War crime trials

Part of the "Old Wall" in Nuremberg, Germany. Photograph taken during the U.S. Reparations Mission. Edwin Pauley was the U.S. Ambassador on the Allied Reparations Committee from 1945-47 (the committee that assessed the reparations the Axis powers could afford to pay the victors).

War Crimes Trials Building in Nuremberg, Germany. Photograph taken during the U.S. Reparations Mission. Edwin Pauley was the U.S. Ambassador on the Allied Reparations Committee from 1945-47 (the committee that assessed the reparations the Axis powers could afford to pay the victors).

Edwin Pauley (right) with an MP guard in Nuremberg. Photograph taken during the U.S. Reparations Mission. Edwin Pauley was the U.S. Ambassador on the Allied Reparations Committee from 1945-47 (the committee that assessed the reparations the Axis powers could afford to pay the victors).

Joseph B. Keenan, Chief of Counsel on Major Japanese War Crimes prosecution (left), talks with Attorney General Tom Clark (right). From: Beth Gore.

Former Attorney General Francis Biddle, representing the United States on the International Military Tribunal that will try 20 former Nazi leaders at Nuremberg, Germany, works at his desk in preparation for the war crimes trial. From: Beth Gore.