Nazi Crimes and the Nuremberg Trial

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Refugees flee home during the Second World War, 1942. Photo by Max Alpert. TASS

A child at the site of a burned native village, Smolensk region, September 1941. Photo by Mark Redkin.TASS

Mourning the dead

Prisoners of a concentration camp. From the Auschwitz series

Pupils of the orphanage, former juvenile prisoners of Auschwitz. Masha Shchvartsman - 4th from the left in the 2nd row from the bottom (with flowers)

Children at the school library defeated by the Germans in Yasnaya Polyana

The family of the train engine depot Zhlobin N. Schwartz, released from the concentration camp

The bodies of tortured children in the Auschwitz death camp (Auschwitz)

Corpses of prisoners exhumed from a mass grave at Majdanek

The civilians at the crematorium ovens look at the remains of those tortured to death at Majdanek

Soviet and Polish soldiers looking at the remains of Majdanek prisoners burnt in the crematorium ovens

Piles of bones at Majdanek prepared for being made into fertilizers

Piles of bones at Majdanek prepared for being made into fertilizers

Participating in a memorial ceremony commemorating victims of the German invaders

Participating in a memorial ceremony commemorating victims of the German invaders

Participating in a memorial ceremony commemorating victims of the German invaders

Participating in a memorial ceremony commemorating victims of the German invaders

Overhead photo of the Lublin courtroom during the criminal proceedings against war atrocities in the Nazi concentration camp of Majdanek

Overhead photo of the Lublin courtroom during the criminal proceedings against war atrocities in the Nazi concentration camp of Majdanek

Overhead photo of the Lublin courtroom during the criminal proceedings against war atrocities in the Nazi concentration camp of Majdanek

Wreaths are laid at the site of a mass grave in the Majdanek concentration camp

In a rural school. 1943

The remains of a woman and a baby killed at Majdanek

Laying wreaths on the bodies of those tortured to death at Majdanek

The excavated truck chassis used to form pyres on which the bodies of the victims of the Majdanek were burned

Foreign journalists in the Majdanek concentration camp

A group of Majdanek war prisoners

Cameraman Roman L. Karmen filming the Majdanek war prisoners

View of the crematorium ovens used to exterminate Majdanek prisoners

View of Majdanek prisoners’ barracks

Cartoonist Boris E. Efimov and writer Vasily S. Grossman in the Majdanek concentration camp liberated by Soviet troops

Belongings of Majdanek prisoners

The remains of those tortured to death by the Nazis at Majdanek

Soviet and Polish soldiers looking at the remains of Majdanek prisoners burnt in the crematorium ovens

Red Cross representatives at the crematorium ovens looking at the remains of those tortured to death at Majdanek

A group of captured German soldiers taken around the Majdanek death camp

Road and fenced perimeter in the Majdanek

Corpses of prisoners exhumed from a mass grave at Majdanek

Smoldering ruins

Piles of bones at Majdanek prepared for being made into fertilizers

Nuremberg trials

Human bones and ashes found at Majdanek

Последняя трибуна Геринга

Nuremberg trials

The Polish-Soviet Extraordinary Commission for Investigating the Crimes Committed by the Germans in the Majdanek Extermination Camp looking at belongings taken away from Majdanek prisoners

Prisoners’ corpses at Majdanek

Офицер СС А. Тернес на допросе в концлагере Майданек

The ovens in the crematorium at Majdanek

Children place wreaths at the site of the graves of the Majdanek victims

Human remains of the Majdanek prisoners shot in the Krembecki Woods

A. Witos, Chairman of the Polish-Soviet Extraordinary Commission for Investigating the Crimes Committed by the Germans in the Majdanek Extermination Camp, D. I. Kudryavtsev, Vice-Chairman of the Commission, and Professor V. I. Prozorovsky at the crematorium ovens.

Overhead photo of the Lublin courtroom during the criminal proceedings against war atrocities in the Nazi concentration camp of Majdanek

The last Majdanek prisoners short dead before the arrival of Soviet troops

Participating in a memorial ceremony commemorating victims of the German invaders. Wreaths are laid at the site of a mass grave in the Majdanek concentration camp

Wreaths are laid at the site of a mass grave in the Majdanek concentration camp

Children of war

Defenders of the accused: Kommodov, Kaznacheev, Basov at session of the trial of German war criminals in Kharkov

The Secretary of the Tribunal Captain of Justice Kandybin is reading the indictment at the session of the trial of German war criminals in Kharkov

Writer A. Tolstoy at the session of the trial of German war criminals in Kharkov

Writer L. Leonov at one of the sessions of the trial of German war criminals in Kharkov

Writers K. Simonov and I. Ehrenburg at one of the sessions of the trial of German war criminals in Kharkov

The interrogation of the defendant G. Reclama at a session of the trial of German war criminals in Kharkov

The interrogation of the defendant R. Langfeld at a session of the trial of German war criminals in Kharkov

The interrogation of the defendant Lieutenant G. Ritz at a session of the trial of German war criminals in Kharkov

Defendants (right to left): Captain V. Langfeld, Senior Corporal R. Retslav, Gestapo driver M. Bulanov, Lieutenant G. Ritz at a session of the trial of German war criminals in Kharkov

