Press release and statements from the Nuremberg trials, 1945-1947.

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Press release and statements from the Nuremberg trials, 1945-1947.

The collection contains a press release containing the text with corrections page of "The Law under which Nazi organizations are accused of being criminal" by Justice Robert H. Jackson, 1946; the testimony of Bruno Bettelheim on his experiences at Dachau and Buchenwald and the psychological process of adaptation to circumstances he observed, 1945; and the statement and counts in the trial of industrialist Friedrich Flick, 1947.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7756408

University of Virginia. Library

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Buchenwald (Concentration camp)

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Buchenwald concentration camp, one of the largest in Germany with its 130 satellite camps and units, was situated 5 miles north of Weimar in Thüringen. It was established in July 1937 when the first group of 149 mostly political prisoners and criminals was received. Some 238,980 prisoners passed through Buchenwald from 30 countries. 43,005 were killed or perished there....

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

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Robert Houghwout Jackson (February 13, 1892 – October 9, 1954) was an American attorney and judge who served as an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. He had previously served as United States Solicitor General and United States Attorney General, and is the only person to have held all three of those offices. Jackson was also notable for his work as Chief United States Prosecutor at the Nuremberg trials of Nazi war criminals following World War II. Jackson was born in Spring...

Dachau (Concentration camp)

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The Dachau concentration camp was established in March 1933. It was the first regular concentration camp established by the National Socialist (Nazi) government. It was located on the grounds of an abandoned munitions factory near the northeastern part of the town of Dachau in southern Germany. During the first year, the camp had a capacity of 5,000 prisoners. Initially the internees were primarily German Communists, Social Democrats, trade unionists, and other political opponents of the Nazi re...

Flick, Friedrich, 1883-1972

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International military tribunal

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Representatives of the United States, the Soviet Union, Great Britain, and France organized the International Military Tribunal (IMT) in 1945 to try cases against twenty-four Nazi leaders. Between 20 November 1945 and 1 October 1946 the IMT was convened, and verdicts were handed down on 30 September and 1 October 1946. The verdicts resulted in twelve death-by-hanging sentences, seven life terms, and three acquittals. The author of most of the documents and papers in the collection, Alfred Rosenb...

Bettelheim, Bruno

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