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SC 215978-S

1945-1946

British judicial representatives go into a legal huddle on the third day of the war crimes trials, Nuernberg, Germany. Justice [Sir Norman] Birkett, alternate judge, stoops over to listen to Lord Justice [Sir Geoffrey] Lawrence, presiding judge from Great Britain. On the left, tuned in to the translations, are [Col.] A.F. Volchoff, alternate judge and Maj. Gen. I.T. Nikitchenko, Judge, both from [Soviet] Russia. Extreme right, [former] attorney general Francis Biddle, Judge from the United States, studies his notes. 11/25/45

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News service caption on reverse of photograph reads: SC 215978-S / British judicial representatives go into a legal huddle on the third day of the war crimes trials, Nuernberg, Germany. Justice [Sir Norman] Birkett, alternate judge, stoops over to listen to Lord Justice [Sir Geoffrey] Lawrence, presiding judge from Great Britain. On the left, tuned in to the translations, are [Col.] A.F. Volchoff, alternate judge and Maj. Gen. I.T. Nikitchenko, Judge, both from [Soviet] Russia. Extreme right, [former] attorney general Francis Biddle, Judge from the United States, studies his notes. 11/25/45

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