- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Telford T., who was born in New York in 1908. He recounts his education; working in military intelligence during the war; joining Judge Robert Jackson's staff for the first Nuremberg trial in 1945; searching for documentation of German war crimes; establishing the legal basis for the trials in the International Military Tribunal charter; working on the indictment in London; using Nuremberg for the trial because of its facilities; details of the trial; and his appointment as chief prosecutor for subsequent trials. Mr. T. describes trials of Nazi doctors who performed euthanasia and specious, sadistic medical experiments on human subjects; of Nazi judges and prosecutors; and of Einsatzgruppen officers. He discusses living conditions in the "Nuremberg enclave"; his impression of his colleagues and the defendants; the sentences; his malaise at the early release of most of the defendants, which he attributes to the political situation; recent reunions of the Nuremberg staff; his career after 1949; the historic import of the trials; and analyzing events in Vietnam through his unique perspective.
- Author/Creator
- T., Telford, 1908-
- Published
- New York, N.Y. : A Living Memorial to the Holocaust-Museum of Jewish Heritage, 1991
- Interview Date
- May 14, 1991.
- Locale
- London (England)
Nuremberg (Germany)
- Cite As
- Telford T. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1777). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Blum-Dobkin, Toby, interviewer.
- Notes
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Related publication: Final report to the Secretary of the Army on Nuernberg war crime trials under control council law no. 10 / Telford Taylor. -- Buffalo, N.Y. : W S Hern & Co., c1997.
Related publication: The anatomy of the Nuremberg trials : a personal memoir / Telford Taylor. -- New York : Knopf, c1992.
Related publication: Nuremberg and Vietnam: an American tragedy / Telford Taylor. -- Chicago : Quadrangle Books; distributed by Random House [1970].
Related publication: Nuremberg trials : war crimes and international law / Telford Taylor. -- New York, N.Y. : Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, c1949.
Related publication: Guilt, responsibility, and the Third Reich / Telford Taylor. -- Cambridge, England : W. Heffer, c1970.
