Cornell University is home to a major resource from the Nuremberg trials collected by the New York native who founded the forerunner of the CIA.
The landmark World War II war crimes trials of top Nazi leaders began 70 years ago Friday in the German city where Adolf Hitler held some of his biggest rallies. The chief prosecutor for the victorious Allies was U.S. Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson, an Albany Law School graduate from western New York.
Jackson's special assistant was Gen. William "Wild Bill" Donovan, of Buffalo, leader of the Office of Strategic Services during the war. Donovan compiled thousands of Nuremberg trial transcripts and documents that he kept at his Manhattan law office.
Attorney Henry Korn, a 1968 Cornell graduate, donated the Donovan collection to the Ivy League school in 1998.
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