Publications
War Crimes
The Nuremberg Laws and the Nuremberg Trials. Loyola Law School Law Review
Nazi Legal Regime
Legalizing Hate: The Significance of the Nuremberg Laws and The Post-War Nuremberg Trials
US Holocaust Memorial Museum Holocaust Encyclopedia: Law and Justice in the Third Reich
Dictatorship and the German Constitution: 1933-1937
Nuremberg Racial Laws
Introduction to the Nuremberg Laws
Holocaust Encyclopedia Nuremberg Race Laws
Jewish Virtual Library: The Reich Citizenship Law
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Holocaust Encyclopedia, Anti-Semetic Legislation 1933 – 1939
International Military Tribunal
Harvard Law School Library: Nuremberg Trials Project
Yale Law School: The Nuremberg Trials Collection
Nuremberg Military Tribunal
Justice After Nuremberg: a retrospective on the Nuremberg Military Tribunals (Youtube video) 2015
USHMM Holocaust Encyclopedia, background on the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg
Military Legal Resources (Federal Research Division) Nuremberg Trials
Nuremberg Military Tribunals: Indictments
Charter of the International Military Tribunal
International Military Tribunal (Nuremberg) Judgement of 1 October 1946
Testimony of Rudolf Hoess, Commandant of Auschwitz (1946)
Burton C. Einspruch Holocaust Lecture: Ben Ferencz
A YouTube interview with Mr. Ben Ferencz, the chief prosecutor for the United States Army at the Einsatzgruppen Trial in Nuremberg
Eichmann Trial
The Eichmann Trial: Some Legal Aspects
Jurisdictional Aspects of the Eichmann Case. (Minnesota Law Review)
YouTube Archive of Eichmann Trial Videos
German War Crimes Trials
Nazi War Crimes Interagency Working Group
Locates, identifies, inventories, and recommends for declassification, currently classified U.S. Records relating to Nazi and Japanese Imperial Government war crimes. Once declassified, these records are released to the American public.
https://www.archives.gov/iwg
DOJ Office of Special Investigations
First Amendment, Holocaust Denial and the law
Nazis in Skokie: Fighting Words of Heckler’s Veto. (Mark A. Rabinowitz, DePaul Law Review)
On the Laws the Prohibit Holocaust Denial. (James Flynn, Brown Political Review)
Holocaust Denial and Academic Freedom (Stanley Fish, Valparaiso University Law Review)
Restitution
General
Czech Republic
Restitution in the Czech Republic: Problems and Prague-Nosis
Poland
Switzerland
The Price of Resolution: Switzerland and the Holocaust Victims. (Mereille Najm, Lehigh University)
The official website of the Swiss Banks Settlement: In re Holocaust Victim Assets Litigation
Final Report on the Swiss Banks Settlement Fund Distribution Process
Executive Summary of the Final Report on the Swiss Banks Settlement Distribution Process
Art Restitution
The Central Registry of Information on Looted Cultural Property 1933-1945
Commission for Looted Art in Europe
The Art Newspaper’s “Nazi Loot” articles
The New York Times Art Restitution Articles
artnetnews Art and the Law articles
Deutshe Welle Article: Nazi-Looted art: Restitution process a ‘permanent task’
Institute of Art & Law (UK) Restitution tag
Center for Art Law, Nazi looted art tag
The Times of Israel Nazi-Looted Art tag
3 Cases That Explain Why Restituting Nazi-Looted Art Is So Difficult (2017)
A summary of WW2 art restitution cases decided in 2010
ABA News May 2019: German Heirs Allowed to Sue in U.S. for Nazi Art Seizures
Artdatabase, National Fund of the Republic of Austria for Victims of National Socialism
Art Restitution Alternative Media
Podcast: Nazi Looted Art: Legal Remedies and Limitations (2018)
John Demjanjuk Trial
