Images - Denazification and War Crimes Trials under the Allies

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1.	The Population of Burgsteinfurt is Escorted to a Film about the Bergen-Belsen and Buchenwald Concentration Camps (May 30, 1945) To confront members of the seemingly unaware German population with the deeds of the Nazis, Allied occupation forces showed them documentary films made when the Allies entered the concentration camps.....
2.	The Formal Opening of the Nuremberg Trial of the Major War Criminals (November 20, 1945) At the Nuremberg Trial (November 14, 1945-October 1, 1946), the leadership of the Nazi party, the Gestapo, the SS, the SD, and the SA were declared criminal organizations. Twelve of the highest functionaries....
3.	Some of the Accused in the Nuremberg Trial of the Major War Criminals (1946) To carry out the London Four-Power Agreement "for the prosecution and punishment of the major....
4.	Clamoring for the Special Issue of the Nürnberger Nachrichten on the Verdicts in the Nuremberg Trial of the Major War Criminals (October 1, 1946) The Allies deliberately staged the news coverage of the Nuremberg Trial of the major war criminals to ensure that it was perceived as a media event and widely covered in the press, on the radio,....
5.	Title Page of a Special Issue of the Süddeutsche Zeitung with a Report on the Verdicts in the Nuremberg Trial of the Major War Criminals (October 1, 1946) On September 30 and October 1, 1946, the International Military Tribunal delivered verdicts for the organizations and leading individuals accused of criminal acts during the Nazi regime. Five of....
6.	"Black Becomes White, or Automatic Denazification" (1946) "Jump right in! What can happen to you, You black sheep from the brown house! You'll be painlessly rehabilitated. You'll come out as snow-white lambs. We know: you were never....
7.	Denazification Questionnaire (1946) The denazification of the German population had been a central Allied war goal. In the postwar period, one important part of these efforts was a 131-question survey used by Allied authorities to....
8.	Preparing for Denazification Hearings [Spruchkammerverfahren] in Nuremberg (February 1, 1947) The Allies (and the Americans, in particular) demanded that denazification be carried out....
9.	Fritz Thyssen at his Spruchkammerverfahren in Königstein im Taunus (August 17, 1948) On August 16, 1948, denazification proceedings [Spruchkammerverfahren] began against the industrialist Fritz Thyssen (middle). Because Thyssen had supported the National Socialists before....
10.	New Use of the Former Reich Party Rally Grounds in Nuremberg: The General German Automobile Club (ADAC) Hosts an Event on Zeppelin Field (1955) Between 1935 and 1937, the Zeppelin Grandstand was built on the Reich party rally grounds in Nuremberg.....
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