General view of the courtroom of the Kharkov trial of German war criminals

Corpses of civilians shot by the German occupiers in the area of the Danzig shipyard

Corpses of Danzig residents shot by the German occupiers on the eve of their retreat

A pile of shoes of the exterminated prisoners of the Stutthof concentration camp

View of the furnaces where prisoners of the Stutthof concentration camp were burned

Containers with poisonous gas intended for suffocation of Stutthof concentration camp prisoners

View of the Stutthof concentration camp

Entrance to the "Russian camp #344" in Lamsdorf

Corpses of civilians executed in the forest near the Treblinka concentration camp

"Alley of death" in the Treblinka concentration camp, where prisoners were being executed

View of the part of territory of the Treblinka concentration camp

View of the part of territory of the Treblinka concentration camp

View of the barracks in the Auschwitz-Berkenau concentration camp

Entrance to the Auschwitz-Berkenau concentration camp

Gates in the Auschwitz-Berkenau concentration camp

Seven thousand kilograms of women's hair from 140 thousand women killed in the Auschwitz-Berkenau concentration camp prepared for shipment to Germany

Female prisoners of the Auschwitz-Berkenau concentration camp, liberated by Soviet troops

Soviet soldiers talk to liberated prisoners in the Auschwitz-Berkenau concentration camp

Part of the clothing of people who were tormented in the Auschwitz-Berkenau concentration camp

Corpses of people exterminated in the Auschwitz-Berkenau concentration camp

Corpses of people exterminated in the Auschwitz-Berkenau concentration camp

Lithuanian police officer is escorting a column of Jewish women

Return of Soviet citizens from captivity and return of hijacked livestock

A moment of the German invaders' raid on the Jews in the Warsaw ghetto

Street scene in the Jewish ghetto in Kutno

Jewish ghetto in Kutno

View of the Jewish ghetto in Kutno

Burial at the Jewish cemetery in Warsaw

Начало боевых действий фашистской Германии против СССР

Жертвы в Песчаном логу на Южной окраине города Воронеж, расстрелянные гитлеровцами в годы Великой Отечественной войны

Жители г. Воронежа ищут своих родных среди тел граждан, расстрелянных фашистами в Песчаном Логу в 1942 г. во время оккупации города

Общий вид Песчаного Лога, где расстреляны фашистами 450 челок мирных жителей города Воронежа в 1943 г.

Обвиняемые Герман Геринг и Рудольф Гесс (слева направо) на скамье подсудимых

Refugees flee home during the Second World War, 1942. Photo by Max Alpert. TASS

A child at the site of a burned native village, Smolensk region, September 1941. Photo by Mark Redkin.TASS

Mourning the dead

Prisoners of a concentration camp. From the Auschwitz series

Pupils of the orphanage, former juvenile prisoners of Auschwitz. Masha Shchvartsman - 4th from the left in the 2nd row from the bottom (with flowers)

Children at the school library defeated by the Germans in Yasnaya Polyana

The family of the train engine depot Zhlobin N. Schwartz, released from the concentration camp

The bodies of tortured children in the Auschwitz death camp (Auschwitz)

Corpses of prisoners exhumed from a mass grave at Majdanek

The civilians at the crematorium ovens look at the remains of those tortured to death at Majdanek

Soviet and Polish soldiers looking at the remains of Majdanek prisoners burnt in the crematorium ovens

Piles of bones at Majdanek prepared for being made into fertilizers

Piles of bones at Majdanek prepared for being made into fertilizers

Participating in a memorial ceremony commemorating victims of the German invaders

Participating in a memorial ceremony commemorating victims of the German invaders

Participating in a memorial ceremony commemorating victims of the German invaders

Participating in a memorial ceremony commemorating victims of the German invaders

Overhead photo of the Lublin courtroom during the criminal proceedings against war atrocities in the Nazi concentration camp of Majdanek

Overhead photo of the Lublin courtroom during the criminal proceedings against war atrocities in the Nazi concentration camp of Majdanek

Overhead photo of the Lublin courtroom during the criminal proceedings against war atrocities in the Nazi concentration camp of Majdanek

Wreaths are laid at the site of a mass grave in the Majdanek concentration camp

In a rural school. 1943

The remains of a woman and a baby killed at Majdanek

Laying wreaths on the bodies of those tortured to death at Majdanek

The excavated truck chassis used to form pyres on which the bodies of the victims of the Majdanek were burned

Foreign journalists in the Majdanek concentration camp

A group of Majdanek war prisoners

Cameraman Roman L. Karmen filming the Majdanek war prisoners

View of the crematorium ovens used to exterminate Majdanek prisoners

View of Majdanek prisoners’ barracks

Cartoonist Boris E. Efimov and writer Vasily S. Grossman in the Majdanek concentration camp liberated by Soviet troops

Belongings of Majdanek prisoners

The remains of those tortured to death by the Nazis at Majdanek

Soviet and Polish soldiers looking at the remains of Majdanek prisoners burnt in the crematorium ovens

