Inventory of the Sheldon H. Harris Papers
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Inventory of the Sheldon H. Harris Papers
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Title: Sheldon H. Harris Papers
Dates: 1942-2002
Collection number: 2004C40
Creator: Harris, Sheldon H.
Collection Size: 53 manuscript boxes, 2 oversize boxes. (22 linear feet)
Repository: Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace
Stanford, California 94305-6010
Abstract: Writings, correspondence, photocopies of government documents, photographs, sound recordings, video tapes, and printed matter, of an American historian relating mainly to biological warfare, especially as conducted by Japan in China before and during World War II. Includes research material used in the preparation of the book by S. H. Harris, Factories of Death: Japanese Biological Warfare, 1932-1945, and the American Cover-up(London, 1994).
Physical location: Hoover Institution Archives
Languages: Languages represented in the collection: English
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[Identification of item], Sheldon H. Harris Papers, [Box no.], Hoover Institution Archives.
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Archives in 2004
Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. To determine if this has occurred, find the collection in Stanford University's online catalog Socrates at http://library.stanford.edu/webcat . Materials have been added to the collection if the number of boxes listed in Socrates is larger than the number of boxes listed in this finding aid.
| 1928 August 22 | Born, Brooklyn, New York |
| 1949 | A.B. (cum laude), Brooklyn College (now Brooklyn College of the City University of New York) |
| 1950 | A.M., Harvard University |
| 1955 | Married Sheila J. Black |
| 1957-1958 | Instructor in history, Brooklyn College (now Brooklyn College of the City University of New York) |
| 1958 | Ph.D., Columbia University, New York |
| 1958-1963 | Associate professor of social science, Bradford Durfee College of Technology (now Southeastern Massachusetts University), Bradford, Massachusetts |
| 1962 | Recipient, Roger Benjamin Foundation Award |
| 1963-1964 | Recipient, American Council of Learned Societies research grant |
| 1963-1966 | Assistant professor, California State University, Northridge |
| 1966 | Visiting professor, University of California, Los Angeles |
| 1966-1969 | Associate professor, California State University, Northridge |
| 1969-1991 | Professor of history, California State University, Northridge |
| 1971 | Recipient, American Philosophical Society grant for research in England |
| 1972 | Author, Paul Cuffe: Black America and the African Return |
| Author, President Johnson's Decision to Intervene in Vietnam | |
| 1973 | Author, Prohibition |
| 1979 | Author, Blue's Who's Who: A Biographical Dictionary of Blues Singers |
| 1986 | Author, I Remember: Eighty Years of Black Entertainment, Big Bands, and the Blues: An Autography |
| 1994 | Author, Factories of Death: Japanese Biological Warfare, 1932-1945, and the American Cover-Up |
| 1996 | Author, Writers Directory |
| 2002 August 31 | Died, Los Angeles, California |
The papers of Sheldon Harris consist of correspondence; photocopies of government documents; photographs; printed matter; sound recordings; video tapes; and writings relating mainly to biological warfare, especially as conducted by Japan in China before and during World War II. They include research materials used in the preparation of the book, Factories of Death: Japanese Biological Warfare, 1932-1945, and the American Cover-Up.
Sheldon Harris was one of the researchers responsible for bringing to light the facts of Japan's war crimes against humanity. The materials draw attention to atrocities committed by Japan in China between 1931 and 1945. They shed light on experiments carried out by the scientists and doctors of Unit 731 of the Japanese army by exposing human subjects to poisonous gases and infectious diseases. They also raise some controversial issues, such as an alleged immunity deal and possible cover-up between American and Japanese scientists, the question of reparation to the victims, and Japan's responsibility.
An acknowledgement of Japan's experiments with biological weapons and their use against the Chinese people came from a Japanese court shortly before Harris's death.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Biological warfare.
Sino-Japanese Conflict, 1937-1945--Biological warfare.
World War, 1939-1945--Biological warfare.
World War, 1939-1945--Japan.
United States--Military relations--Japan.
Japan--Military relations--United States.
Video tapes.
Phonotapes.
Box/Folder: 1 : 1
Box/Folder: 1 : 2
World War II intelligence reports, 1945
Box/Folder: 1 : 3
Office of Strategic Services (OSS) files index--National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) guide to RG 226, 1991 and undated.
