Nuremberg Trial and Crime - A rare photo album from the Nuremberg Trials - Photographic documentation from the ...

Nuremberg Trial and Crime - A rare photo album from the Nuremberg Trials - Photographic documentation from the courtroom, 1946.

Norimberk Zlocin a Soud 1946 - The Nuremberg Trial and Crime - A rare photo album from the courtroom at the Nuremberg Trials - Nazi war criminals before their verdict, and photographic documentation of the crimes they committed. Introduction by Dr. B. Ecer on the historic moment when justice was served to the greatest criminals in human history - First edition. Czech.

The album contains some of the first photos that exposed the Nazi atrocities and which served as evidence against the war criminals in the trial itself. These photos were taken by Czech photographer K. Hajek. It also contains many rare photos of the Nazi war criminals in the courtroom alongside photos of the crimes for which each one was responsible, photos from the courtroom during the proceedings, details of the crimes each of the accused was charged with alongside their photos during the trial.

The historical importance of the album before us for generations to come is described by its photographer and producer K. Hajek. On the concluding page he writes: "The collection of photographs from the Nuremberg trials and the documents summarized in this book will undoubtedly be a picture of the political, cultural and moral abyss into which Hitler's Germany had fallen, and many of these photos will probably appear decades later", Hajek adds that in his work as a photographer in the courtroom he noticed that the defendants showed no remorse at all, and if there was anything resembling remorse it was over the mistakes they had made that led to their capture. "They seemed convinced they were being wronged", he writes. The fascinating photos of the Nazi war criminals force the viewer to wonder again and again what was going through their minds at that moment when their heinous crimes were presented before their eyes. He further notes that when the trial began, only Russian, American, English and French photographers were allowed to photograph. And he, as a Czech photographer, had to request special permission arguing that it was inconceivable that Czechoslovakia, so central to the trial, would not have its own photographer, and indeed his claim was accepted and he was allowed to photograph as part of the Russian team. He also recounts that no flash photography was allowed in the courtroom, which challenged all the photographers, as the courtroom lights were blinding, forcing them to use two different cameras. He also explains the great importance of the work of all the press photographers during the war, as photos they provided to the court served directly to convict the defendants. And as for the German people, whether at that time they had begun to change their Nazi worldview, he recounts: "When we drove through Nuremberg on a tour bus, we heard the tour guide quietly telling the driver to go to Hitlerplatz, even though that square has long been called something else. We feel that their spirit has not changed at all. Therefore we are satisfied that Nuremberg, Germany's symbol, and the city of the party, is the seat of the court that will ultimately decide the fate of those who subjected the world to five years of unspeakable suffering".

[64] p. 23 cm. Very good condition.