Nazi war crimes, US intelligence and selective prosecution at Nuremberg
Subtitle: controversies regarding the role of the Office of Strategic Services
By: Michael Salter
Publisher: Routledge-Cavendish
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 458
ISBN-13: 9781904385813; 9781904385806
Subjects: United States. -- Office of Strategic Services; United States. -- Central Intelligence Agency; Nuremberg Trial of Major German War Criminals, Nuremberg, Germany, 1945-1946; Nuremberg War Crime Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, 1946-1949; World War, 1939-1945 -- Military intelligence -- United States; Evidence, Criminal -- Germany -- History -- 20th century
Description: A critical discussion of the contribution of American Intelligence officials to the Nuremberg war crimes trials process. The book also discusses the role of such officials in mobilising the resources of a modern intelligence agency to provide trial testimony - from former double-agents and documentary evidence.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [448]-451) and index

King copy purchased with monies from the Ben Sissman-WWII Intelligence History Fund
Table of contents: title: Introducing the rationale, aims, and methodology; title: Evidence of the war criminality of the Wolff group; title: The geo-political context of the peace negotiations surrounding the OSS's Operation Sunrise; title: Intervening on behalf of Karl Wolff; title: Protecting the wider Sunrise group : Zimmer, Dollmann, and Wenner; title: The contribution of OSS officials to the prosecution of Nazi war crimes; title: Gathering and analysing the materials that became the R-series of Nuremberg trial evidence; title: General Donovan's contribution to the Nuremberg trials