David Patrick Maxwell Fyfe, 1st Earl of Kilmuir, known as Sir David Maxwell Fyfe from 1942 to 1954 and as Viscount Kilmuir from 1954 to 1962, was a British Conservative politician, lawyer and judge wh
Maxwell Fyfe in 1951
Sir David Maxwell Fyfe (centre) and an unknown prosecutor at the Nuremberg trials
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The Nuremberg trials were international criminal trials held by France, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, and the United States against leaders of defeated Nazi Germany for plotting and carrying o
David Maxwell Fyfe, 1st Earl of Kilmuir
…to the offices of Solicitor General, Attorney General, Home Secretary and Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain. One of the prosecuting counsel at the Nuremberg Trials, Maxwell Fyfe subsequently played a role in drafting the European Convention on Human Rights. As Home Secretary from 1951 to 1954 he greatly increased…
Judges' bench at the Palace of Justice, Nuremberg
Jews arriving at Auschwitz concentration camp, 1944. According to legal historian Kirsten Sellars, the extermination 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