FINAL REPORT
THE SECRETARY OF THE ARMY

ON

THE NUERNBERG WAR CRIMES TRIALS
UNDER CONTROL COUNCIL LAW NO. 10

by

TELFORD TAYLOR
Brigadier General, U.S. A.
Chief of Counsel for War Crimes

Washington, D.C.

15 August 1949

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CONTENTS

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LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL..

INTRODUCTION.-----

HISTORICAL BACKGROUND....

J. C. S. 1023/10.-----

Control Council Law No. 10.---

Executive Order No. 9679.----

THE "SUBSEQUENT PROCEEDINGS DIVISION" OF OCCPAC

Staff Recruitment and Organization...

Operations.com

A SECOND TRIAL UNDER THE LONDON CHARTER

MILITARY GOVERNMENT ORDINANCE No. 7.---

THE MILITARY TRIBUNALS, THE SECRETARY GENE ND THE O

CHIEF OF COUNSEL FOR WAR CRIMES.--.

The Military Tribunals.

The Central Secretariat-------

The Office, Chief of Counsel for War

Foreign Delegations-----

Defense Counsel.-------

WAR CRIMES SUSPECTS AND WITNESSES..

Incarceration...

Interrogation ----

INDICTMENTS.--

The Charges.---------

Form of the Indictments.

Selection of Defendants

THE TRIALS. ----

Procedure.----------

Outcome.-------

DEACTIVATION PROBLEMS.-

Unfinished Business...

Review and Clemency--

Landsberg Prison---

Document Disposal.--

Publications.....

CONCLUSION--------

Operational Shortcomings and Their Lessons for the Future

Significance and Influence of the Trials.-----

APPENDICES.-----

A. Interim Report to the Secretary of the Army, 12 May 1948.--

B. Nuremberg Trials: War Crimes and International Law, by Telford

Taylor, in “International Conciliation” (April 1949) -----

C. J. C. S. 1023/10, 8 July 1945.------

D. Control Council Law No. 10, 20 December 1945.-----

E. The Royal Warrant, 14 June 1945.--

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