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===Diary=== During the [[Nuremberg trials]], Rosenberg's handwritten diary was translated by [[Harry Fiss]], Chief of Documentation for the American prosecution.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.countytimes.com/news/morris-resident-was-translator-during-nuremberg-war-trials/article_da2d658c-6b30-5c99-b726-3805aded2468.html |title=Morris Resident Was Translator During Nuremberg War Trials |last=Tragakiss |first=Tamara |date=23 November 2005 |newspaper=Ct Insider |publisher=Hearst Media Services Connecticut |access-date=31 December 2018 |archive-date=21 February 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200221170702/http://www.countytimes.com/news/morris-resident-was-translator-during-nuremberg-war-trials/article_da2d658c-6b30-5c99-b726-3805aded2468.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> After its use in evidence during the Nuremberg trials, the diary went missing, along with other material which had been given to the prosecutor [[Robert Kempner]] (1899β1993).<ref name="natgeo">{{cite news | first = Charles | last = Fenyvesi | title = Mysteries of the Lost (and Found) Nazi Diaries | date = 14 June 2012 | work = National Geographic }}</ref> It was recovered in Lewiston, N.Y., on 13 June 2013.<ref>[http://www.wkbw.com/news/Federal-Officials-Reveal-Diary-of-High-Level-Nazi-Leader-Found-in-WNY-211415701.html Federal Officials Reveal Diary of High-Level Nazi Leader Found in WNY] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141015151512/http://www.wkbw.com/news/Federal-Officials-Reveal-Diary-of-High-Level-Nazi-Leader-Found-in-WNY-211415701.html |date=15 October 2014 }}</ref> Written on 425 loose-leaf pages, with entries dating from 1936 through 1944, it is now the property of the [[United States Holocaust Memorial Museum]] (USHMM) in Washington.<ref name="natgeo"/> Henry Mayer, the museum's senior archivist, and the son of a Holocaust survivor, was able to access the material and while "not given enough time to read [the] diary entry from beginning to end," he "could see that Rosenberg focused on certain subjects, including brutality against Jews and other ethnic groups and forcing the civilian population of occupied Russia to serve Germany."<ref name="natgeo"/> Meyer also noted Rosenberg's "hostile comments about Nazi leaders," which he described as "unvarnished."<ref name="natgeo"/> While some parts of the manuscript had been previously published, the majority had been lost for decades. Former [[Federal Bureau of Investigation]] agent [[Robert King Wittman]], who helped track down the diary, said, "there is no place in the diary where we have Rosenberg or Hitler saying the Jews should be exterminated, all it said was 'move them out of Europe{{'"}}.<ref name="NYT31mar16">{{cite web | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/31/books/tracking-an-elusive-diary-from-hitlers-inner-circle.html | title=Tracking an elusive diary from Hitler's inner circle | work=The New York Times| date=31 March 2016 | access-date=3 April 2016 | author=Kovaleski, Serge F. | pages=C1β2}}</ref> ''The New York Times'' said of the search for the missing manuscript that "the tangled journey of the diary could itself be the subject of a television mini-series."<ref name=NYTimes>{{cite news|last=Cohen|first=Patricia|title=Diary of a Hitler Aide Resurfaces After a Hunt That Lasted Years|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/14/world/europe/diary-of-a-hitler-aide-resurfaces-after-a-hunt-that-lasted-years.html?_r=0|access-date=15 June 2013|newspaper=The New York Times|date=13 June 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite news | title = Encontrado el diario de un confidente de Hitler |url=http://www.lavanguardia.com/internacional/20130610/54375860192/encontrado-diario-confidente-hitler.html | agency = Reuters | location =Barcelona, Spain | date = 10 June 2013 | work= [[La Vanguardia]] | language = es |trans-title=Found the diary of a confidant of Hitler| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20131014030133/http://www.lavanguardia.com/internacional/20130610/54375860192/encontrado-diario-confidente-hitler.html| archive-date = 14 October 2013 | url-status=live}}</ref> Since the end of 2013, the USHMM has shown the 425-page document (photos and transcripts) on its homepage.<ref name="ushmm2">{{cite web|url=http://collections.ushmm.org/view/2001.62.14 |title=Alfred Rosenberg Diary - United States Holocaust Memorial Museum |publisher=collections.ushmm.org|access-date=16 August 2015}}</ref>
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