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Justice. N ü rnberg Trials. 1st Trial - “Major War Criminals” November 21, 1945 to October 1, 1946 Charges Participation in a common plan or conspiracy for the accomplishment of crime against peace Planning, initiating and waging wars of aggression and other crimes against peace

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  1. Justice

  2. Nürnberg Trials 1st Trial - “Major War Criminals” November 21, 1945 to October 1, 1946 Charges Participation in a common plan or conspiracy for the accomplishment of crime against peace Planning, initiating and waging wars of aggression and other crimes against peace War crimes Crimes against humanity 24 individuals indicted; 6 organizations

  3. Suicides:

  4. Organizations Indicted National Socialist Workers Party Schutzstaffel (SS) Sicherheitsdienst (SD) Gestapo Sturmabteilung (SA) High Command of the German Armed Forces (OKW)

  5. Martin BormanParty Secretary Tried in absentia DEATH Committed suicide escaping Berlin

  6. Karl DönitzHead of State;Commander,Kriegsmarine 10 YEARS Ten Years and Twenty Days My Ever-Changing Life (My Life as Soldier)

  7. Hans FrankGovernor General of Poland DEATH Confessed Expressed regret Wrote memoirs in prison

  8. "My conscience does not allow me simply to throw the responsibility simply on minor people . . . A thousand years will pass and still Germany's guilt will not have been erased."

  9. Wilhelm FrickReich Protector of Bohemia and Moravia DEATH Refused to testify

  10. Hans FritzscheStand-in for Goebbels? Acquitted

  11. Walther FunkMinister of Economics LIFE (Released in 1957)

  12. Herman GöringReichsmarschall,Head of the Luftwaffe DEATH Committed suicide the night before his scheduled exscution.

  13. Rudolf HessDeputy Führer LIFE Committed suicide (?) 1987

  14. Alfred JodlChief, OKW Operations Division DEATH Exonerated by a German court in 1953. Overturned under US pressure.

  15. Ernst KaltenbrunnerChief, RSHA DEATH

  16. Wilhelm KeitelChief, OKW DEATH In the Service of the Reich

  17. “I call on God Almighty to have mercy on the German people. More than two million German soldiers went to their death for the fatherland before me. I follow now my sons — all for Germany!”

  18. Konstantin von NeurathForeign Minister, 32-38Reich Protector, Bohemia and Moravia, 1939 - 1943 15 YEARS Released 1954

  19. Franz von PapenChancellor, 1932 ACQUITTED

  20. Erich RaederCommander, Kiergsmarine until 1943 LIFE Released 1955

  21. Joachim von RibbentropMinister of Foreign Affairs DEATH

  22. Alfred RosenbergMinister of the Eastern Occupied Territories DEATH

  23. Fritz SauckelIn charge of the German slave labor program DEATH “I die innocent, my sentence is unjust. God protect Germany!”

  24. Hjalmar SchachtEconomics Minister, 1934 - 1937 ACQUITTED

  25. Baldur von SchirachHead of the Hitler Youth1933-1940Gauleiterof Vienna1940-1943 20 YEARS Expressed regret and denounced Hitler.

  26. Arthur Seyss-InquartReich Commissioner of the Netherlands DEATH Expressed regret.

  27. Albert SpeerMinister of Armaments 20 YEARS Expressed repentance.

  28. Julius StreicherGauleiter of Franconia,Editor, Der Stürmer DEATH

  29. Joseph Malta Executed 60Germans Master Sgt. John C. Woods Executed c. 40 Germans

  30. Operation Paperclip Project Paperclip

  31. “It was a grim, pitiless scene. But for those who had sat through the horrors and tortures of the trial, who had learned of men dangled from butcher hooks, of women mutilated and children jammed into gas chambers, of mankind subjected to degradation, destruction, and terror, the scene conjured a vision of stark, almost biblical justice.” Donald E. Wilkes, Jr.

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