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Between 20 November 1945 and 1 October 1946, the International Military Tribunal (IMT), better known as the Nuremberg trials, tried 24 of the most important political and military leaders of Nazi Germany.
Three of the defendants were acquitted: Hjalmar Schacht, Franz von Papen, and Hans Fritzsche. Four were sentenced to terms of imprisonment ranging from 10 to 20 years: Karl Dönitz, Baldur von Schirach, Albert Speer, and Konstantin von Neurath.
A brief sketch of the principal defendants in the Nuremberg Trials, their connection to the Holocaust and the sentence each received: Bormann was with Hitler and Goebbels in Hitler’s subterranean bunker on April 30, 1945.
The International Military Tribunal (IMT) held in Nuremberg, Germany, attempted to broach this immense challenge. On October 18, 1945, the chief prosecutors of the IMT brought charges against 24 leading Nazi officials.
The Nuremberg trials were held by the Allies against representatives of the defeated Nazi Germany for plotting and carrying out invasions of other countries across Europe and atrocities against their citizens in World War II.
This page includes quotations, images, key prosecution points, IQ scores, and other information relating to each of the 21 Nuremberg defendants.
In all, 199 defendants were tried at Nuremberg, 161 were convicted and 37 were sentenced to death, including 12 of those tried by the IMT. Holocaust crimes were included in a few of the trials but were the major focus of only the US trial of Einsatzgruppen leaders.
The Nuremberg trials were a series of 13 trials carried out in Nuremberg, Germany, between 1945 and 1949 to try those accused of Nazi war crimes. The defendants, who included Nazi Party...
The trials uncovered the German leadership that supported the Nazi dictatorship. Of the 177 defendants, 24 were sentenced to death, 20 to lifelong imprisonment, and 98 other prison sentences.
Search thousands of historical documents from the Nuremberg trials. Examine trial transcripts, briefs, document books, evidence files, and other papers from the trials of military and political leaders of Nazi Germany.