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Courtroom drawing created by Stefan Horn during the Nuremberg trials

Object | Accession Number: 2001.58.118

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)
Language
English
Classification
Art
Category
Drawings
Object Type
Courtroom art (lcsh)
Genre/Form
Courtroom sketches.
Credit Line
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Lise Horn McCartney
 
Record last modified: 2023-09-29 13:48:16
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