Gathering and analysing the materials that became the R-Series of Nuremberg trial evidence

Nuremberg scholars are familiar with the major series of trial evidence known as the PS series, named after the contribution of Robert Storey’s staff in the Paris Office (‘PS’ signifying ‘Paris Storey’). The scholarship of the OSS and the Nuremberg trials contains little, if any, acknowledgement of the largely successful efforts of OSS’s small group of research analysts, based in this agency’s London Field Office, who staffed a Documentary Research Unit (DRU) from June 1945.1 This section will review aspects of the work of this unit headed by First Lieutenant Walter Rothschild.2 It will not discuss every aspect of the contents of the series. It will, however, discuss

destruction of European Jews.