From the 1960s through the 1990s, the U.S. Government declassified the majority of its security-classified records relating to World War II. Yet, 60 years after the war, millions of pages of wartime and postwar records remained classified. Many of these records contained information related to war crimes and war criminals. This information had been sought over the years by congress, government prosecutors, historians and victims of war crimes. In 1998, the Nazi War Crimes and Japanese Imperial...
Topics: OSS, Office of Strategic Services, CIA, Central Intelligence Agency, World War 2, World War II,...
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1976
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National Archives and Records Administration
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National Archives Microfilm Publications - Microfilm Publication M892 Records of the United States Nuremberg War Crimes Trial United States of America v. Carl Krauch Et Al. (Case VI) Digitized by the Dr. Rath Health Foundation.
Topics: 1893-1946, Nuremberg Trial of Major German War Criminals, Nuremberg, Germany, 1945-1946, Nuremberg...
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United States. Department of the Army. Military Commission at Yokohama.
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Trial documents from American military tribunals of Japanese war criminals digitized by the International Criminal Court.
Topics: Nazi War Crimes, Japanese War Crimes, Yokohama
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1974
1974
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National Archives and Records Administration
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National Archives Microfilm Publications - Microfilm Publication M887 Records of the United States Nuremberg War Crimes Trial United States of America v. Karl Brandt et al. (Case I) Roll 1 - Documents of Authorization, Lists of Tribunal Members, Covers of Transcripts, Minute Books, Prosecution and Defense Exhibit Index, Court Docket, List of Witnesses Roll 2 - Transcript Volumes 1-3 Roll 3 - Transcript Volumes 4-6 Roll 4 - Transcript Volumes 7-9 Roll 5 - Transcript Volumes 10-12 Roll 6 -...
Topics: 1893-1946, Nuremberg Trial of Major German War Criminals, Nuremberg, Germany, 1945-1946, Nuremberg...
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United States Military Commissions
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Unabridged microfilm records of United States military commissions for investigating and prosecuting Axis war crimes. Reel 93 is missing. Originally digitized by unwcc.org
Topics: United Nations War Crimes Commission, Nazi War Crimes, Japanese War Crimes
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War Crimes Military Tribunal of the Ministry of National Defence
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Documents from Nationalist Chinese (Taiwan) war crimes trials of Japanese personnel. Digitized by the International Criminal Court.
Topics: UNWCC, United Nation War Crimes Commission, Japanese War Crimes
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International Military Tribunal, Nuremberg
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Trial of the Major War Criminals Before the International Military Tribunal, Nuremberg, 14 November 1945 - 1 October 1946 in 42 volumes
Topics: 1893-1946, Nuremberg Trial of Major German War Criminals, Nuremberg, Germany, 1945-1946, Nuremberg...
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Records of war crimes trials conducted by the Netherlands primarily against Japanese war crimes committed in Indonesia. Digitized by the International Criminal Court.
Topics: Japanese War Crimes, Dutch East Indies
A secret wartime 281 page report, authored by Walter C. Langer in 1943. Office of Strategic Services director General William J. Donovan suggested to psychologist Walter C. Langer that a psychological profile of Adolf Hitler needed to be developed. It was hoped that an accurate study would be helpful in gaining a deeper insight into Adolf Hitler and the German people and that the study might serve as a guide for Allied propaganda activities as well as for future dealings with Hitler and the...
Topics: OSS, Office of Strategic Services, Hitler, Adolf Hitler, World War 2, World War Two, WW2
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Records from American, Australian, and British military tribunals compiled by the United Nations War Crimes Commission on the prosecution of Japanese personnel. Records digitized by unwcc.org
Topics: Nazi War Crimes, Japanese War Crimes, United Nations War Crimes Commission
Documents relating to the creation of [the] Central Intelligence Agency.
Topics: CIA, OSS, Central Intelligence Agency, Office of Strategic Services, CIG, Central Intelligence...
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1949
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Nuremberg Military Tribunals
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Trials of War Criminals Before the Nuremberg Military Tribunals Under Control Council Law No. 10. Nuremberg, October 1946 - April, 1949 Volume 1 - The Medical Case Volume 2 - The Medical Case/The Milch Case Volume 3 - The Justice Case Volume 4 - The Einsatzgruppen Case/The RuSHA Case Volume 5 - The RuSHA Case/The Pohl Case Volume 6 - The Flick Case Volume 7 - The IG Farben Case Volume 8 - The IG Farben Case Volume 9 - The Krupp Case Volume 10 - The High Command Case Volume 11 - The High Command...
Topics: Nuremberg War Crime Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, 1946-1949, Nuremberg Trial of Major German War...
