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Large collection of documents, from the estate of Isaac Stone, head of the Berlin Documents Center and U.S. foreign service office, [1940s]. Isaac A. Stone was born in Estonia in 1907 and immigrated with his parents to Boston as a young boy. In 1935, he earned a PhD in history from Harvard University. During the years following World War II, Stone served in the US Foreign Service and was in charge of the Berlin Documents Center established in Berlin for the purpose of gathering all documents from the time of the Nazi rule, needed by the prosecution team of the Nuremburg Trials to prepare the statement of claim. From the mid-1940s, at the time the Nuremburg Trials were taking place, Stone worked as part of the team of Judge Robert H. Jackson US Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court and chief United States prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trial (Jackson awarded him a special citation for his services). At that time, Stone worked independently to collect food and clothing for the Holocaust survivors in the DP camps in Germany and toiled to locate the relatives of the camp inmates in the US. In light of these operations, Stone was called the "Tzaddik (righteous one) of Nuremberg". [this name was used in NBC’s “Eternal Light” program broadcast, March 23, 1947]. After he retired from his service for the U.S. foreign office, he served as professor of history at several US universities. Ascended to Israel in 1970 and died in Jerusalem four years later. The documents in this collection have been issued by the Office of U.S. Chief of Council and by the International Military Tribunal for use by the large prosecuting team (46 attorneys) of the Nuremberg trials and for internal court use. The material is composed of English translations of documents from the time of the Nazi government used for preparing the statements of claim and the sentences; reports, protocols and memorandums distributed among the prosecutors; official documents connected to the trial (calling witnesses to the trial, requests for documents, biographical lists etc.); intermediate reports and temporary sentences, etc. The collection also includes hundreds of copies of documents from the time of the Nazi regime, used by the prosecution. Below are some of the documents in the collection: * Stenographic report of the meeting concerning "the Jewish question" under the chairmanship of field marshal Goering in the Reich's Air Force (12 November 1938, 11 o'clock). * Activity and situation report No. 6 of the Task Forces (Einsatzgruppen) of the Security Police and the SD in the U.S.S.R. * Translation of a "Top secret" document on the subject of Einsatzgruppe A. * Translation of correspondence between Nazi regime leaders – telegrams, letters. * Declaration of Rudolf Franz Ferdinand Höss, commander of the Auschwitz extermination camp (sentenced to hanging). * Hundreds of leaves of translations of the journals of Hans Frank who served as Hauptsturmführer of the General Government (of the vanquished Polish territories) – war criminal, sentenced to death by hanging at the Nuremberg trials (the memories that he wrote of his years as Hauptsturmführer with descriptions of his crimes against humanity were the key evidence used against him). * A binder with documents dealing with Adolf Eichmann. * Various documents which belonged to Isaac Stone: documents from the time he was active in the US Foreign Service, correspondence with various institutes and organizations (mainly about the Holocaust), articles he wrote for the newspapers, etc. The collection includes a total of 520 copies of documents and thousands of printed leaves (more than 2000); handwritten lists, newspaper cuttings and various documents. Fair-good condition. Most of the documents are printed on brittle dry paper. Tears to leaf margins and corners. Detached leaves; some documents are not arranged in their proper places.