Papers of the International Military Tribunal and the Nuremberg Military Tribunals

Papers of the International Military Tribunal and the Nuremberg Military Tribunals 

Papers of the International Military Tribunal and the Nuremberg Military Tribunals 

500 boxes 

The documentation is divided up to reflect the twelve cases: Case 1 (Medical): charged twenty-four defendants with performing medical experiments on concentration camp inmates and other living human subjects Case 2 (Milch): charged Erhard Milch with the exploitation of slave labour and carrying out medical experiments on concentration camp inmates Case 3 (Justice): charged sixteen defendants with war crimes and crimes against humanity through abuse of the judicial process and the administration of justice Case 4 (Pohl): charged eighteen defendants with running concentration camps or economic enterprises of the SS using slave labour Case 5 (Flick): charged six defendants with criminal conduct in relation to slave labour, the spoliation of property in occupied France and the USSR, and the 'aryanisation' of Jewish industrial and mining properties Case 6 (Farben): charged twenty-four senior executives of I.G.Farben with spoliation of property in occupied countries and participation in a slave labour programme Case 7 (Hostage): charged twelve generals assigned to South East Europe with criminal disregard of the rules of warfare in respect to the treatment of hostages and civilians Case 8 (Rusha): charged fourteen officials in the race and settlement office of the SS with carrying out systematic programmes of genocide Case 9 (Einsatzgruppen): charged twenty-three officers of the SS in charge of extermination squads with the murder of 2,000,000 people Case 10 (Krupp): charged twelve executives of the Krupp industrial concern with using slave labour and spoliation Case 11 (Ministries): charged twenty-one defendants with playing an important part in the political and diplomatic preparation for war, violation of international treaties, economic spoliation and diplomatic implementation of the extermination programme Case 12 (High Command): charged fourteen defendants who held high command or staff positions in the armed forces of ordering the killing and mistreatment of prisoners of war and of deporting or abusing civilians in occupied territories The documents collected by the special investigation units were classified and numbered. Those used for the NMT cases were registered in four principal series: NG, 'Nuremberg Government', documents relating in the main to government agencies of the Third Reich; NI, 'Nuremberg Industrial', documents principally dealing with industry and finance (some were further designated NID, for the operations of the Dresdener Bank, or NIK, for the activities of the Krupp organisation); NO, 'Nuremberg Organisations', documents connected with the various organisations of the Nazi party; and NOKW, 'Nuremberg Oberkommando der Wehrmacht', documents concerned primarily with the High Command of the German Army. The documentation for both the IMT and NMT was reproduced, either as mimeographs or as carbon copies, and was distributed by the Office of the Chief of US Counsel for War Crimes, Document Division. Official publications were prepared of much of the IMT material, and of some sections of the NMT. Material relating to the IMT: 18 boxes of official transcripts of court proceedings, 21 Nov 1945-30 Sep 1946; document books (incomplete series) Material relating to the NMT: approximately 460 boxes of official transcripts of the court proceedings; summaries of interrogations; document books containing compilations and translations of the evidence