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  1. Day 4 International Military Tribunal, Nuremberg (Set A)

    1. Archives of the Nuremberg International Military Tribunal

    Day 4 - Friday, November 23, 1945 - Session opens with Dr. Otto Nelte (Counsel for Defendant Keitel). Major Frank Wallis reads documents of the case known as the Common Plan. Dr. Alfred Seidl (Counsel for Defendant Frank) presents an objection and asks the proceedings be postponed. Col. Storey states that documentation will be provided to the Court and the Defense Counsel. Dr. Robert Servatius (Counsel for Defendant Sauckel) makes a motion to obtain documents. Mr. Thomas J. Dodd (Executive Trial Counsel for the United States) presents the economic preparation for aggressive war. Mr. Alderma...

  2. Day 10 International Military Tribunal, Nuremberg (Set A)

    1. Archives of the Nuremberg International Military Tribunal

    Day 10 - Saturday, December 1, 1945 - Tribunal decides that Rudolf Hess is competent enough to stand trial. Prosecution continues to question. Cross-examination of witness Lahousen by German defense.

  3. Day 11 International Military Tribunal, Nuremberg (Set A)

    1. Archives of the Nuremberg International Military Tribunal

    Day 11 - Monday, December 3, 1945 - Sidney J. Alderman, Prosecutor from the United States, begins to outline Nazi aggression in Czechoslovakia. This takes up almost the entirety of the day, save for a brief moment when Dr. Otto Stahmer, representing the German defense, objects to the use of an affidavit written by Gottlob Berger, a motion which is upheld by the tribunal. Alderman discusses the circumstances around the German occupation of Czechoslovakia, such as the Nazi’s ultimate goal of occupying all of Czechoslovakia, not just the Sudetenland, and Fall Grün, the planned German invasion ...

  4. Day 12 International Military Tribunal, Nuremberg (Set A)

    1. Archives of the Nuremberg International Military Tribunal

    Day 12 - Tuesday, December 4, 1945 - Hartley Shawcross, chief prosecutor for the British, speaks about German plans for the invasion of Poland, Germany’s eventual annexation of Poland and Danzig (note that Soviet involvement in the invasion is never mentioned), as well as the eventual German invasion of the majority of Europe and Operation Barbarossa. Towards the end of the day, Sidney Alderman is given the chance to finish his statement made the day before, which he does.

  5. Day 153 International Military Tribunal, Nuremberg (Set A)

    1. Archives of the Nuremberg International Military Tribunal

    Day 153 - Wednesday, June 12, 1946. Seyss-Inquart and a French prosecutor. The Germand defense for Ernst Kaltenbrunner. US counsel, Mr. Dodd, speaks. Witness Hortsenan. Rainer and the German defense counsel. Mr. Dodd continues.

  6. Day 69 International Military Tribunal, Nuremberg (Set A)

    1. Archives of the Nuremberg International Military Tribunal

    Day 69 - Wednesday, February 27, 1946. The Russian witness continues testifying. He responds to questions by Sir Maxwell-Fyfe and the Russian prosecution. A female Russian witness describes German atrocities. Justice Lawrence provides results on the requests from the defendants’ counsel. The Lithuanian witness Suzkever is questioned by Russian prosecutors, Justice Lawrence, Mr. Roberts, and Mr. Dodd.

  7. Day 71 International Military Tribunal, Nuremberg (Set A)

    1. Archives of the Nuremberg International Military Tribunal

    Day 71 - Friday, March 1, 1946. Justice Lawrence responds to questions from the German defense. Justice Jackson, Justice Biddle, and the French judge confer. Russian prosecution continues.

  8. Day 1 International Military Tribunal, Nuremberg (Set A)

    1. Archives of the Nuremberg International Military Tribunal

    Day 1 - Tuesday, November 20, 1945 - Lord Justice Lawrence opens the session. Sidney Alderman (US) reads the indictment. Pierre Mounier (FR) and Charles Gerthoffer (FR) continue reading the indictment. Capt. V. V. Kuchin (USSR) continues reading the indictment. The British delegation reads the appendices.

  9. Day 14 International Military Tribunal, Nuremberg (Set A)

    1. Archives of the Nuremberg International Military Tribunal

    Day 14 - Thursday, December 6, 1945. Justice Jackson and Justice Lawrence and Col. Griffith-Jones make the case of aggression in Poland and Czechoslovakia. Col. Griffith-Jones focuses on Danzig and continues on aggression in Poland. German defense counsel, Justice Lawrence, and Col. Griffith-Jones continue to cover the Nazi aggression against Poland. Col. Griffith-Jones and Maj. Elwyn Jones move on to Denmark and Norway.

