Henry Buhl Library: WWII Special Topics: Nuremberg/Pacific War Trials

Nuremberg/Pacific War Trials

The Tokyo War Crimes Trial: the Pursuit of Justice in the Wake of World War II
Call Number: KZ 1181 .T67 2008
A good overview of the Pacific War Trials that began in Tokyo in 1946.
Witnesses to Nuremberg: an Oral History of American Participants at the War Crimes Trials
Call Number: KZ 1176 .S73 1998
Includes interviews with the courtroom's architect, prison and security guards, interrogators and translators, attorneys, & journalists.

The Nuremberg Trials
Call Number: DVD 1096
This American Experience production draws upon rare archival material and eyewitness accounts to re-create the dramatic tribunal that defines trial procedure for state criminals to this day.

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The Charles D. Gould, Jr. Digital Collection
"Includes images of post-war Nuremberg, of the War Crimes Tribunal and Nazi defendants (including Ernst von Leyser, Oswald Pohl, Lothar Rendulic, Gerhard Rose and Siegfried Ruff), and many other scenes that captured Mr. Gould’s interest at the time" (from The University of Missouri-Kansas Libraries).
Mussmano Collection
Interrogations of Hitler associates available from Duquesne University.
Nizkor Project
Provides access to biographies of important individuals associated with the Holocaust, as well as lots of information about the concentration camps.
Nuremberg Trials Project
A project in-progress from Harvard University. Currently there are only 5 cases available online, with the rest of Harvard's Nuremberg materials to be added over the next 10 years.
Rutgers Journal of Law and Religion - Nuremberg Project
"The Nuremberg Project will use this forum to make documents from the Donovan Collection widely available to the public while providing scholarly commentary to clarify, interpret, criticize, or provide new information on the topics presented."
International Military Tribunal for the Far East: a Digital Collection
Formerly referred to as the Tokyo War Crimes Trial, the site provides access to some video footage of the trial and biographies of the accused, the judges, and the attorneys, in addition to the documents themselves.