Official War Crimes Trials Photographs Set of State Minister Otto Meissner

Each of the two photographs is approximately 1-3/4 inches by 3 inches. Meissner was head of the Office of the President of Germany from 1920 to 1945 during nearly the entire period of the Weimar Republic under Friedrich Ebert and Paul von Hindenburg and, finally, under the Nazi government under Adolf Hitler. At the end of the war, Meissner was arrested by the Allies and called as a witness during the Nuremberg Trials. Meissner was himself prosecuted in the Wilhelmstrasse Trial, but the court acquitted him on 14 April. Two years later, in May 1949, he was accused again, this time in Munich, and was adjudged a fellow traveler. His appeal was turned down, but the proceedings were called to a halt in January 1952.