State of Israel v. Ivan (John) Demjanjuk (1993)
Factual and Legal Details (1993)
United States V. Demjanjuk (1981)
Warrant of Removal/Deportation of John Demjanjuk (2008)
European Court of Human Rights (2019)
Auschwitz Trial
Auschwitz Guards On Trial (Youtube)
Auschwitz Second Trial audios and transcription in German
German newsreel describing the Auschwitz Trial (With English subtitles)
Other Auschwitz Documents
Documents related to Auschwitz’ function as a death camp
The Doctors’ Trial (1947)
https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/the-doctors-trial-the-medical-case-of-the-subsequent-nuremberg-proceeding
Abbaye Ardennes Trial (1945)
Trial of Kurt Meyer by the Canadian Military Court
Documents and Trial Transcripts
Preliminary Report Canadian Military Headquarters (1946)
Oral Interview with Kurt Meyer in German
MacLeans 1950 article about Kurt Meyer (with photos of the actual magazine)
The Almelo Trial (1945)
The Alsace Trial (1946)
Bergen-Belsen Trial (1945)
Trial Transcripts (day 1 to 54)
USA v. Pohl et. al (1947)
Opening Statements of Prosecution and Defense
Order Constituting Tribunal II
Dachau Trial (1945-1947)
United States of America v. Martin Gottfried Weiss et al (1945)
Original Trial’s Review Transcript
Belzec Trial (1964)
Other Buchenwald Cases
Munich No 541 Buchenwald Trial Video
US v. Wilhelm Hinderer et al (1947)
US v. Josias Prince zu Waldeck et al (1947)
US v. Ernst Emil Jackobs (1947)
US v. Alfred Andreas Hoffman (1947)
US v. Victor Hantscharenko (1947)
US v. Ignaz Seitz et al (1947)
US v. Alfons Kuniskowski (1947)
US v. Max Paul Emil Vogel (1947)
US v. Klaus Ferdinand Huels (1947)
US v. Werner Alfred Berger et al (1947)
Books
Legal Sabotage: Ernst Fraenkel in Hitler’s Germany by Douglas Morris
Holocaust, Genocide, and the Law: A Quest for Justice in a Post Holocaust World by Michael Bazyler
Forgotten Trials of the Holocaust by Michael Bazyler & Frank Tuerkheimer
Holocaust Justice: The Battle for Restitution in America’s Courts by Michael Bazyler
Law and the Holocaust: U.S. Cases and Materials by Michael Bazyler & Robert Jarvis
The Anatomy of the Nuremberg Trials: A Personal Memoir by Telford Taylor
Benjamin Ferencz, Nuremberg Prosecutor and Peace Advocate by Tom Hofmann
Nazi Law: From Nuremberg to Nuremberg by John Michalczyk
Hitler’s American Model: The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law by James Whitman
The Nuremberg SS-Einsatzgruppen Trial, 1945-1958: Atrocity, Law, and History by Hilary Earl
Nuremberg: Infamy on Trial by Joseph Persico
Justice at Nuremberg by Robert Conot
The Right Wrong Man: John Demjanjuk and the Last Great Nazi War Crimes Trial by Lawrence Douglas
The Nazis Next Door: How America Became a Safe Haven for Hitler’s Men by Eric Lichtblau
Useful Enemies: America’s Open Door Policy for Nazi War Criminals by Richard Rashke
The Nuremberg Military Tribunals and the Origins of International Criminal Law by Kevin Jon Heller
Hitler’s Generals on Trial: The Last War Crimes Tribunal at Nuremberg by Valerie Genevieve Hebert
A Tragic Fate: Law and Ethics in the Battle Over Nazi-Looted Art by Nicholas O’Donnell
Denial: Holocaust History on Trial by Deborah Lipstadt
Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil by Hannah Arendt
The Eichmann Trial by Deborah Lipstadt
Fritz Bauer: The Jewish Prosecutor Who Brought Eichmann and Auschwitz to Trial by Ronen Steinke
Nazis in Skokie: Freedom, Community, and the First Amendment by Donald Downs
When the Nazis Came to Skokie by Philippa Strum
Other Resources
National Archives Collection of World War II War Crimes Records