English and Russian-language trial volumes from the 1949 Soviet military tribunal in Khabarovsk, prosecuting Japanese officers for developing and deploying biological weapons during World War II.
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The Pacific War Crimes Trials Digital Archive draws together primary source materials from three post-World War II war crimes proceedings in the Pacific theater: the International Military Tribunal for the Far East (the Tokyo Tribunal), the United States military commissions held at Yokohama and elsewhere, and the Soviet trial of former Japanese servicemen at Khabarovsk.
The IMTFE materials come from six donor collections held in the University of Virginia Law Library's Special Collections — papers accumulated by lawyers on both sides of the proceedings. Examples include the personal correspondence of lead prosecutors Frank Tavenner and Joseph Keenan, affidavits gathered by associate counsel David Nelson Sutton documenting atrocities including the Nanking Massacre, defense counsel George Carrington Williams' case files, and trial ephemera collected by documents division chief C. W. J. Phelps. Together with the Paul K. Von Bergen Papers from the postwar Yokohama commissions and the published record of the Khabarovsk trial, these eight collections offer perspectives on the legal aftermath of the war in the Pacific from across the bench and bar.
