Nuremberg Trial of Major German War Criminals, Nuremberg, Germany, 1945-1946

Chief Nazi war criminals, Hermann Goering, Rudolph Hess, and Joachim Von Ribbentrop, confer with a member of the defense counsel as the Russian prosecution nears the conclusion of its evidence before the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg, Germany.

Colonel Leonard Wheeler, Jr., of Cambridge, Massachusetts, speaks for the prosecution at the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials. He is in charge of religious affairs relating to the court proceedings.

Major Warren Farr, United States Army, member of the staff of the Office of the Chief Counsel at the International Military Tribunal, Nuremberg, Germany, gives evidence against the SS. This is the first time he appeared at the trial.

A large chart showing Nazi "Chain of Command" (in the background at left) was displayed during the afternoon of the third day of the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials in Germany. At the same session, Major Frank B. Wallis (standing at desk near center), a member of trial counsel and trial preparation legal staff, presents further items of the prosecution's case. Defendants Hermann Goering (first in box at left), Rudolph Hess, and Joachim von Ribbentrop are visible in the defendants' box.

The prosecution adds to the evidence on the third day of the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials in Germany. Major Frank B. Wallis, standing in the foreground, a member of the panel of trial counsel and trial preparation staff, presents further documents to be added to the already large number of documentary evidence submitted to the International Military Tribunal judging former Nazi leaders.

Ernst Kaltenbrunner (front row fifth man from the left), former deputy to Gestapo-head Himmler, is among the accused at the war crimes trials, which brings the number to 21. He was absent from the courtroom at the opening due to a cranial hemorrhage which sent him to the hospital.

Joachim von Ribbentrop (second from right in front row of prisoner's dock, facing forward) confers with his attorney during a 15-minute break in the War Crimes Trials proceedings in Nuremberg, Germany. Others, left to right (front row of dock) are: Hermann Goering, Rudolph Hess, Wilhelm Keitel, Wilhelm Frick, and Julius Streicher; and (rear row) Erich Raeder, Baldur von Schirach, Fritz Sauckel, and Alfred Rosenberg.

In the War Crimes Trials of Nazi leaders at Nuremberg, Germany, before the International Military Tribunal, the prosecution charges the defendants with conspiring to destroy the independence of other nations. Hermann Goering, seated in the extreme left of the defendants' box with his chin in his hand, listens as does Joachim von Ribbentrop, third from the left, who was active in framing Nazi pre-war policy.

A few of the defendants at the War Crimes Trials in Nuremberg, Germany, sit in a box before the International Military Tribunal where the prosecution accuses the ex-Nazi leaders of planning to overthrow other nations. In the first row, extreme left, Alfred Rosenberg listens to the prosecution intently. Other are, left to right (front row), Hans Frank, Wilhelm Frick, Julius Streicher, Walter Funk, (back row) Alfred Jodl, Franz von Papen, Artur Seyss-Inquart, Albert Speer, and Constantin von Neurath.

Defendants at the war crimes trials held before the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg, Germany, occupy two rows of the courtroom, with American military police standing behind them and their counsel occupying the box in front.