Raphael Lemkin papers, 1931-1947

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Series I: German Government Regulations, 1938-1944

Series I: German Government Regulations contains gazettes and copies of official documentation created by the Nazi government concerning its regulations generally and specifically in the occupied territories identified as the Sudetenland and Poland. These documents were likely obtained by Lemkin while teaching and researching law in Sweden and became part of his research into writing Axis Rule In Occupied Europe.



Box 1 Dziennik rozporzadzen dia Generalnego Gubernatorstwa [Polish] (Official Regulations of the General Government), 1944


Box 1 Verordnungsblatt fuer das Generalgovernment-Part 1 [German/Polish] (Gazette of the General Government), 1941


Box 1 Verordnungsblatt fuer das Generalgovernment-Part 2 [German/Polish] (Gazette of General Government), 1941


Box 1 Verordnungsblatt fuer das Generalgovernment-Part 3 [German/Polish] (Gazette of the General Government), 1941


Box 1 Verordnungsblatt fuer das Generalgovernment-Part 1 [German/Polish] (Gazette of the General Government), 1942


Box 1 Verordnungsblatt fuer das Generalgovernment-Part 2 [German/Polish] (Gazette of the General Government), 1942


Box 1 Verordnungsblatt fuer das Generalgovernment-Part 1 [German/Polish] (Gazette of the General Government), 1943


Box 1 Verordnungsblatt fuer das Generalgovernment-Part 2 [German/Polish] (Gazette of the General Government), 1943


Box 1 Verordnungsblatt fuer des General Governeurs fuer die besetzen polnischen Gebicte [German/Polish](Gazette of the Governer General for the occupied Polish territories), 1940


Box 1 Verordnungsblatt fuer die Sudetendeutschen Gebiete [German](Gazette for the Sudatenland), 1938



Box 2 Verordnungsblatt fuer die Sudetendeutschen Gebiete - Part 1 [German] (Gazette for the Sudatenland), 1939


Box 2 Verordnungsblatt fuer die Sudetendeutschen Gebiete - Part 2 [German] (Gazette for the Sudatenland), 1939


Box 2 Verordnungsblatt fuer den Reichsgau Sudatenland - Part 1 [German] (Gazette for the Reichsgau Sudatenland), 1939


Box 2 Verordnungsblatt fuer den Reichsgau Sudatenland-Part 2 [German] (Gazette for the Reichsgau Sudatenland), 1939


Box 2 Verordnungsblatt fuer den Reichsgau Sudatenland - Part 3 [German] (Gazette for the Reichsgau Sudatenland), 1939



Box 3 Verordnungsblatt fuer den Reichsgau Sudatenland [German] (Gazette for the Reichsgau Sudatenland), 1940


Box 3 Verordnungsblatt fuer den Reichsgau Sudatenland [German] (Gazette for the Reichsgau Sudatenland), 1941


Box 3 Verordnungsblatt fuer den Reichsgau Sudatenland [German] (Gazette for the Reichsgau Sudatenland), 1942


Box 3 Verordnungsblatt fuer den Reichsgau Sudatenland [German] (Gazette for the Reichsgau Sudatenland), 1943


Box 3 Verordnungsblatt fuer den Reichsgau Sudatenland [German] (Gazette for the Reichsgau Sudatenland), 1944


Box 3 Verordnungsblatt des Militaerbefehlshabers in Belgien und Nordfrankreich fuer die besetzten Gebiete [German/French] (Gazette of the military commander of Belgium and northern France in the occupied territories), 1942

Series II: Other Research and Writings, 1931-1947

Series II: Other Research and Writings contains some of the other research Lemkin collected in his studies of genocide and war crimes. In addition to some material from the International and Nuremberg Military Tribunals, this series has documents from the Dachau Trials and United Nations committees dealing with classifying war crimes. The series also contains a set of articles on Japanese militarization and war crimes and a small set of Lemkin's writing. The documents come in the form of official memoranda and reports, copies from microfilm, correspondence, and printed drafts.



