The document that was previously considered lost by many, offers historians a rare glimpse at the day-to-day life of one of the chief architects of the Nazi concentration camp system that claimed the lives of millions of innocent civilians during Hitler’s reign.
The SS chief was apparently a busy man as according to the already deciphered entries he conducted over 1,600 meetings with military and police officials, as well as high-ranking Nazi functionaries, over the course of 2.5 years.
The document dispassionately chronicles how one of the most reviled people on Earth inspected gas chambers at death camps, dined and partied with SS officers, maintained contact with his wife and daughter, and visited his mistress.
The researchers studying this document may have their work cut out for them as apparently many of its pages aren’t arranged in chronological order.
The diary is currently being studied by historians at the German Historical Institute Moscow, and is expected to be published next year.
