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Photographs from the courtroom in Nuremberg - the “Doctors’ Trial, ” and more. Nuremberg - 1945–1947 - Eight photographs from the courtroom at the Nuremberg Trials, some documenting the “Doctors’ Trial” against Nazi war criminals who carried out horrific experiments on the bodies of prisoners, as well as a photograph of Joachim Ribbentrop (one of the leaders of the Nazi regime) after his execution, and more. Various publishers - the U.S. Army Signal Corps and different photographic agencies. Most of the photographs are described on their reverse by the agencies that produced them. Photographs: Judges of the American tribunal in the “Doctors’ Trial” - in the photograph appear Judges Harold L. Sebring, Walter Beals, Johnson T. Crawford, and Victor C. Swearingen (large photograph: 25x21 cm); the defendant Fritz Fischer (1912–2003) in the “Doctors’ Trial” - Fischer was a German physician who was tried in the Doctors’ Trial in Germany for conducting medical experiments on human beings at the Ravensbrück concentration camp. He was sentenced to life imprisonment, on the witness stand on March 11, 1947 (large photograph: 25x21 cm); a photograph from the “Milch Trial” while he was giving his testimony in court - the second of the subsequent Nuremberg Trials. In the Milch Trial, former Luftwaffe Field Marshal Erhard Milch, the man under Göring who rebuilt German aviation on the eve of the Second World War, was charged with committing war crimes and crimes against humanity. He was sentenced to life imprisonment, later commuted to 15 years (large photograph: 25x21 cm); the Nazi war criminal Rudolf Hess (deputy to Adolf Hitler) holding a book between court sessions; a group photograph of Rudolf Hess, von Ribbentrop, Keitel, and Hermann Göring on the defendants’ bench in the courtroom; the body of Ribbentrop after his execution; court officials while printing materials; the Austrian general Erwin von Lahousen (1897–1955) - during his testimony in court - he was a member of the anti-Nazi resistance. He was one of the few intelligence officers who opposed Adolf Hitler and later testified against the Nazi leadership at the Nuremberg Trials, providing key evidence on war crimes and on the early fabrications used to initiate the Second World War. Three photographs measuring 25x21 cm. Four photographs of average size: 20x16 cm. Overall good condition.