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Title
Date(s)
- 1945 - 1952 (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent
1 vol
Scope and content
Germany; correspondence and papers relating to war crimes, including Landesberg, a documentary report (Office of the United States Commission for Germany, Frankfurt, Germany, 1951) reporting sentences of those confined in Landsberg prison who were convicted of war crimes by the military tribunals at Nuremberg; German Maj Gen Adolf Westhoff, affadavit concerning his position of Chief of Affairs of POWs in OKW; German Maj Friedrich Busse, Commander of British POW Labour Battery in Blechhammer, where British POWs worked in a synthetic petrol factory; other affadavits relating to German Lt Gen Kurt Wolff; Circular letter no. 22 by Otto Lehmann-Russbueldt, Honorary Secretary, Committee of the German League for the Rights of Man, Aug 1945; 'The fifth column remains active,' Spanish News Letter, London, 17 Nov 1945; 'German treatment of prisoners of war 1940-1945,' by Victor Campbell in typescript; The re-education of German prisoners of war (Foreign Office, Aldwych London, 1945); 'Wilton Park training centre,' address by Maj Gen Kenneth William Dobson Strong, Director General, Political Intelligence Department, Foreign Office, to German POWs, 17 Jan 1946; Deutsche Kriegsgefangenen in der Sowjetunion rufen das Gewissen der Welt! [1951] booklet in four languages including English concerning German POWs in the Soviet Union; memorandum to United Nations by Ward Hermans concerning wartime collaboration in Belgium translated from Flemish; Two expertises [sic, reports?] relating to the archives of the Teutonic order and the ancient Prussian duchy by Herbert Kraus, and Erich Weise (Göttingen, Germany, 1949), in English; Petition to United States District Court, District of Columbia on behalf of Lothar Eisentrager, alias Ludwig Ehrhart and 20 others concerning legal rights as prisoners of war; The Malmédy Trial by Dietrich Ziemssen (Munich Germany, 1952) concerning Germans of 6 Panzer Army convicted of war crimes and imprisoned at Landsberg/Lech; Übersicht über die Finanz-und Haushaltslage des Bundes und der Länder in Rechnungsjahr 1950, in German published by the West German government; The release of Nazi war criminals, the men and their background, Brig Gen John Hartman Morgan, Honorary Adviser to the American War Crimes Commission at Nuremberg in 1947, reprint of series of article from Daily Mail 6-9 Mar 1951; with cuttings in German and English concerning Rt Hon (Arthur) Neville Chamberlain, former British Prime Minister; Robert Gilbert Vansittart, 1st Baron Vansittart of Denham, and Germans imprisoned at Landsberg; correspondence including Orin W Kaye, Jr and Joseph Polakoff, United States Information Service, American Embassy, London; Paul Mast; German Col-Gen Gotthard Heinrici; Bernhard-Georg Meitzel; Heinz Meuller-Torgow with note on judgment in OKW trial; Brigitte Krüger; Wolf Schenke; William Watson Henderson, 1st Baron Henderson of Westgate in the City and County of Newcastle upon Tyne, Foreign Office; Margaret C Wolff, including 'A plea for clemency for the case of [German] Lt Gen Kurt Wolff,'; Trygve Gunderson; copy of letter to Rt Hon Lt Col Sir Maurice (Pascal Alers) Hankey, 1st Baron Hankey of The Chart by Alexander Ritter, dated Sofia, Bulgaria 1940; copy of letter from Arne Bergsvik to Cyril Clemens concerning case of Norwegian poet, Knut Hamsun; Professor Lewis Bernstein Namier; Heinrich Bucksch; H D Ziman, Daily Telegraph; (Harold) Montgomery Belgion and Frederick John Partington Veale with cutting, 'Italian white book on the Major Reder case,' by Veale from Social Justice Review, Nov 1962 concerning German Maj Walter Reder.