Dimensions approximately 17 x 11.5 cm. Creased, condition 2.
This photograph originates from the estate of PK (Propaganda Kompanie) photographer Peter Martin Bleibtreu.
Peter Martin Bleibtreu, born 1921, was employed as a press photographer with Heinrich Hoffmann at the beginning of the war and served as a PK photographer in close proximity to Adolf Hitler at the Wolfsschanze (Wolf's Lair), at the Berghof, etc. After the war's end, he received a journalist position in Nuremberg from the U.S. authorities, subsequently worked for the Nürnberger Nachrichten, and likely relocated to Vienna in the late 1950s/early 1960s. He worked as editor-in-chief for the local society and celebrity journal in 1966 and presumably also for the tabloid newspaper Express, which merged with the Kronenzeitung in 1971. The Peace Palace Library in The Hague acquired a substantial portion of Bleibtreu's estate at auction before 2014, containing numerous documents about the war crimes trials as well as numerous rare photographs from the courtroom.
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