Otto, Henry S.

Biographical notes:

Colonel Henry S. Otto was educated at Cornell University and served in both World War I and World War II. During the second world war, Otto served in the Inspector General's Department and the Intelligence Section of SHAEF. He served with the Seventh US Army during the Allied invasion Germany and Austria. He took part in the inspection of Dachau concentration camp and served on the surrender commission there. In 1945 Otto was assigned to the US Chief of Counsel, Justice Jackson, and he assisted the prosecution in interrogations and the assembly of data relating to the German defendants at Nuremberg.

From the description of Report of Henry S. Otto report. (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum). WorldCat record id: 122515928

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Subjects:

  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
  • Names
  • Political prisoners
  • War crimes
  • War crime trials
  • World War, 1914-1918
  • World War, 1939-1945

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  • Dachau (Germany : Concentration camp) (as recorded)
  • Nuremberg (Germany) (as recorded)
  • Soviet Union (as recorded)