Nuremberg Trials

 

"Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely."

 

~ Lord Acton

 

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The International Military Tribune (IMT) on October 19th, 1945, put 24 high ranking members of the Nazi party on trail at Nuremberg. They were charged with four separate accounts of crimes including: "conspiracy to wage aggressive war, crimes against peace, war crimes, and crimes against humanity" (pbs.org, Nuremberg). 21 Nazi were sentenced on October 1, 1946. Of which 11 were executed, 2 of which committed suicide, 3 of which were given a life sentence, 4 of which spent time in jail anywhere from 10 to 20 years, and 3 of which were acquitted.

 

Those who were hanged for their crimes included: 

 

Hermann Goering (who committed suicide before he could be executed)

 

 

Hans Frank

 

Wilhelm Frick

 

 

 

Julius Streicher

 

 

Fritz Sauckel

 

 

Alfred Jodl

 

 

Martin Bormann (died fleeing Berlin, tried and convicted in absentia)

 

 

Joachim von Ribbentrop

 

 

Wilhelm Keitel

 

 

Ernst Kaltenbrunner and

 

 

Alfred Rosenberg

 

 

 

More about the "Nuremberg Trial". Also visit " The Nuremberg Trials" and "Nuremberg Trials."

 

Also on this page, "The Men Who Ran the Concentration Camps."

 

 

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