John Mendelsohn (historian)

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John Mendelsohn (* 1928 ; † 1986 ) was an American historian and archivist.

Life

Mendelsohn worked in the National Archives and Records Administration NARA, the US National Archives . In the National Archives Captured Records Staff (NARS), Mendelsohn was responsible for the documents from the Nuremberg Trials and other archives relating to the persecution of Jews in Germany. As an author and editor, he wrote a number of works on these topics and put together document collections and finding aids . He was intended to succeed the NARS director Robert Wolfe, but died at the age of 58.

Works (selection)

  • John Mendelsohn: Nuernberg War Crimes Trials. Records of Case IX, United States of America v. Otto Ohlendorf et al . NARA, Washington 1978. (Finding aid for the National Archives Microfilm Publication M895 , the proceedings of the Einsatzgruppen process .)
  • John Mendelsohn, Donald S. Detwiler (Eds.): The Holocaust: Selected Documents in Eighteen Volumes . Garland Publishing, New York 1982. (Reprint of the complete series: The Lawbook Exchange, Clark NJ 2010, ISBN 1-61619-000-0 .)
    • Volume 1: Legalizing the Holocaust: The Early Phase, 1933-1939 .
    • Volume 2: Legalizing the Holocaust: The Later Phase, 1939-1943 .
    • Volume 3: The Crystal Night Pogrom . (Documents on the " Reichspogromnacht ")
    • Volume 4: Propaganda and Aryanization, 1938-1944 . (Documents on Nazi propaganda and " Aryanization ")
    • Volume 5: Jewish Emigration from 1933 to the Evian Conference of 1938 . (Documents up to and including the Évian Conference )
    • Volume 6: Jewish Emigration 1938-1940: Rublee Negotiations and Intergovernmental Committee . (Documents on the Intergovernmental Committee on Refugees headed by George Rublee )
    • Volume 7: Jewish Emigration: The SS St. Louis Affair and Other Cases . (Documents including the St. Louis affair )
    • Volume 8: Deportation of the Jews to the East: Stettin, 1940 to Hungary, 1944 .
    • Volume 9: Medical Experiments on Jewish Inmates of Concentration Camps .
    • Volume 10: The Einsatzgruppen or Murder Commandos . (Documents on the SS Einsatzgruppen )
    • Volume 11: The Wannsee Protocol and a 1944 Report on Auschwitz by the Office of Strategic Services . (Documents on the Wannsee Conference and on the OSS report on Auschwitz )
    • Volume 12: The "Final Solution" in the Extermination Camps and the Aftermath . (Documents on the final solution to the Jewish question in the extermination camps )
    • Volume 13: The Judicial System and the Jews in Nazi Germany .
    • Volume 14: Relief and Rescue of Jews from Nazi Oppression, 1943-1945 .
    • Volume 15: Relief in Hungary and the Failure of the Joel Brand Mission . (Documents on the negotiations with Heinrich Himmler about the negotiator Joel Brand )
    • Volume 16: Rescue to Switzerland: The Musy and Saly Mayer Affairs . (Documents on the rescue operations by Jean-Marie Musy and Saly Mayer )
    • Volume 17: Punishing the Perpetrators of the Holocaust: The Brandt, Pohl, and Ohlendorf Cases .
    • Volume 18: Punishing the Perpetrators of the Holocaust: The Ohlendorf and the Von Weizsaecker Cases .
  • John Mendelsohn: Trial by document: the use of seized records in the United States proceedings at Nürnberg . Garland Publishing, New York 1988, ISBN 0-8240-4341-3 .

literature

  • Donald M. McKale: John Mendelsohn - A Model Archivist-Scholar . In: George O. Kent (Ed.): Historians and Archivists: Essays in Modern German History and Archival Policy . George Mason University Press, Fairfax VA 1991, ISBN 0-913969-32-X .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Robert Wolfe: A Brief Chronology of the National Archives Captured Records Staff . NARA, Washington January 2000.
personal data
SURNAME Mendelsohn, John
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American historian and archivist
DATE OF BIRTH 1928
DATE OF DEATH 1986