Correspondence with US Army Europe - Judge Advocate General Corps (JAG Corps)

Identifier
WL3000/9/1/1437
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 109943
Dates
1 Mar 1960 - 22 Feb 1963
Level of Description
Collection
Languages
  • German
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Creator(s)

  • U.S. Army. Judge Advocate General Corps

Biographical History

The JAG Corps is the US Army’s legal branch concerned with military law and military justice. After the Second World War it conferred legal authority for a series of war crimes trials held as court-martials between 1945 and 1948 (‘Dachau Trials’). This included trials of atrocities committed in some German concentration camps. See Eiber, L. and R. Sigel (ed.), Dachauer Prozesse: NS-Verbrechen vor amerikanischen Militärgerichten in Dachau 1945-48. Verfahren, Ergebnisse, Nachwirkungen, Göttingen, Wallstein, 2007.

Scope and Content

Correspondence regarding access to and reproduction of court records from the ‘Buchenwald Trial’ 1947. Beside JAG the letters include two other correspondents: Anton Hoch from the Institute for Contemporary History (IfZ) in Munich directed the Library to JAG as holding institution of those records. As representative of the International Buchenwald Committee (IKBD) Walter Bartel provided the Library with a copy of Buchenwald: Mahnung und Verpflichtung, an early edition of documents concerning the former Buchenwald concentration camp.

Conditions Governing Reproduction

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People

  • Hoch, Anton
  • Bartel, Walter

Subjects

Places

  • West Germany [1949-1990]
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