Correspondence with Kempner, Robert Max Wasilii

Identifier
WL3000/9/1/759
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 110491
Dates
29 May 1953 - 10 Oct 1963
Level of Description
Collection
Languages
  • German
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Biographical History

Prof. Dr. Robert Max Wasilii Kempner (1899-1993) was an internationally regarded legal expert of Jewish-German origin. He had fled the Nazis to Italy, France, and the US eventually. As a member of the Unites States War Crimes Commission (UNWCC) he later served as prosecutor during the Nuremberg Trials. He is also credited with finding the Wannsee Protocol in 1947.

See Walk, J., Kurzbiographien zur Geschichte der Juden 1918-1945, Munich et.al., K. G. Saur, 1988, p. 191-92.

Scope and Content

The correspondence covers various and mutual enquiries for information or source material, including among others a request by Kempner on the Nazi persecution of Catholic priests. Contained are copies of thank you notes to Kempner by West German president Heinrich Lübke as well as the Minister for All German Affairs Ernst Lemmer (1961).

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People

  • Lemmer, Ernst
  • Lübke, Heinrich
  • Kempner, Robert M. W. (Robert Max Wasilii)

Subjects

  • Lawyers
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