Text: English     The Stroop Report: The Warsaw Ghetto Is No More
		Today again some concrete buildings in which the bandits find refuge time and again were blown up by the engineers. In order to force the bandits in the sewers to come to the surface, 183 sewer entrances were opened at 1500 hours, and smokecandles were lowered into them at an ordered x-time, thereupon the bandits, seeking escape from what they supposed to be poison gas, crowded together in the center of the former Ghetto, and we were able to pull them out of the sewer entrances there. I shall come to a decision after tomorrow's operations regarding termination of the action. Today SS-Gruppenfuehrer and Lieutenant General of Waffen-SS von Horff was present during the operations. Our strength:   Used in operation:     German Police 4/184     Engineering Em. Serv 1/6     Security Police  2/16      Engineers  4/73      Waffen-SS  12/510  Cordoning forces:    Day  Night   German Police  2/138  1/87   Waffen SS  -  1/300   Trawniki  270  -   Polish Police  1/160  1/160 Our losses: 5 wounded, 4 Waffen SS, 1 Police A total of 398 Jews were caught today, furthermore 154 Jews and bandits were shot in battle. The total of the Jews caught has risen to 55,731. Booty: rifles, pistols and ammunition. Further, a number of incendiary bottles (Molotov cocktails). Termination of action; 2155 hours, will be continued on 15 May 1943. Start 0900 hours. The SS and Police Fuehrer in the District of Warsaw. Signed: Stroop SS-Brigadefuehrer and Major general of Police. Certified copy: SS-Sturmbannfuehrer.
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