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The Nuremberg executions took place on 16 October 1946, shortly after the conclusion of the Nuremberg trials.Ten prominent members of the political and military leadership of Nazi Germany were executed by hanging: Hans Frank, Wilhelm Frick, Alfred Jodl, Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Wilhelm Keitel, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Alfred Rosenberg, Fritz Sauckel, Arthur Seyss-Inquart, and Julius Streicher.
Nuremberg is a 2000 Canadian-American television docudrama in 2 parts, based on the book Nuremberg: Infamy on Trial by Joseph E. Persico, that tells the story of the Nuremberg trials. Actual footage of camps, taken from the documentary Nazi Concentration and Prison Camps (1945), was included in this miniseries.
Ernst Wilhelm Bohle (28 July 1903 – 9 November 1960) was the Gauleiter (regional leader) of the Foreign Organization of the National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP or Nazi Party) from 1934 until 1945. Bohle was the only defendant in the Subsequent Nuremberg trials of 1946-1949 to plead guilty to any charge.
The subsequent Nuremberg trials (also Nuremberg Military Tribunals; 1946–1949) were twelve military tribunals for war crimes committed by the leaders of Nazi Germany (1933–1945). The Nuremberg Military Tribunals occurred after the Nuremberg trials , held by the International Military Tribunal , which concluded in October 1946.
Maximilian Schell (8 December 1930 – 1 February 2014) was a Swiss [1] actor. He won the Academy Award for Best Actor for the 1961 American film Judgment at Nuremberg, his second acting role in Hollywood.
The only member of the People's Court ever to be held liable for his actions was Chief Public Prosecutor Ernst Lautz , who in 1947 was sentenced to 10 years of imprisonment by a US Military Tribunal, during the Judges' Trial, one of the "subsequent Nuremberg proceedings". Lautz was released after serving less than four years of his sentence and ...
As a movie based on real life events, it's normal to expect a comparison with them. Maybe we should create a new section for it. There's already a mention of the Katzenberger Trial (in which the Feldenstein case was based on), but for example there's no mention to Franz Schlegelberger (in which Ernst Janning is based on).
In his testimony throughout the trial, Eichmann insisted he had no choice but to follow orders, as he was bound by an oath of loyalty to Hitler – the same superior orders defence used by some defendants in the 1945–1946 Nuremberg trials. [189]