Donald McClure Papers
Biographical History
Lieutenant colonel, United States Air Force; Nuremberg war crime trials official.
Scope and Content
Correspondence, memoranda, and trial transcripts, relating to activities of the United States 1st Infantry Division in the occupation of Germany following World War I; German military operations in the West during World War II; and German war crime trials, especially the Buchenwald Concentration Camp case, 1947-1948. Includes a report by W. H. Scheidt, historian, Oberkommando der Wehrmacht, entitled German Military Operations Report, 1944-1945. Contains a set of records, documents, memoranda, and exhibits used in review of the Buchenwald Concentration Camp Case by Donald McClure. Most of the documentation deals with Ilse Koch. Also contains a bound volume of basic rules, procedures, and precedents used during German war crimes trials, reviews and appeals by Donald McClure at Dachau, Munich and Frankfurt, Germany, l947 48.
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
2 ms. boxes.
Archivist Note
Status: October 1980, revised most recently August 2016 by Agnes F. Peterson
Sources
The Hoover Institution Archives: Annotated list of archival materials relating to the Holocaust (Inclued materials relating to Jews, Jewish communities in various countries, Zionism, and antisemitism)
Rules and Conventions
EHRI Guidelines for Description v.1.0