Walther Funk
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Walther Funk was a German economist and Nazi official who served as Reich Minister for Economic Affairs (1938–1945) and president of Reichsbank (1939–1945). During his incumbency, he oversaw the mobilization of the German economy for rearmament and arrangement of forced labor in concentration camps. After the war he was tried and convicted as a major war criminal by the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg. Sentenced to life in prison, he remained incarcerated until he was released on health grounds in 1957. He died three years later.
Funk in 1943
Kristallnacht of November 1938, smashed window front of Jewish shop
Nazi gold in Merkers Salt Mine
Funk (right) in August 1944 when his State Secretary, Franz Hayler, was awarded the Knight's Cross for the War Merit Cross
Nuremberg trials
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The Nuremberg trials were held by the Allies against representatives of the defeated Nazi Germany for plotting and carrying out invasions of other countries across Europe and atrocities against their citizens in World War II.
Judges' bench during the tribunal at the Palace of Justice in Nuremberg, Allied-occupied Germany
Jews arriving at Auschwitz concentration camp, 1944. According to legal historian Kirsten Sellars, the death camps "formed the moral core of the Allies' case against the Nazi leaders".
Aron Trainin (center, with moustache) speaks at the London Conference.
Aerial view of the Palace of Justice in 1945, with the prison attached behind it