Nuremberg Trials Collection at Harvard Law School

This guide assists researchers using the Library's Nuremberg Trials Project website .

In this guide, you will find information on:

• Background information about the project
• Project updates
• How to use the website
• Resources at Harvard and outside of Harvard

Background of the Collection

The Harvard Law School Library holds over one million pages of documents of the Nuremberg trials, one of the most complete sets in the world . The first trials of war criminals were prosecuted before the International Military Tribunal (IMT) . Each of the four Allies (the United States, Great Britain, the Soviet Union, and France) supplied two judges and a prosecution team . The Nuremberg Military Tribunals (NMT) are the follow-up trials of war criminals held by the United States . Harvard's collection of IMT and NMT trials includes:

• Trial transcripts
• Trial briefs
• Documents submitted into evidence by both prosecution and defense
• Source documents from which the trial exhibits were selected for use by lawyers
• Photographs

The transcripts were gifts of Harvard Law School (HLS) alumni donors including: