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THE NUREMBERG TRIAL. A collection of approximately 250 typed documents (mostly roneoed copies) and other items relating to the British case for the indictment of the leading Nazi war criminals at the Nuremberg Trial in 1945-1946, from the archive of Private Gordon Arthur Martin Tyler (1911-2006). The collection comprises: 187 documents for the use of the British prosecuting team (some of them certified translations from German), in five numbered buff folders each stamped 'British Document Book (English)', including: 35 documents referring to fifteen international treaties broken by Germany, including the Hague Convention for the Pacific Settlement of International Disputes (1899), the Treaty of Versailles (June 1919) on the Free City of Danzig, and subsequent agreements before World War II; reports of meetings between Hitler, Goering and Ribbentrop (March 1939); a memorandum of Hitler and Ribbentrop's meeting with Count Ciano (12 August 1939); 84 documents referring to Germany and Poland, including treaties, evidence of German intentions before 1939, and discussions concerning Danzig; German plans to occupy Czechoslovakia and Hitler's meeting with President Hacha, the final preparations for war and political activity in August 1939; documents referring to German aggression against Norway and Denmark (21), the Benelux countries (26) and Greece and Yugoslavia (21); other items including a submission by the Dutch Government on the treatment of political prisoners and deportation of Dutch Jews, the bombing of Rotterdam and destruction of ports ( 55 pages, folio ); an indictment against Erich Raeder (U-boat specialist and Head of the German Navy, 1928-1943); evidence relating to Belgium and Greece; a note by counsel G.D. Roberts on Defendant [Gustav] Krupp; reports on the Concentration Camps at Bergen-Belsen and Breendonck; exchanges of letters immediately before the war; lists of defendants and counsel; Anthony Eden's statement to Parliament on the arrival of Rudolf Hess in Britain (22 Sep 1943); 6 witness statements (Essen October 1945) describing the maltreatment of Russian workers and Jews in the Krupp steel works and Panzer construction shop; together approximately 125 pages, mostly folio and 4to (loosely inserted in a notebook cover); two copies of the Indictment of the International Military Tribunal (printed, 43 pages, folio ); personal items including Private Tyler's Soldier's Release Book (17 January 1946) and testimonials; official passes (3), photographs (4), a few printed items and memorabilia; '[P]robably no one will ever again have the confidence of the whole German people as I do. There will probably never again be a man in the future with more authority than I have ... There is no outstanding personality in England or France. For us it is easy to make decision[s]. We have nothing to lose; we can only gain ... Our opponents risk much and can gain only a little. England's stake in a war is unimaginably great. Our enemies have men who are below average. No personalities. No masters, no men of action.... Today's publication of the non-aggression pact with Russia hit like a shell. The consequences cannot be overlooked. Stalin also said that this course will be of benefit to both countries. The effect on Poland will be tremendous' (from Virginia von Schon's translation of captured document no. 798-PS: summary transcript of Hitler's speech to the Commanders in Chief, 22 August 1939). 'The Russians were beaten just because they were Russians and regarded as enemies. They were not treated like humans ... From the first to the last day the camp commandant was always complaining to the Works Manager Neumann about the ill treatment of the Russians; in spite of this the ill treatment continued' (witness statement on the treatment of Russian prisoners in the [Krupp] Sheet Metal workshop). DOCUMENTS FOR THE INDICTMENT IN THE MOST IMPORTANT TRIAL IN EUROPEAN HISTORY The International Military Tribunal (IMT) opened in Nuremb