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  • RW 21945-1949John da Cunha Papers: Ravensbrück (also cited as Ravensbrueck and Ravensbruck) War Crimes Trials.

    This series contains a collection of records made by John da Cunha while he was serving with the Judge Advocate General's Department in the closing months of the Second World War. He acted first as an investigator into war crimes committed at Ravensbrück, and then as a legal assistant at the trial of those accused of the war crimes. The collection includes photographs taken during the trial, copies of drawings showing conditions in Ravensbrück made by a prisoner in the camp, a copy of the investigation report, statements made by witnesses to war crimes, including a number not produced as evidence in the trial, and some contemporary correspondence.