Scope and Content Note
Brochure, card catalogs, list of researchers, and instructions for ordering audio-visual records
Box/Folder: 1 : 4
Reports of the U. S. Naval Technical Mission to Japan, 1945-1946.
Scope and Content Note
Index to microfilms
U. S. military intelligence reports
Box/Folder: 1 : 5
Japanese Biological Warfare, 1945
Box/Folder: 1 : 6
Biological Warfare: Activities and Capabilities of Foreign Nations, 1946
Box/Folder: 1 : 7
Summary report on scientific intelligence survey in Japan--United Kingdom report on Unit 731, 1946-1947.
Scope and Content Note
Includes a draft report on biological research in the United States
Box/Folder: 1 : 8
Japanese report on inspection by the Red Cross of prison camps in Manchuria, 1943-1945.
Scope and Content Note
Includes affidavits, correspondence, and printed matter relating to Japanese experiments in biological warfare in Manchuria using prisoners of war for testing
Box/Folder: 1 : 9
Official German documents on biological warfare, 1941-1945.
Scope and Content Note
Includes list of documents and reports, including H. Kliewe intelligence report after Germany's surrender, ALSOS mission, and Hoyzo monograph, 1942-1945
Box/Folder: 1 : 10
Report by George W. Merck on activities of the United States in the field of biological warfare, undated
Murray Sanders
Box/Folder: 1 : 11
Biographical materials, 1961 and undated.
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence, press release, and miscellany
Box/Folder: 1 : 12
Report on biological warfare, 1945
Box/Folder: 1 : 13
Arvo T. Thompson, 1945-1946.
Scope and Content Note
Floor plans of Pingfan (Heibo) installation
Box/Folder: 1 : 14
Herbert H. Fell--Summary report on biological warfare investigations by Edwin V. Hill and Joseph Victor, 1947
Box/Folder: 1 : 15
Shiro Ishii dossier, 1945-1948.
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence, list of papers, memoranda, and printed matter
Box/Folder: 2 : 1-2
Stenographic transcripts of interrogation of Masaji Kitano by S. F. Whiteridge and A. H. Schvichterberg, Tokyo, and translation of statement by Kitano, 1946-1947
Box/Folder: 2 : 3
Investigations of Shiro Ishii, 1945-1948, 1982.
Scope and Content Note
Memoranda and reports. Includes an article by Peter Kalisher and a report on war crime broadcast on 60 Minutes, CBS television network
Box/Folder: 2 : 4
Charles A. Willoughby files, undated.
Scope and Content Note
List
Box/Folder: 2 : 5
Postwar biological warfare investigations, 1946-1951.
Scope and Content Note
Dossier, memoranda, and reports
Box/Folder: 2 : 6-8
Cover-up documents and information on unit 100, 1941-1950.
Scope and Content Note
Includes bio-data of Murray Sanders, correspondence, interview, messages, notes, printed matter, report on the Japanese violations of the laws of war, and statement
Box/Folder: 2 : 9
Japanese archive index list, 1941-1948
Box/Folder: 2 : 10
Dugway documents, 1944-1947.
Scope and Content Note
Primarily interviews relating to biological warfare
Box/Folder: 3 : 1
Hospital regulations, Fort Detrick, Frederick, Maryland, 1960.
Scope and Content Note
Memorandum and report
Box/Folder: 3 : 2
Letter to Charles Wilson in response to the theory of biological experiments conducted by Japan using American prisoners of war in Mukden, Manchuria, 1986
Box/Folder: 3 : 3
Report by N. Paul Hudson--Liaison officer, Office of the Surgeon General, 1944-1945.
Scope and Content Note
Concerns his responsibility for procurement and storage, and the issue of recognizing biological weapons as part of biological aspects of defense. Includes printed matter
Box/Folder: 3 : 4
End of war plans, Fort Detrick, Frederick, Maryland, 1945-1947.
Scope and Content Note
List of requirements, memorandum, printed matter, and questionnaire
Box/Folder: 3 : 5
U.S. Chemical Warfare service digitized records, dates unknown.
Scope and Content Note
3 compact discs
Box/Folder: 3 : 6
Dugway documents from Martin Furmanski--Reports by Herbert Fell, Karl F. Meyer, R. Pollitzer, and others, 1942-2000.
