Photos: The Nuremberg Trials

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The Nuremberg War Crimes Trials brought 22 Nazi officials to court in 1945-46. The defendants are seen on the right side of the photo.
Justice Robert Jackson, Chief Prosecutor for the United States at the Nuremberg Trials, presents an argument to the International Military Tribunal in the courtroom in Nuremberg, Germany.
The defendants at Nuremberg. Front row, from left to right: Hermann Göring, Rudolf Hess, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Wilhelm Keitel, Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Alfred Rosenberg, Hans Frank, Wilhelm Frick, Julius Streicher, Walther Funk, Hjalmar Schacht. Back row from left to right: Karl Dönitz, Erich Raeder, Baldur von Schirach, Fritz Sauckel, Alfred Jodl, Franz von Papen, Arthur Seyss-Inquart, Albert Speer, Konstantin van Neurath, Hans Fritzsche.
The defendants at Nuremberg. Detail of above photo showing defendants on the left side of the photograph.
The defendants at Nuremberg. Another detail showing the defendants on the right side of the photograph.
Defendant Julius Streicher, Editor-in-Chief of the venomous antisemitic paper, Der Stürmer, on the stand during the Nuremberg Trials. Streicher was sentenced to death by hanging.
Gerd von Rundstedt, (1875-1953). Generalfeldmarschall (General Field Marshall) and Commander-in-Chief of the Western Theater (1942-1945).
British Judge Lawrence and American Justice Francis Biddle confer at the opening of the War Crimes Trial in Nuremberg, Germany on November 20, 1945. Four Allied nations--the United States, Great Britain, France and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics--worked together to bring officials of the Third Reich to trial in an international courtroom.
Defendants Rudolf Hess (first row, left), Joachim von Ribbentrop (first row, right), Karl Doentiz (second row, left), Erich Raeder (second row, middle), and Baldur von Schirach (second row, right) sit in the dock during the Nuremberg Trials, 1945-46.
Some of the accused in the dock under heavy guard during the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials, 1945-46.
Ernst Kaltenbrummer pleading "not guilty" to the charges against him during the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials, 1945-46.
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