Press photo of the American soldiers standing next to the Judges’ Chamber at the Nuremberg trials while writing the verdict for the Nazi war criminals [Nuremberg 1946] – Photo signed by the American Jewish jurist, the chief prosecutor at the Nuremberg trials Benjamin Ferencz. Described on the back in print by the photo agency that photographed him.
In the verdict written on October 1, 1946 by judges representing the four powers: United States, Britain, France and the Soviet Union – twelve of the accused Nazi war criminals were sentenced to death. Of them, Martin Bormann, who was not then in the hands of the Allies, was sentenced in absentia, and his sentence was never carried out. Hermann Göring committed suicide in his cell by swallowing a cyanide capsule hours before the sentence was to be carried out.
Benjamin Berell Ferencz (1920-2023) an American Jewish lawyer. He served as the chief prosecutor in the Einsatzgruppen trial, which was one of the 12 military trials conducted as part of the Nuremberg trials. After gathering countless materials and evidence, and even visiting the first concentration camp liberated by the Americans in early April 1945, the Ohrdruf concentration camp, and later the nearby Buchenwald camp and other camps, he stood before the greatest war criminals in history to prosecute them. All 24 defendants were convicted; 14 received the death penalty, of which four were executed. Later, Ferencz became one of the most enthusiastic and loud supporters of implementing the rule of law around the world and establishing the International Criminal Court. Between 1985-1996 he served as Visiting Professor of International Law at Pace University in New York.
Size: 17×13 cm. Very good condition.
