[NUREMBERG TRIALS - THE POHL TRIAL]: A group of eight original 10 x 8 United States Army public relations ...

[NUREMBERG TRIALS - THE POHL TRIAL]: A group of eight original 10 x 8 United States Army public relations photographs, unsigned, taken during the Pohl Trial of 1947, the different images depicting Oswald Pohl delivering his final statement to the Tribunal, Pohl and seven other ex-officials of the WVHA (the Main Economics and Administrative Branch of the SS) listening to the final judgement being read by members of the Tribunal on 3rd November 1947, Erwin Tschentscher listening to his sentence of ten years imprisonment, Hans Heinrich Baier also listening to his sentence of ten years imprisonment, August Frank making his plead of 'not guilty' to charges of participation in war crimes etc., and also including two identical unsigned 7.5 x 4.5 photographs of American attorney James R. Higgins, a member of the prosecution staff at the Pohl Trial, reading a portion of the closing statements, 17th September 1947. Most of the photographs have the original printed captions lightly affixed to the versos and all bear the stamps and reference numbers of the Public Relations Photo Section, Office Chief of Counsel for War Crimes, Nuremberg, to the versos and a few are also credited to Gunther Peis. VG to EX, 10 The Pohl Trial was the fourth of the thirteen trials for war crimes that the United States authorities held at Nuremberg after the end of World War II. In the Pohl case, SS-Obergruppenfuhrer Oswald Pohl and seventeen other SS officers employed by the SS Main Economic and Administrative Office (abbreviated in German as SS-WVHA) were tried for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed during the time of the Nazi regime. The main charge against them was their active involvement in and administration of the 'Final Solution'.