The Avalon Project at Yale

The Avalon Project at Yale Law School is an online archive of legal and historical documents in the public domain. It holds one of the most complete digital collections of the Nuremberg trial documents, including the indictments, the verdicts, and the full transcripts of the International Military Tribunal of 1945-46.

For Holocaust research, the Avalon Project is the standard online source for the Nuremberg legal record. The trial transcripts run to 42 volumes and include the testimony of senior Nazi defendants under cross-examination, the introduction of physical evidence, and the closing statements of prosecution and defence. The texts are searchable and can be cited directly to specific volumes and page numbers.

The site also holds the texts of the Nuremberg Charter, the Nuremberg Principles, the Genocide Convention of 1948, and many other documents of international law that emerged from the trials. For anyone working on the legal dimension of the Holocaust, the Avalon Project is the first place to look.

Website: avalon.law.yale.edu