![A tank guards the entrance to the Palace of Justice in Nuremberg. [LCID: 56292]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/db0b0d79-9d92-4eae-b035-0c5461aa573f.jpg)
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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