Thursday, November 20, 2025

Harvard Law School Library releases first complete set of digitized Nuremberg Trials records

What took so long!!! This should have been published several decades ago!

"... In the first Nuremberg Trial, the International Military Tribunal (IMT) tried and convicted 19 of the most powerful and influential Nazi leaders and six German organizations. In the 12 subsequent proceedings convened by the U.S., prosecutors successfully charged and convicted nearly 200 defendants from the Nazi military, judiciary, medical community, and other sectors.

The Nuremberg Trials Project commenced in 1998 with the goal of preserving, creating, and presenting online versions of the library’s collection. At the time, the original documents were stored in boxes, rarely accessed, and beginning to “literally crumble,” according to the project’s longtime technical lead, Paul Deschner. ..."

Harvard Law School Library releases first complete set of digitized Nuremberg Trials records - Harvard Law School | Harvard Law School "The law school’s Nuremberg Trials Project has finalized the first complete, keyword searchable online collection of more than 750,000 pages of Nazi war tribunal documents"

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