Francis Beverley Biddle was an American lawyer and judge who was the United States Attorney General during World War II. He also served as the primary American judge during Nuremberg trials following World War II and a United States circuit judge of the Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.
Biddle in 1935
Biddle (far right) with other judges at the Nuremberg trials (from left): Iona Nikitchenko of the Soviet Union and Norman Birkett and Geoffrey Lawrence of the United Kingdom
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