us-005578-irn502378
type: RecordSet
archival history: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
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.
has beginning date: 1944-01-01
has end date: 1945-12-31
has or had holder: us-005578
has or had identifier: 1
has or had identifier: 2
has or had some members with language: eng
has or had some members with language: deu
has or had subject: 43
has or had subject: 176
has or had subject: 701
has or had subject: 627
has record set type: Item
identifier: irn502378
record resource extent: box 1
record resource structure: 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
results or resulted from: 1
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.
title: Edmund F. Franz papers