Adherence/nuremberg-trials-complete

---
license: cc-by-4.0
task_categories:
- question-answering
- text-generation
language:
- en
tags:
- nuremberg-trials
- history
- law
- world-war-2
- international-law
- war-crimes
size_categories:
- 100M<n<1B
---

# Nuremberg Trials Complete Dataset

The most comprehensive digital collection of Nuremberg Trials documents available.

## Contents

### Harvard Law School Transcripts (518MB)
- **13 trials** with complete transcripts
- **153,010 pages** of testimony
- Source: [Harvard Law School Nuremberg Trials Project](https://nuremberg.law.harvard.edu/)

| Trial | Name | Pages |
|-------|------|-------|
| 1 | Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 11,681 |
| 2 | Milch Case | 3,105 |
| 3 | Justice Case | 11,122 |
| 4 | Hostages Case | 10,549 |
| 5 | Pohl Case | 8,224 |
| 6 | Einsatzgruppen Case | 6,893 |
| 7 | IMT - Main Trial (Goering et al.) | 17,268 |
| 8 | Flick Case | 11,087 |
| 9 | IG Farben Case | 15,628 |
| 10 | RuSHA Case | 5,415 |
| 11 | Krupp Case | 13,447 |
| 12 | Ministries Case | 29,077 |
| 13 | High Command Case | 9,514 |

### Yale Avalon Project (192MB)
- **857 documents**
- **11.3 million words**
- Includes: Judgments, indictments, London Charter, trial proceedings (22 volumes), Nazi Conspiracy & Aggression documents
- Source: [Yale Law School Avalon Project](https://avalon.law.yale.edu/subject_menus/imt.asp)

### Wikipedia (5.5MB)
- **49 pages** of structured data
- 24 defendant biographies
- 11 trial overview pages
- 8 key prosecutors/judges
- 6 Nazi organization pages

## Usage

```python
from datasets import load_dataset

# Load Harvard transcripts
dataset = load_dataset("Adherence/nuremberg-trials-complete", data_dir="harvard_transcripts")

# Load Yale documents
import json
from huggingface_hub import hf_hub_download

yale_path = hf_hub_download(
repo_id="Adherence/nuremberg-trials-complete",
filename="yale_avalon/all_documents.json",
repo_type="dataset"
)
with open(yale_path) as f:
yale_docs = json.load(f)
```

## License

This dataset aggregates public domain historical documents. The compilation is released under CC-BY-4.0.

## Citation

If you use this dataset, please cite the original sources:
- Harvard Law School Nuremberg Trials Project
- Yale Law School Avalon Project
- Wikipedia contributors

## About

Created to make the historical record of the Nuremberg Trials accessible through AI.
Part of the [Nuremberg Trials AI project](https://huggingface.co/spaces/Adherence/nuremberg-trials-ai).