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OMGUS MILITARY TRIBUNAL - CASE THREE, NURNBERG, GERMANY OMT-III-GV-12

1946-1948

Pictured is the main courtroom of the Palace of Justice, Nurnberg on December 3, 1947, when Tribunal III pronounced sentence against fifteen former Nazi Justice officials and public prosecutors, who "changed the German law in a manner to suit the aims of the Nazi party". At the left in the defendants' dock, where the twenty-one defendants of the International Military Tribunal sat, is the defendant WILHELM VON AMMON flanked by two U.S. Army guards, [sic.] The defendants, after having sat in a body and having heard the verdict, are brought in singly to be sentenced. Seated below the Tribunal are secretaries to the court and member of the Staff of the Secretary General. The defense counsel is seated in front of the defendants dock, while the U.S. prosecution sits at the tables in the foreground.

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OMGUS MILITARY TRIBUNAL - CASE THREE, NURNBERG, GERMANY OMT-III-GV-12 / Pictured is the main courtroom of the Palace of Justice, Nurnberg on December 3, 1947, when Tribunal III pronounced sentence against fifteen former Nazi Justice officials and public prosecutors, who "changed the German law in a manner to suit the aims of the Nazi party". At the left in the defendants' dock, where the twenty-one defendants of the International Military Tribunal sat, is the defendant WILHELM VON AMMON flanked by two U.S. Army guards, [sic.] The defendants, after having sat in a body and having heard the verdict, are brought in singly to be sentenced. Seated below the Tribunal are secretaries to the court and member of the Staff of the Secretary General. The defense counsel is seated in front of the defendants dock, while the U.S. prosecution sits at the tables in the foreground.

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