Correspondence with War Crimes Trials Survey Project

Identifier
WL3000/9/1/1491
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 109997
Dates
11 Aug 1949 - 24 Aug 1952
Level of Description
Collection
Languages
  • German
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Creator(s)

  • Columbia University
  • Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Biographical History

Under supervision of the Carnegie Endowment a research committee on war crimes and related documents had been established in the US in 1949. Its chairman was Telford Taylor, former prosecutor of the Nuremberg Trials. The committee’s task was to prepare a survey of war crime trials and related books, articles, and documents.

Scope and Content

Correspondence with various institutions and individuals, mainly sociologist Franz L. Neumann from Columbia University, regarding a planned survey of war crime trials in occupied Germany and The Wiener Library’s contribution to it. Contained are several internal Library memos on the project and a newspaper cutting.

Conditions Governing Reproduction

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People

  • Taylor, Telford
  • Neumann, Franz L.
  • John, Otto

Subjects

  • War crime trials
  • Bibliographies

Places

  • United States
  • Occupied Germany [1945-1949]
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