PC/3/9 - Talk on Nuremberg
Reference code
PC/3/9
Level of description
File
Title
Talk on Nuremberg
Date/s
1942-2005
Quantity & Format
5 items Mixed
Scope and content
Orange folder ‘Trials Talk’ of notes and references for Nuremberg trials lecture given by Patricia Crampton. Contains 5 items, some with sub-items. See also memoirs PC/18.
PC/3/9/1 Ahnenerbe – Medical ‘Research’ [extract from] General Telford Taylor’s memoir ‘Anatomy of the Nuremberg Trials’. Describes the Sievers file which began with a letter from Siever’s to Himmler’s personal assistant, Rudolf Brandt, enclosing a report dated February 9, 1942 by Dr August Hirt, of the Reich University of Strasbourg. Describes plans to kill and preserve the skulls of Jews for research. “By procuring the skulls of the Jewish-Bolshevik commissars, who represent the prototype of the repulsive, but characteristic, subhuman, we have the chance to obtain scientific material.” According to the report there were 150 victims of this process.
PC/3/9/2 Letter, Rosemary May to Patricia Crampton, 21/1/01
May provides a typewriting service to Crampton. She comments on the inhumanity to Jews during the War and the disassociation by ordinary Germans to these occurrences.
PC/3/9/3 Short booklist for references on Nuremberg trials.
PC/3/9/4 Printed extracts with annotations by Patricia Crampton. 12 leaves.
PC/3/9/5 Press cutting, Believing the unbelievable – the enduring lesson of Auschwitz. Howard Jacobson. The Independent, 22/1/2005.
PC/3/9/1 Ahnenerbe – Medical ‘Research’ [extract from] General Telford Taylor’s memoir ‘Anatomy of the Nuremberg Trials’. Describes the Sievers file which began with a letter from Siever’s to Himmler’s personal assistant, Rudolf Brandt, enclosing a report dated February 9, 1942 by Dr August Hirt, of the Reich University of Strasbourg. Describes plans to kill and preserve the skulls of Jews for research. “By procuring the skulls of the Jewish-Bolshevik commissars, who represent the prototype of the repulsive, but characteristic, subhuman, we have the chance to obtain scientific material.” According to the report there were 150 victims of this process.
PC/3/9/2 Letter, Rosemary May to Patricia Crampton, 21/1/01
May provides a typewriting service to Crampton. She comments on the inhumanity to Jews during the War and the disassociation by ordinary Germans to these occurrences.
PC/3/9/3 Short booklist for references on Nuremberg trials.
PC/3/9/4 Printed extracts with annotations by Patricia Crampton. 12 leaves.
PC/3/9/5 Press cutting, Believing the unbelievable – the enduring lesson of Auschwitz. Howard Jacobson. The Independent, 22/1/2005.
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PC/3 - Nuremberg, the 1940s and Early Career
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