Nuremberg Trials
By Robert Padavona
What was the Nuremberg Trials
Held for the purpose of bringing Nazi war criminals to justice, the Nuremberg trials were a series of 13 trials carried out in Nuremberg, Germany, between 1945 and 1949. The defendants, who included Nazi Party officials and high-ranking military officers along with German industrialists, lawyers and doctors, were indicted on such charges as crimes against peace and crimes against humanity.
Defendants
Martin Bormann, Karl Dönitz, Hans Frank,Wilhelm Frick, Hans Fritzsche, Walther Funk, Hermann Göring, Rudolf Hess, Alfred Jodl, Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Wilhelm Keitel,
Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach
, Robert Ley, Baron Konstantin von Neurath, Franz von Papen, Erich Raeder, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Alfred Rosenberg, Fritz Sauckel,
Dr. Hjalmar Schacht
, Baldur von Schirach, Arthur Seyss-Inquart, Albert Speer, Julius Streicher
Julius Streicher
sentenced to death
Arthur Seyss-Inquart
sentenced to death
Fritz Sauckel
sentenced to death