ENJUICIAMIENTO DE LOS CRIMINALES DE GUERRA. Documentos. 1. Informe de Robert H. Jackson, representante y fiscal principal de los Estados Unidos en el Enjuiciamiento de los criminales de Guera del Eje, al Presidente de los Estados Unidos. 2. Acuerdo para el establecimiento de un Tribunal Militar Internacional. 3. Acusación núm. 1. – The official report on the prosecution of Nazi war criminals, submitted by U.S. Chief Prosecutor Robert H. Jackson to the President of the United States. The report includes three parts – documents: 1. Report by Robert H. Jackson, Representative and Chief Prosecutor for the United States in the prosecution of Axis war criminals, to the President of the United States. 2. Agreement for the establishment of an International Military Tribunal. 3. Indictment No. 1. Published by the U.S. Government Printing Office – Washington, United States, 1946, first edition. In Spanish.
The first part of the report contains a memorandum by Robert H. Jackson to the President of the United States. Robert H. Jackson, who served as a Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, was appointed as the Chief Prosecutor on behalf of the United States at the Nuremberg Trials. In this memorandum, submitted to President Harry Truman, Jackson outlines the key principles that guided him in presenting the indictment: the international importance of prosecuting the Nazi war criminals, in order to ensure that the world recognizes the historical truth and to prevent the recurrence of similar crimes in the future. Jackson dismantles the central claim made by the defendants, who sought to avoid responsibility for their atrocities by arguing they were merely following orders from above. He proves that a large, coordinated Nazi plan was at the root of the crimes committed, and that these were not the result of random acts by isolated individuals. He also presents the list of crimes for which the Nazi war criminals were indicted. Jackson emphasizes that the trials were not intended solely to punish the guilty, but also to establish an international legal precedent for the prosecution of war crimes. He reports on the overwhelming scale of the prosecution’s material: “The evidence is scattered among different agencies and held by several armies. The documentary evidence captured—literally tons of documents, copies, records, reports—is primarily in foreign languages. Every one of the documents and the trial itself must be conducted in multiple languages. An enormous amount of work is required just to physically assemble the evidence, determine what is usable, and incorporate it into the case…”.
The second part: Agreement for the Establishment of an International Military Tribunal, detailing the agreement signed in London in August 1945 by the four Allied powers—the United States, Great Britain, France, and the Soviet Union—to establish the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg. The agreement defined the jurisdiction of the tribunal and the categories of crimes under which individuals could be prosecuted: Crimes against peace: the planning, initiation, or waging of aggressive war in violation of international agreements. Crimes against humanity: murder, extermination, enslavement, deportation, and other inhumane acts committed against civilian populations. War crimes: serious violations of the laws of war, including mistreatment of prisoners of war and the killing of civilians. The agreement also set forth the composition of the tribunal, the scope of its powers, and the legal procedures that would govern the trials.
Part Three: Indictment No. 1 – the indictment against the 24 principal defendants, known as the “Nazi conspirators” including major war criminals such as Hermann Göring, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Rudolf Hess, and others. The indictment outlines four main counts: Criminal Conspiracy: participation in a conspiracy to commit crimes against peace, war crimes, and crimes against humanity. Crimes Against Peace: planning and waging aggressive wars. War Crimes: violations of the laws of war, including the killing and abuse of civilians and prisoners of war. Crimes Against Humanity: murder, extermination, deportation, and other inhumane acts committed against civilian populations. This is the central and most extensive section of the report. It provides a detailed account of the Nazi Party’s takeover of all governmental mechanisms in Germany, the annulment of the Treaty of Versailles, the planned invasion of Austria, the formulation of the attack strategy on Poland, and all stages of planning and execution of the Final Solution for the extermination of European Jewry. The report documents the systematic murder of approximately 3.5 million Jews in extermination camps, around 1.5 million more through mass shootings by the Einsatzgruppen, and approximately one million who perished in ghettos and death marches due to starvation, exhaustion, and disease. It further details the official roles of each defendant and their personal involvement in the machinery of atrocities.
Rare. Only two copies listed in the WorldCat global library catalog.
III, 65 pages. Good – very good condition.
