Nuremberg trials archive, 1933-1946.

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Nuremberg trials archive, 1933-1946.

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Documents relating to the prosecution of the 24 major defendants in the first trial of Nazi war criminals before the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg, Germany, held from November 1945 to October 1946. Includes many documents obtained or generated by the United States Office of Strategic Services (OSS) and the United States Office of Chief of Counsel for the Prosecution of Axis Criminality (OCC). Includes 90 v. of trial transcripts in English and in German, and 55 v. of investigative, procedural, and legal documents, including interrogation reports, translated testimony, affidavits, and first-person written statements (many of them original handwritten documents) of witnesses, defendants, and prisoners of war; OSS- and OCC-generated analyses and English translations of captured German documents; photographs (including several of Hitler in his early life); maps, charts, and film inventories created or produced by the OSS or OCC; OSS biographical reports of persons, mostly Germans, believed to be implicated in the Nazi war effort; extended studies of major figures like Hitler, Himmler, and Goering; OSS research & analysis reports on topics related to the historical, cultural, and socio-economic backgrounds, as well as the conduct, of the Second World War, including Germany's economic preparations to wage aggressive war, Nazi alterations of various areas of German law, Nazi paramilitary and military organizations, and concentration camps. Also, OCC trial briefs pertaining to the 24 original defendants at the first Nuremberg Trial and addressing the major charges of War Crimes, Crimes Against Peace, and Crimes Against Humanity, as defined by the Charter of the International Military Tribunal; clippings from contemporaneous periodicals and newspapers; numerous memoranda by and to Major General William J. Donovan; memoranda by and to Justice Robert H. Jackson; and many memoranda and reports by major and minor figures involved in the prosecutorial effort, including Sidney S. Alderman, Colonel John H. Amen, Colonel Telford Taylor, Colonel Robert G. Storey, Dr. Fabian von Schlabrendorff, Captain Otto N. Nordon, Franz Neumann, Dr. Henry J. Kellermann, Commander James B. Donovan, and Commander Sidney J. Kaplan; lists and directories of OCC personnel, as well as issues of a daily newsletter for OCC staff in Nurnberg; and translated transcriptions of Soviet and other foreign radio addresses commenting on the Trials. Also, translated selections of speeches and writings by well-known Nazis, including Hitler, Hess, Streicher, Rosenberg, Himmler, Goebbels, Bormann, Schacht, and Werner Best; and prosecutor's dossiers on the 24 defendants: Hermann Goering, Rudolf Hess, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Robert Ley, Wilhelm Keitel, Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Alfred Rosenberg, Hans Frank, Wilhelm Frick, Julius Streicher, Walter Funk, Hjalmar Schacht, Gustav Krupp, Karl Doenitz, Erich Raeder, Baldur von Schirach, Fritz Sauckel, Alfred Jodl, Martin Bormann, Franz von Papen, Arthur Seyss-Inquart, Albert Speer, Constantin von Neurath, and Hans Fritzsche.

145 v.

Campbell University, Wiggins Memorial Library

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Campbell University, Wiggins Memorial Library

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Jackson, Robert H. (Robert Houghwout), 1892-1954

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Schlabrendorff, Fabian ˜vonœ 1907-1980

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Seyss-Inquart, Arthur, 1892-1946.

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Göring, Hermann, 1893-1946

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Funk, Walter

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Alderman, Sidney S. (Sidney Sherrill), 1892-

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Kellermann, Henry J.

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Speer, Albert, 1905-1981

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Jodl, Alfred, 1890-1946

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Raeder, Erich, 1876-1960

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Sauckel, Fritz, 1894-1946

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Krupp, G.

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Fritzsche, Hans, 1900-1953

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Frank, Hans, 1900-1946

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Rosenberg, Alfred, 1893-1946

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Kaplan, Sidney J. (Sidney Joseph)

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Goebbels, Joseph, 1897-1945

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Nordon, Otto N.

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Donovan, William Joseph, 1883-1959

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Himmler, Heinrich, 1900-1945

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