Photo of one of the court sessions at the Nuremberg trials in 1945, photograph by E. Khaldei

A beautiful panoramic picture taken by the hand of the most famous Soviet photographer, the author of the famous picture "The Banner of Victory over By the Reichstag" by Evgeny Khaldei (1916-1997). The photo was taken during Chaldea's participation in the Nuremberg trials as a photojournalist, where his photographs were one of the physical evidence. Photographs by Evgeny Ananyevich are extremely rare, authentic prints are always highly sought-after lots at any auction, and personal items sell for tens of thousands of dollars (for example, in 2014, his Watering Can was sold at a Bonhams auction for 200 thousand dollars). Size 250* 193 mm. The reverse side is clean. Guarantee of authenticity.

The Nuremberg trial (eng. Nuremberg trial, German. Nuremberg Prozess (French: Procès de Nuremberg) was the first and key of a series of trials of a number of war criminals of Nazi Germany, which took place in the Nuremberg Palace of Justice after the end of World War II, in 1945-1949. During the trial, which opened on November 20, 1945, before an unprecedented judicial body — the International Military Tribunal (IMT) of eight judges representing four countries of the anti-Hitler coalition, a group of former leaders of Nazi Germany were charged with crimes. The indictment, prepared by teams of prosecutors from the United States, Great Britain, the USSR and France, contained four counts: crimes against peace, crimes against humanity, violation of the laws of war (a war crime) and conspiracy to commit these criminal acts.

Having overcome many disagreements, by October 1, 1946, the judges of the Ministry of Internal Affairs were able to form a common position on the basic legal principles of the process and specific sentences for individuals. The case against two of the accused was dismissed, three were acquitted, four were sentenced to 10 to 20 years in prison, three received life sentences, and 12 defendants were sentenced to death by hanging. Ten of them were hanged on October 16: Martin Bormann was tried in absentia, and Goering committed suicide after sentencing. The leadership of the NSDAP, SS, SD, and Gestapo were recognized as criminal organizations, but their members were only subject to individual criminal prosecution for specific acts; the Cabinet of Ministers, the SA, and the Wehrmacht command were acquitted. The Katyn massacre, which was included in the indictment by the Soviet side at the last moment, was not mentioned in the final text of the verdict.

The trial, which took place in four languages and lasted 316 days, left behind more than forty volumes of transcripts and evidence. It received widespread and extremely contradictory coverage in historiography: if some historians and lawyers perceived it as an example of international cooperation aimed at the rule of law, others saw it only as an example of "victorious justice." The Nuremberg trials had a significant impact on the development of international criminal law and transitional justice, as well as on the activities of organizers of ethnic cleansing and State terror in the second half of the 20th century. At the same time, the allied forces of the anti-Hitler coalition were not sued or charged during the trial for war crimes committed by them during the conflict, because they were the victorious powers that then held the whole of Europe under their military occupation, which overshadowed the historical authority of the tribunal's activities in terms of justice. which was carried out only by the victor over the defeated opponent.