This is an old newspaper clipping from the Daily Iowan Newspaper, Iowa City, Iowa USA (October 3rd, 1946) titled "SIU Student Tells How-- He Covered the Nuremberg Trials". The article is about SUI (State University of Iowa) student Raymond Sievers, US Signal Corps photographer during WWII. The interview discusses Ray Sievers' experience as the official American photographer covering the Nuremberg Trials. Ray Sievers shares his impressions of the German war criminals on trial-- including Hermann Göring (Goering) (German politician, military leader, and leading member of the Nazi Party), Joachim von Ribbentrop (Foreign Minister of of Nazi Germany), Rudolf Hess (Deputy Führer to Adolf Hitler), Albert Speer (German WWII Minister of Armaments and War Production), and Wilhelm Keitel (Chief of the Supreme High Command of the German Armed Forces (Oberkommando der Wehrmacht) for most of WWII).Photographer Raymond Sievers is pictured with his English War Bride, Iris Walker in the photograph at the bottom of the article. (Note: There are a few misspellings in the original newspaper article. The correct spellings of names / titles can be found in the description above.)Text transcribed from the article:"Covering the [Nuremberg] warcrimes trial as an official photographerfor the army signal corpsis a vivid memory to Raymond G,Sievers, now a pre-dental studentat the University of Iowa.Sievers took the pictures at thetrial from its opening session inNovember, 1945, to March, 1946. "The trial was exactly the right [thing] for the United Nations to have done." said Sievers. "We had to show the German people that we were fair-not only that those guilty of the crimes against humanity would be punished, but that those proven innocent would be freed."• • •Commenting on the current criticism of [the length of the] war crimes trials, Sievers stated that It was necessaryin the light of the mass of evidence that had to be presented."I suppose that the total amount of energy expended by everyone from the judges on the bench to the lonely soldiers who had to stand guard in the [Nuremberg] snow, amounts to a [tremendous] sum, but if the trial achieves its purpose of impressing upon the world that waging war is a crime it is well worth [it]," Sievers declared.The judges allowed every bit of evidence that might have even minute bearing on the proceedings to be presented in court. Nothing that might possibly reflect favorably on the defendants was overlooked, he explained. The German press was well represented and accorded the same freedoms allowed the allied newspaper representatives. The most exciting day of the entire assignment for Sievers was the opening session. Each government and national press was allowed one photographer in the courtroom, and Sievers was chosen after drawing lots to represent the Signal Corps.• • •This was the first time that the press saw the defendants and the whole courtroom was charged with excitement, he related. "The flash bulbs seemed never to stoppopping." Taking pictures of the defendants every day, Sievers was able to observe their behavior closely, even though it was forbidden to converse with them. He found that most of them did not look thefierce roles they played in history. "Goering looked like he wouldn't harm a fly." Sievers recalled. "He gave the impression of being a very jovial fellow. He was by far the most magnetic personality there."The only defendant who showedthe strain throughout the trial wasRibbentrop. He aged visibly duringthe time that Sievers was in[Nuremberg]."Hess behaved like a crackpot," said Sievers. "He read a book all during the early sessions in an attempt to make people believe he was insane." Hess impressed Sievers as being a die-hard fanatic. He was the only one of the prisoners who goose-stepped in and out of the courtroom."His military boots accentuated the matchstick straightness of his leg
