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[Identification of item], in the Records of Nuremberg Trial of Major German War Criminals, #3566, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Gift 1948

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• International Military Tribunal.
• Judges--United States--History--20th century.
• Nuremberg Trial of Major German War Criminals, Nuremberg, Germany, 1945-1946.
• Nuremberg War Crime Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, 1946-1949.
• Parker, John Johnston, 1885-1958.

• John Johnston Parker Papers (#3464); Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Parker of North Carolina, judge of the United States Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, 1925-1958, served as an alternate judge in the Nuremberg trial of major German war criminals in 1945-1946.

Files of Judge Parker, consisting chiefly of mimeograph copies of exhibits, briefs, and testimony in the 1945-1946 Nuremberg trial, in which Parker served as alternate to Francis Biddle (1886-1968), the American member of the International Military Tribunal. Most of these documents appear in the official proceedings of the trial, but the files also contain some materials not included in the published proceedings.