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  1. Correspondence with Buxton, Dorothy Francis

    1. Wiener Library Archive: Pre-1963 Correspondence

    The hand- and typewritten letters concern Buxton’s offer to provide The Wiener Library with selected books and material from her private collection. She further claimed to have met and briefly interviewed Hermann Göring in Germany on March 26, 1935. Beside letters, the correspondence contains a memo about a meeting with Buxton as well as a clipping of her obituary published in .

  2. Cahul Gendarmes Legions, County Sections and Posts

    • Legiunile de jandarmi, secţiile şi posturile judeţene Cahul
    • Жандармский легион, секции и посты Кагульского уезда
    • Zhandarmskiy legion, sektsii i posty Kagul'skogo uyezda

    Files of the Cahul Gendarmes Legions; files of the gendarme posts in villages belonging to Cahul district: cases of checking the reliability of residents of villages in the county; cases of charging residents of the county in the communist activities; cases against residents of the county for insulting the Romanian government et al.

  3. On his Majesty's Service

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file contains a newspaper clipping from the Daily Telegraph of 1940, where articles of 'L.C.C and stage nudity' have been cutted. A report can be seen also from 1940, where it is written that Franz and Erich Sass have been shot. Both were well know international criminals, who have been inprisoned in Dennmark. Also newspaper articles from 1918 were cutted regarding the war propaganda and the anti war movement in Germany. Furthermore a handwritten diary starting from November 1939 and continuing till 22nd of March in 1940 is attached.

  4. [Eichmann-trial, Witness statements multiple III]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file is part of the witness statements acquired in Germany and Austria of former functionaries in Nazi Germany on behalf of the prosecutor of the Eichmann trial in 1961. The witnesses are Franz Novak, assistant to Rolf Günther in Vienna and Hans Günther in Prague. Later on he was with Eichmann in Berlin and Budapest. The witness Kurt Becher (Comissar of all German concentration camps) discusses the seizure of the Manfred-Weiss factories, Brand's mission and Eichmann's character (fierce National socialist and fanatic Anti Semite).

  5. [War Crimes III]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file contains copies of Microgram Summary Sheets compiled by the European Section of the British War Crimes Executive in 1946. It was part of preparatory material for the Nuremberg trials. The file is the third of 5 subsections containing exhibit catalogues by Great Britain and the US (complete) as well as France and the USSR (incomplete) The various Microgram Summary Sheets list the items, provide a short description and inform about their frame numbers. Among the documents listed on the various sheets are copies of political agreements, speeches by Nazi officials, diplomatic notices, ...

  6. [Eichmann trial, Witness statement Dr. Max Merten II]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file is the third part of the witness statements acquired in Germany and Austria of former functionaries in Nazi Germany, on behalf of the prosecutor of the Eichmann trial from May 29th and 30th, 1961 at the district court Tiergarten, Berlin. The witness is Dr. Max Merten (Military administration counselor) and he answers questions about his acquaintance with Eichmann in Thessaloniki in 1942/43. He explains in detail his encounters with Eichmann and his deputies Rolf Günther, Dieter Wisliceny and Alois Brunner through anecdotes, character assessments and personal opinion. The file also ...

  7. [Eichmann-trial, Witness statement Dr. Wilhelm Höttl]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file is the first part of the witness statements acquired in Germany and Austria of former functionaries in Nazi Germany on behalf of the prosecutor of the Eichmann trial from April 28th, 1961 at the district court of Bad Aussee, Austria. The witness is Dr. Wilhelm Höttl (Sturmbannführer) and he mainly answers questions about his acquaintance with Eichmann in Vienna in 1938, and later about Eichmann's presence in Budapest in 1944. He repeats his testimony from the Nürnberg trial, whereas Eichmann in a conversation about the number of Jews killed, answers "6 Millions". He broke the numbe...

  8. Avant-Propos de L'Expert Loosli

    1. Judge Hadassa Ben-Itto collection 1926-2018

    Foreword to the testimony of C. A. Loosli. The foreword is a letter to the judge concerning the pseudoscience of antisemitism and the danger of Nazi Germany. The author, perhaps Loosli himself, discusses the dangers of Nazism and the calls for annexing to Germany all German-speaking parts of Europe, including German-speaking Switzerland. He shows the absurdity of the antisemitic doctrine that all Jews by dint of being Jews are criminals who want to exterminate the people with whom they study, live and work.

  9. Avant-Propos de L'Expert Loosli

    1. The Protocols of the Elders of Zion

    Foreword to the testimony of C. A. Loosli. The foreword is a letter to the judge concerning the pseudoscience of antisemitism and the danger of Nazi Germany. The author, perhaps Loosli himself, discusses the dangers of Nazism and the calls for annexing to Germany all German-speaking parts of Europe, including German-speaking Switzerland. He shows the absurdity of the antisemitic doctrine that all Jews by dint of being Jews are criminals who want to exterminate the people with whom they study, live and work.

  10. Falkenhorst, Nikolaus von (Generaloberst)

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Geb. 17.Januar 1885 in Breslau; gest. 18. Juni 1968 in Detmold. 1939 Kommandierender General XXI. Armeekorps während des Polenfeldzuges; 1. Oktober 1939 Beförderung zum General der Infanterie. März 1940 Oberbefehlshaber der bei der Besetzung Norwegens einzusetzenden Bodentruppen (Gruppe XXI); 19. Juli 1940 Beförderung zum Generaloberst. Am 25. Juli Ernennung zum Wehrmachtbefehlshaber Norwegen, Ablösung am 18. Dezember 1944 durch General Lothar Rendulic. Januar 1945 Versetzung in die Führerreserve; 1945 britische Kriegsgefangenschaft. August 1946 Verurteilung ...

