also records relating to 6-year plans in the States, the planning of defense and war projects, the scrap collection program, and service projects. RECORDS OF THE WPA DIVISION OF INVESTIGATION. 1934-43. 767 lin. ft. These consist primarily of investigation reports on fraud, defalcations, the misappropriation of funds, inefficiency, and disloyalty. They include FERA, CWA, and WPA investigation case files, Division Reference and Office of Deputy Commissioner case files, and FBI investigative reports, with indexes, miscellaneous correspondence, interoffice memorandums, and field reports. RECORDS OF THE WPA DIVISION OF FINANCE. 1935-43. 113 lin. ft. Included are correspondence relating to the general supply fund and "restitution files" relating to recovery of misappropriated funds. MISCELLANEOUS FERA AND WPA DIVISIONAL AND PROJECT RECORDS. 1934-43. 367 lin. ft. Included are records of the social service training program, 1934-36, and the Divisions of Adjustment, 1934-35, Supply, 1940-43, Safety, 1934-41, Employment, 1935-36, Training and Reemployment, 1940-43, and Records and Microphotography, 1937-43. There also reports and miscellaneous records of the recreation program, 193443, and entry slips of the bibliography of territories and island possessions. OTHER CWA, FERA, AND WPA Often fragmentary and sometimes duplicated in the central files, these include records of the Office of the FERA Assistant Administrator, 193436, relating to general policy, wages and hours, worker classifications, self-help cooperatives, "white-collar" projects, and WPA organization; records of the Office of the WPA Commissioner (formerly Administrator), 1935-41, including fragmentary correspondence and memorandums of policy, and Presidential letters allocating funds for WPA projects, 1939-41; and records of the Director of the Administrative Budget Section of the Division of Management, 1940-43. A record set of procedural publications includes the WPA Manual of Rules and Regulations and project manuals, memorandums, telegrams, circular letters, copies of speeches, minutes of FERAWPA conferences, technical publications, and some CWA, FERA, and WPA research publications. The records also include the Federal Works Agency collection of WPA publications, project reports, and reference materials. There are also WPA organizational charts, 1935-42; outgoing correspondence with prominent individuals and organizations, 1935-38; samples of FERA and WPA complaint correspondence, 1933-36; records of the liaison officer for the WPA Oklahoma State administration, 1937-39; and records of the Operations, Statistical, and Employment Divisions for Region 1, relating to the District of Columbia, Delaware, and Maryland. Work Division; the Divisions of Engineering and Construction, Information, and Statistics; the central office of the service projects; State offices; the Federal Music, Theater, Art, and Writers' Projects; the Survey of Federal Archives; the National Research Project; and the Public Roads, Public Works, and Federal Housing Administrations. Motion pictures, 1931-39 (105 reels), produced or distributed by the Motion Picture Record Division or its successors, relate to WPA activities and National Youth Administration and Civilian Conservation Corps activities. Sound recordings, 1936-43 (418 items), are of performances by Federal Music Project groups, many with intermission talks by prominent persons about WPA work; and recordings of radio broadcasts by the Federal Theater Project. There are also recordings of special radio programs sponsored by the Democratic National Committee in support of New Deal programs; Department of the Treasury radio programs urging the purchase of U.S. savings bonds; a drama produced by the Resettlement Administration; a Department of Agriculture program on conservation; and a program about the White House made by the National Broadcasting Company for the Federal Housing Administration. See Katherine H. Davidson, comp., Preliminary Inventory of the Records of the Federal Writers' Project, Work Projects Administration, 1935-44, PI 57 (1953). Microfilm Publications: Index to Reference Cards for WPA Project Files, 1935-1937, T935, 79 rolls; Index to Reference Cards for WPA Project Files, 1938, T936, 15 rolls; and Index to Reference Cards for WPA Project Files, 1939-1942, T937, 19 rolls. NATIONAL ARCHIVES COLLECTION OF WORLD WAR II WAR CRIMES RECORDS (RECORD GROUP 238) The Moscow Declaration, signed by representatives of the United States, Great Britain, and the Soviet Union on November 1, 1943, provided that major war criminals were to be punished in accordance with the joint decisions of the Allied Governments. On May 2, 1945, President Truman appointed Robert H. Jackson, an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, as the representative and Chief of Counsel for the United States in preparing and prosecuting cases against major Axis war criminals. An agreement signed by Justice Jackson and representatives of the French, British, and Soviet Governments on August 8, 1945, established the International Military Tribunal. On October 18, 1945, the chief counsels of the Allied Governments submitted to the tribunal an indictment charging 