Caption

Nuremberg Trials, main war criminals, unusual perspective, only existing photograph taken in the courtroom, Nuremberg 1946 J. Chaldej: I wanted to photograph Göring in the courtroom from an unusual perspective. That was forbidden. I got in touch with the secretary of the Soviet judge Nikitenko. I swapped places with him for a few hours in exchange for a bottle of gin and was able to take this photo

Date

Jan 14, 1946

Credit line

Photo12/imageBROKER/Jewgeni Chaldej / Sammlung E.Volland & H.Krimmer

Reference

BRK25M10_310

Model release

No

Property release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

50,8Mb (1,8Mb) / 16,7in x 11,8in / 5009 x 3543 (300dpi)

Keywords

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