Collection of 18 signatures of Nuremberg defendants collected by a guard at the infamous War Crimes trials. The guard, John J. Pankosky, was a member of the U.S. Army's 26th Infantry Regiment who served as guards during the trials. Pankosky somewhat ingeniously used a tourist guide of the city, Nurnberg, by Charles W. Alexander, 1946, to collect, presumably surreptitiously, signatures of 18 of the defendants, found randomly throughout its pages. Quarter leather over illustrated paper-covered boards. Text block has come free of its case but is intact and whole. Also included in this lot is Pankosky's Service Identification card as well as his International Military Tribunal ID.