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  1. Commemorative ashtray used during the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg

    1. Robert L. White collection

    Souvenir ashtray printed with International Military Tribunal available during the war crimes trials held in Nuremberg, Germany, in 1945-46. After the end of the war and the defeat of Nazi Germany on May 7, 1945, Allied occupation authorities convened an International Military Tribunal to seek justice for crimes against humanity, evidenced by the Holocaust, perpetrated by Nazi Germany. The best known trial of major German officials began in October 1945, when the IMT formally indicted the Nuremberg defendants on four counts: crimes against peace, war crimes, crimes against humanity, and con...

  2. Communist female prisoner and other doctors testify at Nuremberg Trial

    (Paris 528) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, January 28, 1946. Dr. Hans Marx, defense counselor, questions Marie-Claude Vaillant Couturier. His questions are in German and answered in French. Dr. Marx asks the witness if her testimony is based on how she personally experienced things. She answers that it is based on her personal experience but has been confirmed through others. 08:02:50 Lord Justice Geoffrey Lawrence asks the defense counselors if any others wish to question the witness. LS, MS two witnesses, Dr. Jean Weith and Dr. Vic Dupont. 08:04:08 Dr. Weith enters the witness box...

  3. Communist female prisoner testifies at Nuremberg Trial

    (Paris 528) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, January 28, 1946. Continuation of Marie-Claude Vaillant Couturier's testimony. French prosecutor Dubost interrupts occasionally to ask a question. The witness talks about the wife of Georges Politzer, Hélène Solomon (wife of physician Jacques Solomon) and Danielle Casanova (surgeon), who launched a resistance movement among the women prisoners (49 of them made it back to France). One woman aged 67 had kept the rifle of her husband as a "souvenir," she died within two weeks in Auschwitz. She names and describes more women, all of whom died i...

  4. Communist female prisoner testifies at Nuremberg Trial

    (Paris 528) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, January 28, 1946. Marie-Claude Vaillant Couturier, Communist member of the French National Assembly, testifies. The witness speaks about being a prisoner of the Germans and the maltreatment of Jews in concentration camps. She describes the procedures of selection etc. at the arrival of transports in the camp. Women in good health conditions in their 20s and 30s, as well as twins, were taken aside for experiments. She says she does not know what they did with them, apart from taking blood and measuring them. She says that the people were ver...

  5. Concentration camp evidence presented at Nuremberg Trial

    (Paris 443) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany. LSs, RVs, prosecutor Thomas J. Dodd presents evidence on Mauthausen, Gusen, Ebensee, Buchenwald, and Auschwitz. Mentions the court screening of the film "Nazi Concentration Camps." 01:21:59 CU, Mauthausen graphic at front. Map and images. 01:23:16 Close rear view of Dodd speaking. 01:24:01 The shrunken head of a victim is presented as evidence (no CUs). 01:25:19 Dodd: "We have no idea how many died in concentration camps....Nazi conspirators were generally meticulous record keepers. But the records collected here are quite incomplete....Occ...

  6. Concentration camps in Norway; Spanish photographer imprisoned in Mauthausen testifies re. Nazi leaders who visited camp at Nuremberg Trial

    (Paris 531) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, January 29, 1946. Hans Cappenlen, Norwegian, testifying in English (a court interpreter sits beside him). Cappenlen tells about concentration camps in Norway. 08:20:00 He testifies of Roma sent to Struthof concentration camp. 08:22:00 Cappenlen mentions that Gross Rosen was a "bad camp" and that the worst was the evacuation of Gross Rosen in February. French prosecutor Dubost calls this witness. Justice Lawrence asks the defense counselors if they are able to question the witness. Friedrich Bergold, defense counselor, claims he is not prepa...

  7. Confiscated art and chart discussed at Nuremberg Trial

    (Paris 453) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, December 12, 1945. Robert G. Storey tells of the vast quantities of objects of art confiscated by the Nazis. As evidence he presents 39 volumes listing the seized art. MLS, judges examining catalogs (Justice Robert Falco (France) is the only judge seen). Storey claims that if all art objects seized by the Nazi were cataloged they would fill 350 to 400 volumes. The lights are turned off in the courtroom as slides are shown (presentation not filmed). LS, Storey explaining chart on wall showing advancement from Hitler Youth to SS. CU, chart on...

  8. Courtroom interior during session at Nuremberg Trial

    (Munich 211 and 222) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, July 1946. MS, Russian, British, American, and French justices on bench. MS, stenographers and stenotypists at work. Different shots of correspondents seated in courtroom during trial. Shots of visitors seated in courtroom. MS, American and Russian prosecution staffs in court. HMS, Justices Birkett, Biddle, Parker, and Lawrence.

  9. Courtroom portrait of Hermann Göring listening on headphones created during the Trial of German Major War Criminals at Nuremberg

    1. Edward Vebell collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn521702
    • English
    • overall: Height: 14.000 inches (35.56 cm) | Width: 18.000 inches (45.72 cm) pictorial area: Height: 7.000 inches (17.78 cm) | Width: 8.250 inches (20.955 cm)

    Portrait of Field Marshall Hermann Göring (Goering) created by 24 year-old Edward Vebell, illustrator and US soldier, from the press gallery during the first months of the 1945 Trial of German Major War Criminals before the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg, Germany. Ed sat in the gallery for three days and used field glasses to capture the details of the defendant's faces. He had no water, so he had to use spit to create the halftones that add detail and nuance. Ed did 90% of his drawing in the courtroom, seeking to bring intimacy to the historical proceedings. The sketches wer...

