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Trial of the Major War Criminals before the International Military Tribunal (The Blue Series)
Lynn University Archives
The Trial of the Major War Criminals before the International Military Tribunal, commonly known as "The Blue Series" is the official record of the trial of the major civilian and military leaders of Nazi Germany who were accused of war crimes before the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg, held November 20, 1945 - October 1, 1946.
Held in Nuremberg, Germany, this first trial of the Nuremberg Trials examined the criminal conduct of the highest-ranking officials. Of the 24 defendants, half would receive the death penalty for their crimes of war, crimes against peace and crimes against humanity.
The Lynn University Archives has a complete 42-volume set of The Blue Series.
Volumes and Contents
#1: Official Documents
#2-22: Proceedings Nov. 14, 1945-Oct. 1946
#23: Chronological Index, subject index
#24: Document index, name index
#25-42: Documents & materials in evidenceThe Nuremberg Trials
The Nuremberg trials were a series of thirteen trials held between 1945 and 1949 involving over 100 defendants who were important officials in Adolph Hitler’s Nazi Germany.
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Envelope with five cancelled French Republic stamps
Envelope with five (5) cancelled French Republic stamps / 1 October, 1946 - "Nuremberg / Bureau Temporaire Francais"
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Envelope addressed to Herrn Abraham Erlanger
Envelope addressed to Herrn Abraham Erlanger in Luzern, Schweiz [Lucerne, Switzerland].
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Postcard with cancelled stamps from Vienna
Postcard with cancelled stamps from Vienna,1945. Addressed to Friedrich Rausch / Wien, XII / Eichenstrasee 25
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Letter from Auschwitz with concentration camp rules
Folded letter with Auschwitz concentration camp rules, Auschwitz, Poland, April 23, 1944.
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1944 Modern Postage Stamp Album
Lynn University Archives
1944 Modern Postage Stamp Album (red, cloth, hardback)
Provides spaces for postage stamps of the world. Also spaces for portraits of rulers of the world, merchant flags of the nations and Coats of Arms of the world.
Printed and published by Scott Publications, Inc. Designed and written by Theresa M. Clark.
Includes addtional pages for Nazi Germany stamps during WWII and stamps from the United States (1940-1946).
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Letter from Gross-Rosen concentration camp with swastika stamp
Letter from Gross-Rosen concentration camp with a swastika stamp, 1943.
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Postcard from Vienna 1943
Postcard from Vienna 1943, with photos of Judenvisagen aus Politik, Kunst, und Wissenshaft.
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Point Rationing Book II Memo (Massachusetts)
Massachusetts Committee on Public Safety - War Economy Division
MEMO: Massachusetts Committee on Public Safety - War Economy Division (Dated: Jan. 6, 1943) / To: Regional War Economy Division Directors Local War Economy Division Chairmen / Subject: Point Rationing Book II / From: Alfred E. Stearns, Director, War Economy Division
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Postal envelope from Serbia with stamps
Postal envelope from Serbia to Mladá Boleslav [Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic] with stamps, dated 1942. Anti-Masonic Exhibition, Belgrade.
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Application for United States War Savings Bonds (Series E)
United States Treasury - Massachusetts War Finance Committee
United States Treasury -- Massachusetts War Finance Committee, Application for United States War Savings Bonds (Series E), used during World War II
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Share the Meat for Victory
US Department of Defense Health and Welfare Services
Based on “99 Ways to Share the Meat” a pamphlet of United States Department of Agriculture – Issued by United States Office of Defense Health and Welfare Services. In cooperation with Bureau of Home Economics, United States Department of Agriculture and United States Office of Civilian Defense
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Consumer Declaration: Processed Foods and Coffee
US Office of Price Administration
Consumer declaration of authorization to apply for and receive war ration book for coffee and canned food - from the Office of Price Administration. (OPA Form No. R-1301).
The Office of Price Administration and Civilian Supply was established by an Executive Order of April 11, 1941, within the Office for Emergency. OPA was responsible for rationing in the United States during World War II.
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How to Keep Warm and Save Fuel in Wartime
US Office of Price Administration - Information Department
“How to keep warm and save fuel in wartime” booklet, prepared by the US Office of Price Administration - Information Department, Washington, D.C.
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War Food Communique No. 1
War Production Board
Notifcation of meat rationing from the War Production Board to civilian Americans during World War II. This communique asks citizens to help instruct and guide neighbors to hold their consumption to their allotted share voluntarily.
War Food Communique No. 1 (To all Block and Neighborhood Leaders) (GPO 16-31160-1)
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Save your WASTE FATS to make explosives!
War Production Board - Conservation Division
A leaflet from WWII America asks citizens to save their waste fats. (Relating to the information program on fat salvage. Waste Fats Program, 1943 - 1944 / Waste Fat Salvage. 1942 - 43)
“Hang this up in your kitchen! Save your WASTE FATS to make explosives!” From the Conservative Division of the War Production Board (GPO 16-19815-1)
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Throw Your Scrap Into the Fight
War Production Board - Conservation Division
Check list instructing Americans to check their homes to find metal, rubber, fabric, and hemp scraps and turn them in to the nearest Salvage Depot to help the war effort during World War II.
“THROW YOUR SCRAP INTO THE FIGHT” “Get in the SCRAP! Use this check list to find every ounce of SCRAP in your home…”
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What shall we do with TIN CANS?
War Production Board - Conservation Division
Instructions for Americans on how to prepare and save food tin cans for collection to help the war effort during World War II.
An Important Message from the War Production Board and Your Local Salvage Committee – “What shall we do with TIN CANS?” (GPO 16-28747-3)
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Letter from Bendzin, Silesia
Letter from Bendzin, Silesia. January 18, 1941. An Herrn Alfred Schwarzbaum.
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Der ewige Jude exhibit promotional postcard
Promotional postcard from Vienna advertising the anti-seminitic Der ewige Jude [The Eternal Jew] propaganda exhibit,1938.
The postcard is postmarked and includes a handwritten note.
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Postcard from Munchen with postal stamp, Der ewige Jude
Postcard from Munchen 1937 with postal stamp, Der ewige Jude
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Postcard from Vienna with characterizations of Jews associated with death
Postcard from Vienna 1933 with many characterizations of Jews associated with death.
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Paul von Hindenburg Postage Stamp
Lynn University Archives
Postage stamp printed in Germany shows portrait of Paul von Hindenburg - 2nd President of German Reich, circa 1933
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Eine Krone bank note with anti-Semitic aphorism on reverse
Eine Krone [1 Krone] bank note, issued January 2, 1922, from Vienna, with anti-Semitic aphorism on reverse.
On back: Das Gold, das hat die / Judenbank / Der Dreck, der blieb in deiner Hand! [The Jew's Bank has the gold, The Shit remains in your hand!]
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Envelope to Aelteste der Juden in Prag
Envelope to: Aelteste der Juden in Prag, Pardubitz with Deutsche Reich stamp with swastika.
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Envelope to Dr. Hermann Miller from the Gurs internment camp
Envelope to Dr. Hermann Miller, New York, N.Y. from the Gurs internment camp France.
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Nazi anti-Semetic labels for Jewish patients
Blue, white and yellow adhesive labels (2 labels): Both labels have the Star of David with text, "Zur ärztlichen Behandlung ausschliesslich von Juden berechtigt." (Translated: "Authorized to provide medical treatment exclusively to Jews".)
The Nazis required these anti-Semitic labels for medication prescribed exclusively for Jewish patients.
A collection of Holocaust and Genocide-related special collections donated to Lynn University.
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