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Results of the Nurenberg war crimes trial, in a newspaper from a Nurenburg suburb...
Results of the Nurenberg war crimes trial, in a newspaper from a Nurenburg suburb...
Item # 712206
October 01, 1946
THE JET GAZETTE, Furth, Bavaria, Germany, October 1, 1946
* Nazis sentenced to death for war crimes
* Hermann Goering & Rudolph Hess
Published by the Army Air Force Station of Furth, this is the volume 1, number er 14 issue which began publication after the end of the war in Europe.
The collectible significance of this issue would be difficult to understate. This airport began in the 1920's and when taken over by the Nazis in 1933 it became the training ground for the Bavarian Air Force. It was seized in early April, 1945 by the United States Army and used as a Ninth Air Force combat airfield until the end of the war in Europe.
Note that Furth is a suburb of Nurenberg, and this issue reports the verdict of those Nazis officers accused of war crimes in Nurenburg. Above the masthead is: "Extra! - - - War Crimes Trials Edition GUILTY ! " with the headlines below the dateline: "12 To Hang; 3 Not Guilty; 7 to Serve Time" with a photo of the group and the judgments listed on the front page. More related content with short biographies of many inside, plus illustrations of each. The back page also includes: "The Missing Link," with a photo of Adolf Hitler.
In the quest to find historical reports in newspapers as close to the event as possible, one can imagine not only finding a German newspaper with the news, but one from a Nurenberg suburb--and in the English language.
Complete in 4 pages, 8 1/4 by 11 1/2 inches, great condition.
AI notes: The October 1, 1946 issue of The Jet Gazette, a small English‑language newspaper produced by the U.S. Army Air Force at the former Luftwaffe base in Fürth (Furth), Bavaria, devoted its lead coverage to the verdicts of the International Military Tribunal at the Nuremberg Trials, which were delivered on that day or immediately before, reporting the outcomes of the long war crimes proceedings against Nazi leaders—including multiple death sentences, prison terms of varying lengths, and a few acquittals—and placing these historic decisions in the wider context of Allied occupation and ongoing denazification in postwar Germany, making it one of the few contemporaneous English‑language accounts published in Germany itself shortly after the verdicts were handed down.
This issue of The Jet Gazette is considered rare and collectible. Because it was a low‑circulation, English‑language military newspaper printed on a U.S. Army Air Force station in Fürth, Bavaria, very few copies were produced and even fewer have survived or turn up in collections today. Collectors and rare newspaper dealers describe its collectible significance as “difficult to understate” due both to the historic reporting on the Nuremberg Trials and the scarcity of the title itself.
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