Photograph

OMGUS MILITARY TRIBUNAL - CASE III

1946-1948

OMT-III-D-41 Scar-faced Guenther Joel, testifies in his own behalf during the Nurnberg war crimes trial of former Nazi jurists in which he was defendant. During the Hitler regime, he served as Legal Adviser for criminal prosecutions to the Reich Minister of Justice, and later as chief public prosecutor of the Westphalia People's Court at Hamm. Joel was sentenced to 10 years in prison.

Inscription

Caption pasted to photograph reads: OMGUS MILITARY TRIBUNAL - CASE III / OMT-III-D-41 / Scar-faced Guenther Joel, testifies in his own behalf during the Nurnberg war crimes trial of former Nazi jurists in which he was defendant. During the Hitler regime, he served as Legal Adviser for criminal prosecutions to the Reich Minister of Justice, and later as chief public prosecutor of the Westphalia People's Court at Hamm. Joel was sentenced to 10 years in prison.

Archive ID: olvwork375706

Download Image