Nuremberg Tribunals Project: Trial 9

FAIN: PW-253721-17

President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, MA 02138-3800)
Jonathan Zittrain (Project Director: July 2016 to March 2021)

The processing of Trial 9 of the Nuremberg Military Tribunals for open online access, including 18,000 pages from approximately 3,600 documents related to the Nazi mobile death squads known as the Einsatzgruppen.

The Harvard Law School Library owns and manages approximately one million pages of documents relating to the trial of military and political leaders of Nazi Germany before the International Military Tribunal (IMT) and the subsequent twelve trials of other accused Nazi war criminals before the United States Nuremberg Military Tribunals (NMT) during the period 1945-9. To preserve the contents of these now-fragile documents and to provide expanded access to this material, the Library has undertaken a long-term, multi-stage digitization project, an open-access initiative to create, present and make accessible the Library's full archive to a broad audience, including the general public both in the U.S. and abroad, high school and college students, and researchers in fields related to the Trials. We are applying for funding for a one-year implementation grant to support the work required to add an additional trial—Trial 9—to the current five trials we have already completed.

Associated Products

Scanning Nuremberg (series) (Blog Post)
Title: Scanning Nuremberg (series)
Author: Matthew Seccombe
Abstract: The Scanning Nuremberg series shares the observations and insights of Matt Seccombe, Nuremberg Trials Project Metadata Manager/Document Analyst, as he analyzes documents for digitization as part of the HLS Library’s Nuremberg Trials Project website.
Date: 01/23/2018
Primary URL: http://etseq.law.harvard.edu/2018/01/scanning-nuremberg-five-more-defendants-in-nmt-9/
Primary URL Description: This is the URL to one of the blog postings in this series. There is no single URL for the series itself. The user needs to search on "scanning nuremberg" (for example) to bring up the postings belonging to this series.
Blog Title: Scanning Nuremberg: jokes and consequences, illness and honor, and more
Website: Et Seq. -- the Blog of the Harvard University Library

Nuremberg Case Analysis Database (Database/Archive/Digital Edition)
Title: Nuremberg Case Analysis Database
Author: Matthew Seccombe
Abstract: The Case 9 project added 1,129 new records comprising 6,700 document pages to the project database, which stores the metadata for the project's website. The metadata supports fielded search for website users.
Year: 2017
Primary URL: http://nuremberg.law.harvard.edu/
Primary URL Description: This is the user interface to the Nuremberg Trials project's document collection (an estimated 130,000 documents plus 13 trial transcripts by project completion in 2020).
Access Model: The data in the database is accessed via an open-access website.

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