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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 26 February 2025. Series of military trials at the end of World War II "International Military Tribunal" redirects here. For the Tokyo Trial, see International Military Tribunal for the Far East. For the film, see Nuremberg Trials (film). International Military Tribunal Judges' bench during the tribunal ...
The prosecutors attempted to substitute his son in the indictment, but the judges rejected this due to proximity to trial. Alfried was tried in a separate Nuremberg trial (the Krupp Trial) for the use of slave labor, thereby escaping worse charges and possible execution; found guilty in 1948, pardoned and all property returned 1951. Robert Ley ...
A witness testifies in the Judges' Trial View of Judges' trial from visitors' gallery. The Judges' Trial (German: Juristenprozess; or, the Justice Trial, or, officially, The United States of America vs. Josef Altstötter, et al.) was the third of the 12 trials for war crimes the U.S. authorities held in their occupation zone in Germany in Nuremberg after the end of World War II.
Superior orders, also known as just following orders or the Nuremberg defense, is a plea in a court of law that a person, whether civilian, military or police, should not be considered guilty of committing crimes ordered by a superior officer or official. [1] [2] It is regarded as a complement to command responsibility. [3]
Pages in category "People acquitted by the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Rudolf Hess – Guilty, sentenced to life imprisonment, committed suicide in prison in 1987. Alfred Jodl – Guilty, sentenced to death by hanging. Henri Donnedieu de Vabres called the verdict a mistake in 1947. In 1953, the denazification courts reversed the decision and found Jodl not guilty. Within months, the decision of the denazification ...
The Nuremberg executions took place on the early morning of October 16, 1946, shortly after the conclusion of the Nuremberg trials.Ten prominent members of the political and military leadership of Nazi Germany were executed by hanging: Hans Frank, Wilhelm Frick, Alfred Jodl, Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Wilhelm Keitel, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Alfred Rosenberg, Fritz Sauckel, Arthur Seyss-Inquart, and ...
He was put on trial at Nuremberg for "conspiracy" and "crimes against peace" (planning and waging wars of aggression), but not war crimes or crimes against humanity. [36] Schacht pleaded not guilty to these charges.