AECOB, approved in 1950, was a vehicle for foreign intelligence (FI) operations into and within Soviet Latvia and involved infiltration and exfiltration of black agents and the recruitment of legally resident agents in the USSR, especially Latvia. ZRLYNCH was approved in 1950 for use of the Latvian Resistance Movement, which had been formed in 1944, as a vehicle for clandestine activities within the USSR. ZRLYNCH was renewed in 1952 as a part of AECOB, which then provided both FI and political...
Topic: OSS
Abramtchik, Mikola
Topic: OSS
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Military Court for the Trial of War Criminals
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Documents and transcripts from United Kingdom v, Heinz Wilhelm Eck digitized by the International Criminal Court.
Topics: Nazi War Crimes, SS Peleus, British Zone of Occupation, unrestricted submarine warfare
AERODYNAMIC (formerly CARTEL, ANDROGEN, AECARTHAGE) (1949-70) refers to CIA support for ZP/UHVR (Ukrainian Supreme Liberation Council), which began in 1949. CIA helped to establish in New York City the Prolog Research and Publishing Company in 1953 as ZP/UHVR's publishing and research arm. Prolog, through an affiliate in Munich, published periodicals and selected books and pamphlets which sought to exploit and increase nationalist and other dissident tendencies in the Soviet Ukraine. ZP/UHVR...
Topic: OSS
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Selected documents from German civilian courts pursuing war crimes cases in the British Zone. Digitized by the International Criminal Court.
Topic: British Zone of Occupation
AEDOGMA / AEBATH (1947-61), which supported the activities of the Principal Agent (PA), Michael Korzhan, was designed to produce CI/CE information on two Ukrainian nationalist groups in Germany; positive intelligence on other Ukrainian groups in Germany and Western Europe; information on Soviet penetration of Orthodox churches; and miscellaneous CE and other support activities beginning in 1947. In 1959, the PA was transferred to Paris to report on the efforts of the Soviet Services in emigre...
Topic: OSS
A guide to sabotage written by the OSS and later used by CIA.
Topics: OSS, Office of Strategic Services, CIA, Sabotage, Central Intelligence Agency
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Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression
Topics: War crime trials, World War, 1939-1945, Nuremberg Trial of Major German War Criminals, Nuremberg,...
OSS/CIA files on Adolf Hitler.
Topics: OSS, CIA, Hitler, Adolf Hitler, FOIA, Freedom of Information, Freedom of Information Act, Office of...
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1945
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Military Court for the Trial of War Criminals
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Transcripts and documents from the Belsen Trial (Trial of Josef Kramer and 44 others).
Topics: Nazi War Crimes, Josef Kramer, Bergen-Belsen, British Zone of Occupation
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Polish Supreme National Tribunal
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Trial summaries and reports from the Polish Supreme National Tribunal as reported by UN observers.
Topics: Nazi War Crimes, United Nations War Crime Commission, Rudolf F.F. Hossa, Albert Forster, Herman...
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1945
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United States Senate. Committee on Military Affairs.
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Hearings on dismantling German war industry, particularly the dissolution of IG Farben. Volume 7 was also published independently by the Office of Military Government.
Topics: War crime trials, World War, 1939-1945, World War, 1939-1945, Nuremberg Trial of Major German War...
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Lists compiled by the United Nations War Crimes Commission indexing known war criminals during World War II. These records would eventually be consolidated into the CROWCASS lists. Originally digitized by unwcc.org.
Topics: UNWCC, United Nations War Crimes Commission, Nazi War Crimes
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Judicial summaries of WWII war crimes trials operating under United Nations observation.
Topics: Nazi War Crimes, United Nations War Crimes Commission, International Law
OSS branch liquidation files.
Topic: OSS
A 240 page report completed in October, 1943, by Harvard psychologist Dr. Henry A. Murray. The report attempted to present an analysis of Adolf Hitler's personality and its development. This analysis was then used to make predictions about what Hitler would do after an Allied victory and how he should be dealt with if taken into custody. The reporting sought to give the OSS an understanding of how it may be able influence Hitler's mental condition and behavior. Murray correctly predicted that...
Topics: OSS, Office of Strategic Services, Hitler, Adolf Hitler, World War 3, World War Two, WW3
AEACRE (1952-64) established a mechanism for the planning and conduct of REDSOX operations via a Domestic Operations Base (DOB) used for the interrogation, assessment, training, briefing, and preparation for dispatch of agents for infiltration into the USSR. Aleks Kurgvel, Tscherim Soobzokov associated with Project.
