Courtroom drawing created by Stefan Horn during the Nuremberg trials
Extent and Medium
overall: Height: 8.250 inches (20.955 cm) | Width: 11.000 inches (27.94 cm)
Creator(s)
- Stefan Horn (Subject)
- Stefan Horn (Artist)
Biographical History
Dr. Stefan Horn graduated from the School for Interpreters in Geneva, Switzerland, and held a Doctorate in rerum politicarum from the University of Vienna, in Austria. He was trained in Geneva as a consecutive interpreter. Dr. Horn applied to Nuremberg for a position as an interpreter and was approved via testing conducted by the United States Army. He worked in Nuremberg, Germany, as a court interpreter, translating English into German, during part of the first War Crimes trial and during the Justice Case. He eventually became Chief Interpreter. After the trials closed in 1949, Dr. Horn joined Léon Dostert at Georgetown University, Washington, DC. Dr. Horn became head of the Division of Interpretation and Translation of the Institute of Languages and Linguistics that Dostert had founded. He later became an American citizen.
Archival History
The drawing was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2001 by Lise Horn McCartney, the daughter of Stefan Horn.
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Lise Horn McCartney
Scope and Content
Charcoal courtroom sketch created by Stefan Horn, an interpreter, in February 1948, during Trial 11, the Ministries Case, of the Nuremberg trials held in Germany. Twenty-one Nazi Party members, including three Reich Ministers and several state secretaries, were indicted on eight counts in December 1947. The trial ran from January 6 through November 18, 1948, and the tribunal returned judgement on six of the eight counts in April 1949, finding all but two defendants guilty of at least one charge.
Conditions Governing Access
No restrictions on access
Conditions Governing Reproduction
No restrictions on use
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Black, charcoal, courtroom sketch on tan paper depicting three men in slight right profile seated behind a table, possibly a judges’ bench. All three are wearing wired headphones and dark robes over their collared shirts and neckties. Two of the men, at center and on the right, wear wire-rimmed glasses. Handwritten text across the top and bottom of the page identify the legal case, date, and the three men, all judges. The bottom edge of the paper is perforated.
Subjects
- Translators--Germany--Nuremberg--Biography.
- Nuremberg War Crime Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, 1946-1949--Personal narratives.
Genre
- Courtroom sketches.
- Art
- Object