Edmund F. Franz papers
Extent and Medium
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Creator(s)
- Edmund F. Franz
Biographical History
Edmund F. Franz (1910-1984) served as an attorney in the U.S. Army from 1942-1946 and in 1945 was the chief administrator of the U.S. Army's War Crimes Branch in Wiesbaden, Germany.
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
Funding Note: The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
Sally Sockel and Susan Nickens donated the Edmund F. Franz papers to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2000.
Scope and Content
The Edmund F. Franz papers consist of records Franz collected while serving as the chief administrator of the U.S. Army's War Crimes Branch in Wiesbaden, Germany. The records include reports and English translations of statements and interrogation interviews with German war criminals, prisoners of war, and other witnesses recorded by U.S. Army investigators in 1945 in preparation for the Nuremberg trials. Some of the English materials are accompanied by German versions. The papers also include official U.S. Army photographs depicting scenes of atrocities at Buchenwald and Nordhausen concentration camps, and at Gardelegen, Penig, and Gotha in Germany.
System of Arrangement
The Edmund F. Franz papers are arranged as three series: I. Statements and reports, 1944-1945, II. Photographs, 1945, III. SS organizational chart, approximately 1945
People
- Franz, Edmund F.
Corporate Bodies
Subjects
- Gardelegen (Germany)
- Penig (Germany)
- War criminals--Germany.
- Nuremberg Trial of Major German War Criminals, Nuremberg, Germany, 1945-1946.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Atrocities.
- Gotha (Germany)
- War crime trials--Germany--Nuremberg.
Genre
- Document
- Photographs.