After the end of wwii and the surrender of nazi germany, an international military tribunal put senior nazis on trial in nuremberg for crimes against peace, war crimes and crimes against humanity. The nuremberg trials project is an openaccess initiative to create and present digitized images or fulltext versions of the librarys nuremberg documents, descriptions of each document, and general information about the. Below are eight descriptions of key events from the nuremberg trials. Nuremberg trials documents hebert nuremberg collection. The chief american prosecutor at the nuremberg war crimes trials describes in detail the daytoday proceedings at the trials and discusses the significance of the trials on the establishment of international law. Hopefully the facts contained herein will serve the cause of truth in history. Trial of the major war criminals before the international. Albert speer, 1 one of hitlers closest confidants and minister of armaments in the third reich, who was sentenced to 20 years imprisonment at the nuremberg trial of german major war criminals, in an affidavit, sworn and signed at munich on 15th june 1977, deposed as follows. The nuremberg trial at the international military tribunal was.
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The harvard law school librarys nuremberg trials project is an openaccess initiative to create and present digitized images or fulltext versions of the librarys nuremberg documents, descriptions of each document, and general information about the trials. Selected images from the nuremberg war crime trials. The photos and documents presented here were selected from the files of paul m. Download pdf the nuremberg trials free usakochan pdf. This is the fifth volume in the complete proceedings of the nuremberg trial of the german major war criminals before the international military tribunal sitting at nuremberg, germany. The nazis and their crimes against humanity the nuremberg war crimes trials began on 20 november 1945 and ended on april 1949.
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The trials took place between 1945 and 1949, where the defendants included german industrialists, highranking military officers, lawyers and nazi party officials were indicted on. Donovan nuremberg trials collection cornell university law library the donovan nuremberg trials collection consists of nearly 150 bound volumes of nuremberg trial transcripts and documents from the personal archives of general william j. This fact file presents actual excerpts from the nuremberg trial transcripts. The conclusions of the nuremberg trials served as models for. International military tribunal nuremberg judgment of 1. Manual to report to the ortsgruppenleiter all persons circulating damaging. What are some good books about the nuremberg trials. Primary sources nuremberg trials libguides at christopher.
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A longawaited memoir of the nuremberg war crimes trials by one of its key participants. International military tribunal nuremberg judgment of 1 october 1946 page numbers in braces refer to imt, judgment of 1 october 1946, in the trial of german major war criminals. Trial documents, or case file documents, are briefs, transcripts of oral arguments, document books of evidence exhibits, and other documents that were used in the course of the trial or, in a few cases, prepared for use but not finally used in the trial. The judges and prosecutors were from the four wartime allies, france, the ussr, the united kingdom and the united states. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading the nuremberg trials the complete proceedings vol. The library of congress through the federal research division provides customized research and analytical services on foreign and domestic topics to united states government and district of. The second set of trials were the 12 follow up trials german. Read download the nuremberg trial pdf pdf download.
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