OCCWC Nuremberg, Germany Preliminary briefs of Economics Division Vol. 1
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Creator(s)
- Drexel A. Sprecher
Biographical History
Drexel Sprecher was a lawyer argued cases at the subsequent Nuremberg trials of Nazi war criminals, including presenting the case that convicted the head of the Hitler Youth movement.
Archival History
Drexel Sprecher
Acquisition
The materials were collected by Drexel Sprecher during his service with the Office of the U. S. Chief of Counsel during the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg, Germany. The briefs were loaned to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives in Sept. 1986 for copying. The original briefs were returned to Sprecher in Oct. 1986.
Scope and Content
Consists of copies of ten legal briefs compiled by the Office of the U.S. Chief of Counsel for War Crimes from circa 1946 to 1947. The briefs contain a time line of important dates in modern German history, a glossary of German economic terms, a report on the "Führerprinzip," and a brief concerning the "Aryanization" of Jewish property.
System of Arrangement
Arrangement is thematic
People
- Abram, Morris.
- Drexel A. Sprecher
- Sprecher, Drexel A., 1913-
- Charmatz, Jan P.
- Lyon, Charles S.
Corporate Bodies
- United States. Office of Chief of Counsel for the Prosecution of Axis Criminality
- International Military Tribunal
Subjects
- Nuremberg (Germany)
- Jews--Legal status, laws, etc.
- War criminals.
- War crime trials.
- War crimes.
Genre
- Publications.
- Document