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Ruins of Rotterdam
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Nuremberg trials
- Trial of the Major War Criminals
October 1945-Okctober 1946
- 24 accused
- 8 judges + 4 prosecutors from 4 countries (UK, USA,
France, USSR)
Evidence used in court:
Official documents, eyewitness accounts, suspect interrogation
accounts, material evidence, photos, etc.
Indictments:
1. Participation in a common plan or conspiracy
for the accomplishment of a crime against peace
2. Planning, initiating and waging wars of
aggression and other crimes against peace
3. War crimes
4. Crimes against humanity
12 sentenced to death
Hermann Goring Commander of Luftwaffe (committed suiced the night before his execution)
Ernst Kaltenbrunner highest surviving SS leader, head of the Reich Main Security Office
Alfred Rosenberg Minister of the Eastern Occupied territories, racial theory ideologist
Konstantin von Neurath former Protector of Bohemia and Moravia (15 years)
Gustav Krupp head of Krupp A.G , armament industry (unfit for trial)
Tokyo trial
- Main trial April 1946 - November 1948
- 28 accused
- 11 judges (USA, USSR, Australia, UK, China-Taiwan,
France, Canada, British India, Netherlands, Philippines,
Netherlands)
Indictments according to Nuremberg procedures.
7 sentenced to death
Hideki Tojo Prime Minister
Seishiro Itagaki War Minister
Koki Hirota former Minister of Foreign Affairs
and others
16 sentenced to life imprisonment
2 to lesser prison sentences
2 died during the trial
1 released as mentally unfit for trial
Number of trials organized later (over 5700
accused).
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