AN ARCHIVE AND PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM BELONGING TO ALFRED JOSEPH R...

AN ARCHIVE AND PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM BELONGING TO ALFRED JOSEPH RILEY M.C., M.B.E. A BRITISH OBSERVER AT THE NUREMBERG TRIALS IN 1945. An extensive archive to include a Tribunal Pass for access as a member of the British Delegation to the Nuremberg Trials. Pass no. 953, dated 3rd March 1946. On this day, Soviet prosecutor Lev N. Smirnov presented evidence regarding the Stalag Luft III incident, in which 50 recaptured RAF officers were executed by the Germans. An incident that was made famous by the film 'The Great Escape'. Discussions were also held regarding the classification of the SS, SA, and Gestapo as criminal groups. Also accompanied by a contemporary Associated Press photograph of the courtroom. With a collection of documents including a family photo album featuring two newspaper clippings, a number of letters regarding Riley's receipt of an M.B.E in the 1954 New Year Honours list, other related ephemera, and a reproduction M.C. and M.B.E. After receiving the M.C. for gallantry in WWI, Riley became an Area Officer for the Department of Work and Pensions until the Second World War, when he joined the 26th Middlesex Home Guard as an Intelligence Officer. Following the War, he became an Executive Officer at the Treasury, and it was during this time he attended the Nuremberg Trials as part of the British War Crimes Executive.

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