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.
Correspondence with Birkett, William Norman (1st Baron Birkett)
This material is held atThe Wiener Holocaust Library
- Reference
- GB 1556 3000/9/1/152
- Dates of Creation
- 26/05/1961 - 01/06/1961
- Language of Material
- German
- Physical Description
- 3 letters
Scope and Content
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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