“All it said was ‘move them out of Europe.’” “There is no place in the diary where we have Rosenberg or Hitler saying that the Jews should be exterminated,” he said. Wittman noted, though, that while the diary documents the evolution of attitudes that would lead to the Holocaust, it does not detail the specific plan for it. Wittman, “is the rarity of having a diary from someone of Rosenberg’s stature in the Nazi hierarchy and his close association with Hitler and his positions as looter in chief and murderer in chief and possibly a witness to the actual order from Hitler authorizing the Final Solution.” “What led us to believe this was potentially of extreme historical importance,” said Henry Mayer, the archivist who tracked the diary with Mr. For that reason, and others, Rosenberg wrote, Jews were a threat to Germany. He recounts how he convinced Hitler that the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia was connected to a global conspiracy by Jews. In the diary, Rosenberg recalls his conversations with Hitler. The diary has been published, in German, by the Holocaust Museum and a typed transcript, also in German, has been posted online by the museum, which said it hoped that it would be analyzed further by historians and other scholars. Rosenberg, who was close in age to Hitler, also edited a Nazi newspaper and oversaw the widespread theft of art by the Nazis and the brutal occupation of the Soviet Union.
Rosenberg also wrote “The Myth of the Twentieth Century,” a book that espoused Aryan supremacy and anti-Semitic beliefs and was second in sales only to Hitler’s book, “Mein Kampf,” during the Nazi period. The diary starts in 1934 and spans a 10-year period in the life of Rosenberg, who had a sizable influence on Hitler but was less well known than other aides like Heinrich Himmler and Joseph Goebbels, whose diary has also been found. “It really was like catching a tiger by the tail, a big one,” Mr. Michael Reynolds/European Pressphoto Agency Pages of Alfred Rosenberg’s diary, which went missing after he was hanged for war crimes in 1946.
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