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Major Frank B. Wallis presents Nazi "Chain of Command" highlights at the War Crimes Trials in Nuremberg, Germany

2004-445
Accession Number
2004-445
3.5x4.5 inches
Black & White
Printer-Friendly Version
NAID 350375656
Related Collection
Lincoln, Katherine Fite Papers
Keywords
Nuremberg Trial of Major German War Criminals, Nuremberg, Germany, 1945-1946
HST Keywords
Nurnberg Trials - Germany; Germany - Nurnberg
People Pictured
Goring, Hermann, 1893-1946
Hess, Rudolf, 1894-1987
Von Ribbentrop, Joachim, 1893-1946
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U.S. Army Signal Corps

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Description
A large chart showing Nazi "Chain of Command" (in the background at left) was displayed during the afternoon of the third day of the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials in Germany. At the same session, Major Frank B. Wallis (standing at desk near center), a member of trial counsel and trial preparation legal staff, presents further items of the prosecution's case. Defendants Hermann Goering (first in box at left), Rudolph Hess, and Joachim von Ribbentrop are visible in the defendants' box.
Date(s)
November 22, 1945

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