Posen Speeches

The Posen speeches were two secret speeches made by Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler on 4 and 6 October 1943 in the town hall of Posen (Polish: Poznań), in Nazi occupied Poland. The recordings are the first known documents in which a high-ranking member of the Nazi government spoke of the on-going extermination of the Jews in extermination camps. They demonstrate that the Nazi government wanted, planned and carried out the Holocaust.

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