Records of the Office of the Judge Advocate General (RG 153) [The War Department and the Army Records]

    The War Crimes Branch, established in October 1944, had staff responsibility for the War Department's share in United States participation in the United Nations War Crimes Commission. Though the agency began as an Army activity, it became an Army and Navy enterprise in January 1945, under the control of the Judge Advocate General's Office. It represented the United States in the collection and preparation of evidence for the trials of suspected war criminals. {Note 1}

Governmental Publications (available in the consultation area in Room 2400)

The Trial of the Major War Criminals before the International Military Tribunal, Nuremberg, 14 November 1945-1 October 1946. 46 vols. (Nuremberg, 1947-1949). {Note 2}

Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression. 10 vols. (Washington, DC, 1946-1948) {Note 3}

Trials of War Criminals before the Nuernberg Military Tribunals under Control Council Law No. 10, October 1946-April 1949 15 vols. (Washington DC, 1949-1953) {Note 4}

Safehaven Reports 1944-45 (Entry 134)
       
        Arranged chronologically.
        Boxes 1-13 location: 270/1/5/04

Judge Advocate General Law Library, 1944-1949 (Entry 135)

        Box #  Document # and Title
        3  L-36 Civil Affairs Information Guide "German Reichsbank Policy and  Control"
                        L-45 Foreign Economic Administration "Property Transferred Under the  Nazi Regime in Germany" 1944 location: 270/1/5/06
        4  L-57 Board of Economic Warfare "Axis Penetration of European  Insurance." 1943
            L-60 Office of Economic Warfare "Italian International Banking  Connections." 1943
            L-61 Office of Economic Warfare "Foreign Investments Seized in Italy."  1943 location: 270/1/5/06
        5  L-99 Office of Economic Warfare "Key Laws Issued by the Axis in  Occupied Europe." location: 270/1/5/06
        13  L-222 Foreign Economic Administration "Location and Records of Major  Economic Control Agencies in Germany." 1943-1945.
            L-223 Foreign Economic Administration "Organization and Techniques of  German Ministries." 1945
            L-224 Foreign Economic Administration "Significant Data on Prewar  Germany Economy." 1945 location: 270/1/5/07
        21  L-244 State Department "The Proclaimed List of Certain Blocked  Nationals." 1945 location: 270/1/6/01
        48  L-309 Foreign Economic Administration "German Manual: Social  Structure, National Income."  location: 270/1/6/05
        50  L-314 Treasury Department "Biographies of Leading German Bankers and  Industrialists." location: 270/1/6/05
        51  L-325 Office of Military Government for Germany-U.S. Zone (OMGUS)  "Report on the Gold of Banca d'Italia Taken to Germany." 1945  location: 270/1/6/06
        73  L-409 Preliminary Study of Certain Financial Decrees of the German  Occupying Authorities-The Netherlands" location: 270/1/7/02
        77  L-426 Office of the Provost Marshal General "American Civil Internees in  Germany, 1942-1945." location: 270/1/7/02
        90  L-508 State Department. "The Proclaimed List of Certain Blocked  Nationals." 1945
            L-508 State Department "The Argentine Situation." 1946
                                location: 270/1/7/04
        96  L-536 "Economic Preparation and Conduct of the War Under the Nazis."  1946 location: 270/1/7/05

{1}Return to text For related records see the National Archives Collection of World War II War Crimes Records (RG 238).

{2}Return to text These volumes contain the day-to-day proceedings and slightly more than half of the documents offered in evidence by the prosecution and the defense. Volumes 2-22 are the complete trial transcripts; volumes 25-42 are documents or excerpts from documents keyed to the transcripts. The documents are mostly in German, though each document is introduced by a brief description in English. Volumes 23 and 24 are indexes--volume 23 to the testimony and volume 24 to the documents.

{3}Return to text These volumes, to some extent, duplicate the above volumes, but they also complement them since they include material not put before the court. They contain the documentary evidence prepared by American and British prosecutors, who were responsible for the case against those charged with preparing for and waging aggressive war.

{4}Return to text These volumes contain selected portions of the record in translation, including the most important parts of the testimony and a number of prosecution and defense exhibits.