Gerd Leston collection

Identifier
irn500529
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1995.A.0255
Dates
1 Jan 1938 - 31 Dec 1945
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • German
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn500529

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

Funding Note: The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.

Gerd Leston donated the war crimes documents to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1994.

Scope and Content

Photocopies of two documents, "Military Government Charge Sheet" regarding the accused in the trial at Dachau, November 1945, and a typescript copy of memo signed by Reinhard Heydrich regarding Kristallnacht, November 10, 1938.

System of Arrangement

The Gerd Leston collection is arranged in a single series.

People

  • Heydrich, Reinhard, 1904-1942.

Corporate Bodies

Subjects

  • Dachau Trial, Dachau, Germany, 1946.
  • Germany.
  • Kristallnacht, 1938.

Genre

  • Memorandums.
  • Document
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