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Courtroom drawing created by Stefan Horn during the Nuremberg trials

Object | Accession Number: 2001.58.118

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    Overview

    Brief Narrative
    Charcoal courtroom sketch created by Stefan Horn, an interpreter, in February 1948, during Trial 11, the Ministries Case, of the Nuremberg trials held in Germany. Twenty-one Nazi Party members, including three Reich Ministers and several state secretaries, were indicted on eight counts in December 1947. The trial ran from January 6 through November 18, 1948, and the tribunal returned judgement on six of the eight counts in April 1949, finding all but two defendants guilty of at least one charge.
    Date
    creation:  1948 February
    Geography
    creation: Nuremberg Trial; Nuremberg (Germany)
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Lise Horn McCartney
    Markings
    front, top, handwritten, charcoal: MILITARY TRIBUNAL IV, case 11 (Ministries) Febr. 1948, Nurnberg / The Judges: / LEON W. POWERS WILLIAM C. CHRISTIANSON ROBERT F. MAGUIRE front, bottom left, below figure, handwritten script, charcoal: Leon W. Powers
    front, bottom left, below figure, handwritten script, charcoal: William C. Christianson
    front, bottom left, below figure, handwritten script, charcoal: Robert F. Maguire
    Contributor
    Artist: Stefan Horn
    Subject: Stefan Horn
    Biography
    Dr. Stefan Horn graduated from the School for Interpreters in Geneva, Switzerland, and held a Doctorate in rerum politicarum from the University of Vienna, in Austria. He was trained in Geneva as a consecutive interpreter. Dr. Horn applied to Nuremberg for a position as an interpreter and was approved via testing conducted by the United States Army. He worked in Nuremberg, Germany, as a court interpreter, translating English into German, during part of the first War Crimes trial and during the Justice Case. He eventually became Chief Interpreter. After the trials closed in 1949, Dr. Horn joined Léon Dostert at Georgetown University, Washington, DC. Dr. Horn became head of the Division of Interpretation and Translation of the Institute of Languages and Linguistics that Dostert had founded. He later became an American citizen.

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Classification
    Art
    Category
    Drawings
    Object Type
    Courtroom art (lcsh)
    Genre/Form
    Courtroom sketches.
    Physical Description
    Black, charcoal, courtroom sketch on tan paper depicting three men in slight right profile seated behind a table, possibly a judges’ bench. All three are wearing wired headphones and dark robes over their collared shirts and neckties. Two of the men, at center and on the right, wear wire-rimmed glasses. Handwritten text across the top and bottom of the page identify the legal case, date, and the three men, all judges. The bottom edge of the paper is perforated.
    Dimensions
    overall: Height: 8.250 inches (20.955 cm) | Width: 11.000 inches (27.94 cm)
    Materials
    overall : paper, charcoal

    Rights & Restrictions

    Conditions on Access
    No restrictions on access
    Conditions on Use
    No restrictions on use

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    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The drawing was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2001 by Lise Horn McCartney, the daughter of Stefan Horn.
    Record last modified:
    2023-11-08 16:04:10
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