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    Artist

  • Meo, David

    • Title

  • Trial of the Nazi High Command by the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg

  • Physical Description

    1 painting : oil on canvas ; 63.5 x 92 cm. ; 25 x 26 in

  • Date

    1998

  • Notes

    Signed and dated in lower right.

  • Summary

    The painting shows a group of war criminals in the courtroom, listening to the proceedings. From left are: Hermann Göring, Adolf Hitler's second in coomand; Rudolf Hess, Hitler's deputy as leader of the Nazi Party; Joachim von Ribbentropp, foreign minister; Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel, head of the German armed forces high command. Behind them are Admiral Karl Dönitz, who assumed the role as head of state after Hitler's death for several days; Admiral Erich Raeder, commander in chief of the Germany Navy until 1943, when he was replaced by Dönitz; and Baldur von Schirach, head of the Nazi youth movement.

  • Subject

    Nuremberg War Crime Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, 1946-1949; Headphones; Soldiers

  • Medium

    Paintings; Oil paintings

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Biographical/Historical Information

As a young officer, Robert Backes attended the Nuremberg Tribunal in 1946 and was reminded of this time by an article and a photo in the Retired Officer Magazine, published in November 1995. The photo showed some of the top Nazi officials during the trial, an image that so captivated Robert Backes that he decided to commission Florida-based artist David Meo to capture this photo, with some minor alterations, in an oil painting. Following the advice of his Jewish wife, Robert Backes donated the painting to the LBI before moving from his New Jersey home to Florida in 2005.

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Citation

Meo, David: Trial of the Nazi High Command by the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg, Leo Baeck Institute, 2005.92.