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12 Enigma Machine (Courtesy of National Security Agency) Purple Analog (Courtesy of National Security Agency)

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28 A Message from Originator to MIS

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35 Japanese ambassador to Germany Baron Oshima meeting with Nazi foreign minister Joachim von Ribbentrop

36 Copy of Netherlands cable from U.S. Censorship Office

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39 An intercept section at MS-1, Vint Hill Farms, Virginia Intercept operations of U S A Signal Radio Intelligence Company, Fifth U.S. Army in North Africa (Courtesy: National Security Agency)

40 Sample intercept: German naval attachø message from Berlin to Tokyo copied by the U.S. Navy site W located at Winter Harbor, Maine

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43 Allied Communications Network (Source: RG 457, HCC, Box 843, Lines of Communication Traffic Exchange )

44 Typical Arlington Hall analytic section

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51 Sample Ultra translation with delivery groups

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56 Telford Taylor (right front), formerly head of Special Branch liaison with London, now a brigadier general, pictured with his staffat Nuremberg War Crimes Trials (Source: NARA)

57 Intercept copy (NARA, RG457 HCC, Box 202)

58 Copy of W/T Red Form (NARA, RG 457, HCC, Box 202) Decrypt of Police message (NARA, RG 457, HCC, Box 1386)

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67 German Police Decrypts, ZIP/G.P.D.353/ Decrypt No.1 is from the Senior Commander of the SS and Police in Southern Russia to Heinrich Himmler, the Chiefs of the Order and Secret Police and the Himmler s staff. (Source: NARA, RG 457, Box 1386)

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69 Diplomatic translation message from Vichy Minister in Washington, Henry Haye, to Vichy regarding American visas for foreign Jews in France

70 Sample SMM Swiss message about Jews in Hungary

71 T-2574, 17 April 1945, from Apostolic Delegate in Lausanne, Switzerland, to the Vatican regarding reports of deportees from camps in Germany (Source: NARA, RG 457, Box 520)

72 Magic Diplomatic Summary, No. 1103, 2 April Source: NARA, RG 457, Entry 9006

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74 SS concentration camp monthly report on slave labor population in Buchenwald for November ZIP/GPCC82/ Source PRO, HW 16/10

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78 ISCOT 399, issued 21 October 1944 (intercepted 25 June 1944) reporting the gassing of Hungarian Jews at Auschwitz (Osvencim)

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83 German Police and Ukrainian militia shooting Jews from the village of Chrystnowka (Courtesy: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum)

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85 September 1942 SS Report from Auschwitz listing available slave labor force. Handwritten notes are by Bletchley analyst that read Total at beginning of day, Increase, Decrease, Total at end of day, Jews, Poles, [unknown], and Russians. Source: PRO HW 16/10 ZIP/GPCC/

86 January 1943 message listing number of Jews killed as part of Operation Reinhard (Source: PRO HW16/23 ZIP/GPDD 355a/ )

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93 Japanese consul in Kaunas, Lithuania, Chione Sugihara (Courtesy of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM)) Jewish refugees from Transnistria arrive at the Athlit reception camp in Palestine. (Source: Central Zionist Archives via the USHMM)

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97 Roundup of Jews on the boulevard Voltaire in the eleventh arrondissement (district) of Paris. (Courtesy: Bilbiotheque Historique de la Ville de Paris via the USHMM) Translation of message from Vichy mission in W ashington to Vichy inquiring after status of visas for foreign Jews living in France (Source: RG 457, HCC, Box 332)

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102 Hungarian Jews being rounded up in Budapest (Courtesy: USHMM)

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104 Raoul Wallenberg (Courtesy: USHMM)

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108 A row of shops owned by Jewish refugees on Seward Road in Shanghai (Courtesy: USHMM from YIVO Institute for Jewish Research)

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128 Aerial photograph of gas chambers and prisoner barracks at the Auschwitz I complex taken on 4 April 1944 (Source: Studies in Intelligence. Special Unclassified Edition, Fall Page 93)

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143 Annotated Sample of Diplomatic Translation

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146 Intercepted cable version of report on conditions in Auschwitz by Rudolf Vrba and Alfred Wetzler report to Czechoslovak intelligence, June 1944 (1 of 6 pages)

147 Intercepted cable version of report on conditions in Auschwitz by Rudolf Vrba and Alfred Wetzler report to Czechoslovak intelligence, June 1944 (2 of 6 pages)

148 Intercepted cable version of report on conditions in Auschwitz by Rudolf Vrba and Alfred Wetzler report to Czechoslovak intelligence, June 1944 (3 of 6 pages)

149 Intercepted cable version of report on conditions in Auschwitz by Rudolf Vrba and Alfred Wetzler report to Czechoslovak intelligence, June 1944 (4 of 6 pages)

150 Intercepted cable version of report on conditions in Auschwitz by Rudolf Vrba and Alfred Wetzler report to Czechoslovak intelligence, June 1944 (5 of 6 pages)

151 Intercepted cable version of report on conditions in Auschwitz by Rudolf Vrba and Alfred Wetzler report to Czechoslovak intelligence, June 1944 (6 of 6 pages)

152 German Foreign Office message to Buenos Aires stating the status of the pension of the retired Headmaster Karl Laudien depends upon the unequivocal separation from his Jewish wife. (1 page)

153 Intercepted 20 October 1944 Spanish diplomatic cable from the Ambassador to Washington, Cardenas de Silva, to Madrid that reports request for Spanish delegation in Budapest to intervene on behalf of the endangered Jews, as well as the notice of Swedish plans to help, including dispatch of Raoul Wallenberg

154 German VN (Verlaessliche Nachrichten Trustworthy Report ), which is a translation of an intercepted U.S. State Department cable from Bern, Switzerland, to Washington, D.C., reporting on the status of efforts to help Jewish internees by Sweden and the International Red Cross (1 of 2 pages)

155 German VN (Verlaessliche Nachrichten Trustworthy Report ), which is a translation of an intercepted U.S. State Department cable from Bern, Switzerland, to Washington, D.C., reporting on the status of efforts to help Jewish internees by Sweden and the International Red Cross (2 of 2 pages)

156 Boston-series translation of a message from Budapest reporting the results of the Adolf Elichmann s special action group in removing Jews from Hungary (1 page)

157 Vichy premier Pierre Laval s statement of September 30, 1942, With Respect to the Treatment of the Jews in Unoccupied France (1 of 3 pages)

158 Vichy premier Pierre Laval s statement of September 30, 1942, With Respect to the Treatment of the Jews in Unoccupied France (2 of 3 pages)

159 Vichy premier Pierre Laval s statement of September 30, 1942, With Respect to the Treatment of the Jews in Unoccupied France 3 of 3 pages)

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