Overview
- Description
- Contains transcripts of interrogations of defendants and witnesses in the "Ministries Case" (Nuremberg Case No. 11); general administrative records from the case concerning the interrogations of defendants and witnesses; translations of pre-World War II and World War II-period German documents collected as background information and as evidence in the Ministries case. The bulk of the materials in the collection relate to the participation of Richard Walter Darré in crimes against humanity while serving as Reichsbauernführer and Reichsernärungsminister from June 1933 to May 1942.
- Date
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inclusive:
1946-1948
- Collection Creator
- Henry L. Cohen
- Biography
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Henry L. Cohen worked as an interrogator for the Office of U. S. Chief of Counsel for War Crimes, Evidence Division, Interrogation Branch, in Nuremberg, Germany, from ca. 1946 to 1949.
Physical Details
- Extent
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25 linear in..
183 microfiche.
- Extent
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5 boxes
- System of Arrangement
- Organized in three series: .01, Interrogations; .02, General records relating to interrogations, 1946-1948; .03, General records relating to Military Tribunal IV, Case 11, "The Ministries Case." Series .01, alphabetical by defendant surname; Series .02, thematic; Series .03, thematic with chronological arrangements within some file units
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- There are no known restrictions on access to this material.
- Conditions on Use
- The Museum is in the process of determining the possible use restrictions that may apply to material(s) in this collection.
Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- Nuremberg War Crime Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, 1946-1949. Ministries Trial, Nuremberg, Germany, 1948-1949. Justice Trial, Nuremberg, Germany, 1947. War crime trials. War crimes. War criminals. Crimes against humanity, German. Agriculture--Germany.
- Personal Name
- Darré, Richard Walther, 1895-1953.
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Henry L. Cohen donated the collection to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1994.
- Record last modified:
- 2023-11-20 11:57:05
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn504318
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