Overview
- Interview Summary
- Bernard Meltzer discusses his role as a prosecutor at the Nuremberg trials; how he led a team of lawyers to gather evidence against business executives that helped finance the Nazis and defendants who profited from slave labor; and his reflections upon the legacy and impact of the trials.
- Interviewee
- Bernard Meltzer
- Interviewer
- Rebecca Richman Cohen
- Date
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interview:
2005 April 02
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Facing History and Ourselves
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- Extent
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11 digital files : MOV.
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Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- Forced labor--Germany. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Lawyers. Men--Personal narratives. Nuremberg War Crime Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, 1946-1949. War crime trials--Germany--Nuremberg. World War, 1939-1945--Finance--Germany.
- Geographic Name
- Nuremberg (Germany) United States.
- Personal Name
- Meltzer, Bernard D., 1914-2007.
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Facing History and Ourselves donated oral history interviews produced for the documentary film "Nuremberg Remembered" to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in June 2021.
- Special Collection
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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- 2023-11-16 10:09:35
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