Nuremberg Trials Project

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Description: Contains documents relating to the trial of military and political leaders of Nazi Germany before the International Military Tribunal (IMT) and to the twelve trials of other accused war criminals before the United States Nuremberg Military Tribunals (NMT). Maintained by Harvard University Law School. Also see:

• German Propoganda Archive - contains a collection of English translations of propaganda material from Nazi Germany and the German Democratic Republic
• Nuremberg Trial Documents - includes transcripts of the proceeding and interviews with participants along with brief biographies
• Trial of Adolf Eichmann from the Israel State Archives
• Trial of German Major War Criminals - British Transcripts
• Trial of the Major War Criminals before the International Military Tribunal - 42 volume set ("Blue Series") covering the trials held between November 14, 1945 and October 1, 1946 under the aegis of an international court with judges and prosecutors from the United States, Great Britain, the Provisional Government of France and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Trial defendants at Nuremberg were: Hermann Wilhelm Göring, 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 von Bohlen und Halbach, Karl Dönitz, Erich Raeder, Baldur von Schirach, Fritz Sauckel, Alfred Jodl, Martin Bormann, Franz von Papen, Arthur Seyss-Inquart and Hans Fritsche
• The Trials of War Criminals before the Nuremberg Military Tribunals (NMT) - the "Green Series" focused on many of the actual perpetrators of the war crimes. The judges and prosecutors of these war criminals were exclusively American.

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