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Fritz Weinschenk papers

Document | Accession Number: 1999.A.0291

The Fritz Weinschenk papers primarily consist of case files documenting his assistance obtaining witness testimony related to war crimes proceedings in Germany. The papers also include Weinschenk’s writing files related to articles he wrote about the war crimes trials, and Gestapo Bremen and Abwehr files, which contain guidelines and regulations related to the Gestapo and government security.

Date
inclusive:  1912-1998
Language
German
English
Genre/Form
Photographs.
Extent
9 boxes
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About This Document

Document Creator
Fritz Weinschenk
Biography
Fritz Weinschenk (1920-2012) was born in Mainz, Germany but left in 1935 because of Nazi persecution. He volunteered for the U.S. Army immediately after Pearl Harbor and became a naturalized citizen while undergoing his military training. His unit landed on Omaha Beach on D-Day and later served in the Pacific. After the war he returned to Germany to serve in the U.S. Counter Intelligence Corps and worked with the U.S. prosecution team in the trial of German war criminals at Nuremberg. In New York he became one of the “attorneys of confidence” to the Consulate General of the Federal Republic of Germany, and from the 1960s to the 1990s he was frequently appointed commissioner by West German courts and prosecutors in proceedings against war criminals. He published articles about the German trials and served as counsel for Nazi victims in hundreds of restitution and indemnification claims.
System of Arrangement
The Fritz Weinschenk papers are arranged as three series: I. Case files, 1951-1998, II. Writing files, 1968-1998, III. Gestapo Bremen and Abwehr guidelines and regulations, 1912, approximately 1935-1942

Keywords and Subjects

Administrative History

Legal Status
Permanent Collection
Provenance
Fritz Weinschenk sent part of the Fritz Weinschenk papers to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1994 and donated the rest in 2001. The accession previously cataloged as 2001.172 has been incorporated into this collection.
Funding Note
The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
Additional Accession Number
2001.172
Primary Number
1999.A.0291

Rights and Restrictions

Conditions on Access
No restrictions on access
Conditions on Use
No restrictions on use
 
Record last modified: 2019-10-11 09:35:41
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Witness statements during Mengele's trial in absentia

Recorded Sound

Translations into German of statements made in English by witnesses against Mengele in relation to Mengele's trial in absentia by the Frankfurt Landgericht in 1981. The witness statements seem to have been taken in 1973. Fritz Weinschenk, the donor, serves as the translator for most of the recordings. Most (or maybe all) of the depositions are given by women. Dictabelt 02, 03, and 07 include parts 1,2 and 3 of Weinschenk's translation of Dr. Gisella Perl, who was a gynecologist at Auschwitz. Dictabelt 01 and 08 include parts 1 and 2 of Rachel Rosmarin - her tattooed prisoner number is given as 50926.

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