Donald McClure Papers

Lieutenant colonel, United States Air Force; Nuremberg war crime trials official. http://www.oac.cdlib.org/institutions/Hoover+Institution http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf8p300693 Correspondence, memoranda, and trial transcripts, relating to activities of the United States 1st Infantry Division in the occupation of Germany following World War I; German military operations in the West during World War II; and German war crime trials, especially the Buchenwald Concentration Camp case, 1947-1948. Includes a report by W. H. Scheidt, historian, Oberkommando der Wehrmacht, entitled German Military Operations Report, 1944-1945. Contains a set of records, documents, memoranda, and exhibits used in review of the Buchenwald Concentration Camp Case by Donald McClure. Most of the documentation deals with Ilse Koch. Also contains a bound volume of basic rules, procedures, and precedents used during German war crimes trials, reviews and appeals by Donald McClure at Dachau, Munich and Frankfurt, Germany, l947 48.