Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) established; Norwegian Nazi collaborator Quisling executed
October 18, 2015-October 24, 2015
Location: Government Documents
Twenty-four major Nazi war leaders, accused of crimes tied to no specific geographic location, are indicted by the International Military Tribunal (IMT). This will be the first and most famous of the Nuremberg trials, taking place in the home city of the Nazi party, and presided over by the representatives of the Allied government. Despite preferences by some in the highest offices for summary executions, the trial will begin November 20, 1945. All of this is of keen interest to the Japanese Imperial Household Ministry, as the emperor contemplates abdicating.
Many lower level Nazi functionaries will be tried by military courts in the British, American, French, and Soviet zones of occupied Germany and Austria; and in Italy. (Nazi party scientists--those in the US zone--have a bargaining chip and are safe.) Other war crimes trials will take place in the countries where the crimes were committed according to the laws of the nation concerned.
See the first indictment in volume 1 of Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression (collection of documentary evidence published by the Office of United States Chief of Counsel For Prosecution of Axis Criminality in 8 volumes in 1946). Germany: A Country Study by the Federal Research Division, Library of Congress, published 1996, briefly summarizes the Nuremberg trials in the larger context of post-war Germany.
Newsmap. Monday, 29 October, 1945: week of 16 October to 23 October.
Front: Photographs of 24 German leaders set into the shape of a swastika include names, titles, and crimes they are accused of committing. Verso: "The world we'll live in."-- illustration of a group of men inside a globe is accompanied by text highlighting the need for nations to work together for a better world ahead.
- View this map in print in the Map Collection reading room, ground floor of UHM Hamilton Library, the week of 18 October 2015
- View this map online through the University of North Texas Digital Library (http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc848/)
Notes: Newsmaps were color posters issued by the U.S. Army and the Government Printing Office (GPO) on Mondays during the World War II. They combine maps, images, and news from the previous week’s war effort.
