Opening of War Crimes Trial

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.
Photo credit: Nancy and Michael Krzyzanowski, courtesy of USHMM Photo Archives.

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