Correspondence with Birkett, William Norman (1st Baron Birkett)

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  • Reference
      GB 1556 3000/9/1/152
  • Dates of Creation
      26/05/1961 - 01/06/1961
  • Language of Material
      German
  • Physical Description
      3 letters

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Correspondence regarding the date of Birkett’s appointment as chairman of the Advisory Committee on the internment of British Nazi sympathisers under Defence Regulation 18B in 1940.

Administrative / Biographical History

William Norman Birkett, 1st Baron Birkett (1883-1962) was a British lawyer, politician and alternate British judge at the Nuremberg Trials in 1945. Later he was named Lord Justice of Appeal (1950) and ennobled peer (1958). See Hyde, H. M., http://wiener.soutron.net/Portal/Default/en-GB/RecordView/Index/55136, London, Hamish Hamilton, 1965.

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