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Posted by: Azya Thornton on Nov 21, 2025

Harvard Law School Library announced Thursday it has released the first complete set of digitized evidentiary documents and trial transcripts from all 13 Nuremberg Trials, marking the 80th anniversary of the first tribunal’s start on Nov. 20, 1945, according to a press release from the law school. The collection, now fully available on the library’s Nuremberg Trials Project website, includes more than 140,000 documents totaling over 750,000 pages, surpassing the roughly 20% previously accessible to the public. The project, which began in 1998, involved years of digitizing, transcribing and cataloging materials that were deteriorating in storage. Harvard officials said the updated archive allows users worldwide to search transcripts, view document analyses and access images, with full keyword searchability expected soon. The Nuremberg Trials prosecuted top Nazi leaders for war crimes and crimes against humanity, creating a foundational historical record of the Holocaust and establishing principles for modern international law.