Overview
- Description
- Contains case files relating to individuals tried in British military courts for war crimes committed in Europe during World War II. Included are cases about crimes in Bergen-Belsen, Auschwitz, Neuengamme, Hadamar, and Ravensbrück, Loibl Pass work camp, Gross Rosen concentration camp, and Lefitz Children’s hostel. The files contain daily transcripts of court proceedings, court exhibits, and prosecution and defense summations. Also included is documentary evidence collected by the US Chief Counsel including English translations of German documents.
. - Date
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inclusive:
1945-1953
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- Extent
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58,377 digital images : TIFF ; 2.17 GB.
56 microfilm reels ; 35 mm.
2 DVD-ROMs ; 4 3/4 in..
- System of Arrangement
- Arrangement is thematic.
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- This material can only be accessed in a Museum reading room or other on-campus viewing stations. No other access restrictions apply to this material.
- Conditions on Use
- Fair use only. Applications for the permission to use copies for publication (including web-site publication), exhibition or broadcast or any other purpose must be addressed to the Head of Licensing, Publishing and Digitisation, the National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey TW9 4DU, UK.
- Copyright Holder
- National Archives (Great Britain)
Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps. Prisoners of war--Germany. War criminals. War crime trials. War (International law) World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities. War crimes--History--20th century. Crimes against humanity.
- Corporate Name
- Great Britain. War Office Loibl-Pass (Concentration camp)
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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National Archives (Great Britain)
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Source of acquisition is the National Archives, Great Britain, Fond WO 235. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the filmed collection via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum International Program Division in July 2001, and accretions of additional records in years: 2008, 2009, 2011, 2012, and in 2018 received digital duplicates of all microfim reels.
- Record last modified:
- 2023-08-25 09:25:09
- This page:
- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn509302
Additional Resources
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- Terms of Use
- This record is digitized but cannot be downloaded online.
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