Papers and photographs, 1936-1946 | WorldCat.org (original) (raw)

Abstract:Papers and photographs of Howard L. Thompson, a Mondovi, Wisconsin native who served with the 391st Anti-Aircraft Artillery Automatic Weapons Battalion during World War II and guarded Nazi war criminals during the Nuremberg trials. Collection includes autographs that Thompson received from six Nazi leaders: Hermann Goering, Alfred Jodl, Wilhelm Keitel, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Konstantin Neurath, and Fritz Sauckel. Also found in the materials are his identification card from Nuremberg, a list of all the prisoners for whom Thompson wrote many of their judgements (e.g. hung, shot, freed), newspaper clippings describing many of the men on trial at Nuremberg, and a letter Thompson wrote home to his family that a local paper printed. Photographs include some shots of Thompson in uniform, but are mostly scenery shots of locales in Europe such as Belgium, France, England, and Luxembourg