Walter Rockler collection

Identifier
irn43855
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2011.296.1
Dates
1 Jan 2008 - 31 Dec 2008
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn43855

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Jeffrey Burt

Jeffrey Burt donated this manuscript to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2008. Mr. Burt was a colleague of Mr. Rockler at Arnold and Porter LLP in Washington, DC.

Scope and Content

Consists of a bound manuscript of clippings, transcripts, and articles related to the life of Walter J. Rockler, who was a prosecutor at Nuremberg. Includes information and articles related to his experiences in the Pacific during World War II, his work at Nuremberg, and his later critiques of American foreign policy and of the prosecution of war crimes. Also includes the transcript of an oral history which Jeffrey Burt conducted with Walter Rockler in December 2001.

Genre

  • Document
  • Scrapbook.
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