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GERMAN AND JEWISH INTELLECTUAL ÉMIGRÉ COLLECTION

Finding Aid for the
JOHN H. E. FRIED
PAPERS, 1941–1986
(GER-014)

 
 

 

VOLUME: 10 cubic ft.

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John H.E. Fried, Papers
Biographical Note

Fried was born in Vienna in 1905.  He wrote extensively on comparative government, labor economics, and the Vietnam War.  He was Special Legal Consultant to the U.S. War Crimes Tribunal at Nuremberg (1947-49), coeditor of the Trials of War Criminals Before the Nuremberg Military Tribunals (1950-53), worked for the United Nations (1951-54; 1964-66), and taught at the New School for Social Research, City University of New York, and other institutions (1942-70).
 

1905 Born 12 November, Vienna, Austria
1924-1929 Educated at Univ.of Vienna, Dept.of Law and Political Science
1930 Dr. of Law and Political Science, Vienna Univ.
1938 summer, arrival in the U.S.
1938-1940 Research Associate, Inst. of Social Research, Columbia Univ.
1940-1942 Research Associate, New School for Social Research, N.Y.C.
1942-1943 Instructor, Dept. of Political Science, City College
1944 January, becomes U.S. citizen
1944-1946 Senior member of the Secretariat, Int'l.Labor Office, Montreal
1946-1949 Special Legal Consultant to the Judges, U.S. War Crimes Tribunals, Nuremburg, U.S. Zone of Germany
1949-1950 (part-time) Expert, Div.of Human Rts., U.N., N.Y.C. and Expert, Judge Advocate General's Office, U.S. Dept. of the Army, Washington, D.C.
1949-1950 Instructor, Dept.of Political Science, City College, CUNY
1951-1954 Legal Officer and Program Officer, Technical Assistance Administration, U.N., N.Y.C.
1955-1963 (part-time) Member of the Faculty, New School for Social Research, N.Y.C.
1954-1963 (part-time) Adjunct Professor of Political Science, N.Y.Univ.
1963-1968 (interrupted by assignement to Nepal-see below) Adjunct Professor of Political Science, City College, CUNY
1964-1966 United Nations Expert on Int'l. Law, assigned to the Government of Nepa, Kathmandu, Nepal
1968-? Professor of Political Science, Lehman College, and Graduate Faculty, City Univ.of N.Y.
1990 Died 18 December

John H.E. Fried, Papers
Scope and content note

Fried's private personal collection (below) is located at the State University of New York at Albany.  Additional Fried materials are located at the Leo Baeck Institute and the Simon Wiesenthal Center.

 1. Materials and notebooks from the Gymnasium years, Vienna University.

 2. Correspondence (1940--), including letters from Shotwell and Jessup.  Personal and professional, many regarding job applications.

 3. Manuscript of writings, published and unpublished.  Also, published versions.

 4. Biographical interview of John H.E. Fried with John M. Spalek, April 3, 1986.

 5. Secondary literature about Fried in books.

 6. Correspondence about Fried, reviews of his writings in scapbooks.

 7. Documents: Nuremberg trial documents, 15 volumes (green series); 40 volumes of the Goering trial (blue series).

 8. Some photographs.

 9. Professor Fried donated his personal library to the Lehmann College of the City University of New York.

10. Publications on nuclear policy and nuclear war.
 

PUBLICATIONS

BOOKS:

Toward Wider Acceptance of United Nations Treaties, New York: Arno Press (The New York Times), 1971, 190  pages.  Co-author with O.Schachter & M.Nawaz.  Rev. ed. has preface by Chief S.O. Adebo.  "Study of the U.N. Institute for Training and Research--UNITAR".

Vietnam and International Law, Flanders, N.J.: O'Hare Books, 1967, 162 pages.  Rapporteur of a group of American international lawyers and political scientists including Richard Falk, John Herz, Hans   Morgenthau, Quincy Wright, and others.

The United Nations System, New York: Worldmark Press and Harper & Row, Revised Edition, 1963, 245   pages, First Edition, 1960; Forward by James T. Shotwell.

The Third Reich. Published under the Auspices of the International Council for Philosophy and Humanistic Studies with the Assistance of Unesco, New York: Praeger and London: Weidenfeld, 1955, 910 Co-editor with M. Baumont and E. Vermeil, interdisciplinary study.

Trials of War Criminals Before the Nuremberg Military Tribunals, Washington, D.C.: GPO, 14 Vols., 1950-53, c.15,000 pages.  Co-editor, as the representative of the Nuremberg U.S. judges.

The Exploitation of Foreign Labour by Germany, International Labour Office Studies, Ser.C, #25. Montreal: I.L.O., 1945, 286 pages.  Analysis, on the basis of wartime information available to the I.L.O., of what subsequently became known as the German Slave Labor program during World War II.

The Guilt of the German Army, New York: Macmillan, 1942, 3rd. ed., 1943, 426 pages.  Analysis of the Inter-relation between the Wehrmacht, German militarism and National socialism.
 

PARTS OF BOOKS:

"U.S.Military Intervention in Cambodia in the Light of International Law" in: Richard A Falk, ed., III The Vietnam War and International Law, Princeton Univ. Press, 1972, pp.100-137.

"Enhancing the Effectiveness of the International Court of Justice" (co-author) in: Proceedings & Committee Reports of the American Branch, International Law Association, 1971-72, New York: Am.Branch, I.L.A., 1972, pp.142-169.

"War by Ecocide" in: International Commission of Enquiry, The Effects of Modern Weapons on the Human   Environment in Indochina, Stockholm, Sweden: International Commission of Enquiry, 1972, sec.2, pp.1-26.

"International Law, neither Orphan nor Harlot..." in: Karl W. Deutsch & Stanley Hoffman, eds., The Relevance of International Law, (rev.ed., paperback) Doubleday Anchor Book A785, 1971, pp.124-176.

"Social and Humanitarian Matters (Handled by the U.N.)" in Eagleton, et al., ed., Annual Review of United Nations Affairs, N.Y.U. Press, 1956, pp.70-116;  1957, pp.69-116.

"The Universal Declaration of Human Rights" in L.Bryson, et al., ed., Freedom and Authority in Our Time, New
York: Harper, 1953, pp.451-459.