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John H. E. Fried Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 7262 / MF 490 / MF 485

Scope and Contents

The John H. E. Fried Collection contains legal briefs prepared by Fried as a legal consultant to the Nuremberg Tribunal. Manuscripts, legal briefs, clippings, offprints, and memoranda by Fried, Justice Robert Jackson, John J. McCloy and others, cover a range of topics including war crimes, National Socialism, international law, and human rights. The collection contains proceedings of war crimes trials, in particular those of the Nuremberg Tribunal. Also of interest are drafts and research notes by Fried for books on human rights and international justice.

The following individuals are mentioned in this collection: Werner Best, Hans Biebow, Robert Bloom, Leon Blum, Carl Clauburg, J. Daniel, J. Dauticourt, L. de Jong, Adolf Eichmann, Ernst von Falkenhausen, James W. Garner, Hans Globke, Rudolf Hess, Robert M. Jackson, Herbert Kappler, Hans Kelsen, Albert Kesselring, Ilse Koch, Jacque Lambert, Heinrich Luebke, von Manstein, Jean Pierre Maunoir, John J. McCloy, Frank Mecklenburg, Leonhard Mosley, C. A. Pompre, Walter Reder, Hermann Roechling, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Walter Schreiber, Fritz Schubert, Courtney Whitney, Simon Wiesenthal, Kurt Wolff, and Quincy Wright.

Dates

  • Creation: 1815-1997

Language of Materials

The collection is in English, German, and French.

Access Restrictions

Open to researchers.

Access Information

Readers may access the collection by visiting the Lillian Goldman Reading Room at the Center for Jewish History. We recommend reserving the collection in advance; please visit the LBI Online Catalog and click on the "Request" button.

Use Restrictions

There may be some restrictions on the use of the collection. For more information, contact:

Leo Baeck Institute, Center for Jewish History, 15 West 16th Street, New York, NY, 10011

email: lbaeck@lbi.cjh.org

Biographical Note

Born in Vienna in 1905, John H. E. Fried was a lawyer and political scientist. He emigrated to the United States in 1938, and received his doctorate at Columbia University in 1942. He served as a special consultant to the U.S. War Crimes Tribunal at Nuremberg from 1947 to 1949, and afterwards as a professor of political science at Lehman College of the City University of New York and with the human rights and technical assistance divisions of the United Nations. He died in New York in 1990.

Extent

14 Linear Feet

Additional Description

Abstract

The John H. E. Fried Collection contains legal briefs prepared by Fried as a legal consultant to the Nuremberg Tribunal. Manuscripts, legal briefs, clippings, offprints, and memoranda by Fried, Justice Robert Jackson, John J. McCloy and others, cover a range of topics including war crimes, National Socialism, international law, and human rights. The collection contains proceedings of war crimes trials, in particular those of the Nuremberg Tribunal. Also of interest are drafts and research notes by Fried for books on human rights and international justice.

Arrangement

This collection is arranged in 14 boxes.
  1. Box 1: Legal Briefs for Nuernberg Tribunals, Trials; Various Aspects, International Tribunal Far East, undated, 1947-1990
  2. Box 2: International Military Tribunal Far East, Proceedings, Transcripts; War Crimes Information and International Opinions, undated, 1937-1980
  3. Box 3: War Crimes, Trials, International Law, Reports, Publications, Periodicals, 1932-1978
  4. Box 4: International Law and War Crimes; "Human Rights and International Justice", undated, 1920-1970
  5. Box 5: "Human Rights and International Justice": Notes and Partial Chapter Drafts; Extradition, Postwar Plans, Neo-Nazis, undated, 1908-1978
  6. Box 6: Addenda: Nuremberg Military Tribunals, War Crimes, 1947-1972
  7. Box 7: Addenda: Nuremberg Military Tribunals, War Crimes, Also Including Other Countries, 1945-1980
  8. Box 8: Addenda: War Crimes and Trials: Europe, Far East; UN and Miscellaneous Governments Reports, 1919-1976
  9. Box 9: Addenda: Military Law, International and Civil Criminal Law, Nazi War Criminals, Trials, Punishment, undated, 1815, 1875-1978
  10. Box 10: Addenda: War Crimes, Miscellaneous Reports and Studies; Military Law; Photo Albums, undated, 1910-1979
  11. Box 11: Addenda and Addenda II: Miscellaneous, Book Chapters, War Crimes Reports, undated, 1942-1997
  12. Box 12: Addenda: Holocaust, War Crimes: Reports, Correspondence, Clippings, undated, 1922-1990
  13. Box 13: Addenda: International Law, War Crimes, Criminals, Trials, undated, 1911-1990
  14. Box 14: Published Materials; Addenda, undated, 1921-1995
  15. Microfilm Addenda, undated

