This book documents the legal proceedings of the December 1949 Khabarovsk trial in which twelve members of the Japanese Army's covert biological warfare Unit 731 were prosecuted for their war crimes. The trial sought to hold key leaders in Japan's bio-weapons program accountable for atrocities after WWII.
Materials on the Trial of Former Servicemen of the Japanese Army Charged with Manufacturing and Employing Bacteriological Weapons, 1950
This book documents the legal proceedings of the December 1949 Khabarovsk trial in which twelve members of the Japanese Army's covert biological warfare Unit 731 were prosecuted for their war crimes. The trial sought to hold key leaders in Japan's bio-weapons program accountable for atrocities after WWII.
Paul K. Von Bergen Papers, 1946-1949
This collection contains over 2,000 pages of research and case files compiled by chief prosecutor Paul K. von Bergen for Class B and C war crimes trials held in Yokohama, Japan from 1946-1949, focusing on the mistreatment and unlawful execution of American POWs by lower-ranking military and civilian personnel. Operating under U.S. authority concurrent to the IMTFE in Tokyo, the materials include typed notes, accused statements, witness testimony, diagrams, and photographs related to the abuse and killing of prisoners in Fukuoka by personnel at Western Army Headquarters and Kyushu Imperial University medical school.
This collection contains approximately 2,000 pages of typed notes and preparatory materials that Paul K. von Bergen compiled as chief prosecutor for several cases at the Yokohama War Crimes Trials (1946-1949). Concurrent to the larger International Military Tribunal for the Far East in Tokyo, the Yokohama Trials operated under U.S., rather than international, authority and focused on lower-level military personnel and civilians accused of Class "B" and "C" war crimes (conventional war crimes and crimes against humanity). The documents in this collection represent von Bergen’s research as chief prosecutor for U.S. v. Kajuro Aihara et al., U.S. v. Kiyoharu Tomomori et al., and a few other cases related to the mistreatment of American Prisoners of War in the Japanese city of Fukuoka. The cases revolved around the extra-judicial execution of POWs at Japan's Western Army Headquarters and medical experiments conducted at the nearby Kyushu Imperial University. Owing to the size of these cases (Aihara et al. had 30 defendants, Tomomori et al. 25), and the nature of the crimes, they received considerable attention from the U.S. press at the time.
The collection was donated to the UVA Law Library by von Bergen's sons Paul and Mark A. von Bergen in 2016 and consists of 2 archival boxes and one carton (2 linear ft.). The papers were transferred from eight original binders (labeled A-G, I, J-Ko, Ku-Miz, Mo-Nu, O-Sa, Se-Tan, U-Z) to 22 folders preserving the original alphabetical organization. The documents consist of von Bergen's research and notes, including: full and excerpted segments of accused and witness statements, short biographies of the accused, petitions to the SCAP Legal Section for the apprehension of suspected war criminals, diagrams, sketches, and captioned photographs of the locations of the incidents, and other notes. Pages are typewritten with occasional handwritten marginalia and corrections.
David Nelson Sutton Papers, 1919-1965
David Nelson Sutton served as associate counsel to the International Prosecution Section (IPS) of the IMTFE. This collection contains briefs, correspondence, affidavits, photographs, newspaper clippings, and other court documents relevant to Sutton’s IPS service and the IMTFE. Sutton's papers include documents from his travels through China in 1946 to investigate the Nanking Massacre.
C. W. J. Phelps War Crimes and the "Tojo Trial" Scrapbook Collection
Calhoun W. J. Phelps served as the assistant chief of the documents division for the International Prosecution Section (IPS) of the IMFTE. This collection, bound in two scrapbooks, consists of official IPS documents, newspaper clippings regarding the trial, photographs and ephemera collected by Phelps during his tenure on the IPS team, and documents on the formation and structure of the trial teams and the tribunal itself.
George Carrington Williams Papers and Official Records from the IMTFE, 1945-1948
The George Carrington Williams Papers document his work on the International Defense Section (IDS) of the IMTFE from 1945 to 1948. A 1942 graduate of the University of Virginia School of Law, Williams was assigned to the defense of Naoki Hoshino, who was the chief civilian official in the Japanese government for Manchuria. Hoshino also served as President of the Planning Board from 1940-1941 and Chief Cabinet Secretary from 1941-1944.
Papers of Roy L. Morgan, 1941-1966
International Military Tribunal for the Far East: This collection contains prosecution documents, investigative reports, trial records, and newspapers related to John H. Morgan's role as Chief Interrogator preparing cases against Japanese leaders tried for war crimes in the International Military Tribunal for the Far East.
The Greenbrier Hotel Mission: These papers document Morgan's work as an FBI agent overseeing the confinement of Axis diplomats from North and South America detained at resorts in West Virginia and Virginia in exchange for American prisoners abroad during World War II.
Photographs Attributed to G. Carrington Williams Relating to the IMTFE
Nineteen photographs attributed to Williams, who served on the International Defense Section