German efficiency was the defendants' undoing in the sense that so much documentation had been produced and saved that the verdicts were considered by most observers to be a foregone conclusion. Though the Nazis made efforts at the end of the war to destroy records and blow up entire installations, such as the concentrations camps, a remarkable amount of material survived the war and was collected from all over Germany and the territories it had occupied. One of the difficult aspects of preparing for a trial was the need to collect, collate, and analyze thousands of documents in a relatively.....
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