shrunken head of Buchenwald: icons of atrocity at Nuremberg

Demonstrates that the shrunken head of Buchenwald, which was displayed during the Nuremberg trials possesses not only instrumental but symbolic importance. By serving as an icon af atavism, the shrunken head presents an image of atrocity familiar to liberal jurisprudence that facilitated the trial's progression. It visually reminds the public of the efficacy of the law as civilization's bulwark against barbarism and helps underscore nazi aggression as a barbaric assault against civilization