Compiled by jo ANDERSON from the letters and diaries of DAME LAURA KNIGHT. RA, Britain's Official War Artist at the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg
With Jill Balcon
From 7 January to 1 April 1946, the 68-year-old Nottingham-born painter worked feverishly in a tiny glass press box overlooking the main courtroom where Goering,
Hess, Ribbentrop and 17 other former Nazi leaders were being tried as war criminals. In The Dock at Nuremberg, Laura Knight wanted to retain an artist's detachment from the tales of horror unreeling a few feet below her. She believed that the idea she had for setting down the event for posterity 'would hold good'.
Directed by JOHN THEOCHARIS. Stereo
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