16, 1946. He was 53.
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