  10. Day 20 International Military Tribunal, Nuremberg (Set A)

    1. Archives of the Nuremberg International Military Tribunal

    Day 20 - Friday, December 14, 1945. More on the persecution of Jews, including statements by the German defense counsel for Kaltenbrunner, Justice Jackson, Justice Lawrence, Gen. Rudenko, and the British and French prosecution teams. Maj. Walsh continues the case on the persecution of Jews and presents a film. Capt. Harris makes the case for the persecution of Poles and Czechs.

  11. Day 25 International Military Tribunal, Nuremberg (Set A)

    1. Archives of the Nuremberg International Military Tribunal

    Day 25 - Wednesday, January 2, 1946. Col. Storey on the Gestapo and its activities. Defense counsel for Kaltenbrunner interjects. Col. Storey continues about the Gestapo. Lt. Harris covers the case on the SD.

  12. Day 139 International Military Tribunal, Nuremberg (Set A)

    1. Archives of the Nuremberg International Military Tribunal

    Day 139 - Monday, May 27, 1946. Schirach questioned by English prosecution. Lauterbacher questioned by German prosecution and by US counsel, Mr. Dodd. Witness Herpkin questioned by German defense.

  13. Day 143 International Military Tribunal, Nuremberg (Set A)

    1. Archives of the Nuremberg International Military Tribunal

    Day 143 - Friday, May 31, 1946. Defendant Fritz Sauckel responds to Russian prosecutors. He continues, followed by Justice Biddle and the German defense.

  14. Day 144 International Military Tribunal, Nuremberg (Set A)

    1. Archives of the Nuremberg International Military Tribunal

    Day 144 - Saturday, June 1, 1946. German defense. French prosecution team. Witness Helderant.

  15. Day 54 International Military Tribunal, Nuremberg (Set A)

    1. Archives of the Nuremberg International Military Tribunal

    Day 54 - Friday, February 8, 1946. Gen. Rudenko presents the Russian case of the injustice to USSR (during the war). Justice Lawrence comments.

  16. Day 13 International Military Tribunal, Nuremberg (Set A)

    1. Archives of the Nuremberg International Military Tribunal

    Day 13 - Wednesday, December 5, 1945 - Sidney Alderman continues from where he left off the previous day, mentioning how the German annexation of Czechoslovakia violated certain parts of the Treaty of Versailles, as well as Germany’s intent to make the area “Lebensraum”. Sir David Maxwell Fyfe, lead prosecutor for the British, goes over the various treaties that Germany broke, specifically the sections of the Treaty of Versailles it violated. J.M.G. Griffith, Junior Counsel for Britain, begins to describe the development of plans to attack Poland and to a lesser extent Britain.

  17. Commemorative ashtray used during the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg

    1. Robert L. White collection

    Souvenir ashtray printed with International Military Tribunal available during the war crimes trials held in Nuremberg, Germany, in 1945-46. After the end of the war and the defeat of Nazi Germany on May 7, 1945, Allied occupation authorities convened an International Military Tribunal to seek justice for crimes against humanity, evidenced by the Holocaust, perpetrated by Nazi Germany. The best known trial of major German officials began in October 1945, when the IMT formally indicted the Nuremberg defendants on four counts: crimes against peace, war crimes, crimes against humanity, and con...

  18. Day 9 International Military Tribunal, Nuremberg (Set A)

    1. Archives of the Nuremberg International Military Tribunal

    Day 9 - Friday, November 30, 1945 - Colonel John Amen argues with the German defense council over whether to call witness Erwin von Lahousen to the stand, with von Lahousen eventually being allowed to testify. Col. Amen interrogates von Lahousen. The Russian prosecutor, Roman Rudenko, begins to interrogate von Lahousen. As Rodenko is asking “Of course in Poland. Well, sabotage and what else?”, audio skips to Dr. Gunther von Rohrscheidt speaking as counsel for Rudolf Hess, speaking towards his mental state. Tribunal begins to ask counsel questions. Trial adjourns with a statement by Hess, st...

  19. Day 140 International Military Tribunal, Nuremberg (Set A)

    1. Archives of the Nuremberg International Military Tribunal

    Day 140 - Tuesday, May 28, 1946. Justice Lawrence. German defense continues. German witness questioned by prosecution. Defendant Sauckel questioned by prosecution and his lawyer.

  20. International Military Tribunal Proceedings

    Mimeographed testimony and evidence, relating to the trials of alleged German war criminals at Nuremberg. The Hoover Institution Archives has a collection of documents from the Nuremburg Trials, but it is not complete and not indexed. You should consult the published sets of Nuremburg documents. One set, in 42 volumes, contains the proceedings of the trials and documents relating to them (such as evidence, interviews). One set, in 23 volumes contains only the proceedings. Both sets include indexes. Below are the citations to these sets, which use the official name of the entity that conduct...