US Army staffers organizing stacks of German documents collected by war crimes investigators as evidence for the International Military Tribunal. Photograph »
Chief US Counsel Justice Robert Jackson delivers the prosecution's opening statement at the International Military Tribunal. Nuremberg, Germany, November 21, 1945. Photograph »
The accused and their defense attorneys at the International Military Tribunal courtroom. Photograph »
English, French, Russian, and German were official languages of the Nuremberg trials. Translators provided simultaneous translations of the proceedings. Here, they route translations through a switchboard to participants in the trial. Nuremberg, Germany, November 1945. Photograph »
A session of the International Military Tribunal war crimes trial of high-ranking Nazi leaders, at the Palace of Justice. Nuremberg, Germany, December 2, 1945. Photograph »
People gather in the street to read a special edition of the "Nurnberger" newspaper reporting the sentences handed down by the International Military Tribunal. October 1, 1946. Photograph »
The defendants' dock and members of the defense counsel during the Doctors' Trial. Nuremberg, Germany, December 9, 1946-August 20, 1947. Photograph »
Defendant Karl Brandt testifies during the Doctors' Trial. Nuremberg, Germany, December 9, 1946-August 20, 1947. Photograph »
Brigadier General Telford Taylor, Chief of Counsel, during the Doctors' Trial. Nuremberg, Germany, December 9, 1946-August 20, 1947. Photograph »
Fifteen-year-old Maria Dolezalova is sworn in as a prosecution witness at the RuSHA Trial. Dolezalova was among the children kidnapped by German forces after they destroyed the town of Lidice, Czechoslovakia. Nuremberg, October 30, 1947. Photograph »
The defendants in the dock during the Justice Case. Photograph »
Defendant Otto Ohlendorf testifies on his own behalf at the Einsatzgruppen Trial. October 9, 1947. Photograph »
US Brigadier General Telford Taylor, chief counsel for war crimes, opens The Ministries Trial by reading the prosecution's opening statement. He charges Hitler's ministers with "crimes against humanity." Nuremberg, Germany, January 6, 1948. Photograph »