Nuremberg Trials Resources

Primary Sources

• Trial of the Major War Criminals before the International Military Tribunal. Nuremberg, 1947-49. 42 volumes. Library of Congress website has complete online version (see 4th item in list)
  https://www.loc.gov/collections/military-legal-resources/articles-and-essays/historical-materials/world-war-ii/
• Trials of War Criminals before the Nuernberg Military Tribunals under Control Council Law No. 10. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1949-53. 15 volumes covering highlights from Nuremberg subsequent trials 1-12
  https://www.loc.gov/collections/military-legal-resources/articles-and-essays/historical-materials/world-war-ii/ (4th item in list)
• Audio Recordings of IMT (indictment, opening speech, several presentations) at National Archives (digitized, online)
  https://catalog.archives.gov/id/102073
• Taylor, Telford. Final Report to the Secretary of the Army on the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials under Control Council Law No. 10. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1949 (NMT)
  https://www.loc.gov/collections/military-legal-resources/articles-and-essays/historical-materials/world-war-ii/ (4th item in list)
• Law Reports of Trials of War Criminals, Selected and Prepared by the United Nations War Crimes Commission. London: H.M.S.O., 1947-49. 15 vols.
  https://www.loc.gov/collections/military-legal-resources/articles-and-essays/historical-materials/world-war-ii/ (8th item in list)
• Records of the United States Nuernberg War Crimes Trials. Washington, D.C. National Archives Collection of World War II War Crimes Records. Includes transcripts of proceedings, prosecution and defense exhibits, interrogation records, document books and the prosecution document series, from which most prosecution exhibits and some defense exhibits were drawn. Available on microfilm for onsite use or purchase. Much of the content has been digitized and is available for online viewing.
  https://www.archives.gov/research/captured-german-records/war-crimes-trials

Documents Providing Legal Basis for Trials

• Nuremberg Charter of August 1945
  https://www.loc.gov/resource/llmlp.2011525338_NT_Vol-I/?pdfPage=20
• Moscow Declaration of October1943
  https://avalon.law.yale.edu/wwii/moscow.asp
• London Four-Power Agreement of August 1945
  https://www.loc.gov/resource/llmlp.2011525338_NT_Vol-I/?pdfPage=18
• Berlin Protocol of 1945
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potsdam_Agreement
• Allied Control Council Law No. 10 of December 1945
  https://gutenberg.org/files/54899/54899-h/54899-h.htm#axvi

Secondary Sources

Contemporary (1946-1955)

• Gilbert, G. M. Nuremberg Diary. New York: Farrar, Straus, 1947. Gilbert was the IMT prison psychologist
• Mitscherlich, Alexander. Doctors of Infamy: The Story of the Nazi Medical Crimes. New York: Henry Schuman, 1949
• Calvocoressi, Peter. Nuremberg: The Facts, The Law, and The Consequences. New York: Macmillan, 1948. The author was on the British prosecution team at the IMT
• DuBois, J.E. Generals in Grey Suits: The Directors of the International I.G. Farben Cartel, Their Conspiracy and Trial at Nuremberg. London: Bodley Head, 1953
• Glueck, Sheldon. The Nuremberg Trial and Aggressive War. New York: Knopf, 1946
• West, Rebecca. A Train of Powder: Six Reports on the Problem of Guilt and Punishment in Our Time. New York: Viking Press, 1955. West was a reporter for The New Yorker

Modern (1980 to present)

• Buscher, Frank M. The U.S. War Crimes Trial Program in Germany 1946-1955. New York: Greenwood Press, 1989
• Conot, Robert E. Justice at Nuremberg. New York: Harper & Row, 1983
• Earl, Hilary. The Nuremberg SS-Einsatzgruppen Trial, 1945-1958: Atrocity, Law, and History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009
• Gaiba, Francesca. The Origins of Simultaneous Interpretation: The Nuremberg Trial. Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 1998
• Gaskin, Hilary. Eyewitnesses at Nuremberg. London, New York: Arms and Armor Press, 1990
• Lifton, Robert Jay. The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide. New York: Basic Books, 1986
• Marrus, Michael. The Nuremberg War Crimes Trial, 1945-46: A Documentary History. Boston: Bedford Books, 1997
• Mendelsohn, John. Trial by Document: The Use of Seized Records in the United States Proceedings at Nuernberg. New York and London: Garland Publishing, 1988
• Persico, Joseph E. Nuremberg: Infamy on Trial. New York: Viking, 1994
• Priemel, Kim and Stiller, Alexa. Reassessing the Nuremberg Military Tribunals: Transitional Justice, Trial Narratives, and Historiography. New York, Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2014
• Sprecher, Drexel A. Inside the Nuremberg Trial: A Prosecutor's Comprehensive Account. New York, Oxford: University Press of America, 1999
• Stave, Bruce M., et al. Witnesses to Nuremberg: An oral History of American Participants at the War Crimes Trials. New York: Twayne Publishers and Prentice Hall International, 1998
• Taylor, Telford. The Anatomy of the Nuremberg Trials. Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1992
• Tusa, Ann, and John Tusa. The Nuremberg Trial. New York: Scribner, 1984
• Tutorow, Norman E. War Crimes, War Criminals, and War Crimes Trials: An Annotated Bibliography and Source Book. New York: Greenwood Press, 1986

