INTRODUCTION George Osmond Hyde was our father/grandfather. These papers were collected by my Aunt, Adele Larsen after my mother died. They had been sitting in a trunk for many decades and we have made scans and typed them. G. Osmond Hyde was an attorney who worked for the Department of Agriculture as an Administrative Law Judge. However, at the end of World War II he was asked to assist in The International Military Tribunal for the Far East, also called the War Crimes Trials in Tokyo. He spent a year in Tokyo from 1945-46 preparing Trial Briefs for various Prosecutions in addition to interrogating OSHIMA, who was the Japanese Ambassador to Germany during most of World War II. Scans of his notes on these interrogations can be found at Scans of Notes Additional scans about the defendants of this trial can be found in the Tavenner papers of the University of Virginia Law School Tavenner Papers This is a very large collection of documents which includes the notes by G. Osmond Hyde. G. Osmond Hyde used to say that when examining a witness one should know the answer to the question before asking it. Therefore, he gathered as much documentary evidence as possible from the papers associated with the Nuremburg trials. The information gleaned from these sources formed the basis for his interrogation of Hiroshi OSHIMA. You will see why he emphasizes a particular line of questioning from the summary which follows. 3