Overview
- Description
- Consists of a copy of a report given by Colonel Henry S. Otto. The report concerns Otto's involvement with the SHAEF Intelligence and the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg. Also included are details of Hermann Göring's surrender to the Seventh U.S. Army and the sentences given to the Nuremberg defendants.
- Collection Creator
- Henry S. Otto
- Biography
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Colonel Henry S. Otto was educated at Cornell University and served in both World War I and World War II. During the second world war, Otto served in the Inspector General's Department and the Intelligence Section of SHAEF. He served with the Seventh U.S. Army during the Allied invasion Germany and Austria. He took part in the inspection of Dachau concentration camp and served on the surrender commission there. In 1945 Otto was assigned to the U.S. Chief of Counsel, Justice Jackson, and he assisted the prosecution in interrogations and the assembly of data relating to the German defendants at Nuremberg
Physical Details
- Extent
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1 folder
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- This material can only be accessed in a Museum reading room or other on-campus viewing station. There are no additional access restrictions to this material.
- Conditions on Use
- Cite Cornell University Libraries as holder of the original.
Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- War crimes. War crime trials. Political prisoners. World War, 1914-1918. World War, 1939-1945.
- Geographic Name
- Nuremberg (Germany) Soviet Union.
- Personal Name
- Otto, Henry S. Göring, Hermann, 1893-1946. Hess, Rudolf, 1894-1987. Ribbentrop, Joachim von, 1893-1946. Keitel, Wilhelm, 1882-1946. Kaltenbrunner, Ernst. Rosenberg, Alfred, 1893-1946. Frank, Hans, 1900-1946. Frick, Wilhelm, 1877-1946. Streicher, Julius, 1885-1946. Funk, Walther, 1890-1960. Ley, Robert, -1945. Bormann, Martin, 1900-1945. Schacht, Hjalmar Horace Greeley, 1877-1970. Krupp, Gustav. Dönitz, Karl, 1891-1980. Raeder, Erich, 1876-1960.
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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Cornell University
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- A copy of the report by Henry Otto was made from the Deceased Alumni Records, #41/2/877, collection at the Department of Manuscripts and University Archives, Cornell University Libraries in Ithaca, N.Y. The copy of the Otto report was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ca. Oct. 1986.
- Record last modified:
- 2023-08-23 15:24:54
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