24 German nationals with conspiring to wage aggressive war, breaching international peace, violating rules of warfare, and committing wholesale crimes against humanity. From September 30 to October 1, 1946, the tribunal delivered judgments. Justice Jackson resigned October 7, 1946, as Chief of Counsel for the United States. President Truman had provided in January 1946 that the Office of Military Government for Germany, United States, would handle remaining trials of Nazi war criminals. On October 18, 1946, Gen. Joseph T. McNarney established U.S. military tribunals at Nuremberg, with supporting administrative units. Between 1946 and 1949 the tribunals heard 12 trials; under Brig. Gen. Telford Taylor the Office of the Chief of Counsel for War Crimes, which was formally inactivated June 20, 1949, handled the legal work. In the Far East Gen. Douglas MacArthur, as Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers (SCAP), established on January 19, 1946, the International Military Tribunal for the Far East to try persons charged with war crimes. On February 15, 1946, MacArthur appointed nine members to the tribunal from nominations submitted by nations accepting the Japanese surrender, India, and the Commonwealth of the Philippines. Preparation of the Allied case was assigned to SCAP's International Prosecution Section (see RG 331) under Chief of Counsel Joseph B. Keenan. The tribunal sat from April 29, 1946, until November 1948 when it delivered judgments and pronounced sentences. See Brig. Gen. Telford Taylor, Final Report to the Secretary of the Army on the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials Under Control Council Law No. 10 (1949); Trials of War Criminals Before the Nuremberg Military Tribunals (15 vols., 1949-53); and Eugene Davidson, The Trial of the Germans: Nuremberg, 1945-46 (New York, 1966). There are 1,614 cubic feet of records dated between 1900 and 1950 in this record group. RECORDS OF THE OFFICE OF THE U.S. CHIEF OF COUNSEL FOR THE PROSECUTION OF AXIS CRIMINALITY. 1933-46. 401 lin. ft. and 107 rolls of microfilm. These consist of documentary evidence and reference files, staff evidence analysis forms, transcripts of proceedings of the International Military Tribunal, pretrial interrogations, and U.S. trial briefs and document books, 1945-46; defense documents and American, Soviet, British, and French exhibits, 193346; transcripts of hearings in defense of organizations, May-August 1946; State Department despatches, 1933-44; copies of the diaries of Hans Frank, kept while Governor General of Poland (partly on microfilm), 1939-45, and Joseph Goebbels (on microfilm), 1942-43; microfilm copies (107 rolls) of the diaries and correspondence of Gen. Alfred Jodl, 1937-45, and the death books of the Mauthausen Concentration Camp, 1939-45; copies of the Four Power Agreement, the Charter of the International Military Tribunal, and opening addresses of Justice Jackson and the other three chief counsels, 1945; and defense arguments, defendants' final pleas and statements, and judgments of the tribunal, 1946. RECORDS OF TRIALS BY U.S. The individuals tried before these tribunals were Field Marshals Wilhelm List and Wilhelm von Leeb: Luftwaffe Gen. Erhard Milch; SS officers Oswald Pohl, Ulrich Greifelt, and Otto Ohlendorf; civilian officials Karl Brandt and Josef Altstoetter; diplomat Ernst von Weizsaecker; and businessmen Alfried Krupp von Bohlen, Friedrich Flick, and Carl Krauch. Trial records consist of transcripts and minutes in English and German of tribunal proceedings, prosecution and defense exhibits and documents, and court records (orders, motions, lists of documents and witnesses, instructions, counsel statements and arguments, legal briefs, pleas, judgments, and clemency petitions); and administrative records consisting of trial enabling documents, procedural correspondence, memorandums, reports, transcripts of executive and joint sessions, tribunal orders, correspondence relating to the 12 cases, daily bulletins of the Office of the Chief of Counsel for War Crimes, and registers of transcripts of proceedings and the documents and exhibits used as evidence. R RECORDS OF THE OFFICE OF The Chief of Counsel's records consist of correspondence and reports of the Office, 1945-49; reports, interrogations, and other records concerning war crimes from Allied military agencies, 1945-48; indexes of prosecution and defense exhibits; and Public Information Office records, 1945-47. The Excutive Counsel's records (352 lin. ft.), 1933-49, include press releases, notes, articles, and statistics of the Economics Division, and reports, lists, and other records of the Apprehension and Locator Branch, Evidence Division, 1945-47; documents maintained by the Document Control Branch (partly on 38 rolls of microfilm), Evidence Division, concerning Reich ministries, German business, the German Army, the SS, and other aspects of the Nazi era, 1933-45; the office file, 1945-47, and staff evidence analysis records, 1945-48, of the Document Control Branch; interrogations of defendants and witnesses and related summaries and reports, 1945-48, and correspondence, 1945-47, of the Interrogation Branch, Evidence