Day 144 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: It appears that, at the time of recording, the disc labels for Discs 2604A and 2605A were incorrectly affixed on the opposite sides of the discs. The contents of Track 2604A match the label for Disc 2605A and vice-versa. Also, the disc labels for Discs 2606A and 2607A were incorrectly affixed on the opposite sides of the discs. The contents of Track 2606A match the label for Disc 2607A and vice-versa.