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INTRODUCTION
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This microfilm publication contains, on a single roll, reproductions of the records of the entire NM Series consisting of 20 documents dated from 1874 to 1946. The NM Series was assembled by the Document Control Branch of the Evidence Division of the Office, Chief Counsel for War Crimes (OCCWC), Nuernberg, and individual items listed below were offered as evidence in some of the 12 proceedings against 185 officials or citizens of the Third Reich before U.S. Military Tribunals I-VI sitting at Nuernberg in the U.S. Zone of Occupation in Germany from 1946 to 1949
Case No. United States v. Popular Name
1 Karl Brandt et. al. Medical Case
2 Erhardt Milch Milch Case (Lufwaffe)
3 Josef Altstoetter et al. Justice Case
4 Oswald Pohl et al. Pohl Case (SS)
5 Friedrich Flick et al. Flick Case (Industrialist)
6 Karl Krauch et al. I. G. Farben Case (Industrialist)
7 Wilhelm List et al. Hostage Case
8 Ulrich Greifert et al. RuSHA Case (SS)
9 Otto Ohlendorf et al. Einsatzgruppen Case
10 Alfried Krupp et al. Krupp Case (Industrialist)
11 Ernst von Weizsaecker et al Ministries Case
12 Wilhelm von Leeb et al. High Command Case
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The record items in this series are accompanied by such finding aids as register cards and an occasional staff evidence analysis (SEA) providing brief descriptions of the records. The documents are in German except for NM-014 and NM-019 (English) and NM-020 (French).

OCCW was officially established on October 24, 1946, having evolved from the Subsequent Proceedings Division of the Office, Chief of Counsel for the Prosecution of Axis Criminality (OCCPAC) prosecuting the Nazi war criminals at the International Military Tribunal (IMT) at Nuernberg. The Chief of Counsel for War Crimes, Brig. Gen. Telford Taylor, was appointed by the U.S. Prosecutor at the IMT, Justice Robert Jackson.

The Evidence Division of OCCWC included, in addition to the Apprehension and Locator Branch and the Interrogation Branch, the Document Control Branch, headed by Fred Niebergall, which handled the safekeeping and registration of all documents brought to Nuernberg for evidentiary purposes and assembled them into document series. From these series, items were selected, placed


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