  11. [War Crimes IV]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file contains copies of Microgram Summary Sheets compiled by the European Section of the British War Crimes Executive in 1946. It was part of preparatory material for the Nuremberg trials. The file is the fourth of 5 subsections containing exhibit catalogues by Great Britain and the US (complete) as well as France and the USSR (incomplete) The various Microgram Summary Sheets list the items, provide a short description and inform about their frame numbers. Among the documents listed on the various sheets are copies of political agreements, speeches by Nazi officials, diplomatic notices,...

  12. [Eichmann-trial, Witness statement Dr. Max Merten I]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file is the second part of the witness statements acquired in Germany and Austria of former functionaries in Nazi Germany, on behalf of the prosecutor of the Eichmann trial from June 7th, 1961, at the district court Tiergarten, Berlin. The witness is Dr. Max Merten (Military administration counselor) and he answers questions about his acquaintance with Eichmann in Thessaloniki in 1942/43 and orders he signed (which he denies, or claims have been altered or are not the original). The orders are mentioned in the book "In Memoriam: Hommage aux Victims Juives des Nazis en Grece - publie sou...

  13. [Eichmann-trial, Supreme court judgement]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file is part of a collection of files of the Eichmann trial in Jerusalem in 1961/62. It is the protocol of session 7, the supreme court judgement rejecting the appeal of Adolf Eichmann's verdict and a confirmation of the judgement of the lower court. It is an uncorrected, unedited protocol of the synchronized translation and therefore not in the right form and style, and not official.

  14. U.S. Army regulation uniform shirt worn by a Signal Corps photographer for the war crimes trials

    1. Ray D'Addario collection

    U.S. Army issue tan dress shirt worn by Ray D'Addario, presumably while a US Army Signal Corps and then contract photographer at the postwar trials of war criminals held by the International Military Tribunal (IMT) in Germany. Ray was assigned to photograph and film the defendants, prosecutors, and other attendees during the courtroom proceedings. The best known trial, Major German War Criminals, was held in Nuremberg. The 24 defendants were charged with crimes against peace, war crimes, crimes against humanity, and conspiracy to commit those crimes. The verdicts were delivered on October 1...

  15. U.S. Army regulation uniform shirt worn by a Signal Corps photographer for the war crimes trials

    1. Ray D'Addario collection

    U.S. Army issue tan dress shirt worn by Ray D'Addario, presumably while a US Army Signal Corps and then contract photographer at the postwar trials of war criminals held by the International Military Tribunal (IMT) in Germany. Ray was assigned to photograph and film the defendants, prosecutors, and other attendees during the courtroom proceedings. The best known trial, Major German War Criminals, was held in Nuremberg. The 24 defendants were charged with crimes against peace, war crimes, crimes against humanity, and conspiracy to commit those crimes. The verdicts were delivered on October 1...

  16. US Army regulation uniform shirt worn by a Signal Corps photographer for the war crimes trials

    1. Ray D'Addario collection

    U.S. Army issue tan dress shirt worn by Ray D'Addario, presumably while a US Army Signal Corps and then contract photographer at the postwar trials of war criminals held by the International Military Tribunal (IMT) in Germany. Ray was assigned to photograph and film the defendants, prosecutors, and other attendees during the courtroom proceedings. The best known trial, Major German War Criminals, was held in Nuremberg. The 24 defendants were charged with crimes against peace, war crimes, crimes against humanity, and conspiracy to commit those crimes. The verdicts were delivered on October 1...

  17. P.25- Archive of Erich Kulka, Historian of Czech Jewry and Author

    P.25- Archive of Erich Kulka, Historian of Czech Jewry and Author Erich Schon, who was born in the village of Vsetin, Moravia (today in the Czech Republic), 18 February 1911, and died in Jerusalem, 12 July 1995, was the son of Malvina and Siegbert Schon. After World War II Schon changed his last name to Kulka, the last name of his first wife, Elly Kulka, who did not survive the Holocaust. The history of the arrests of Erich Kulka began in July 1939, first with arrest by the Gestapo in Brno and afterwards with imprisonment in the Dachau, Sachsenhausen and Neuengamme camps until November 1942...

  18. Schirach Baldur von

    • Schirach, Baldur ˜vonœ 1907-1974
    • Von Schirach, Baldur, 1907-1974
    • Schirach, Baldur von
    • シーラッハ,
    • Schirach, Baldur von (Baldur Benedikt), 1907-1974

    09/03/1907

    08/08/1974

    Reich Youth leader. Governor of Vienna since 1941. Participated in the deportation of Vienna's Jews

  19. Barbie Trial -- Day 7 -- Two experts testify

    15:52 Witnesses Streim and Holtfort, both German attorneys with experience evaluating Nazi documents and strong understanding of the Nazi and particularly SS command hierarchies, testify as to their knowledge of the SS officer school where Barbie received training in 1935-1937. Holtfort explains that a principal objective of the school was to inculcate an understanding and adherence to Nazi ideology. 15:58 The attorney asks Streim and Holtfort to testify to their understanding of the rules SS members had to obey in their day-to-day lives, as well as punishments handed out for disobedience. ...

  20. German invasion, territorial expansion

    Reel 4: Text superimposed on screen re: Norway and Germany. "9 April 1940" Aerial shots of parachutes. Civilians watch silently as troops march by, some frightened, women running (quick), very soft, street chaos, streets in flames, crowds piling into trucks, fearful faces, some weeping. Troops. Text superimposed on screen re: invasion of Belgium, Holland, Luxembourg. 05:30:18 "10 May 1940" Troops, night shots. LS, silhouettes of buildings on fire. Text superimposed on screen re: invasion of Yugoslavia. 05:31:15 "6 April 1941" Planes dropping bombs, explosions. Soldiers running down country ...