  10. Courtroom portrait of Sidney Alderman, US prosecution team, created during the Trial of German Major War Criminals at Nuremberg

    1. Edward Vebell collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn521703
    • English
    • overall: Height: 18.000 inches (45.72 cm) | Width: 18.000 inches (45.72 cm) pictorial area: Height: 11.250 inches (28.575 cm) | Width: 9.625 inches (24.448 cm)

    Ink drawing of Sidney Alderman, US prosecutor, created by 24 year-old Edward Vebell, illustrator and US soldier, from the press gallery during the first months of the 1945 Trial of German Major War Criminals before the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg, Germany. Ed sat in the gallery for three days and used field glasses to capture the details of the defendant's faces. He had no water, so he had to use spit to create the halftones that add detail and nuance. Ed did 90% of his drawing in the courtroom, seeking to bring intimacy to the historical proceedings. The sketches were publ...

  11. Courtroom portraits of Rudolph Hess and Wilhelm Keitel created during the Trial of German Major War Criminals at Nuremberg

    1. Edward Vebell collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn521704
    • English
    • overall: Height: 18.000 inches (45.72 cm) | Width: 14.000 inches (35.56 cm) pictorial area: Height: 11.375 inches (28.893 cm) | Width: 8.250 inches (20.955 cm)

    Portrait studies of Rudolph Hess and Wilhelm Keitel, German defendants, created by 24 year-old Edward Vebell, illustrator and US soldier, from the press gallery during the first months of the 1945 Trial of German Major War Criminals before the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg, Germany. Ed sat in the gallery for three days and used field glasses to capture the details of the defendant's faces. He had no water, so he had to use spit to create the halftones that add detail and nuance. Ed did 90% of his drawing in the courtroom, seeking to bring intimacy to the historical proceeding...

  12. Courtroom sketch of 2 German Admirals created during the Trial of German Major War Criminals at Nuremberg

    1. Edward Vebell collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn521698
    • English
    • overall: Height: 14.500 inches (36.83 cm) | Width: 16.250 inches (41.275 cm) pictorial area: Height: 7.000 inches (17.78 cm) | Width: 9.500 inches (24.13 cm)

    Drawing of German Admirals Dönitz and Raeder conversing created by 24 year-old Edward Vebell, illustrator and US soldier, from the press gallery during the first months of the 1945 Trial of German Major War Criminals before the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg, Germany. Ed sat in the gallery for three days and used field glasses to capture the details of the defendant's faces. He had no water, so he had to use spit to create the halftones that add detail and nuance. Ed did 90% of his drawing in the courtroom, seeking to bring intimacy to the historical proceedings. The sketches ...

  13. Criminels de guerre

    • War criminals
    • CdG

    The fonds War criminals (Criminels de guerre) is divided into different subfonds. These are: - German Civil Administration (Administration civile allemande) - Commissions - Court for war crimes (Cour des crimes de guerre) - Deportation of Jews (Déportation des juifs) - Various - Extraditions - Trial of war criminals (Jugement des criminels de guerre) - German court (Justice allemande) - Offensive «von Rundstedt» - National Office for Research of War Crimes (Office national pour la Recherche des crimes de guerre) - German police (Police allemande) - trial (Procès) - Military war court (Tribu...

  14. David C. Porter papers

    1. David C. Porter collection

    The David C. Porter papers include military records, photographs, news clippings, and speech notes documenting Porter's experiences as a member of the United States Army during World War II and as a guard at the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg from 1945-1946. The papers also include a 1946 photograph book, Nurnberg, which includes signatures of tribunal defendants, prosecution and defense staff, translators, press corps (including Betsy and Walter Cronkite), and the guard staff.

  15. Day 1 International Military Tribunal, Nuremberg (Set A)

    1. Archives of the Nuremberg International Military Tribunal

    Day 1 - Tuesday, November 20, 1945 - Lord Justice Lawrence opens the session. Sidney Alderman (US) reads the indictment. Pierre Mounier (FR) and Charles Gerthoffer (FR) continue reading the indictment. Capt. V. V. Kuchin (USSR) continues reading the indictment. The British delegation reads the appendices.

  16. Day 1 International Military Tribunal, Nuremberg (Set B)

    1. Sound recordings of the Trial of the Major War Criminals Before the International Military Tribunal (Set B)

    Day 1 - Tuesday, November 20, 1945 - Lord Justice Lawrence opens the session. Sidney Alderman (US) reads the indictment. Pierre Mounier (FR) and Charles Gerthoffer (FR) continue reading the indictment. Capt. V. V. Kuchin (USSR) continues reading the indictment. The British delegation reads the appendices.

  17. Day 10 International Military Tribunal, Nuremberg (Set A)

    1. Archives of the Nuremberg International Military Tribunal

    Day 10 - Saturday, December 1, 1945 - Tribunal decides that Rudolf Hess is competent enough to stand trial. Prosecution continues to question. Cross-examination of witness Lahousen by German defense.

  18. Day 10 International Military Tribunal, Nuremberg (Set B)

    1. Sound recordings of the Trial of the Major War Criminals Before the International Military Tribunal (Set B)

    Day 10 - Saturday, December 1, 1945 - Tribunal decides that Rudolf Hess is competent enough to stand trial. Prosecution continues to question

  19. Day 100 International Military Tribunal, Nuremberg (Set A)

    1. Archives of the Nuremberg International Military Tribunal

    Day 100 - Friday, April 5, 1946. Keitel continues his testimony. Defense for SS and SA, Russian prosecutor, and Keitel.