Box 4 Dachau Trials: United States v. Altfuldisch, Hans, et. al.: Sworn Statements of the Accused, 1946


Box 4 Dachau Trials: United States v. Altfuldisch, Hans, et. al.: Memorandum (List of the accused, charges, and summary report), 1946


Box 4 International Military Tribunals (IMT): Affidavit: Hoess, Rudolf Franz Ferdinand (May 20, 1946), 1946


Box 4 IMT: Office, Chief of Counsel for War Crimes (OCCWC) - Public Relations Office - Special Release No. 1: Introduction "Genocide" Concept (July 27, 1946), 1946


Box 4 IMT: Office of the Military Governor - United States (OMGUS): Instructions to Public Safety Special Branches for Denazification and the "Law for Liberation from National Socialism and Militarism", 1946


Box 4 IMT: OMGUS: Organization Manual, 1946


Box 4 IMT: Official Gazette of the Control Council for Germany (Berlin Allied Secretariat), No. 3, 1946


Box 4 IMT: Plaedoyer Fuer Alfred Rosenberg vor dem Internationalen Militaergerichtshof Nurenberg (Plea for Alfred Rosenberg), 1946


Box 4 IMT: Report: "The Case of Professor Karl Haushofer and German Geopolitics," by Dr. Edmund A. Walsh, 1946


Box 4 IMT: War Crimes Office, Judge Advocate General: Bibliography on War Crimes, 1946


Box 4 Japan Research - Index of Subjects, Undated


Box 4 Japan Research - The Structure of the Japanese Government (articles), 1944


Box 4 Japan Research - The Criminality of Zaibatsu (articles), 1942-1946


Box 4 Japan Research - Japanese Militarism (articles), 1941-1945


Box 4 Japan Research - Japanese Aggression (articles), 1931-1945



Box 5 Japan Research - Spiritual Mobilization for Agressive Warfare (articles), 1942-1945


Box 5 Japan Research - The Criminality of Shintoism (articles), 1943-1945


Box 5 Japan Research - Japanese Propaganda (articles), 1942-1945


Box 5 Japan Research - Japanization in Southeast Asia (articles), 1944-1945


Box 5 Japan Research - The Co-Prosperity Sphere (articles), 1940-1945


Box 5 Japan Research - The Role of the Puppet Governments and Asiatic Quislings in the Occupied Areas (articles), 1943-1944


Box 5 Japan Research - Japanese Rule in Occupied China and Shanghai (articles), 1940-1945


Box 5 Japan Research - Japanese Rule in the Philippines (articles), 1943-1945


Box 5 Japan Research-Japanese Rule in Burma (articles), Undated


Box 5 Japan Research - Japanese Rule in Manchuria (articles), 1945


Box 5 Japan Research - Japanese Rule in Thailand, Undated; 1942


Box 5 Japan Research - Japanese Rule in Malaya (articles), Undated


Box 5 Japan Research - Japanese Rule in Indo-China (articles), 1945


Box 5 Japan Research - Japanese Rule in Formosa (articles), 1942-1945


Box 5 Japan Research - Japanese Rule in Korea (articles), 1940


Box 5 Nurmberg Military Tribunals (NMT): Case No. 1, "Medical Case"-Trial Transcript (Dec., 1946), 1946


Box 5 NMT: Case No.4, "Pohl Case"-Indictment (Jan. 13, 1947), 1947


Box 5 Other Research - Berger, Jacob, "The Legal Nature of War Crimes and the Problem of Superior Command," American Political Science Review, vol. 38, no.6 : 1203-1208., Dec 1944


Box 5 Other Research - "The Punishment of War Criminals," (Report adopted by the National Executive Board of the National Lawyers Guild, Washington, D.C.): 18-23., 1944


Box 5 United Nations - Sixth Committee: Sub-Committee 3, Draft Report on the Crime of Genocide Rapporteur: Mr. Charles Fahn (United States)(Dec. 5, 1946), 1946


Box 5 United Nations War Crimes Commission: Misc. No. 35: International Film for Discovery and Identification of War Criminals, 1946


Box 5 Writings: Axis Rule in Occupied Europe (1944)-Chapter 9: "Genocide" [Draft], Undated


Box 5 Writings: "Genocide: Suggestions pour le Conference sur le Paix Faites par Docteur Raphael Lemkin (Duke University, North Carolina, U.S.A.), Mar. 1946


Box 5 Writings: Notes, handwritten, Undated