Nuremberg

The court had at its disposal huge collections of German documents. The government and personal archives of some leaders of Nazi Germany were captured, for example: the archive of the headquarters of the operational leadership of Hitler’s Supreme High Command in Flensburg; Ribbentrop archive; Rosenberg’s archive (the documents were walled up in a secret vault in his castle in Bavaria); Frank’s tons of Nazi Foreign Ministry archives were captured by the 1st American Army. To process such an array of materials, a documentary department was created. One of its branches collected a large number of official publications with legislative and departmental materials, newspapers, and journalistic literature written by the leaders of the Nazi Party. This evidence played an important role in the trial. Another department - the interrogation department, it was headed by Colonel Amen -as part of a group of investigators, their assistants, translators and stenographers, he conducted interrogations of the accused and witnesses.