I want to read documents that were used to prove German war crimes in the Soviet Union, incl. crimes against civilians and treatment of Soviet prisoners of war.
So far I found the following:
- Nuremberg Trial Proceedings Volume 3 contain some mention of forced labor from the Eastern Europe.
- 20th day, Friday, 14 December 1945
I also looked at Nuremberg trials project. The search for USSR yields mostly documents related to Yugoslavia (which to my knowledge never was part of the USSR).
Search for Russia results in following documents:
- Transcript for NMT 2: Milch Case
- Extract from a medical conference report concerning malaria in Southern Russia
- Affidavit concerning the SS Einsatzgruppen (Task Forces) operation in Russia, including the extermination of Jews
- Affidavit stating that the order to execute captured commissars was not carried out under Rendulic's command in Russia
- Affidavit concerning the non-application of the Commissar Order under von Leyser's command in Russia, and his character as an officer
- Instructions to SS economic and administrative offices for the transfer of economic administrators in eastern Europe to Germany
- Regulations for SS Economic and Administrative Main Office administrators in Russia, Poland, Norway, and Serbia, including management of economic enterprises and concentration camps
Search for Ukraine gives following results:
- Cover letter and an outline of a speech concerning the treatment of civilians in the Ukraine
- Cover letter and an outline of a speech concerning the treatment of civilians in the Ukraine
- Memoranda concerning the methods used during the deportation of workers in the Ukraine
- Memoranda concerning the methods used during the deportation of workers in the Ukraine
- Cover letter and an outline of a speech concerning the treatment of civilians in the Ukraine
- Cover letter and an outline of a speech concerning the treatment of civilians in the Ukraine
- Transcript for NMT 3: Justice Case
- Memoranda concerning the methods used during the deportation of workers in the Ukraine
- Memoranda concerning the methods used during the deportation of workers in the Ukraine
- Letter to the chief of the Industrial Armament Department (in Berlin) concerning the execution of Jews in the Ukraine
- Brief arguing that the imposition of German law in occupied territories was a war crime
- Transcript for NMT 4: Pohl Case
- Transcript for NMT 1: Medica Case
- Transcript for NMT 2: Milch Case
- Transcript for NMT 7: Hostage Case
Today the majority of historians agrees that the Germans were way more cruel on the Eastern front than in other occupied territories (France, Netherlands etc.).
If that's the case, where and how can I find the documents from the Nuremberg trial that prove that?
Postwar Soviet history books claim that the Germans burned down every village they invaded (especially in Ukraine and Southern Russia). Why, then, don't I see any Soviet documents on German war crimes (only German ones)?