Topic: OSS
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Military Court for the Trial of War Criminals
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Document and transcripts from the case United Kingdom v. Erich Heyer digitized by the International Criminal Court.
Topics: Nazi War Crimes, Essen Lynching, Erich Heyer, British Zone of Occupation
OSS Liquidation Files
Topics: OSS, Office of Strategic Services, WW2, World War 2, World War Two, World War II, WW II, WWII
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Synopses of war crimes trials as presented to the United Nations War Crimes Commission
Topics: UNWCC, United Nations War Crimes Commission, Nazi War Crimes
A 1,019 page Office of Strategic Service document produced by Walter C. Langer. This report contains typed up abstracts taken from source material used by Langer, when he was working on the report "A Psychological Analysis of Adolph Hitler: His Life and Legend." The report contains extracts of key points from 211 different sources.
Topics: OSS, Office of Strategic Services, Hitler, Adolf Hitler, World War 5, World War Two, WW5
This information sheds important historical light on the Holocaust and other war crimes, as well as the U.S. Government’s involvement with war criminals during the Cold War. These records include operational files of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), Central Intelligence Group (CIG), and Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
Topics: War crimes, Nazi
Hitler Youth - U.S. Intelligence Files and Photos
Topics: Hitler Youth, Hitler Jugend, OSS, Germany, Nazi Germany, FOIA, Freedom of Information, Freedom of...
Digitized by FDR Library
Topics: OSS, Office of Strategic Services
AEFREEMAN (1953-64), which included AEBASIN/AEROOT (1953-60), AEFLAG (1955-62), and AEPOLE (formerly AECHAMP (1949-59)), was designed to strengthen resistance to communism and harrass the Soviet regime in the Baltic countries. AEBASIN/AEROOT supported Estonian emigres and émigré activities aganist the Estonian SSR. AEFLAG was aimed at people of the Latvian SSR. AEPOLE (formerly AECHAMP (formerly BGLAPIN)) targeted the Lithuanian SSR. These projects provided intelligence and operational data...
Topic: OSS
AEDEPOT (formerly AEREADY) (1957-65) was designed to provide a trained "Hot War" cadre of agents who could be used during a period of heightened tensions/increased alert or during actual hostilities against the Soviet Union. Mikola Abramtchik, Constantine Mierlak, Tscherim Soobzokov associated with Project.
Topic: OSS
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Senate hearings on the Malmedy Massacre. Digitized by the Library of Congress.
Topics: Nazi War Crimes, Malmedy Massacre, Joachim Peiper
Office of Strategic Services
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CIA AND THE ORIGINS OF THE BND, 1945-49 VOL. 1_0001
Topics: Nazi, War crimes, Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act, OSS, World War Two, WWII, WW2
Office of Strategic Services
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GERMAN INTELLIGENCE SERVICE (WWII), VOL. 1_0002
Topics: Nazi, War crimes, Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act, OSS, World War Two, WWII, WW2
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Lists of CIA records transferred to NARA regarding Operation Safehaven.
Topics: Central Intelligence Agency, Nazi War Crimes, Operation Safehaven, Office of Strategic Services,...
OSS and CIA Files on Berlin and East Germany.
Topics: OSS, CIA, Berlin, East Germany, Office of Strategic Services, Central Intelligence Agency
AECARRERA (1953-58) exploited REDCAP opportunities (collection of information on Soviets stationed abroad) arising out of the propaganda distributed by AEVIRGIL and collected positive intelligence through debriefings of East German nationals visiting the AECARRERA office in Berlin in response to AEVIRGIL materials ballooned into East Germany. Wilhelm Gruenwaldt associated with Project.
Topic: OSS
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Canadian Military Courts
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Trial document and finished reports from Canadian Forces regarding Nazi war crimes, particularly the execution of POWs.
Topics: Nazi War Crimes, Canadian Forces, POW executions
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Digitized by NTIS.
Topics: Nazi War Crimes, Looting, Economic Warfare, Restitution, Assets, Holocaust
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ROEDER, MANFRED_0013
Topics: Nazi, War crimes, Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act, OSS, World War Two, WWII, WW2
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Report submitted to the United Nations War Crimes Commission. Digitized by the International Criminal Court.
Topics: UNWCC, United Nations War Crimes Commission, Nazi War Crimes, Dachau
Member of the board of directors of Deutsche Bank from 1938 to 1945. After World War II he was chairman of Deutsche Bank, and contributed to the reconstruction of the German economy. Played a key role in the economic design and stabilization of Nazism.
