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Raymond D’Addario, Photographer of Nazis, Dies at 90

Raymond D’Addario, an Army photographer whose images of Hitler’s top henchmen during the Nuremberg war crimes trials put their faces before the world as it became increasingly aware of Nazi atrocities, died Sunday in Holyoke, Mass., his hometown. He was 90.

The cause was a stroke, his daughter Linda Salmon said.

Mr. D’Addario was one of about a dozen still and motion-picture photographers assigned by the Army Pictorial Service in November 1945 to document the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg, Germany. He was the most prolific member of the team and, perhaps, its most consequential.

Among his thousands of photographs, the best known are shots of the 21 defendants in the dock flanked by white-helmeted military police officers standing straight with their arms folded behind their backs....
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