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  • Title: Donald McClure papers
    Date (inclusive): 1944-1948
    Collection Number: 66021
    Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
    Language of Material: English
    Physical Description: 2 manuscript boxes (0.8 Linear Feet)
    Abstract: Correspondence, memoranda, and trial transcripts, relating to "The Long March" of the 1st Division, U.S. Infantry, into German occupied areas following World War I; German military operations in the West during World War II; and German war crime trials, especially the Buchenwald Concentration Camp case, 1947-1948. Includes a report by W. H. Scheidt, Historian, Oberkommando der Wehrmacht, entitled German Military Operations Report, 1944-1945.
    Creator: Germany. Wehrmacht. Oberkommando
    Creator: McClure, Donald
    Creator: Scheidt, W. H.
    Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives

    Access

    The collection is open for research; materials must be requested in advance via our reservation system. If there are audiovisual or digital media material in the collection, they must be reformatted before providing access.

    Use

    For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

    Acquisition Information

    Materials were acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 1966.

    Preferred Citation

    [Identification of item], Donald McClure papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

    Biographical / Historical

    Lieutenant colonel, United States Air Force; Nuremberg war crime trials official.

    Scope and Contents

    Correspondence, memoranda, and trial transcripts, relating to "The Long March" of the 1st Division, U.S. Infantry, into German occupied areas following World War I; German military operations in the West during World War II; and German war crime trials, especially the Buchenwald Concentration Camp case, 1947-1948. Includes a report by W. H. Scheidt, Historian, Oberkommando der Wehrmacht, entitled German Military Operations Report, 1944-1945.

    Subjects and Indexing Terms

    World War, 1939-1945 -- Germany
    World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Western Front
    War crime trials
    Germany -- History -- Allied occupation, 1918-1930
    World War, 1939-1945 -- Concentration camps
    Concentration camps -- Germany
    United States. Army. Infantry Division, 1st
    Buchenwald (Concentration camp)