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Nuremberg Trials: Documents
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The collection ... includes Donovan's personal set of the 42-volume official text in English of the Nuremberg trials, published by the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg by the secretariat of the tribunal. Additionally, the staff of the U.S. chief of counsel, Supreme Court justice Robert H. Jackson, screened over 100,000 captured documents, and around 4,000 were translated and used as evidence. Some of these documents bear Donovan's personal annotations and many are marked "Top Secret." The material includes transcripts in German and English as well as background memoranda and evidentiary analysis of the defendants.
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Wennerstrum cautiously referred to the extensive Jewish involvement in the Nuremberg process. Lawyers, clerks, interpreters and researchers were employed who became Americans only in recent years, whose backgrounds were imbedded in Europe's hatreds and prejudices." He criticized the one-sided handling of evidence. "Most of the evidence in the trials was documentary, selected from the large tonnage of captured records. The selection was made by the prosecution. The defense had access only to those documents which the prosecution considered material to the case." He concluded that "the trials were to have convinced the Germans of the guilt of their leaders. They convinced the Germans merely that their leaders lost the war to tough conquerors." Wennerstrum left Nuremberg "with a feeling that justice has been denied."
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Surviving Nazi leaders were put on trial at Nuremberg in 1946. In the trials that followed Nazi leaders had the opportunity to express their beliefs and what they said has been wel documented.
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