Topic: OSS
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THE HITLER YOUTH ORGANISATION_0001
Topics: Nazi, War crimes, Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act, OSS, World War Two, WWII, WW2
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Department of Justice
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Department of Justice report on the investigation of Mengele's escape from justice and fugitive activities.
Topics: Nazi War Crimes, Office of Special Investigations, Department of Justice, Josef Mengele
Digitized by FDR Library
Topics: OSS, Office of Strategic Services
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Foreign Languages Publishing House
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Compilation of selected material from the Khabarovsk War Crime Trials, the tribunal of twelve Imperial Japanese Army members captured in Manchuria.
Topics: Khabarovsk War Crime Trials, Soviet Union, Japanese War Crimes, Unit 731, Biological Warfare,...
Office of Strategic Services
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United States. Office of Strategic Services
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January 17, 1944. "This information is to characterize simple sabotage, to outline its possible effects, and to present suggestions for inciting and executing it." Digitized by the Combined Arms Research Library Digital Library, US Army Combined Arms Center. http://cgsc.cdmhost.com/cdm/
Topic: OSS,Sabotage,Firearms,Guerrilla warfare -- Handbooks, manuals, etc,WWII,Counterinsurgency --...
Office of Strategic Services
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MENDE, GERHARD VON_0127
Topics: Nazi, War crimes, Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act, OSS, World War Two, WWII, WW2
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Digiitzed by the International Criminal Court.
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Topics: UNWCC, United Nations War Crimes Commission, Nazi War Crimes
Essential Intelligence for Determining Psychological Warfare Strategy and Tactics to North Africa
Topics: OSS, Office of Strategic Services, North Africa, Psychological warfare, Psychological operations,...
Office of Strategic Services
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WEINERT, JOACHIM_0074
Topics: Nazi, War crimes, Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act, OSS, World War Two, WWII, WW2
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ENGELSING, HERBERT_0024
Topics: Nazi, War crimes, Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act, OSS, World War Two, WWII, WW2
OSS Report on IG Farben and the Nazi war machine
Topics: Nazi, WW2, World War 2, World War Two
Lucien Conein OSS Personnel File
Topics: Conein, Lucien Conein, OSS, CIA, Central Intelligence Agency, Office of Strategic Intelligence
Office of Strategic Services
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MERTEN, MAX_0048
Topics: Nazi, War crimes, Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act, OSS, World War Two, WWII, WW2
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BISHOP, ROBERT VOL. 2_0030
Topics: Nazi, War crimes, Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act, OSS, World War Two, WWII, WW2
Office of Strategic Services
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EILITZ, HERBERT_0003
Topics: Nazi, War crimes, Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act, OSS, World War Two, WWII, WW2
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PRCHALA, LEV_0115
Topics: Nazi, War crimes, Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act, OSS, World War Two, WWII, WW2
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KURGVEL, ALEKSEI VOL. 2_0019
Topics: Nazi, War crimes, Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act, OSS, World War Two, WWII, WW2
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AEDEPOT VOL. 4_0013
Topics: Nazi, War crimes, Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act, OSS, World War Two, WWII, WW2
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HITLER, ADOLF_0005
Topics: Nazi, War crimes, Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act, OSS, World War Two, WWII, WW2
Office of Strategic Services
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ZIMMER, GUIDO_0003
Topics: Nazi, War crimes, Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act, OSS, World War Two, WWII, WW2
Office of Strategic Services
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KURGVEL, ALEKS VOL. 3_0148
Topics: Nazi, War crimes, Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act, OSS, World War Two, WWII, WW2
Operational Groups Field Manual: Strategic Services (Provisional) 1944-04-06 Strategic Services Field Manual No 6 "This manual sets forth the authorized functions, operational principles, methods, and organization of Operational Groups (OG's) as a part of OSS operations. Its purpose is to guide Strategic Services personnel responsible for planning, training, and operations in the proper employment of OG's."
Topic: WWII,World War II,United States. -- Office of Strategic Services,United States. Army,US Army,United...
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Department of State
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Digiti zed by NTIS.
Topics: Nazi War Crimes, NWCDA, Holocaust, Assets, Looting, Restitution
Office of Strategic Services
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APYRUBIS, IGNATZ_0089
Topics: Nazi, War crimes, Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act, OSS, World War Two, WWII, WW2
Office of Strategic Services
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WORM, ERNST VOL. 1_0057
Topics: Nazi, War crimes, Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act, OSS, World War Two, WWII, WW2
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United States. Office of Military Government.
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Report on the assets and activities of IG Farben by the Division of Investigation of Cartels and External Assets, OMGUS. Originally digitized by the Dr. Rath Health Foundation.
Topics: Nuremberg War Crime Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, 1946-1949, Nuremberg Trial of Major German War...
