us-005578-irn78489-irn30396
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archival history: The drawing was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2001 by Lise Horn McCartney, the daughter of Stefan Horn.
biographical history: Dr. Stefan Horn graduated from the School for Interpreters in Geneva, Switzerland, and held a Doctorate in rerum politicarum from the University of Vienna, in Austria. He was trained in Geneva as a consecutive interpreter. Dr. Horn applied to Nuremberg for a position as an interpreter and was approved via testing conducted by the United States Army. He worked in Nuremberg, Germany, as a court interpreter, translating English into German, during part of the first War Crimes trial and during the Justice Case. He eventually became Chief Interpreter. After the trials closed in 1949, Dr. Horn joined Léon Dostert at Georgetown University, Washington, DC. Dr. Horn became head of the Division of Interpretation and Translation of the Institute of Languages and Linguistics that Dostert had founded. He later became an American citizen.
physical characteristics and technical requirements: Graphite image of head of man with swastika drawn on forehead and small horns on top of his head, pitchfork on left, tail on right, chain connecting first and last word of second line of caption, image in lower left of book titled"Code of Criminal Procedur" with knife stuck in cover, man hanged from gallows pictured in lower right. recto, in center, handwritten in graphite:"ROTHAUG as representative/of the Evil One on Earth/Nurnberg, Aug. 19, 194"
conditions of access: No restrictions on access
conditions of use: No restrictions on use
date: 1947 August 19
has or had holder: us-005578
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has or had some members with language: eng
has record set type: Item
identifier: irn30396
is or was included in: us-005578-irn78489
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scope and content: Drawing created by interpreter during Trial 3, the"Jurists Trial" of the Nuremberg trials.
title: Drawing