Division; reports, correspondence, and memorandums of the Military, the Ministries, and the SS Divisions, 1945-47; and correspondence, statements, lists, interrogation reports, affidavits, and memorandums of trial teams 1, 2, and 3, and the Dresdner Bank trial team, 1945-47. Executive Office records consist of administrative correspondence of the Publications Division, including reports, memorandums and bulletins, and other records that relate to publishing trial documents and testimonies, 1943-49; charts of German economic and political organizations, 1933-45; and records of the Nuremberg Military Post, including internee personnel records, 1945-48, passes for personnel of the Office of the Chief of Counsel, 1946-47, and corre spondence, memorandums, and other records of the 6850th Internal Security Detachment, 1945-49. Berlin Branch records consist of administrative correspondence, memorandums, and other general records, and the reports, correspondence, and related records of its Economics, Ministries, and SS Divisions, 1946-48; and the collected documents, 1933-45, and staff evidence analysis forms, 1945-48, of the Document Control Branch of the Evidence Division. RECORDS OF THE ADVISORY BOARD ON CLEMENCY FOR WAR CRIMINALS. 1947-50. 9 lin. ft. This Board was established in the Office of the U.S. High Commissioner for Germany. The records include reports, correspondence, and petitions for clemency. RECORDS OF THE OFFICE OF THE U.S. COMMISSIONER, UNITED NATIONS WAR CRIMES COMMISSION. 1943-48. 6 lin. ft. This 17-member Commission established at London in October 1943 to prosecute Axis war criminals. It was dissolved in 1948. The records include minutes, reports, and memorandums, 1943-46; correspondence, 1944-48; and issuances, 1945-46. RECORDS OF THE INTERNATIONAL MILITARY TRIBUNAL FOR THE FAR EAST. 1900-1948. 149 lin. ft. and 62 rolls of microfilm. Included are the partially indexed transcripts of its proceedings, miscellaneous records, the court journal, and such indexed documents comprising the court docket as indictments, motions, opinions, judgments, and dissents (partly on microfilm), 1946-48; court exhibits, with registers, and rejected exhibits and defense documents with indexes (partly on microfilm), 1900-1945; and a review of the sentences by General MacArthur, 1948. AUDIOVISUAL RECORDS. 1921-49. 7,108 items. Included are photographs (5,022 items) of the courtrooms, judges, prosecution and defense counsels, defendants, witnesses, and prisons connected with the International Military Tribunal, 1945-46; the U.S. military tribunals at Nuremberg, 1946-49; the International Military Tribunal for the Far East, 1946-48; and exhibits for the prosecution, consisting of photographs of Nazi destruction in the Warsaw ghetto, other Nazi activities in Poland, 1939-41, and Nazi activities at the Krupp works, 1933-41. Motion pictures (76 reels) used as evidence at the war crimes trials of Axis leaders before the International Military Tribunal and the International Military Tribunal for the Far East consist of films of concentration camps taken by American and Russian forces as they advanced through Germany, 1945; a Japanese film entitled "Japan in Time of Emergency"; and German films that document the Nazi rise to power, 192144, the entry of Germany into Austria, 1938, the political and industrial activities of the Krupp family and company officials, 1930-40, the construction of the No. 1 Hermann Goering steel plant, 1939-41, and the Nazi Supreme Court trial of the plotters against Hitler, 1944. Also included are sound recordings (2,010 items) of the entire proceedings of the International Military Tribunal, November 20, 1945-October 1, 1946; of a Stalag (a German prison camp for noncommissioned officers and privates) conference, introduced as evidence before that tribunal, May 22, 1944; and of speeches by Himmler. See Fred G. Halley, comp., Preliminary Inventory of the Records of the United States Counsel for the Prosecution of Axis Criminality, PI 21 (1949). Microfilm Publications: For a complete listing see the current List of National Archives Microfilm Publications. Since 1950 RECORDS OF THE COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT CONTRACT COMPLIANCE (RECORD GROUP 325) The Committee on Government Contract Compliance, established by an Executive order of December 3, 1951, was composed of representatives of industry, labor, the general public, and several Government agencies, including the Departments of Defense and Labor, the Atomic Energy Commission, the General Services Administration, and the Defense Materials Procurement Agency. The purpose of the Committee was to improve ways of obtaining compliance with nondiscrimination provisions of Federal contracts. The Commit tee became inactive after publication of its final report in January 1953 and was officially abolished by an Executive order of August 13, 1953, which established the Government Contract Committee and transferred to it all property and records of the former committee. See Equal Economic Opportunity: A Report by the President's Committee on Government Contract Compliance (1953). There are 10 cubic feet of records dated between 1952 and 1953 in this record group. |