"A fully digitised collection of the records of the Nuremberg trials is being launched online to mark the 80th anniversary of the start of the groundbreaking legal effort to bring Nazi leaders to justice. Open access to every official document from the trial, held by the Harvard law school library, will be available to all researchers, whether amateur or professional, for the first time from Thursday after a 25-year endeavour by a 30-strong team of historians, metadata curators and librarians."
"The library's collection contains more than 750,000 pages of transcripts, briefs and evidence exhibits from across the total of 13 cases, which between 1945 and 1949 were brought against Nazi military and political leaders held responsible for atrocities against humanity, in particular the Holocaust, and revolutionised international human rights law. In the first and main proceedings, 19 of the most influential Nazis including Hermann Goring, Rudolf Hess and Albert Speer were tried."
Harvard Law School is launching a fully digitised, open-access collection of every official document from the Nuremberg trials to mark the 80th anniversary of the tribunals. A 25-year project by a team of historians, metadata curators and librarians began in 1998 with careful removal of staples and paperclips so delicate, acid-based mimeographed documents could be scanned. The aims were to preserve materials that were literally disintegrating when handled and to make the records widely accessible online. The library's holdings exceed 750,000 pages of transcripts, briefs and exhibits from 13 cases held between 1945 and 1949, covering trials of top Nazi leaders and numerous subsequent proceedings with varied sentences.
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