| Description: [I]nfantryman of Company C, 371st Battalion, have the important mission of guarding high-ranking Germans charged with some of history's most infamous crimes and now on trial for their lives at Nuernberg. Pictured here in one of the wings of the Nuernberg Prison, discussing guard matters are, left to right, Technical Sergeant Edward Gibson, chief warden of Newark, New Jersey;
Corporal James Kelley, escort sergeant, from Madison, Georgia; and First Lieutenant Warren G.H. Crecy, prison officer, from Corpus Christi, Texas. Behind them, peering into individual cells, are Baltic guards utilized by the U.S. Army to supplement American personnel in such work. It was in one of these cells along this particular corridor that Hermann Goering, Rudolf Hess, and other top Nazis were confined during their international trial. [Original Descriptive Caption [Edited]] |
