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The Prosecution of Nazi War Criminals and the OSS:
The Need for a New Research Agenda
by MICHAEL SALTER -- abstract

Michael Salter's contribution propose a new research program addressing the constructive role played by different branches of the OSS in supporting the Nuremberg war crimes prosecutors, partly as a worthwhile topic in its own right but also as a much-needed corrective to the lack of balance within the present literature addressing the involvement of U.S. intelligence agencies with Nazi war crimes issues. He argues that, although the proposed interdisciplinary program faces a series of challenges and possible objections to its realisation, at least the majority of these can be overcome, particularly if researchers divide the tasks into a series of manageable projects, which are set out in the final section. It is even possible that the results of these suggested projects could successfully challenge a number of the research program's underlying assumptions and claims, prompt its ideally partial revision and improvement, and thereby open up the possibility of envisioning further empirical projects