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

Defendants at the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials. Donor: Robert Jackson.

The interpreters at the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials. Donor: Robert Jackson

Justice Robert Jackson addressing the Tribunal at the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials. Donor: Robert Jackson.

The United States judges at the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials. From left to right: former Attorney General Francis Biddle, Judge John J. Parker. Donor: Robert Jackson.

This is a photograph of a political cartoon by Jim Berryman for the Washington Evening Star. The cartoon depicts President Harry S. Truman with a handkerchief and holding a newspaper with the headline, "[Thomas] Dewey and [Robert] Taft Feud Over Results of War Crimes Trials." Truman is depicted as saying, "Whew! At last somebody is mad at somebody besides me!"

A German photograph of evacuation of Jews, used as an exhibit in the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials. Donor: Robert Jackson.

A German photograph of Jewish people about to be executed that was used as an exhibit at the Nuremberg War Crimes Trial.

From left to right, Hermann Goering, Admiral Karl Doenitz, Admiral Erick Raeder, Rudolf Hess, Baldur von Schirach, and Joachim von Ribbentrop at the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials. Donor: Robert Jackson

Top Nazi leaders, on trial before an International Military Tribunal in the Palace of Justice, Nuremberg, Germany, showed intense interest as prosecutors began introducing documents on the third day of the trials. Hermann Goering (front row left in the box) takes notes, and Rudolph Hess (second from left) watches the proceedings intently. Next to Hess is former foreign minister Joachim von Ribbentrop. Left to right in the back row are Admirals Karl Donitz and Erich Raeder.

Justice Robert Jackson making an argument for the United States at the Nuremberg War Crime Trials. Donor: Robert Jackson.