Scanning Nuremberg: Notes from January 2024
Post by Matt Seccombe During January I worked through the documents and corresponding trial transcript for the defense of Alfred Jodl, the head of the military operations staff, and began work on the...
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Post by Matt Seccombe During December I completed the analysis of the prosecution documents on the “slave labor” program (the prosecution’s term for the use of conscripted civilians from occupied...
View ArticleScanning Nuremberg: Notes from November 2023
Post by Matt Seccombe During November I completed the analysis of Fritz Sauckel’s defense documents and began work on the prosecution’s documents on what it called the “slave labor” program (this...
View ArticleScanning Nuremberg: Notes from October 2023
Post by Matt Seccombe During October I completed the analysis for Baldur von Schirach’s defense documents and worked through the corresponding part of the trial transcript, and started work on the...
View ArticleScanning Nuremberg: Notes from September 2023
Post by Matt Seccombe In September I completed the defense documents for Admiral Raeder and began the documents for Baldur von Schirach, who was the leader of youth organizations (notably Hitler...
View ArticleScanning Nuremberg: Notes from August 2023
Post by Matt Seccombe During August I analyzed the defense documents in five of Admiral Raeder’s six document books. In the middle of the month I reached and then passed one round number: 5000 IMT...
View ArticleScanning Nuremberg: Notes from July 2023
Post by Matt Seccombe During July I finished the analysis of the IMT defense documents for Admiral Doenitz, and most but not all of the corresponding transcript work. The transcript is slow going for...
View ArticleScanning Nuremberg: Notes from June 2023
Post by Matt Seccombe During June I analyzed the defense documents of Walther Funk and one-third of the documents of Admiral Doentiz. This ended one year’s work on the IMT following the COVID related...
View ArticleScanning Nuremberg: Notes from May 2023
Post by Matt Seccombe During May I analyzed the defense documents of Julius Streicher, the antisemitic propagandist, and Hjalmar Schacht, the regime’s banker in the 1930s. Streicher was the most...
View ArticleScanning Nuremberg: Notes from April 2023
Post by Matt Seccombe During April I finished the analysis of Hans Frank’s fourth and fifth document books, and then analyzed Wilhelm Frick’s defense documents. Frick, the Interior Minister, presented...
View ArticleScanning Nuremberg: Notes from March 2023
Post by Matt Seccombe During March I began work on the defense documents of Hans Frank, who was prosecuted mostly for his activities as governor of occupied Poland (the Government General). I worked...
View ArticleScanning Nuremberg: Notes from February 2023
Post by Matt Seccombe During February I spent the first third of the month catching up on the transcript work for Keitel’s and Kaltenbrunner’s defense presentations, noting when new documents were...
View ArticleScanning Nuremberg: Notes from January 2023
Post by Matt Seccombe During January I worked through the IMT prosecution’s rebuttal to Ribbentrop’s defense, Keitel’s defense documents, and Kaltenbrunner’s defense documents. Kaltenbrunner’s...
View ArticleScanning Nuremberg: Notes from December 2022
Post by Matt Seccombe December is a short work-month at HLS, so this is early. During the month I finished analyzing Ribbentrop’s last three defense document books, his attorney’s final argument, and...
View ArticleScanning Nuremberg: Notes from November 2022
Post by Matt Seccombe During November I worked through three of Ribbentrop’s nine defense document books, two of them on Poland, to pin the blame for the war on the Poles, and one on the expansion of...
View ArticleScanning Nuremberg: Notes from October 2022
Post by Matt Seccombe During October I worked through Ribbentrop’s evidence document books three and four and began the fifth book, placing me roughly at the half-way point in Ribbentrop’s defense...
View ArticleScanning Nuremberg: Notes from September 2022
Post by Matt Seccombe In September I completed analysis of the defense documents for Rudolf Hess and began those for Joachim von Ribbentrop, the foreign minister. We now have just over 4000 documents...
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Research Guides: Dispute Resolution
Jennifer Allison, Librarian for Foreign, Comparative & International Law, has updated two research guides about dispute resolution. Vector Handshake by Wickey-nl is licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 The...
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Virtual Faculty Book Talk: Human Rights in a Time of Populism: Challenges and...
The Harvard Law School Library staff invite you to attend a book talk and discussion in celebration of Human Rights in a Time of Populism: Challenges and Responses, edited by Gerald L. Neuman...
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Two New Exhibits at the Harvard Law School Library!
Two exhibits are now on view in the HLS Library: “Centuries of Japanese Legal Tradition” and “Charles Hamilton Houston and the Harvard Law School.” Both exhibits are on display through January 15,...
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