Correspondence with Birkett, William Norman (1st Baron Birkett)

Identifier
WL3000/9/1/152
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 109456
Dates
26 May 1961 - 30 Jun 1961
Level of Description
Collection
Languages
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Biographical History

William Norman Birkett, 1st Baron Birkett (1883-1962) was a British lawyer, politician and alternate British judge at the Nuremberg Trials in 1945. Later he was named Lord Justice of Appeal (1950) and ennobled peer (1958).

See Hyde, H. M., Norman Birkett: The Life of Lord Birkett of Ulverston, London, Hamish Hamilton, 1965.

Scope and Content

Correspondence regarding the date of Birkett’s appointment as chairman of the Advisory Committee on the internment of British Nazi sympathisers under Defence Regulation 18B in 1940.

Conditions Governing Reproduction

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People

  • Birkett, Norman

Subjects

Places

  • Great Britain
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