Overview
- Interview Summary
- Frank Wallis recounts his experience as a member of the United States legal staff during the Nuremberg trials in 1945. He discusses his role in gathering evidence on and interrogating high ranking Nazi officials; presenting the prosecution’s case to the International Military Tribunal; and legal proceedings with the British and Russian delegations. Using notes, newspaper clippings, and personal memory, Wallis provides a description of several defendants, whom he describes as “infamous characters of history.” They include, Hermann Goering, Rudolf Hess, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Julius Streicher, Wilhelm Keitel, Baldur von Schirach, Ernst Kaltenbrunner, and Hans Frank. Wallis also describes his brief interrogation of Heinrich Himmler, during which Himmler committed suicide.
- Interviewee
- Frank Wallis
- Interviewer
- Robert Edwards
- Date
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interview:
1978 June 15
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Robert Moore
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- Genre/Form
- Oral histories.
- Extent
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2 sound cassettes (90 min.).
3 compact discs ; 80 min..
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- There are no known restrictions on access to this material.
- Conditions on Use
- No restrictions on use
Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- Collective memory--Germany--Nuremberg. Criminal procedure (International law) Nuremberg Trial of Major German War Criminals, Nuremberg, Germany, 1945-1946. War crime trials--Germany--Nuremberg. War criminals--Germany. World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities. Men--Personal narratives.
- Geographic Name
- Nuremberg (Germany)--History--20th century.
- Personal Name
- Wallis, Frank. Göring, Hermann, 1893-1946--Trials, litigation, etc. Hess, Rudolf, 1894-1987--Trials, litigation, etc. Ribbentrop, Joachim von, 1893-1946--Trials, litigation, etc. Streicher, Julius, 1885-1946--Trials, litigation, etc. Keitel, Wilhelm, 1882-1946--Trials, litigation, etc. Schirach, Baldur von, 1907-1974--Trials, litigation, etc. Kaltenbrunner, Ernst--Trials, litigation, etc. Frank, Hans, 1900-1946--Trials, litigation, etc. Himmler, Heinrich, 1900-1945--Trials, litigation, etc.
- Corporate Name
- International Military Tribunal
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- In June 1978, Robert Edwards conducted the oral history interview with Frank Wallis after he and an associate had befriended Mr. Wallis in a wood-working shop owned by Robert Moore. The master tapes were given to Mr. Moore, who kept them in his home until donating them to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in January 2009.
- Funding Note
- The cataloging of this oral history interview has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
- Special Collection
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2023-11-16 09:05:58
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