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This poster was designed to inform American GIs about the indictment of the alleged Nazi war criminals. The German leaders were accused of any combination of three crimes: crimes against humanity, planning aggressive war, and war crimes. Since the Nuremberg Trials were without precedent, the Allies believed that it was very important to explain their purpose to their own citizens and soldiers, and also to the people of Germany.
Photo: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Photo Archive
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The defendants, sitting in the dock at Nuremberg, hear the reading of the indictment against them. High-ranking Nazis include (beginning in the front row, far left) Hermann Göring, Rudolf Hess, Joachim von Ribbentrop, and Wilhelm Keitel. This monumental war-crimes tribunal is quite likely "the trial of the century."
Photo: National Archives/United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Photo Archive
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Julius Streicher is questioned during his trial at Nuremberg. An infamous antisemite, Streicher published the pornographic rag Der Stürmer. His personality was so repulsive that no one inside the Nazi movement took him seriously, and he had little influence over the course of events during the Nazi years. Nonetheless, the Allies held him responsible for fomenting the hatred of Jews that made the Holocaust possible, and he was convicted of crimes against humanity. Streicher was hanged in Nuremberg on October 16, 1946. His last words were "Heil Hitler!"
Photo: National Archives/United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Photo Archive
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The Holocaust Chronicle
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