Microfilm

Collection is available on 42 reels of microfilm (MF 490). One additional reel includes content only available on microfilm (MF 485 Addenda).
  1. Reel 1: 1/1 - 1/8
  2. Reel 2: 1/9 - 1/16
  3. Reel 3: 1/17 - 1/18; 2/1
  4. Reel 4: 2/2 - 2/7
  5. Reel 5: 2/8 - 2/22
  6. Reel 6: 2/23 - 2/31; 3/1 - 3/2
  7. Reel 7: 3/3 - 3/9
  8. Reel 8: 3/10 - 3/14
  9. Reel 9: 3/15 - 3/19; 4/1 - 4/3
  10. Reel 10: 4/4 - 4/10
  11. Reel 11: 4/11 - 4/19
  12. Reel 12: 4/20 - 4/25; 5/1 - 5/7
  13. Reel 13: 5/8 - 5/13
  14. Reel 14: 5/14 - 5/21
  15. Reel 15: 5/22; 6/1 - 6/5
  16. Reel 16: 6/6 - 6/9
  17. Reel 17: 6/10 - 6/14
  18. Reel 18: 6/15 - 6/16; 7/1 - 7/4
  19. Reel 19: 7/5 - 7/9
  20. Reel 20: 7/10 - 7/15
  21. Reel 21: 7/16 - 7/23; 8/1
  22. Reel 22: 8/1 - 8/8
  23. Reel 23: 8/9 - 8/14
  24. Reel 24: 8/15 - 8/21
  25. Reel 25: 9/1 - 9/4
  26. Reel 26: 9/5 - 9/10
  27. Reel 27: 9/11 - 9/17
  28. Reel 28: 9/18 - 9/22; 10/1 - 10/4
  29. Reel 29: 10/5 - 10/8
  30. Reel 30: 10/9 - 10/20
  31. Reel 31: 10/21 - 10/30; 11/1
  32. Reel 32: 11/2 - 11/10
  33. Reel 33: 11/11 - 11/24
  34. Reel 34: 11/25 - 11/26; 12/1 - 12/5
  35. Reel 35: 12/6 - 12/15
  36. Reel 36: 12/16 - 12/22
  37. Reel 37: 12/23 - 12/29; 13/1 - 13/2
  38. Reel 38: 13/3 - 13/9
  39. Reel 39: 13/10 - 13/23
  40. Reel 40: 13/24 - 13/31
  41. Reel 41: 14/1 - 14/7
  42. Reel 42: 14/8 - 14/14
  43. MF 485 Addenda: Tokyo Trial; from Library of Congress Collection (#23931)

Separated Material

Photographs have been removed to the LBI Photograph Collection.

Related Names

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Finding Aid & Administrative Information

Title
John H. E. Fried Collection, 1815-1997   AR 7262 / MF 490 / MF 485
Author
Processed by LBI Staff
Date
© 2009
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin
Language of description note
Description is in English.

Revision Statements

  • 2010-03-23 : encoding of linking to digital objects from finding aid was changed from <extref> to <dao> through dao_conv.xsl

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