Red Cross representatives at the crematorium ovens looking at the remains of those tortured to death at Majdanek

A group of captured German soldiers taken around the Majdanek death camp

Road and fenced perimeter in the Majdanek

Corpses of prisoners exhumed from a mass grave at Majdanek

Smoldering ruins

Piles of bones at Majdanek prepared for being made into fertilizers

Nuremberg trials

Human bones and ashes found at Majdanek

Последняя трибуна Геринга

Nuremberg trials

The Polish-Soviet Extraordinary Commission for Investigating the Crimes Committed by the Germans in the Majdanek Extermination Camp looking at belongings taken away from Majdanek prisoners

Prisoners’ corpses at Majdanek

Офицер СС А. Тернес на допросе в концлагере Майданек

The ovens in the crematorium at Majdanek

Children place wreaths at the site of the graves of the Majdanek victims

Human remains of the Majdanek prisoners shot in the Krembecki Woods

A. Witos, Chairman of the Polish-Soviet Extraordinary Commission for Investigating the Crimes Committed by the Germans in the Majdanek Extermination Camp, D. I. Kudryavtsev, Vice-Chairman of the Commission, and Professor V. I. Prozorovsky at the crematorium ovens.

Overhead photo of the Lublin courtroom during the criminal proceedings against war atrocities in the Nazi concentration camp of Majdanek

The last Majdanek prisoners short dead before the arrival of Soviet troops

Participating in a memorial ceremony commemorating victims of the German invaders. Wreaths are laid at the site of a mass grave in the Majdanek concentration camp

Wreaths are laid at the site of a mass grave in the Majdanek concentration camp

Children of war

Defenders of the accused: Kommodov, Kaznacheev, Basov at session of the trial of German war criminals in Kharkov

The Secretary of the Tribunal Captain of Justice Kandybin is reading the indictment at the session of the trial of German war criminals in Kharkov

Writer A. Tolstoy at the session of the trial of German war criminals in Kharkov

Writer L. Leonov at one of the sessions of the trial of German war criminals in Kharkov

Writers K. Simonov and I. Ehrenburg at one of the sessions of the trial of German war criminals in Kharkov

The interrogation of the defendant G. Reclama at a session of the trial of German war criminals in Kharkov

The interrogation of the defendant R. Langfeld at a session of the trial of German war criminals in Kharkov

The interrogation of the defendant Lieutenant G. Ritz at a session of the trial of German war criminals in Kharkov

Defendants (right to left): Captain V. Langfeld, Senior Corporal R. Retslav, Gestapo driver M. Bulanov, Lieutenant G. Ritz at a session of the trial of German war criminals in Kharkov

General view of the courtroom of the Kharkov trial of German war criminals

Corpses of civilians shot by the German occupiers in the area of the Danzig shipyard

Corpses of Danzig residents shot by the German occupiers on the eve of their retreat

A pile of shoes of the exterminated prisoners of the Stutthof concentration camp

View of the furnaces where prisoners of the Stutthof concentration camp were burned

Containers with poisonous gas intended for suffocation of Stutthof concentration camp prisoners

View of the Stutthof concentration camp

Entrance to the "Russian camp #344" in Lamsdorf

Corpses of civilians executed in the forest near the Treblinka concentration camp

"Alley of death" in the Treblinka concentration camp, where prisoners were being executed

View of the part of territory of the Treblinka concentration camp

View of the part of territory of the Treblinka concentration camp

View of the barracks in the Auschwitz-Berkenau concentration camp

Entrance to the Auschwitz-Berkenau concentration camp

Gates in the Auschwitz-Berkenau concentration camp

Seven thousand kilograms of women's hair from 140 thousand women killed in the Auschwitz-Berkenau concentration camp prepared for shipment to Germany

Female prisoners of the Auschwitz-Berkenau concentration camp, liberated by Soviet troops

Soviet soldiers talk to liberated prisoners in the Auschwitz-Berkenau concentration camp

Part of the clothing of people who were tormented in the Auschwitz-Berkenau concentration camp

Corpses of people exterminated in the Auschwitz-Berkenau concentration camp

Corpses of people exterminated in the Auschwitz-Berkenau concentration camp

Lithuanian police officer is escorting a column of Jewish women

Return of Soviet citizens from captivity and return of hijacked livestock

A moment of the German invaders' raid on the Jews in the Warsaw ghetto

Street scene in the Jewish ghetto in Kutno

Jewish ghetto in Kutno

View of the Jewish ghetto in Kutno

Burial at the Jewish cemetery in Warsaw

Начало боевых действий фашистской Германии против СССР

Жертвы в Песчаном логу на Южной окраине города Воронеж, расстрелянные гитлеровцами в годы Великой Отечественной войны

Жители г. Воронежа ищут своих родных среди тел граждан, расстрелянных фашистами в Песчаном Логу в 1942 г. во время оккупации города

Общий вид Песчаного Лога, где расстреляны фашистами 450 челок мирных жителей города Воронежа в 1943 г.

Обвиняемые Герман Геринг и Рудольф Гесс (слева направо) на скамье подсудимых

Refugees flee home during the Second World War, 1942. Photo by Max Alpert. TASS

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