War crimes trials

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An incident occurred at the camp that cost Grant a tough interrogation when he returned to the United States. Workers...
Joseph DeMott eventually lost track of the friends he made in the prison camps on Java. One of the men, who had part of...
The location Gordon Higgins was sent for occupation duty was at Dachau, near Munich, Germany. There were 10,000 German...
On 6 August 1945, Gerald Abbenhaus was training with the 3rd Chemical Mortar Battalion north of Nuremburg, Germany. The...
Soon after joining the 1st Infantry Division, Ralph Sykes became charge of quarters. One night, while typing a letter...
Andrew Kiniry reached Hohra and then entered into Buchenwald. The sights in the concentration camp were unbelievable....
John S. Johnson stood with his hands in the air as the Japanese searched his pockets. He had no water or food for a day...
Since Alfred Dearman did not participate in World War 2, his most memorable experience was being at Sugamo Prison [...
When Walter Bowsher was at the Post Exchange at San Diego, he found out about a cruel Japanese interpreter being...
Arthur Staymates studied with the MPs [Annotator's Note: military police] prior to leading the guards during the...
Peter Somogyi talks to school children. He feels it is important for them to hear the testimony of survivors. What he...
Whiney Harris was born in August 1912 in Seattle, Washington. He attended the University of Washington and the...
When the war ended, Thomas Ballew's unit [Annotator's Note: Headquarters, 231st Searchlight Battalion] was in Furth...
There had been no specific time frame to complete the Nuremberg trail, but Whitney Harris said everyone tried to...
Norman Riggsby worked as an MP [Annotator’s Note: military policeman] and as a judge. When they not on motorcycle...
The main difference between a jailer, which Alfred Dearman was, and a guard, is that the jailer is in the cellblock...
Bernard Marcus deployed from New York to Le Havre, France and then to Paris. He stayed at a delightful hotel in Paris....
Alfred Dearman says that in the book [Annotator's Note: Dearman is referring to a scrapbook he has, as well as to "...
Shigemitsu [Annotator's Note: Mamoru Shigemitsu, Japanese diplomat and politician] and Alfred Dearman interacted quite...
Walter Bowsher felt the commander of the prison camp at Wusong was the worst person he met. He was named Ishihara [...
After the war, Earl Flanagan worked for the Military Government because of his ability to speak French. Only two months...
When Alfred Dearman would come on duty for the morning shift as a jailer, the midnight shift would have had the...
Harold “Hal” Leith [Annotator’s Note: as a member of the Office of Strategic Service (OSS), the forerunner of the...
Marvin Raymond Edwards got word that the Sixth SS Panzer Army [Annotator's Note: German 6th Panzer Army] that had been...
Nick Cristiano says the Japanese guards [Annotator's Note: at Ofuna prisoner of war camp, Kamakura, Japan] were bored...
Guy Stern feels that calling something memorable can be both positive and negative. Getting to his hometown of...
A collective document center was established by Whiney Harris and his colleagues in the Nuremberg Palace of Justice....
Among the prisoners in Ralph Sykes' prison were Hermann Goering's wife and daughter. The wives of other prisoners were...
Catholic nuns looked after the wounded in Normandy [Annotator's Note: Normandy, France], Holland, and Bastogne [...
When Alan Moskin was on occupation duty [Annotator's Note: in Europe from 8 May 1945 to 1 March 1946] the Nuremberg War...
Horace Sharp and his men were billeted in former SS barracks when they reached Nuremburg. He had been rounding up SS...
Samuel Lombardo had 100 people working for him in the effort to get the palace and courtroom ready [Annotator's Note:...
When the Japanese surrendered on Luzon [Annotator's Note: Luzon, Philippines], Paul Franklin's unit [Annotator's Note:...
Soon after the war, Ray League's involvement with the 65th Infantry Division ended. The division was disbanded, and he...
Earl Dean Browning had one day where the 25th Division [Annotator's Note: 25th Infantry Division] had a parade in Kyoto...
After meeting his future wife and her German family, Eugene T. Leavy began to understand the geo-politics of Europe and...

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