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Nurnberg trials, a series of trials held in Nurnberg, Germany, in 1945–46, in which former Nazi leaders were indicted and tried as war criminals by the International Military Tribunal. The court rejected the defense that only countries could perpetrate war crimes and found most of the original 24 defendants guilty.
- Robert Ley
Robert Ley (born Feb. 15, 1890, Niederbreidenbach, Ger.—died...
- Konstantin Von Neurath
Konstantin, baron von Neurath was a German diplomat who was...
- Hans Frank
Hans Frank was a German politician and lawyer who served as...
- Robert Ley
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 .
- The Road to The Nuremberg Trials
- The Major War Criminals’ Trial: 1945-46
- Subsequent Trials: 1946-49
- Aftermath
Shortly after Adolf Hitler came to power as chancellor of Germany in 1933, he and his Nazi government began implementing policies designed to persecute German-Jewish people and other perceived enemies of the Nazi state. Over the next decade, these policies grew increasingly repressive and violent and resulted, by the end of World War II(1939-45), i...
The best-known of the Nuremberg trials was the Trial of Major War Criminals, held from November 20, 1945, to October 1, 1946. The format of the trial was a mix of legal traditions: There were prosecutors and defense attorneys according to British and American law, but the decisions and sentences were imposed by a tribunal (panel of judges) rather t...
Following the Trial of Major War Criminals, there were 12 additional trials held at Nuremberg. These proceedings, lasting from December 1946 to April 1949, are grouped together as the Subsequent Nuremberg Proceedings. They differed from the first trial in that they were conducted before U.S. military tribunals rather than the international tribunal...
The Nuremberg trials were controversial even among those who wanted the major criminals punished. Harlan Stone (1872-1946), chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court at the time, described the proceedings as a “sanctimonious fraud” and a “high-grade lynching party.” William O. Douglas (1898-1980), then an associate U.S. Supreme Court justice, said th...
The Trials. Each trial includes a summary, chronology overview, persons involved, indictments, detailed chronology. Hermann Göring, Karl Dönitz and Rudolf Hess. Overview Documents Transcript Defendants.
The seven major war criminals sentenced to prison terms are remanded to the Spandau Prison in Berlin. Last Edited: Jan 5, 2018. Trials of top surviving German leaders for Nazi Germany’s crimes began in Nuremberg after World War II. Read about the Nuremberg trials.
Over the course of nine months, the International Military Tribunal (IMT) indicted 24 high-ranking military, political, and industrial leaders of the Third Reich. It charged them with war crimes, crimes against peace, crimes against humanity, and conspiracy to commit these crimes.
The Nuremberg Trials: A Summary Introduction. John Q. Barrett. St. John's University School of Law. Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarship.law.stjohns.edu/faculty_publications. Part of the Legal History Commons. This Article is brought to you for free and open access by St. John's Law Scholarship Repository.
