Day 10 International Military Tribunal, Nuremberg (Set A)

The United States Army Signal Corps produced two sets of verbatim audio recordings of the Nuremberg Trials outside of the courtroom in a studio. Set A (archived at the International Court of Justice in the Hague) consists of 1,942 double-sided black disc gramophone records with a cellulose trinitrate lacquer surface and aluminum core made by the Presto Recording Corporation. Set B (archived at the US National Archives and Records Administration in Washington, DC) consists of cardboard and aluminum gramophone discs. The two sets are not exact copies and generally stagger against each other, but sometimes have the same start or stop time corresponding to the beginning or end of a court session. The digitized and restored files made from Set A (ICJ) are much better quality than the files from Set B (NARA) which contain occasional audio distortion, especially at the beginning of a file, and skipping throughout. Technical note: Disc 187A is missing and was not digitized. It appears that either the disc was not delivered to the ICJ or there was a technical issue at the time of recording. According to the information provided from the gramophone disc inventory (the “Index to Electrical Transcriptions of International Military Tribunal”, H-5192), the disc contains: Cross-examination of witness Lahousen by German defense. Part 6. Issues with tracks 190A and 194A appear to be the result of a technical issue at the time of recording.