A tank guards the entrance to the Palace of Justice in Nuremberg. [LCID: 56292]
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Tank guarding the entrance to the Palace of Justice in Nuremberg

A tank guards the entrance to the Palace of Justice in Nuremberg, Germany, site of the International Military Tribunal. The trial formally opened in on November 20, 1945, just six and a half months after Germany surrendered.

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war crimes trials
  • US Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Robert Kempner

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