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Nazi flags wave above the stadium for the Nazi Party rally grounds in Nuremberg. Architects like Albert Speer constructed monumental edifices in a sterile classical form meant to convey the “enduring grandeur” of the National Socialist movement. Photograph taken in Nuremberg, Germany, between 1934 and 1936. 
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Nuremberg

In the 1920s and 1930s, the German city of Nuremberg was host to massive and lavish rallies for the Nazi Party. By the end of World War II, more than three quarters of the city lay in rubble. Nuremberg contained the only undamaged facilities—the Palace of Justice—that were extensive enough to accommodate the postwar trials of accused war criminals.

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Cover of a mimeographed program booklet distributed at the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg.
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Cover, International Military Tribunal program
Fritz Sauckel follows the proceedings of the International Military Tribunal trial of war criminals at Nuremberg.  He was found guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity and was sentenced to death. Photograph taken in Nuremberg, Germany, between November 20, 1945, and October 1, 1946. 
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Defendant Fritz Sauckel
Defendant Julius Streicher, editor of the antisemitic newspaper Der Stürmer, on the stand at the International Military Tribunal trial of major war criminals at Nuremberg. April 29, 1946.
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Defendant Julius Streicher
Defendant Julius Streicher, editor of the racist newspaper Der Stuermer. Streicher was one of the MT brought 24 leading German officials charged by the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg.
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Defendant Julius Streicher at Nuremberg
Defendant Paul Blobel at the Einsatzgruppen Trial, case #9 of the Subsequent Nuremberg Proceedings.
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Blobel on trial
Defendant Wilhelm Keitel, former Chief of the German Armed Forces, in his Nuremberg prison cell.
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Defendant Wilhelm Keitel
Birds-eye view of the fenced-in cell block where defendants in the International Military Tribunal war crimes trial were imprisoned. Nuremberg, Germany, between November 20, 1945, and October 1, 1946.
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Defendants' cell block in Nuremberg
View of the defendants in the dock at the International Military Tribunal trial of war criminals at Nuremberg. November 1945.
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Defendants in the dock
Defendants Wilhelm Keitel (left), Ernst Kaltenbrunner (middle), and Alfred Rosenberg (right), talk during a recess in the proceedings at the International Military Tribunal trial of war criminals at Nuremberg. Nuremberg, Germany, 1945–1946.
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Defendants at the Nuremberg trial of war criminals
Drexel Sprecher was educated at the University of Wisconsin, the London School of Economics, and at the Harvard School of Law before receiving a position at the US Government's Labor Board in 1938. He enlisted in the American military after the United States declared war on Germany, and was posted to London. After the war, Sprecher served as a prosecutor of Nazi war criminals at the Nuremberg trials.
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Drexel Sprecher describes reconstruction of buildings in Nuremberg
Drexel Sprecher was educated at the University of Wisconsin, the London School of Economics, and at the Harvard School of Law before receiving a position at the US Government's Labor Board in 1938. He enlisted in the American military after the United States declared war on Germany, and was posted to London. After the war, Sprecher served as a prosecutor of Nazi war criminals at the Nuremberg trials.
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Drexel Sprecher describes war-damaged Nuremberg
During the Nuremberg Trial, American guards maintain constant surveillance over the major Nazi war criminals in the prison attached to the Palace of Justice. Nuremberg, Germany, November 1945.
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US guards in front of the cells holding Nazi war criminals
The defendants rise as the judges enter the courtroom at the International Military Tribunal trial of war criminals at Nuremberg.
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Erich Raeder
Defendant Ernst Kaltenbrunner during the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg. He was Chief of the Reich Security Main Office (RSHA) and later Chief of the Security Police.
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Ernst Kaltenbrunner
The presentation of evidence about defendant Ernst Kaltenbrunner at the International Military Tribunal trial of war criminals at Nuremberg. Germany, January 2, 1946. Ernst Kaltenbrunner (1903–1946) was Chief of the Reich Security Main Office (RSHA) and later Chief of the Security Police. In this second position, Kaltenbrunner controlled the Gestapo (German Secret State Police), Criminal Police, and Security Service (SD). He was a prime figure in the “Final Solution” in the last years of the war.
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Ernst Kaltenbrunner
US Army staffers organizing stacks of German documents collected by war crimes investigators as evidence for the International Military Tribunal.
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Evidence from the Holocaust at the First Nuremberg Trial

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