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Making the “World Spectacle Trial“: Design as Forensic Practice at the Nuremberg Trials

Making the “World Spectacle Trial“: Design as Forensic Practice at the Nuremberg Trials Justice Robert H. Jackson (stand- ing) delivers opening statement at lectern designed by Dan Kiley, Nuremberg International Military Tribunal, November 21, 1945. Harvard Law School Library Nuremberg Trials Project (1945– 1946). Image courtesy Harvard Law School Library, Historical and Special Collections. 64 https://doi.org/10.1162/grey_a_00316 Making the “World Spectacle Trial”: Design as Forensic Practice at the Nuremberg Trials ALEJANDRA AZUERO-QUIJANO Kiley’s World Spectacle Trial Standing before the Allied delegations gathered in one of the few rooms of the Nuremberg Grand Hotel that remained unscathed after Allied bombings, thirty- three-year-old Dan Kiley spoke nervously. Initially drafted into the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on the recommendation of Eero Saarinen, in 1945 Kiley was appointed chief of design of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) Presentation Branch (PB). That summer the U.S. Justice Department assigned Kiley, a former student of Bauhaus founder Walter Gropius and collaborator of both Saarinen and Louis Kahn, to find a site for the war crimes trial. On that particular summer day, the young architect turned war crimes trial designer- in-chief tried his best to explain to the teams of American, British, French, and Soviet diplomats, as well as lawyers and military personnel, that the war crimes trial “wasn’t http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Grey Room MIT Press

Making the “World Spectacle Trial“: Design as Forensic Practice at the Nuremberg Trials

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Justice Robert H. Jackson (stand- ing) delivers opening statement at lectern designed by Dan Kiley, Nuremberg International Military Tribunal, November 21, 1945. Harvard Law School Library Nuremberg Trials Project (1945– 1946). Image courtesy Harvard Law School Library, Historical and Special Collections. 64 https://doi.org/10.1162/grey_a_00316 Making the “World Spectacle Trial”: Design as Forensic Practice at the Nuremberg Trials ALEJANDRA AZUERO-QUIJANO Kiley’s World Spectacle Trial Standing before the Allied delegations gathered in one of the few rooms of the Nuremberg Grand Hotel that remained unscathed after Allied bombings, thirty- three-year-old Dan Kiley spoke nervously. Initially drafted into the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on the recommendation of Eero Saarinen, in 1945 Kiley was appointed chief of design of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) Presentation Branch (PB). That summer the U.S. Justice Department assigned Kiley, a former student of Bauhaus founder Walter Gropius and collaborator of both Saarinen and Louis Kahn, to find a site for the war crimes trial. On that particular summer day, the young architect turned war crimes trial designer- in-chief tried his best to explain to the teams of American, British, French, and Soviet diplomats, as well as lawyers and military personnel, that the war crimes trial “wasn’t

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