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Caption pasted to photograph reads: OMGUS MILITARY TRIBUNAL - Case 3, Nurnberg, Ger. OMT-III-D-49 / In the third case of alleged war criminals to be brought to court in Nurnberg's palace of Justice following the conclusion of the International Military Tribunal, 15 Nazi judges, public prosecutors, and members of the Reich Ministry of Justice are accused with corrupting the German judicial system to meet the Nazi program for the elimination of all political opponents and the enforcement of criminal decrees and laws. The nine defendants in the dock are: (front row) Franz Schlegelberger - State Secretary and Acting Reich Minister of Justice; Herbert Klemm - Director of the Legal Education and Training Division of the Ministry of Justice; Curt Rothenberger - State Secretary of the Reich Ministry of Justice; Ernst Lautz - Chief Public Prosecutor of the People's Court; Wolfgang Mettgenberg - Representative of the Criminal Legislation of the Reich Ministry of Justice concerned with investigating criminal offenses conducted against German occupation trooops; Wilhelmn von Ammon - Ministerial Counsellor of the Criminal Legislation of the Ministry of Justice; (back row) Hermann Cuhorst - Chief Justice of the Special Court in Stuttgart; Rudolf Oeschey - Judge of the Special Court in Nurnberg; and Jospeh Altstoetter - Chief of the Civil Law of the Ministry of Justice.

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