Virtual Tribunals: International criminal tribunal records (1945-present) at Stanford University. The purpose of this program is to compile a comprehensive digital archive database of international criminal law and tribunal records, from post-World War II war crimes trials through to contemporary courts, fully encoded with metadata and rendered searchable online.
Currently available through the Virtual Tribunals initiative are the following collections of court records from international criminal trials:
Access and preservation of the archive of the IMT is made possible by the International Court of Justice, and enabled by the generous support of the Taube Philanthropies. Access and preservation of the U.S. Army Courts collections is made possible by the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), the designated repository of the records.
Content Warning
Users are advised that material in Virtual Tribunals' collections contain language and imagery depicting human rights violations, ethnic cleansing, acts of genocide, wartime violence, and offensive stereotypes of people and cultures. Stanford University Libraries makes this material available to facilitate scholarly research and education, and does not endorse the criminal ideologies and actions herein.
The International Military Tribunal for Germany from Yale University's Avalon Project, a repository of digital documents relevant to the fields of Law, History, Economics, Politics, Diplomacy and Government. We do not intend to mount only static text but rather to add value to the text by linking to supporting documents expressly referred to in the body of the text. The Avalon Project will no doubt contain controversial documents. Their inclusion does not indicate endorsement of their contents nor sympathy with the ideology, doctrines, or means employed by their authors. They are included for the sake of completeness and balance and because in many cases they are by our definition a supporting document.
World War II War Crimes Records at the National Archives.
The United States conducted war crimes trials in Europe under three jurisdictions: the International Military Tribunal (IMT) at Nuernberg (RG 238), U.S. military tribunals at Nuernberg (RG 238) and U.S. Army courts (RG 153 & RG 549). The Nuernberg trial records include transcripts of proceedings, prosecution and defense exhibits, interrogation records, document books and court papers, including official court files, minute books, order and judgment books and clemency petitions. In addition, the Nuernberg trial records include the prosecution document series, from which most of the prosecution exhibits and some defense exhibits were drawn. Descriptive pamphlets (DP) and Special Lists (SL) are noted for many of the listed microfilm publications.
The United Nations War Crime Commission operated between 1943 and 1948 with the aim of identifying, classifying, and assisting national governments with the trials of war criminals in the European and East Asian theatres. Working in parallel to the more famous Nuremberg and Far East trial processes, it assisted with an unprecedented over 30,000 cases – far more than Nuremberg, UN-supported, and International Criminal Court caseloads combined.
Holocaust Denial on Trial contains materials from the David Irving v. Penguin Books and Deborah Lipstadt, Professor of history at Emory University as well as resources about Holocaust denial and materials refuting deniers.
Nazi Concentration Camps: US Army documentation on film of the liberated concentration and death camps from Internet Archive. Please note that the video contains disturbing images.
An interview with the historian Lucy Dawidowicz about Holocaust studies and denial from Internet Archive.