Lot 171
Unique Prison Photographs from the Nuremburg Trials
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Notes:
- The Rudolf Hess and Albert Speer Photographs by Desmond Zwar 'On November 8, 1945, the grim gates of Germany's Nuremberg Prison opened to admit Hitler's colleagues, Rudolf Hess and Albert Speer. Hess, Hitler's former Deputy, who had flown to Scotland four years before, looked gaunt and black-browed, wearing a Luftwaffe greatcoat and had a mad stare in his eyes. The Nazis were formally greeted by Colonel Burtun C. Andrus, a no-nonsense soldier who remembered clearly (that) "on the way to the interview room, I was walking with Hess and his guard when I noticed Goering being brought along the corridor. Hess immediately recognised Goering, stopped, and threw up his arm in the Nazi salute. Goering looked surprised, but did not return the salute, which had been banned in the prison. I told Hess: 'Do not salute like that again! It will not be tolerated. In this prison it is a vulgar gesture.' "He stared back at me with his deep-set black eyes. 'The Nazi salute,' he said evenly, 'is not vulgar.' " Andrus told Hess: "It is I who decide the nature of greetings in Nuremberg Prison." Interview with Hess over, it was time for the prison photographer to take the official 'mug-shots' - face on and side on - of the top Nazis. Hess, cadaverous and unshaven stared into the lens. Speer wore a look of calm resignation.' The mugshots eventually were souvenired by Colonel Andrus when he left Nuremberg Prison and passed on to the author Desmond Zwar in 1968. There is also a small collection of photographs of Hess and his cell which were secretly taken by the US Director of Spandau Prison, Colonel Eugene K. Bird. Condition:
- Photo of Speer has staple holes at top where it was once attached to a prison document.
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