Henry L. Cohen collection relating to Nuremberg Case No. 11, the Ministries Case
Extent and Medium
25 linear in.,
183 microfiche,
Creator(s)
- Henry L. Cohen
Biographical History
Henry L. Cohen worked as an interrogator for the Office of U. S. Chief of Counsel for War Crimes, Evidence Division, Interrogation Branch, in Nuremberg, Germany, from ca. 1946 to 1949.
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
Henry L. Cohen donated the collection to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1994.
Scope and Content
Contains transcripts of interrogations of defendants and witnesses in the "Ministries Case" (Nuremberg Case No. 11); general administrative records from the case concerning the interrogations of defendants and witnesses; translations of pre-World War II and World War II-period German documents collected as background information and as evidence in the Ministries case. The bulk of the materials in the collection relate to the participation of Richard Walter Darré in crimes against humanity while serving as Reichsbauernführer and Reichsernärungsminister from June 1933 to May 1942.
System of Arrangement
Organized in three series: .01, Interrogations; .02, General records relating to interrogations, 1946-1948; .03, General records relating to Military Tribunal IV, Case 11, "The Ministries Case." Series .01, alphabetical by defendant surname; Series .02, thematic; Series .03, thematic with chronological arrangements within some file units
People
- Darré, Richard Walther, 1895-1953.
Subjects
- War crime trials.
- Agriculture--Germany.
- War crimes.
- Nuremberg War Crime Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, 1946-1949.
- War criminals.
- Justice Trial, Nuremberg, Germany, 1947.
- Ministries Trial, Nuremberg, Germany, 1948-1949.
- Crimes against humanity, German.
Genre
- Document