Summary Index of Katherine Fite Letters to Her Parents

Katherine B. Fite Letters, Nuremberg Trial Assignment July 14 1945 to December 28 1945 Letters Home TRUMAN "IMATIONAL CONTENTS SUMMARY Es AMD Must RECOROS ADMIH." st # Letter Date Subjects Included in Letter to Parents BOVE 1 July 14 1945 Plane trip Washington to Prestwick Scotland; At Prestwick; Arrived London. 2 July 20 1945 London: Street Lights -last night out; The Cumberland Hotel; Willow Run Army Mess: Justice Jackson introductions. 3 July 23 1945 London: Weekend trip to Nuremberg with Justice Jackson's Monday party; Rhine bridges from plane; Nuremberg ruins; Germand/ Grand Hotel lunch; Trip to see old courthouse, jail, and opera house; Concert; military escort for calvacade; Billeted in country houses; Dinner Grand Hotel; Attends evening meeting with Justice Jackson, General Betts and others; Visit to Nuremberg sports stadium - pictures on Hitler's rostrum; Living conditions in Nuremberg; DPs; American Army's efficiency; Justice Jackson; KF status as woman or State Dept status. 4 July 27 1945 London: Trip to Potsdam and Berlin with Justice Jackson's Friday party; Berlin ruins and people; Potsdam Soviet controls, KF's Soviet pass; Dinner by Mr. McCloy; meeting with Mr. Byrnes; In Berlin Hitler's Reichskanzlei, Hitler's office; KF finds written notes; personal letters, and index to some files; KF has a German nother's medal with swastika and picture of the justice presenting it to her; Views over Chandel. 5. August 5 1945 London: Weekend trip to Frankfurt with Justice Jackson's Sunday party; Visit General Betts villa; Advantages of being only woman on the staff; Col Cutter shot in leg by Army major - other Nuremberg news; Visit to Prof Lauterpacht in Cambridge with Justice's party. 6. August 12,1945 London: Food; Atomic bomb; Signing agreement; Dinner party at Claridge's by Justice Jackson for 30; Crowds celebrating V-J day; Went to church at Westminster Abbey 7 August 19 45 London: Conducted tours of London for military; Destruction; Children; War Crimes Commission meetings; To Abbey again. 8 August 26 1945 London : Social week- dinner at the Savoy family friend; Sunday Story of SS men put back in Nordhausen camp where they had been guards among erstwhile prisoners. 9 Sept 3 1945 London: Plan to go to Nuremberg; Buys civilian uniform; Monday To two Noel Coward shows; Train trip to Centerbury Cathedral and Dover; Talk with three English women; BBC Symphony Concert at Albert Hall. 10 Sept 9 1945 London Packing; Lunch with Thackery's grandaughter; Sunday Visit to St. Paul's