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Stanford University digitizes thousands of pages of Nuremberg trial documents

Funds from Taube Philanthropies makes the archive free to the public.

Defendants in their dock at the Nuremberg Trials, circa 1945-1946. Front row: Hermann Göring, Rudolf Heß, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Wilhelm Keitel. Second row: Karl Dönitz, Erich Raeder, Baldur von Schirach, Fritz Sauckel. Credit: U.S. Federal Government/Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
Defendants in their dock at the Nuremberg Trials, circa 1945-1946. Front row: Hermann Göring, Rudolf Heß, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Wilhelm Keitel. Second row: Karl Dönitz, Erich Raeder, Baldur von Schirach, Fritz Sauckel. Credit: U.S. Federal Government/Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

Stanford University has digitized thousands of pages and documents from the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg, which followed the defeat of the Nazis and the end of World War II in 1945.

The archive is a collaboration with the library of the International Court of Justice in The Hague. It relied on funding from Taube Philanthropies and cataloging assistance from United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

“The idea is to present to the public, without any cost, information that is directly derived from these trials, directly derived from the prosecution of people who have committed crimes against humanity,” Michael Keller, a librarian at Stanford, told NBC’s Bay Area affiliate.

The Taube Archive of the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg, 1945-46, includes a digital version of Nuremberg courtroom proceedings, films, audio recordings of the proceedings, and about 250,000 pages of digitized English, French, German and Russian documents, according to its website.

The more than 9,900 items—searchable and viewable in digital form—also include “evidence exhibits filed by the prosecution and the defense” and “documents of the Committee for the Investigation and Prosecution of Major War Criminals,” as well as the judgment.

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