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The
Nuremberg Trials
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# |
Accused |
Role |
1946
Verdict |
Fate |
1 |
Hermann
Goering |
Vice-führer |
Death
sentence |
Committed
suicide at Nuremberg 1946 |
2 |
Rudolf
Hess |
Hitler's private secretary and third deputy of the Reich |
Life
sentence |
Committed
suicide in Spandau Prison 1987 |
3 |
Joachim
von Ribbentrop |
Foreign
minister |
Death
sentence |
Executed
by hanging 1946 |
4 |
Wilhelm
Keitel |
Commander-in-chief
of the High Command of the Armed Forces (OKW) |
Death
sentence |
Executed
by hanging 1946 |
5 |
Ernst
Kaltenbrunner |
Chief
of the Gestapo |
Death
sentence |
Executed
by hanging 1946 |
6 |
Alfred
Rosenberg |
Racial
and anti-semite theorist and propagandist |
Death
sentence |
Executed
by hanging 1946 |
7 |
Hans
Frank |
Governor-general
of Poland |
Death
sentence |
Executed
by hanging 1946 |
8 |
Wilhelm
Frick |
Minister
of the interior |
Death
sentence |
Executed
by hanging 1946 |
9 |
Walther
Funk |
Minister
for economic affairs |
Life
sentence |
Released
from Spandau Prison in 1957 due to poor health; died 1960 |
10 |
Hjalmar
Schacht |
Economist,
minister without portfolio and president of the Reichsbank |
Acquitted |
Died
1970 |
11 |
Karl
Doenitz |
Admiral
and commander of the Navy |
Ten-year
sentence |
Released
from Spandau Prison in 1956 after serving his term; died 1980 |
12 |
Erich
Raeder |
Admiral
and commander of the Navy |
Life
sentence |
Released
from Spandau Prison in 1957 after serving his term; died 1960 |
13 |
Baldur
von Schirach |
Head
of the Hitler Youth |
Twenty-year
sentence |
Released
from Spandau Prison in 1966 after serving his term; died 1974 |
14 |
Fritz
Sauckel |
Responsible
for the Third Reich's work force (mostly slave labour) |
Death
sentence |
Executed
by hanging 1946 |
15 |
Alfred
Jodl |
Chief
of operations staff of the OKW |
Death
sentence |
Executed
by hanging 1946 |
16 |
Franz
von Papen |
Vice
chancellor of Germany and diplomat |
Acquitted |
Died
1969 |
17 |
Arthur
Seyss-Inquart |
Governor
of the Netherlands |
Death
sentence |
Executed
by hanging 1946 |
18 |
Albert
Speer |
Minister
for armaments |
Twenty-year
sentence |
Released
from Spandau Prison in 1966 after serving his term; died 1981 |
19 |
Constantin
von Neurath |
Minister
of foreign affairs |
Fifteen-year
sentence |
Released
in 1953 from Spandau Prison due to poor health; died 1956 |
20 |
Hans
Fritzsche |
Nazi
propagandist, known as 'the voice of Radio Berlin' |
Acquitted |
Died
1953 |
21 |
Julius
Streicher |
Anti-semite
propagandist |
Death
sentence |
Executed
by hanging 1946 |
22 |
Robert
Ley |
Minister
for work |
N/A |
Committed
suicide 1945 before the trial's commencement |
23 |
Martin
Bormann |
Personal
secretary to Hitler |
Death
sentence (in absentia) |
Killed
1945 by the Soviets in Berlin |
24
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Gustav
Krupp von Bohlen |
Arms
developer and supplier for the Nazi Regime |
Case
dropped due to poor health |
Died
1950 |
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Sources Solar, D. 'Final en Nuremberg: el patíbulo'. La aventura de la historia, October 2006, no. 96, pp.20-30. (Translation by M. Gaxiola)
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