Scope and Content Note
Includes correspondence, memoranda, and printed matter
Box/Folder: 4 : 1-2
History of the Chemical Warfare Service in World War II, 1940-1945: Biological Warfare Research in the United States, by Rexmond C. Cochrane, 1947.
Scope and Content Note
Report
Box/Folder: 4 : 3
Biological warfare time line from New York Times, 1937 and 1989.
Scope and Content Note
Research by Ted Colvin
Box/Folder: 5 : 1
Soviet Biological Warfare and Chemical Warfare Preparations and Capabilities, by Walter Hirsch, 1951.
Scope and Content Note
Report
Box/Folder: 5 : 2
Nuremberg trials, 1945-1946.
Scope and Content Note
Printed matter
Box/Folder: 5 : 3
"Plague, Politics, and Policy: The Decision to Grant Immunity to Suspected Japanese Biological Warfare War Criminals," dissertation by Thomas K. Haycraft, 1999-2000.
Scope and Content Note
Includes a letter to Sheldon Harris
Box/Folder: 5 : 4
"America's Biological Warfare Program in the Second World War," Barton J. Bernstein, 1988.
Scope and Content Note
Article
Box/Folder: 5 : 5
"Churchill's Secret Biological Weapons," Barton J. Bernstein, and "Churchill's Anthrax Bombs: A Debate," R. V. Jones and J. M. Lewis, 1987.
Scope and Content Note
Articles
Box/Folder: 5 : 6
"Who Knew?" 2001, undated.
Scope and Content Note
Article on Japanese germ warfare in China by Takao Matsumura, undated. Includes a letter to Sheldon Harris and a message about Syoji Kondo's testimony
Box/Folder: 5 : 7
Articles by others on arms control, nuclear freeze, security system in Africa, and United States policy of using chemical weapons against Japan in World War II, 1984-1989
Box/Folder: 6 : 1
Chemical warfare in China, 1945-1993.
Scope and Content Note
Articles, clippings, correspondence, memoranda, messages, notes, outline, program, and research report
Box/Folder: 6 : 2
"Japan's Secret Weapon," Barclay Moon Newman, 1944.
Scope and Content Note
Article
Box/Folder: 6 : 3
Kharbarovsk trial--"Materials on the Trial of Former Servicemen of the Japanese Army Charged with Manufacturing and Employing Bacteriological Weapons," 1950.
Scope and Content Note
Article
Box/Folder: 7 : 1
"Biological Warfare in China: One Family's Encounter," Archie R. Crouch, undated.
Scope and Content Note
Includes brochure and press release
Box/Folder: 7 : 2
"Voyage of the Death Ship: Manila to Japan," George Weller, 1945.
Scope and Content Note
Printed matter
Box/Folder: 7 : 3
"Japan's War from Manchuria to Hiroshima, 1931-1945: The Great Asian-Pacific Crescent of Pain," Werner Gruhl, 1999-2002.
Scope and Content Note
Includes a letter to Sheldon Harris, 2002; 1 photographic print depicting Werner Gruhl, 1999; and other articles and bibliography by Werner Gruhl relating to forced laborers and prisoners, and war crimes, 2001-2002
Box/Folder: 7 : 4
"Hirohito: Passive, Powerless, Peace-Loving Puppet or Gung-Ho Warrior-King?" by Keith Fitzgerald, 1997-2001, undated.
Scope and Content Note
Includes other articles, letter, and poems by him
Box/Folder: 8 : 1
"Why Hiroshima?" Edited draft writings by Davis and Paul L. Ashton, Gillespie, and Williard H. Waterous, 1985?
Box/Folder: 9 : 1
"Dr. Pissedoffsky: The Letters of David Crise Cleave," 1998-1999.
Scope and Content Note
Includes letters to Mr. and Mrs. Sheldon Harris and others
Box/Folder: 9 : 2
"Three Years with the Emperor," by Sigfreid A. Schreiner, undated.
Scope and Content Note
Diary
Box/Folder: 10 : 1
"Three Years with the Emperor," by Sigfreid A. Schreiner, undated.
Scope and Content Note
Diary
Box/Folder: 10 : 2
"Betrayal in High Places," by James Macay, 1996.
Scope and Content Note
Printed matter
Box/Folder: 10 : 3
"Allies in a Blind: Australia and the Netherlands East Indies in the Second World War," by Jack M. Ford, 1999
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