David H. Buffum

David Harry Buffum (September 15, 1895 – May 9, 1941) was the U.S. consul in Leipzig, Germany from 1934 to 1940. After the pogrom of November 9–11, 1938 he wrote a vivid report about the horrific violence against Jewish people and property in Leipzig. Later that year he published his report as a 16-page pamphlet titled "Anti-semitic Onslaught in Germany as Seen from Leipzig." A five-page excerpt from that publication was published in the Nuremberg Trial documents in 1946, with further excerpts from that selection quoted in numerous primary source collections on German history since 1974.