1278. JURGEN STROOP (1895-1952) SS and Police Leader of the Poland-Warsaw area. It was Stroop who, during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising of 1943, ordered its suppression costing the lives of tens of thousands. As his forces were forced back by heavy resistance, he ordered the entire Ghetto burned down, building by building, and the killing or deportation to extermination camps all of its inhabitants. Afterwards, in an elaborately prepared report to Himmler, now referred to as "The Stroop Report", he boasted that "the Warsaw Ghetto is no more". This report would later be used as evidence at the Nuremberg Trials. Tried and executed by the Poles in 1952. Very rare T.L.S. "Stroop" on "Der Fuhrer des SS Abschnittes XXXVIII" letterhead, 1p. legal folio, Karlsbad, Aug. 16, 1939 to the "Fuhrer den Oberabschnittes Main" in Nuremberg, three lines in German, not translated. Damp stained at left and bottom right causing some minor loss of a blank area of the page, a long, clean tear between text and signature repaired on verso, else very boldly signed and otherwise very good. $1,000-1,500