Abstract

Historiographical and Documentary Context

The documentary history of the transcripts of Carl Schmitt's interrogation at Nuremberg is indeed an interesting and continuing one. Since Robert M. W. Kempner, who conducted these interrogations, published a version of them in Das Dritte Reich im Kreuzverhör in 1969, it had been assumed by scholars that only three took place.¹ Kempner insisted that this was the case, and archival searches by various scholars identified only the interrogations of April 3, 21, and 29, 1947. Even those like myself and Helmut Quaritsch, who suspected, with justification, that Kempner held more documentation relevant to Schmitt than…