Contains the following types of materials: transcripts, summaries, rebuttal, and clippings. Contains information pertaining to the following war: WWII -- Pacific. Contains information pertaining to the following military unit and organization: Military Commission to try General Tomoyuki Yamashita. General description of the collection: Morris C. Handwerk papers include material relating to the trial of General Yamashita, commanding the Japanese 14th Army Group for various war crimes committee in the Philippines, 1944-1945. Principal items include transcripts and summaries of the trial proceedings (Oct.-Dec. 1945) plus an official rebuttal delivered by Brigadier General Courtney Whitney, Chief, Government Section, General Headquarters, Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers in Japan in 1949 in response to charges by A. Frank Reel that the Yamashita trial was unfair and illegal. Some miscellaneous official papers and clippings on the trial and execution of Yamashita are found. Some documents cite prededents from war crime trials in Europe before and after WWII II.