Archival Collections

• The Avalon Project at Yale Law School: The Nuremberg War Crimes Trials. Includes all 42 volumes of the "Blue Series" Trial of Major War Criminals before the International Military Tribunal. Also includes the first 4 volumes of the "Red Series" Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression as well as dozens of key documents related to the IMT trial
  https://avalon.law.yale.edu/subject_menus/imt.asp
• Thomas J. Dodd Papers Guide: collection of the papers of Thomas Dodd, a leading prosecutor at the IMT
  https://archivessearch.lib.uconn.edu/repositories/2/resources/771
• Telford Taylor Papers: a guide to the papers of Telford Taylor. Includes documentation of the proceedings of the International Military Tribunal and the Nuremberg Military Tribunals
  https://findingaids.library.columbia.edu/archives/cul-10199444
• The Taube Archive of the International Military Tribunal (IMT) at Nuremberg, 1945-46: Stanford University's archive includes evidentiary films, full audio recordings of the trial, and approximately 250,000 pages of digitized documents
  https://virtualtribunals.stanford.edu/nuremberg
• The Harry S. Truman Library: the Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum collection offers digitized documents, photographs, oral history transcripts, and correspondence between President Truman and some of the trial participants
  https://www.trumanlibrary.gov/library/online-collections/war-crimes-trials-at-nuremberg
• Paul H. Gantt Nuremberg Trial Papers: a collection of Gantt's working papers and photographs related to the trials. The documents include legal briefs, correspondence files, military reports, and other documentation that reflect Gantt's work with American military prosecution teams and his service in the Office of Chief of Counsel for War Crimes, Department of the Army
  https://archives.towson.edu/collections/paul-h.-gantt-nuremberg-trial-papers
• Robert H. Jackson Center: an extensive collection of audio and video recordings of the IMT
  https://www.roberthjackson.org/nuremberg-trial-audio-video-2/
• Drexel A. Sprecher Personal Papers at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library
  https://www.jfklibrary.org/asset-viewer/archives/view/DASPP-FA#id10 (a few items in the collection are digitized/online)
• Donovan Nuremberg Trials Collection: Cornell University's Donovan Nuremberg Trials Collection consists of nearly 150 bound volumes of Nuremberg trial transcripts and documents from the personal archives of General William J. Donovan, head of the Office of Strategic Services and a key organizer of the IMT
  https://digital.library.cornell.edu/collections/nuremberg
• Krupp Trial Papers of Judge Hu C. Anderson: the papers of Judge Hu C. Anderson, presiding judge at the Krupp Trial (NMT 10) at the Vanderbilt University Law Library, nearly all digitized and available for online use
  https://krupp.library.vanderbilt.edu/
• Hebert Nuremberg Collection: Louisiana State University collection of documents and photographs of Paul M. Hebert, a judge at the I.G. Farben trial (NMT 6)
  https://digitalcommons.law.lsu.edu/nuremberg/
• Musmanno Collection – Interrogations of Hitler Associates: The collection includes interrogations of many defendants and witnesses from the trials
  https://digital.library.duq.edu/digital/collection/mussinter
• "The Nazi Concentration Camps" Film shown as evidence during the IMT trial
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCy02267X8A
• List of films used as exhibits/evidence at trials (films are not online)
  https://catalog.archives.gov/id/43450
• Records of other U.S. Army War Crimes Trials in Europe
  https://www.archives.gov/research/captured-german-records/war-crimes-trials (bottom of page)
• Reconstructing the Record of Nazi Cultural Plunder, by Patricia Kennedy Grimsted. A highly detailed inventory of sources related to looting carried out by the Special Staff of Reichsleiter Rosenberg (an IMT defendant)
  https://www.errproject.org/guide/ERR_Guide_USA.pdf
• Captured German records at National Archives
  https://www.archives.gov/research/captured-german-records
• Captured Nazi recordings at National Archives
  https://www.archives.gov/research/captured-german-records/sound-recordings.html
• Related Collections at Harvard Law School and Harvard University: a list of collections of personal papers of several men involved in the trials, including prosecutor Drexel Sprecher, and one woman, Belle Mayer Zeck, who was involved in the prosecution of the I.G. Farben trial. Also includes links to three collections of photographs
  https://guides.library.harvard.edu/c.php?g=877385&p=6301312
• University of North Dakota. Nuremberg Trials Digital Collection on Nazi Occupation of Norway. Includes Norway-related documents and testimony from three of the trials
  https://commons.und.edu/nuremburg-transcripts/ ("nuremburg" misspelling left as is in URL)
• History of the Nuremberg Document Collection at Harvard Law School
  https://sites.harvard.edu/nuremberg-additional-resources/
  https://elischolar.library.yale.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1057&context=jcas

International Archives with Collections Related to Trials (a selection)

Germany

• Institut fuer Zeitgeschichte, Munich
  https://www.ifz-muenchen.de/en/the-archives/about-the-archives/archival-holdings/court-records/
• Friedrich-Alexander-Universitaet, Erlangen-Nuernberg: "Digital Nuremberg Military Tribunals" project began in early 2025, online in 2026 or later
  https://www.str1.rw.fau.de/2025/06/10/vorstellung-digital-nuremberg-military-tribunals-diginmt/

Israel

• Yad Vashem Library: the world's most comprehensive collection of published material about the Holocaust
  https://collections.yadvashem.org/en/library
• Gilbert Collection: documentation written by senior Nazi war criminals in detention during the Nuremberg Trials
  https://collections.yadvashem.org/en/documents/4019718

United Kingdom

• Wiener Holocaust Library, London, has a large number of records related to the trials
  https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org

France

• Memorial de la Shoah maintains an extensive list of Holocaust-related websites, museums, and memorials
  https://www.memorialdelashoah.org/en/archives-et-documentation/ressources-en-ligne/selection-de-sites-web.html

Netherlands

• Two archives in Amsterdam have extensive document collections related to the Holocaust and WW2 (neither is online)
  https://www.niod.nl/
  https://jck.nl/en/location/national-holocaust-museum