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John Herz

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Chronology

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Sources

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  1. Secret Reports on Nazi Germany (Laudani edition) Raffaele Laudani, editor. 2013.
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Identity and relevance

OSS analyst connected to war-crimes and military-government work. R&A 1482 is jointly attributed; his later sole-author claim for R&A 3110 conflicts with evidence of Kirchheimer drafting participation.

Dated report-level roles

  • 1944-03: R&A 1655.7, The Abrogation of Nazi Laws in the Early Period of Military Government: assistedDraftingOf. Evidence: Eugene Anderson to Carl E. Schorske, 18 January 1944; later status documents, RG 226, entry 44, box 2, Status of Reports.
  • 1943-12-10: R&A 1482, The Statement on Atrocities of the Moscow Tripartite Conference: jointAuthorOf. Evidence: Political Intelligence Report no. 33, section 1.3, printed locator R&A 113.33.
  • 1945-07-18: R&A 3110, Leadership Principle and Criminal Responsibility: claimedAuthorshipOf. Evidence: Herz retrospective claim; Söllner attribution; editor found NARA records inconclusive.

Source, confidence, and limits

See the report-level evidence memo and each linked report record. Contemporary assignment and delivery records are preferred. Later recollection and unresolved cases are explicitly marked. Unit membership, expertise, and proximity are not treated as authorship.

Why this person matters

Worked with Kirchheimer on criminal-responsibility analysis for the 1945 war-crimes research effort.

Verification boundary

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Verified relationship

memberOfOssSection: OSS R&A Central European Section

Evidence basis

Research Memo: Marcuse, Neumann, and Kirchheimer in Government Service